Top 5 Control Engineering articles: November 11-17, 2024

Top Control Engineering articles this week covered topics including automation platforms, AI in manufacturing and robotic design. 

By Anna Steingruber November 18, 2024
Inductive Automation's Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky at the Ignition Community Conference 2024. Source: Stephanie Neil

Top Control Engineering articles this week covered topics including automation platforms, AI in manufacturing and robotic design.

1. Latest updates, features in universal automation platform

At the Ignition Community Conference 2024, new functionality in Ignition 8.3, Inductive Automation’s industrial application platform for OT and IT, span applications, historians, and infrastructure with a focus on connectivity, storage, streaming and security.

2. New AI-powered closed-loop tools can revolutionize manufacturing in 9 ways

A software company applies artificial intelligence in nine key ways to empower workers, improve performance and enhance productivity in closed-loop machine-vision-based applications.

3. Robotic design, operations, support get easier with new service collaboration

ABB and Vention made it easier for users of the ABB GoFa collaborative robot family to design, operate and maintain ABB GoFa robots, as demonstrated at IMTS 2024.

4. Global manufacturing output: Stronger growth expected in 2025, beyond

Interact Analysis quarterly Manufacturing Industry Output (MIO) Tracker report forecasts growth of 0.6% for 2024, with stronger growth expected in 2025 and beyond.

5. More answers: Tips and tricks for next-generation automation programming

Programming instructor provides more answers from audience questions after the Control Engineering webcast, “Programming tips and tricks appropriate for next-generation applications.”


Author Bio: Associate editor, WTWH Media and Technology