Around 16% of a typical industrial facility’s electricity costs are generated by its pumping systems. Find out how to reduce this figure.

Regulations increasingly require data acquisition and sequence of events capabilities for critical alarm systems and many plant managers are struggling to find a cost-effective way of keeping up. Gary Bradshaw discusses why installing a distributed alarm annunciator system might provide a solution.

Hanry Martel discusses the benefits of incorporating vision technology into industrial robots.

Where safety and compliance in hazardous environments are concerned, there are a lot of acronyms relating to standards, directives, and regulations. To help tackle the minefield, safety compliance expert and AEMT lecturer, Peter Rawlinson, looks at the key requirements concerning hazardous environments, what they cover and how they relate to each other.

Edward Paro looks at how utilities and others operating water and wastewater treatment processes can reduce their energy costs.

Find out how modern SCADA solutions can offer actionable insight to allow for better monitoring and control of production processes.

Adnan Khan explains how new and old equipment can work together seamlessly when industrial PCs (IPCs) come into the picture. 

Naveen Kumar and Junichi Watanabe explain more about the different elements of digital twin technology and how it can offer benefits for the process sector.

Control Engineering Europe finds out whether there is growing interest from end-user organisations in the use of machine learning, AI and other emerging technologies to increase the actionable information that can be gathered from data reservoirs.

Matt Head and James Baker discuss a project that demanded the rapid integration of system controls of a containerised UV disinfection system for a water treatment plant. 

Ian McNeilage provides a five-step plan for effective antenna selection.

Besides an always increasing demand on production output, digitalisation also requires an increasing amount of standardised communication and more focus on security. To meet these demands and to remain competitive, new solutions based on innovative hardware, are needed, argues Andreas Czech.

Julian Ware explores how advances in robotics and automation are making manufacturing and logistics companies of all sizes more productive, flexible, and resilient.

Biogas production in Greece is on the increase thanks to PK Energy, a specialist in the construction of electricity production units from renewable energy sources, and the use of Optidrive variable frequency drive (VFD) technology from Invertek Drives.

The world is changing, and today’s industrial control systems need to change with it. Johan Björklund offers his thoughts on process automation systems of the future and the benefits they will deliver.

Yanling Wu explains how digital twins are being used to achieve process design and operational performance improvements.

Sonali Singh and Sandeep Mohan discuss the role being played by artificial intelligence (AI) driven digitalisation when it comes to transforming the engineering sector.

A recent report from IDTechEx explores whether cobots are safe to work alongside humans. 

Joe Lomako highlights both the benefits and challenges of deploying digital twin technology.

Suzanne Gill asked what control engineering can expect the next big development to be in industrial communication technologies.