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Top 5 Control Engineering articles Aug. 3-9, 2020

Articles about the value of digital transformation during COVID-19, programmable logic controllers, electronic flow measurement, IIoT and edge computing, and more were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from Aug. 3-9, 2020. Miss something? You can catch up here.

Augmented reality tools: A digital bridge for the skill gap

Augmented reality (AR) is changing the way manufacturers work in the field. See three benefits of augmented reality and three examples of how AR helps users.

5G wireless for industrial use: Six answers

Industrial communications is adding 5G to wireless protocols used. Get answers about 5G progress, 5G benefits, 5G adoption challenges and 5G standard.

Integrated design software lowers costs, adds flexibility

Product lifecycle management software (PLM) and service lifecycle management software enabled by integration with cloud services and applications, helps a variety of industries with digital twins, digitalization, automation design and plant design. See five attributes of a digital twin.

Cloud efficiency platform developed for databases

A Purdue University data science and machine learning professor has developed OPTIMUSCLOUD, which is designed to give cloud efficiency to organizations and users for data-intensive situations like the COVID-19 pandemic.