Top 5 Control Engineering content: May 16-22, 2022

The most-viewed content from the past week covered the Career and Salary Survey, IIoT implementations, data pumps and COVID-19 controls. Miss something? You can catch up here.

By Chris Vavra May 23, 2022
Courtesy: CFE Media and Technology

Control Engineering‘s top 5 content over the past week covered the Career and Salary Survey, IIoT implementations, data pumps and COVID-19 controls. Links to each article below.

1. Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2022

Solve the workforce challenge: Automate, innovate, hire and retain great workers. Lack of skilled workers, materials and the economy are biggest threats to manufacturing. Lack of available skilled workers jumped from 37% in 2021 to 57% in 2022.

2. Industrial IoT made fast and easy

With the tools available today, implementing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is not as hard as people think.

3. Implementation of a data pump with Ignition

There are many tools on the market for historizing process data and it is often desirable to log a “set” or “group” of data together, associating many data points with a single event.

4. Career, salary survey 2022: Engineering advice, concerns

Education and attitude were leading advice categories from respondents to the 2022 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey research. Leading concerns were workforce and supply chain shortages.

5. Layered COVID-19 controls significantly reduce risks

QuaRAD method quantifies efficacy across thousands of scenarios; rating system anticipated

The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on controleng.com, May 16-22, 2022, for articles published within the last two months.

Chris Vavra, web content manager, Control Engineering, CFE Media and Technology, cvavra@cfemedia.com.


Author Bio: Chris Vavra is web content manager for CFE Media and Technology.