Organizations struggling to understand, realize potential IoT benefits
A survey by Longview IoT and Informa Engage finds that companies are still struggling to understand the benefits the Internet of Things (IoT) can provide to their company.
Finding common ground between industrial automation and mobile technology
Mobile technologies are challenging traditional data handling practices as they move into the industrial arena.
Improve industrial data integration with ETL software
Extract, transform, load (ETL) software can help improve data gathering for operations technology (OT) applications, but there are major challenges with data integration that companies need to overcome.
Electrical grid data cloaked in the cloud
A framework is being developed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory that cloaks sensitive data, which allows grid operators to securely perform complex calculations in the cloud.
Control Engineering hot topics, May 2019
Control Engineering's most clicked articles in May 2019 included stories about VFDs, safe human-robot interaction, sustainable cybersecurity, object-oriented programming, the Career and Salary Survey, and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Wireless monitoring saves hours on each well workover
Requirement for I&E tech to be onsite for well workovers reduced from five hours to 15 minutes.
Method developed to detect cyber attacks with compressed network traffic
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Towson University are developing a method on compressing network traffic as much as possible without losing the ability to detect and investigate malicious activity.
Research examines computer software code understanding and documentation
A team of researchers at Texas A&M University looked at the best way to document computer code by using samples and found that good naming, and comment were more important than good documentation.
Nominees being accepted for Plant of the Year award
The FieldComm Group is seeking qualified end users and manufacturers for the 17th annual Plant of the Year Award. Nominations will be accepted until May 31, 2019.
Top 5 Control Engineering articles May 6-12
Articles about multivariable control benefits, control network standards, human-robot interaction, data historians, and IIoT benefits for manufacturers were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from May 6-12. Miss something? You can catch up here.