Most Recent

• OSIsoft's new leadership on the state of the industry

  OSIsoft announced in late July that Michael Siemer will joining OSIsoft as president while Wolfgang Kuchen came to the data technology company as senior vice president of sales and marketing.Siemer, an energy industry veteran with experience in leveraging software technologies to transform complex…

  Full Story

• Rest data, you will be in motion soon and then in use

  By Dave Perkon, technical editor

  “Protecting IIoT data during the lifecycle of systems is one of the critical foundations of trustworthy systems,” says Bassam Zarkout, executive vice president, IGnPower. “To be trustworthy, a system and its characteristics, namely security, safety, reliability, resiliency and privacy, must…

  Full Story

• Controllers and drives set the pace of change

  By Rick Rice

  It wasn’t that long ago that designing a control system, particularly PLC- or PAC-based, was a simple decision. One picked your favorite processor and built your design around it.These days, the simple decision is no longer simple. Technology advances at such a rapid pace that there is no such…

  Full Story

• The advent of easier automation

  By Dave Perkon, technical editor

  I was chatting with an experienced controls engineer who was configuring multiple, distributed fieldbus nodes throughout an advanced automation cell. I asked him what he thought about the distributed I/O, and his simple reply said it all: "Why can't it be as easy as plugging in a mouse to a…

  Full Story

• Don't be too alarmed with your automation

  By Dave Perkon, technical editor

  There are many new and old-school ways to handle alarm management. Several national and international standards exist and are built into many controllers and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). The bottom line is alarms are used to detect unsafe or unexpected machine conditions, and they must notify…

  Full Story

• Different data dictate different devices

  By Jeremy Pollard, CET

  The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will bring into life devices that we may not be able to imagine. Some will be wired, and some wireless, but most will be Ethernet-based.Ethernet/IP has become a mainstay in our world and is open-source as such since it is maintained by a third…

  Full Story