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AI and Machine Learning

Seven tips for implementing machine learning in controls environments

For controls technology innovators, IT/OT convergence was happening for decades before the IIoT and Industry 4.0 conversations that often draw attention to the concept today. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

IIoT, Industrie 4.0

IT/OT convergence provides a path forward

HMI servers should support multi-client, multi-server and multi-runtime concepts, providing options for local or cloud-based servers and secure communication protocols, such as OPC Unified Architecture, Automation Device Specification or ADS over MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport). Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

New mobile HMI designs respond to user, device requirements

MathWorks Matlab/Simulink environments enable the design and simulation of new applications, such as this hexapod, as well as advanced algorithms that can be used in the machine controller to control the physical hexapod. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Simulators, Optimizers

Machine design concepts improve automation and controls simulation

Accessing SQL databases is simple through the capabilities of modern control systems. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Data Acquisition, DAQ

Six ways data acquisition strategies can support advanced analytics

The ability of edge devices to execute advanced, including preprocessing and compression, helps reduce cloud storage requirements and unnecessary bandwidth utilization. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Advanced algorithms for analytics on the edge

Implementing analytics for Big Data applications with PC-based control systems

Industrial Networking

Strategy and standards help determine Big Data, IIoT value

While 36 cores aren't needed for a virtualization application, high-powered, PC-based control options provide greater flexibility for virtualization applications, as this Beckhoff Automation display at Pack Expo 2015 shows. Courtesy: Mark T. Hoske, Contro

Core-isolation enables virtualization for industrial applications

Integration of human-machine interface (HMI) with tools such as Visual Studio and HTML5 enables feature-filled HMI concepts to be directly configured in a familiar engineering environment with little or no programming. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

Virtualization, Cloud Analytics

Using programming standards to leverage modern HMI solutions

Integration with plant operations via the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enables companies to achieve a superior degree of operational knowledge and facilitates cutting-edge methods to streamline and optimize processes. Courtesy: Beckhoff Automation

PC-based control drives global adoption of Industrie 4.0, IIoT concepts

Virtualization, Cloud Analytics

Big data and cloud for manufacturing