Thanks to hype in the popular media, the term “automation” tends to conjure images of robots, artificial intelligence and the cloud in the minds of most people. The root of most manufacturing ...

EtherCAT is an open, realtime, and deterministic Ethernet fieldbus standard widely regarded as one of the best industrial networks to date. One reason for its growing use is that it's several orders ...

If you guessed the biggest and most universal return from applying digitalization to machines is predictive maintenance or having a way to analyze swaths of data, you’re not even close. The true ...