David Bean argues that data analysis holds the key to effective energy management.

Roel Mulder explains how migration from old to new Distributed control systems (DCS) can be achieved in a risk-free and pain-free way.

Stewart Robinson discusses the steps that need to be taken to ensure safe and reliable robotic solutions for industrial applications.

Digital twins enable components and machines to be rapidly developed virtually, before any hardware is produced, enabling hardware and software testing and system integration at a very early stage. Steve Sands explores how digital twin technology is progressing and the benefits it can deliver.

Jens Scheib discusses how modern Distributed Control Systems can offer a pain-free pathway to continuous improvement for process industries.

Decentralised automation concepts can result in seamless integration of servo drives, bringing the power supply and the devices to where they are needed. Using this approach, the control cabinet becomes obsolete, argues Christian Kübler.

Process Safety Solutions (PSS), a partner system integrator of Panorama, was tasked with maintaining and upgrading SCADA applications at the St Fergus Gas Terminal in Scotland, which is managed by Px Group.

Suzanne Gill asked two International standards organisations to offer some advice to control engineers about how they can simplify the task of multiple device management in the industrial environment – and of managing legacy devices in particular.

Have the goals of industrial digitalisation changed? And what might the next be disruption be in the digitalisation journey? Suzanne Gill reports.

Owain Betts explains the important role that Variable Frequency Drives are already playing in helping manufacturers adopt more sustainable practices.

Find out how AI technology has helped a cheese producer optimise its yields using real-time data to rapidly detect process variations due to varying milk quality.

To meet growing demands, a motor manufacturer plans to create an additional production line, which has presented it with a good opportunity to digitise its manufacturing process, specifically the integration of a MES to help optimise operation and increase productivity. A top priority was to find a solution that could facilitate MES integration with a plethora of legacy equipment.

Control Engineering Europe spoke with Kyle Reissner, VP Product Management at ICONICS, about supervisory control and data acquisition software.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, manufacturers are navigating a complex terrain fraught with challenges such as labour shortages, an expanding skills gap, and intense global competition. Amidst these pressures, businesses are striving for greater efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence.

Suzanne Gill reports on the role that machines have to play in enabling smart manufacturing and more interconnected factories.

Find out how the automation team at chemical company, Evonik has succeeded in safely extending the partial stroke test cycle, from one to three years, increases the economic efficiency of the plant.

Industrial wireless communication solutions have helped enable digitalisation for one tyre manufacturer.

With digital transformation comes the need for robust cyber security specific to the OT domain. Looking to the IT domain can offer solutions, argues Lee Carter.

Process safety refers to the comprehensive measures taken to minimise risks and hazards in industrial processes, ensuring that they run reliably and without accidents or incidents.

Ageing technology that increasingly fails and/or parts becoming hard to source is the usual driver for updating a control system and this was why systems integration company, Sigma was tasked with updating the control system of a treatment line at the Peschiera Borromeo municipal wastewater treatment plant.