Chris Vavra

Chris Vavra is senior editor for WTWH Media LLC.

follow Chris Vavra

latest from Chris Vavra

Workforce Development

IMTS 2024 Recap: Connecting workers, technologies together for greater change

Workforce Development

Making continuous improvements with a connected workforce

Workforce Development

Transforming manufacturers with augmented, connected workers

AI and Machine Learning

Control Engineering hot topics, August 2024

AI and Machine Learning

Top 5 Control Engineering content: August 26 to September 1, 2024

Courtesy: Mark T. Hoske, CFE Media and Technology

Virtualization, Cloud Analytics

Top 5 Control Engineering articles February 10-16

For years, researchers from MIT and Brown University have been developing an interactive system that lets users drag-and-drop and manipulate data on any touchscreen, including smartphones and interactive whiteboards. Now, they’ve included a tool that instantly and automatically generates machine-learning models to run prediction tasks on that data. Courtesy: Melanie Gonick, MIT

Most-viewed university articles in 2019

Figure 1: By integrating data into the cloud, an environment is created for cross-sectional analysis, with third-party consultants able to perform high-precision analysis and provide suggestions for optimizing production. Courtesy: Yokogawa Electric Corp.

Top 5 Control Engineering articles February 3-9

Sophisticated vision sensing, artificial intelligence and custom end-of-arm tooling enable a robot to harvest ripe produce directly from the vine. Courtesy: Root AI/RIA

Top 5 Control Engineering articles January 27 to February 2

Intuitive touchscreen displays put a wealth of real-time data and analysis tools at operators’ fingertips so they can monitor, adjust and learn from their machinery while moving through the field. Courtesy: John Deere/RIA

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Control Engineering hot topics, January 2020

Industry expected model-predictive control (MPC) to naturally expand into the multi-loop control (MLC) region, but that never happened; MPC costs of ownership remain high and MPC remains primarily a high-end solution. MLC represents an important, but under-developed part of the APC matrix spectrum. Courtesy: Control Engineering webcast, Advanced process control: Past, present and future.

Top 5 Control Engineering articles January 20-26

Intuitive touchscreen displays put a wealth of real-time data and analysis tools at operators’ fingertips so they can monitor, adjust and learn from their machinery while moving through the field. Courtesy: John Deere/RIA

System Integrators

Top 5 Control Engineering articles January 13-19

Left to right: Steven Schneebeli, lead and director of engineering/IT at Malisko Engineering; Nancy Lange, co-founder and COO at Malisko Engineering; Matt Scott, lead and director of mentorship at Malisko Engineering; Dave Blaida, president and CEO at Matrix Technologies; Jeremy Gibbs, director of sales and marketing, Matrix Technologies; Jeff Buck, vice president of engineering at Automationnth. Courtesy: Katie Spain, CFE Media and Technology

System Integrators

Control Engineering hot topics, December 2019

Courtesy: CFE Media and Technology

Discrete Manufacturing

Manufacturing index contracts to close out 2019

Left to right: Steven Schneebeli, lead and director of engineering/IT at Malisko Engineering; Nancy Lange, co-founder and COO at Malisko Engineering; Matt Scott, lead and director of mentorship at Malisko Engineering; Dave Blaida, president and CEO at Matrix Technologies; Jeremy Gibbs, director of sales and marketing, Matrix Technologies; Jeff Buck, vice president of engineering at Automationnth. Courtesy: Katie Spain, CFE Media and Technology

System Integration

Top 5 Control Engineering articles December 9-15

Figure 1: Data acquisition network connections. Courtesy: Maverick Technologies

Data Acquisition, DAQ

Top 5 Control Engineering articles December 2-8

Figure 2: Real-time dashboards provide the information required for each level of the plant’s organization. Courtesy: Yokogawa Electric Corp.

IIoT, Industrie 4.0

Top 5 Control Engineering articles November 25 to December 1