Top 5 Control Engineering articles December 9-15
Articles about the System Integrator Giants, SIY winners, collaborative robot use cases, digital twins, and industrial virtualization were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from December 9-15. Miss something? You can catch up here.
The top 5 most read articles online, from December 9-15 for Control Engineering covered the System Integrator Giants, SIY winners, collaborative robot use cases, digital twins, and industrial virtualization. Links to each article below.
1. 2020 System Integrator Giants
The overall gross revenue for the top 100 system integrators and their parent companies topped $26.4 billion as most businesses saw growth.
2. 2020 System Integrator of the Year award winners announced
Integrator companies Matrix Technologies, Malisko Engineering, and AutomationNTH are recognized for their outstanding achievements. See video of a roundtable discussion with the winners.
3. Six use cases for collaborative robots
Robotics special report: The six most common collaborative robot applications are pick and place, machine tending, packaging and palletizing, process tasks, finishing tasks, and quality.
4. Make digital twins easier to implement for manufacturing industries
International: Move from vision to reality: It’s time to embrace digital twins for manufacturing. Benefits include more efficient digital transformations and more effective asset monitoring and performance.
5. Industrial virtualization heads to the plant floor
End users are comfortable with virtualization in their information technology (IT) server rooms and desktops, and many similar benefits now can be realized with industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and programmable automation controllers (PACs).
The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on controleng.com, Dec. 9-15, for articles published within the last two months.
Chris Vavra, production editor, CFE Media, cvavra@cfemedia.com.
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