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Product advice on easy, affordable modern control, IIoT implementation

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Industrial access on the go

Figure 1: This IIoT maturity model depicts how companies progressively digitalize their operations, in order to more effectively access and act on operational data. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Exploit IIoT to improve operations

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Automation built for resiliency

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How to choose between managed and unmanaged switches

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Embedded HMIs excel in automation applications

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Open-source benefits for industrial controllers

Figure 1: HMI development environments typically provide many design elements representing physical devices, such as valves and pumps, and logical devices, like analog meters. Some samples of the AutomationDirect C-more development software are shown here. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Configure intuitive HMI screens to simplify automation

Figure 3: An HTTP instruction, such as this HTTPCMD block in an AutomationDirect BRX PLC, enables a PLC to initiate a request to an internet website API to obtain data. AutomationDirect Do-more Designer Software has the necessary instructions. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Benefits of connecting a PLC to the internet

Configuration software should make it easy to create basic graphics, and to implement more advanced features like remote connectivity, data logging and security. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Choosing the right HMI

Figure 3: Specifying HMI operational parameters instead of a vendor allows OEMs to select HMIs with the best price-performance ratio. Courtesy: AutomationDirect

Specifying performance instead of parts

PLM, Control Design

Controller embeds programming efficiency