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Digital twins integrate simulation with machine learning and data analytics to let engineers test, refine, and perfect designs.

New meat substitutes and other so-called alternative proteins are being introduced all the time. Automation is core to their manufacture.

LoRaWAN is a high-efficiency communication technology akin to a kind of low-data long-range Wi-Fi for IoT devices.

Fiber-optic cables offer superior bandwidth, reduced electromagnetic interference, and enhanced data security for industrial applications.

The U.S. FDA Unique Device Identification System rule improves patient safety by providing a consistent way to track and identify all medical devices.

Fabricated chips, components, and fully assembled electronics are high value, so they justify investments in automation technologies.

Agricultural irrigation controls have become increasingly sophisticated. Many growers have replaced traditional systems with advanced components.

The vast majority of automotive manufacturing centers employ robotics. As automobiles, they can justify plant investments that may not yield ROI for years.

Safety is a top priority in industrial applications to protect employees and equipment, requiring automated machinery to satisfy functional safety requirements.

Keeping plant personnel safe requires that they be protected from mechanical threats to bodily harm. This field is called industrial risk reduction.

With the fourth industrial revolution and Industry 4.0, comprehensive and intelligent automation is defined by advanced controls, monitoring, and diagnostics.

Visual signaling components quickly and effectively communicate machine data and other actionable information to personnel through lights or other visual means.

With the fourth industrial revolution and Industry 4.0, comprehensive and intelligent automation is defined by advanced controls, monitoring, and diagnostics.

The various connectors used to join cables and components in industrial automation must transmit all power and data-signal streams carried over the cables.

Today’s automation components are routinely designed to avoid noise by protecting signals from the electromagnetic environment.

Variable frequency drives (VFDs) precisely power various electric-motor types in automated machinery. Also discussed are cables designed for VFDs.

EtherCAT uses the telegram structure of Ethernet data to establish a primary and its relationship with secondary sensors and actuators on the factory floor.

M12 connectors are a round cable-termination option used to connect components to systems in automated machinery.

IO Link is a single-drop digital communication interface (SDCI) to network small sensors and actuators to IO-Link controller hubs or primaries.

How to resolve the two main types of power-quality problems arising from within equipment, noise and harmonic disturbances.