Top 5 Control Engineering articles March 11-17

Articles about the R&D tax credit, easy automation, IIoT software in manufacturing, IEEE 1584-2018, and the Engineers' Choice Awards were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from March 11-17. Miss something? You can catch up here.

Web-based software solutions company acquired

HMS Industrial Networks has acquired WEBfactory GmbH, a provider of web-based software solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Industrial mobile robot standards being developed

Industrial mobile robots (IMRs) have a lot of potential for manufacturers looking to enhance productivity, but standards are needed.

Basic steps to take when applying analytics processing

Upstream oil & gas operations improved using data analytics.

Machine vision users adopting cloud computing

Many companies are turning to cloud computing to handle the large data flows coming from their machine vision systems.