Automation Moves Regenerative Medicine From Lab To Production
What will it take to move highly specialized regenerative medicine – engineering or regenerating human cells, tissues and organs – from lab to production?
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A Robot Helps Break Ground On New Fanuc Facility
FANUC America Corporation, the leading supplier of robotics, CNC systems, ROBOMACHINEs and Industrial IoT solutions held a ground breaking ceremony today to mark the start of construction of its new North Campus facility in Auburn Hills, MI.
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Rockwell Automation Introduces The Connected Mine
Like many cyclical industries, mining is reviving, driven by steady global economic growth and an increasing demand for materials to support new technologies like electric vehicles, renewable energy and mobile devices. Despite the optimism, the industry still faces major operational challenges including process efficiencies, cost control, worker health and safety, and skills gaps.
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Germain Lamonde of EXFO has been named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Québec winner
Germain Lamonde, President and founder of EXFO, is this year’s EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 Québec winner.
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New Honeywell Cybersecurity Research Reveals that USB Devices Pose a Significant Threat to Industrial Facilities
New, first-of-its-kind research released last week by Honeywell shows that removable USB media devices such as flash drives pose a significant – and intentional – cybersecurity threat to a wide array of industrial process control networks.
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Susan Uthayakumar, President of Schneider Electric Canada: Driving Success
In a recent sit-down Electrical Industry Canada was able to learn a little about Susan’s history and what drives her to succeed.
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Rockwell Automation: Reduce Risk in Your E-house Design
Adding more intelligence to e-houses – while managing multiple vendors and meeting tighter project deadlines – is not easy. But it’s a challenge that you and many other EPCs must meet today.
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Moxa Whitepaper – Protecting Industrial Control Systems with Gigabit Cybersecurity
An Industrial Control System (ICS) needs the type of network security that takes into consideration its central role in industrial applications. Problems that arise in ICS operations can result in losses on many different levels, including costs incurred from equipment damage, and even loss of life. Although ICS networks may use some of the same technology and devices as enterprise IT systems…
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Moxa Whitepaper – Five Key Considerations When Implementing Secure Remote Access to Your IIoT Machines
Industrial IoT (IIoT) and smart factory trends are redefining today’s OEM business model. Predictive maintenance, improved overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and zero equipment downtime are goals that are commonly sought after for industrial machines, and machine builders are leaving no stone unturned to achieve these for their customers.
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Moxa Whitepaper – Getting IT Engineers Up To Speed in the OT World
With factories around the world jumping onto the IT bandwagon, IT engineers are on the lookout for products and solutions that allow them to easily connect their factory’s OT systems to IT networks. Although IT engineers are generally well versed in the various IT protocols used to transmit data across a network, they are less familiar the many OT protocols used in their factories.
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Moxa Whitepaper – How to Choose an Edge Gateway for Your IIoT Applications
The market today is flooded with embedded solutions for the Industrial IoT. You can now choose from a wide variety of IIoT edge gateways, single-board computers, and development boards to implement your IIoT solutions. With single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi available for as low as US$ 40 per board, is it a good strategy to cast your lot with these development boards merely going by their low price.
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Omron Whitepaper – MVRC: Mark, Verify, Read and Communicate
Traceability can seem staggeringly complex. Barcode reading stations need to be integrated into complex systems to enable the collection, storage and analysis of massive amounts of valuable tracking data on a daily basis. Unthinkable quantities of work-in-progress (WIP) parts need to bear markings that will withstand the tests of time and tough environments.
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Industrial Automation Vendors Consolidate Their Product Portfolios to Generate New Revenue Streams
By offering third-party-enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-based products and solutions, industrial automation vendors have evolved to provide proprietary digital platforms via the Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) business model.
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B&R Automation: Wireless Transmission of Safety Data
The openSAFETY safety bus protocol can now be transmitted via UDP using the black channel principle. This facilitates the use of wireless transmission technologies for safety communication. openSAFETY can be configured flexibly, making it particularly well suited for wireless data transmission
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Business Models Affected by Industry 4.0 and IoT/IIoT in Canada
The affects of industry 4.0 and IoT/IIoT are growing near daily, and Panel Builder & Systems Integrator surveyed the market to see just how much affect this is having on Canadian business models. Have a look at the chart to see how companie are handling the new changes and trends within the industry.
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The New Security Norm in OT
The growing use of widely available technologies in industrial control systems (ICS) and the growth of more connected, information-enabled enterprises inherently increases security risks, and with it the responsibilities of control system providers and users alike.
