Control Engineering hot topics, May 2020
Control Engineering's most clicked articles in May 2020 included stories about the impacts of COVID-19, 3D printed PPE, remote management, advanced controls, IoT, and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Hot topics in Control Engineering, for May 2020, included COVID-19 impacts on engineering, 3D printed PEE, the 2020 career and salary survey, advanced controls, industrial IoT, and more. Links to each article below.
1. How COVID-19 is changing the engineering jobs, jobs market
Taking control in an uncontrolled time: Leaders share lessons from the industrial automation, controls, and manufacturing industries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Approved face shield design addresses PPE shortage through 3D printing
Michigan Medicine and the U-M College of Engineering have offered a recommended design that is effective and straightforward to produce that addresses the PPE shortage for the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2020
Career update: Many subscribers work in critical industries; half of non-salary compensation relies on profits, some changed by COVID-19. Lack of skilled workers continues to be the top threat to manufacturing for the survey period ending March 16, before more recent COVID-19 impacts.
4. A remote shift to business as usual
Businesses are looking to remote management strategies where they leverage smart technologies, mobile devices, remote access connectivity and communications tools.
5. Advanced controls, linear programming, fuzzy logic
To obtain optimal disposition of water injection flow in oil production facilities, linear programming techniques and advanced control based on fuzzy logic were applied. Better control increased field production and allows more effective responses to deviations that can damage people, goods or reduce production.
6. COVID-19 impact on engineering, engineers
Engineers like facts and seek credible information sources on COVID-19 (Coronavirus) effects to the engineering-related world. Engineers also have technologies, processes and expert advice that can help. See Control Engineering highlights.
7. Industrial controllers: past, present, future
Increasing technology integration, cross-pollination and connectivity have shaped the development of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), programmable automation controllers (PACs) and today’s edge controllers, indicating how to invest for the future.
8. What manufacturing facilities will look like after COVID-19 pandemic ends
Manufacturing will look very different in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, but the future is positive, according to a Purdue University supply chain expert.
9. An overview of industrial IoT, from edge to cloud
Next generation distributed I/O brings users one step closer to seamless connectivity.
10. Data flow is no longer hierarchical
Can industrial edge computing fit into the Purdue model?
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Keagan Gay, digital media & production coordinator, CFE Media, kgay@cfemedia.com.
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