The addition of a new portfolio of PLCs – part of Emerson’s acquisition of General Electric Co.’s Intelligent Platforms group – has allowed the company to offer more end-to-end automation solutions for its traditional process control customers.

Emerson has received the industry’s first ISASecure System Security Assurance (SSA) Level 1 certification for cybersecurity for its latest DeltaV distributed control system (DCS).

Industrial camera manufacturer IDS is running Industrial Vision Days in the UK at the National Space Centre, Leicester on 14th May 2019 and HMS Belfast, London 16th May 2019.

TÜV Rheinland has launched a new personnel certification program to address the demand for cybersecurity expertise in the operational technology (OT) and industrial security sector.

More than 20,000 autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) were shipped in 2018. This is double the number sold the year before, according to the results of Interact Analysis’ quarterly mobile robot market tracker.

FieldComm Group and the Open Group Process Automation Forum have completed a liaison agreement to leverage FieldComm Group specifications within the OPAF ‘standard of standards’.

ADLINK Technology, a provider of Edge Computing solutions, has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate ADLINK’s hardware and software solutions with Google Cloud IoT offerings, providing customers with an easy path to added business value by harnessing and analysing critical operational data.

Cyient has been chosen to execute a project for UK Power Networks – the UK’s largest electricity distribution network operator.

Dr Martin Killeen outlines the requirements of the international repair, overhaul and reclamation of rotating equipment standard IEC 60034-23:2018, and highlights how it impacts on the repair provider and the end user.

RS Components has introduced a frequency converter from Rexroth that is said to deliver potential energy savings of up to 80% across industrial and automation applications.

CAE software company EPLAN is hosting the Industry 4.0 Technology Day which is being held at the Limerick Institute of Technology in Ireland on 16th April.

The FieldComm Group process automation device information model specification (PA-DIM), based on NAMUR requirements, has been endorsed by the OPC Foundation and PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI). This announcement serves as validation of FieldComm Group’s position at the center of process automation standards development and product conformance testing.

In the latest issue of Control Engineering Europe find at why education is key to Industry 4.0 success and take a look at the next generation of gateway solutions that have been optimised for the IIoT.

In recent years, OPC UA has become a real ‘movement,’ that appears to be bringing industry together. There are currently around 50 industrial groups working on Companion specifications. The goal is for the creation of plug&play standardised information, which can then then exchanged via the OPC UA mechanism – optionally also with determinism at field level (but not into the public cloud).

Indegy has announced the integration of its Indegy Industrial Cybersecurity Suite and IBM’s QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, to bridge the visibility gap between enterprise information technology (IT) environments and industrial, operational technology (OT) environments.

Electrocomponents has completed the acquisition of Monition, a UK-based pioneer in the design, development and application of leading reliability and condition-monitoring systems.

In a presentation about the rise of cognitive factories and the use of AI on the plant floor Karthik Sundaram, Frost & Sullivan Industrial IoT programme manager, offered insight into the potential impact of AI on the manufacturing landscape.

According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) sales of industrial robots in India reached a new record of 3,412 new units installed in 2017 – an increase of 30% compared to the previous year. Between 2012 and 2017 India saw a compound annual sales growth rate of 18%.

Siemens has just opened one of the world's most advanced and robotic battery module factories in Trondheim, Norway where 55 battery modules per shift will be assembled every day for the marine and offshore market.

A report by the Capgemini Research Institute showed that less than one-fifth of global businesses are adopting multiple automation use cases at scale, and reveals that organisations are focusing on operational gains versus strategic long-term growth.