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• DMC founder Frank Riordan answers our 7 questions

  DMC’s founder and CEO Frank Riordan was recently named as a finalist for Ernst & Young Global's 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Midwest regional program, which includes Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. DMC is a project-based engineering consulting firm focused on software development…

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• Eaton VP Kerry Tingley reveals her vision

  Power management company Eaton welcomed Kerry Tingley as vice president and general manager of its industrial controls division back in March. Tingley is responsible for leading Eaton’s strategic growth and new product development initiatives for industrial control solutions used by machine…

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• How to identify cyber threats before they strike

  By David Smith, Smart Card Institute

  As more factories apply the principles of the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, converting into smart factories, the growing integration between information technology and manufacturing technology is easy to see. Concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, cognitive…

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• Keeping industry in motion

  By Dave Perkon, technical editor

  Around 1998, "Keeping Industry in Motion" became the official slogan of Motion Industries. Many acquisitions were made in the 1980s and 1990s when Motion Industries expanded to 325 locations with more than $1 billion in sales. And its expansion continued.Today, Motion Industries has more than 600…

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• Dip a toe in fresh water and expand control

  By Dave Perkon, technical editor

  Manufacturing supplied the seeds that grew into industrial automation. While some of the technology used was a result of the race to space back in the 1960, manufacturing was the high-volume driver. Industrial automation vendors, manufacturers and machine builders continue to chase and develop…

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• Visualize organization from chaos

  By Jeremy Pollard, CET

  I remember my first HMI project. It was back in the late 1970s, and it was a project for a steel plant that was retrofitting a blast furnace. I was working for Allen-Bradley at the time, and in fact my customer used the project for a marketing brochure, including me in the picture.I was going to be…

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