One of the main promises of the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) is advanced data analytics. As I research what exactly this means and look for use cases, one thing that comes up often is anomaly detection. At first glance, the question that comes to my mind is, "But wait, don’t we already have this?"
Topics: Process control, Internet of Things, IoT, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things, Data acquisition
Maybe you're monitoring temperature, or controlling a production line, or getting data from a load cell. Whatever your goal, you want to get the I/O that works best for your application.
Or maybe you happen to notice we have more than one SNAP-AIV voltage input module and wonder how they're different.
Here are a couple of ways to find a SNAP module with the features you need and compare similar modules.
Topics: Energy management, Process control, Discrete control, Tips, Machine builder, optonews, OEM, Integrators, I/O, Data acquisition
It's the big event for automation professionals in the U.S., coming up May 23-24 in Chicago.
At The Automation Conference you'll network with experts in our field, check out the latest trends and new products, and get practical insights from other experienced practitioners on key subjects like:
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Internet of Things, IoT, optonews, Events & conferences, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things
Suppose you're spec'ing a system and you know that one location will require Factory Mutual-approved I/O. Which Opto 22 SNAP I/O modules have FM approval?
Or suppose the products you purchase must be UL approved, or meet certain European Union (CE) standards.
What if you just want to know what the warranty period is for a specific Opto 22 part?
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Tips, Machine builder, optonews, OEM, Integrators
Join us for a webinar on 27 April, and learn how you can improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) by bridging the gap between your existing industrial assets and the digital world.
Topics: Webinars, Process control, Food & beverage, Internet of Things, IoT, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things, Data acquisition
More new graphics for you in the groov SVG Library...
If you use pipes in your groov operator interface, you'll appreciate these new images: pipes, elbows, junctions, simple tanks, pumps, valves, meters, and more.
The images are designed so their parts will line up even when scaled.
Topics: Process control, groov, optonews, mobile, OptoNews 2017-04-12
As the IIoT continues its widespread adoption, a lot of new IT technologies are quickly being adopted by the industrial automation and process control industries. More and more, industrial assets are becoming Internet enabled and being connected to other digital systems.
Monitoring OEE and KPIs in real time from a mobile device is no longer a pie-in-the-sky application. It’s happening right now, through the convergence of OT and IT.
One of the technologies that’s enabling the IIoT is secure digital communication. And to establish that secure communication, you need to have an authority you can trust that can validate the indentity of devices on a network and on the Internet. You have to trust that the encrypted connection you're using is actually connected to the device you want to talk to, and not to some rogue node trying to breach your network and steal your information.
That’s where Certificate Authorities come into play in the IIoT.
Topics: Process control, Internet of Things, IoT, PACs, Security, IIoT, Industrial Internet of Things
In one of our previous blog posts we talked about AC motors, the workhorse of modern industrial automation. We learned how they use magnets, electromagnets, and magnetic fields to generate huge amounts of torque to run our industrial processes.
To understand how modern motor control works, let’s take a closer look at how a 3-phase AC induction motor works.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Electronics, PACs
Hannover Messe, the world's leading industrial conference with over 6500 international exhibitors, will be held 24-28 April 2017 in Hannover, Germany.
Join us there for a look at the present and the future of automation:
Topics: Energy management, Process control, Remote monitoring, optonews, Events & conferences, Data acquisition, OptoNews 2017-03-29
This is the first post in a series of upcoming posts on Industrial Automation 101 topics.
These posts are geared towards people new to the industry who are looking for basic information on how some of the gear in the industrial automation field works, when to use it, and maybe even how to troubleshoot it here and there.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Electronics