Control Engineering hot topics, January 2019
Control Engineering's most clicked articles in January 2019 included stories about MQTT's role as an IoT transport, the 2019 System Integrator Giants, industrial controller selection, the future of IIoT software, and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Hot topics in Control Engineering, for January 2019, included MQTT’s role as an IoT transport, the 2019 System Integrator Giants, industrial controller selection, the future of IIoT software. These are based on the top 10 most read articles online in Control Engineering January. Links to each article below.
1. MQTT’s role as an IoT message transport
Messaging queuing telemetry transport’s (MQTT) role as an Internet of Things (IoT) message transport derives from its simple design, when it began as an industrial communicator for a pipeline supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system.
2. System Integrator Giants 2019
Three new companies joined the 2019 System Integrator Giants list in a year when most of the world’s top 100 integration companies saw overall business growth.
3. Industrial controller selection: Look beyond the basics
Factory automation controllers: When specifying controllers for industrial automation applications, consider capabilities such as data handling, communications, and high-speed control.
4. The future of IIoT software in manufacturing
A guide to understanding and using data distribution service (DDS), time-sensitive networking (TSN), and OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) for advanced manufacturing applications.
5. Automation programming advances enhance communication, programming capabilities
Automation software and hardware advances reduce programming tasks and provide more built-in configurability, scalability, background communication among software components, simulation/digital twin capability, and usability.
6. Yogurt plant improves active culture, technology
System integrator helps Chobani streamline operations to provide more flexibility and efficiency.
7. Hot topics in Control Engineering for 2018
Think Again: Engineering salaries and career tips, neural network advances, ladder logic, cybersecurity, and autotuning were among top articles posted on the Control Engineering website in 2018.
Developing a long-term relationship delivers better solutions across multiple projects. Six critical criteria are highlighted.
9. Industrial Ethernet enables smarter, more reliable machines
Machine builder uses industrial Ethernet for remote monitoring and diagnostic services to improve machine reliability and uptime.
10. Improving industrial network communications
Selecting a Profinet interface may enhance industrial network communication for devices.
On Mondays, see the top 5 articles of the prior week.
Chris Vavra, production editor, CFE Media, cvavra@cfemedia.com.
Do you have experience and expertise with the topics mentioned in this content? You should consider contributing to our CFE Media editorial team and getting the recognition you and your company deserve. Click here to start this process.
