Control Engineering hot topics, January 2018
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Advantages of a Mobile App Based HART Communicator
This white paper talks about the features users should look for in a mobile app based HART Communicator.
What’s needed for wireless control?
Think Again: Wireless control in six easy steps: Technologies can enable wireless control and mobility applications. What are you waiting for?
Wireless control and mobility in automation
Advances in wireless control and mobility allow human-machine interface (HMI) systems allow devices to load and display relevant data that is based on a user’s location and proximity to networked equipment through multiple interfaces and screens.
Software for detecting diagnostic information on car developed
MIT researchers have developed machine learning software designed to take diagnostic information on any car through a smartphone by analyzing the car's sounds and vibrations, which are measured by the phone's accelerometers and microphone.
Architecting an interconnected enterprise
Automation, the conventional pinnacle of productivity, increasingly requires multi-platform connectivity to stakeholders across the enterprise to realize the advantages of smart manufacturing in the Industrie 4.0 era. How? Look at platforms, people, processes, and products.
2017 IIoT for Engineers report: 8 key findings
Respondents to the 2017 IIoT for Engineers study identified eight key findings regarding familiarity and implementation of the Industrial Internet of Things; access full report
Web access module for mobile devices, laptops
Siemens' Sinamics V20 Smart access is a web server module that mounts directly onto the V20 drive and transforms a mobile device or laptop into a virtual operator panel.
Role-based manufacturing apps for real-time operations
PTC's ThingWorx role-based manufacturing apps are designed to unify data from enterprise business systems and the sensored physical world, and are designed to deliver user information and real-time insight in context for individual roles.
System integration of mobile controls and monitoring: Questions and answers
Cover Story: Reliable wireless capabilities are facilitating mobile monitoring and control. Experts explain why and how mobility helps automation and control applications.