Stone Shi
Executive editor-in-chief, Control Engineering China
Articles
Digitalization, open automation cuts commissioning time 30%, creates services
Using digitalization and open automation provides opportunities and challenges for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) offering faster technology iteration and redefining customer value.
Solve intelligent manufacturing challenges in three dimensions
Industrial robots become smarter when integrating peripheral control, drives and other industrial control products, combined with machine vision, force sensing and other sensing technologies. Software helps.
Industrial software utility, useability, future
How can providers and users of industrial software advance software usefulness and ease of use, so software and its benefits can be more widely adopted? Control Engineering China provides some thoughts.
Industrial 5G fieldbus in R15 enhanced mobile broadband
5G technologies are in three parts; even in the first, it’s possible to communicate with industrial communications protocols. A fieldbus protocol can be used for industrial 5G, over the 5G R15 enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB).
Demystify the newly-released open automation platform
How open is your automation? Openness for industrial automation varies. Review history of open in automation and how IEC 61499 standard for distributed control system can help.
Digital field instruments accelerate petrochemical, process industries
Digital innovation of field instruments opens a new chapter of digitalization in the petrochemical and other process manufacturing industries.
From DCS to OCS: A change in process control system
Compared to a traditional distributed control system (DCS), an industrial optical bus control system (OCS) has a lower investment cost of automation, shorter installation time and reduces control system maintenance costs.
How industrial 5G supports the metallurgical industry
Industrial wireless using 5G provides real-time communication between an airborne control system and a remote-control center, for automated operation of the stacker reclaimer, reducing the safety risk and the labor cost.
Embrace SaaS, reap benefits, says industrial software giant PTC
Software as a service (SaaS) brings faster-than-local software performance without installation or versioning hassles, for CAD, PLM, IIoT and augmented reality development, according to PTC at the LiveWorx 2021 conference.
Open automation with plug and play
Plug-and-play and non-proprietary open automation system designs have become the goal of users. Many interoperability efforts include the O-PAS standard for control system architecture, time-sensitive networking (TSN) for industrial Ethernet and IEC 61499 for programming.