Control Engineering hot topics: June 2025

Top Control Engineering articles in June covered topics like digital twins, industrial IOT and cybersecurity. Read about these emerging topics in the world of automation here.

Top Control Engineering articles in June covered topics like digital twins, industrial IOT and cybersecurity. Read about these emerging topics in the world of automation here.

1. The best ways to deploy a digital twin strategy 

Digital twins are transforming industries by streamlining design, testing and maintenance processes, reducing costs and improving productivity. By merging virtual and physical worlds, digital twins enable informed decision.

2. A practical approach to industrial IoT and device management

Effective device management is often crucial for the success of industrial internet of things (IIoT) deployments and selecting the right solution, whether built in-house or purchased, can streamline operations, enhance security and ensure scalability as systems grow.

3. Three industry-specific considerations for AI and cybersecurity

Automation is reshaping industries, but its applications vary based on sector-specific challenges and objectives. Automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity play distinct roles in oil and gas, energy and factory automation.

4. Use 2025 Control Engineering salary survey advice to help your automation career

Respondents to the 2025 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey provided advice about skills needed to get ahead and how to advance those skills, including technology use. Artificial intelligence is helping automation.

5. How to establish a futureproof industrial network with Single-Pair Ethernet

Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) is revolutionizing industrial networking by enabling seamless Ethernet communication over a single twisted-pair cable.

6. Advice compendium for controls and automation programmers

Industrial controller programmers can hone their control system programming skills for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), programmable automation controllers (PACs), industrial PCs, embedded controllers and edge using extensive advice from two programming experts.

7. The Purdue Model And Ignition

In the automation world, the Purdue Model (also known as the Purdue reference model, Purdue network model, ISA 95, or the Automation Pyramid) is a well-known architectural framework for industrial control systems (ICS). 

8. How to leverage digital twins for asset lifecycle optimization

Forward-thinking organizations extend the value of digital twins by using them to drive collaboration and optimize processes throughout the entire lifecycle of their assets.

8. Automate 2025: Redefining control with software-defined automation 

Schneider Electric rolled out software-defined automation and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies that will accelerate application development, ease machine integration, and, ultimately, aid the workforce in executing specific tasks.

9. IIoT and OT Security: Bridging the Gap in Industrial Environments

How overlooking industrial assets creates security risks and what organizations can do to protect their operations.

10. How to choose or troubleshoot a variable frequency drive

Proper VFD installation requires selecting the right enclosure, ensuring voltage compatibility, addressing harmonics and mitigating common faults for optimal performance and longevity.