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Get engineering salary survey advice about Control Engineering careers
Respondents to the 2024 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey provide advice about skills needed to get ahead and what technologies they’ll use.
Research: What are obstacles, advice for integrating AI, industrial automation?
More than half of respondents were challenged when trying to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial automation, according to Control Engineering and Plant Engineering research. See advice.
AI in Industrial Automation: Research respondent interview, part one
Recently, CFE Media and Technology collected research on AI in industrial automation and discussed some of the answers with respondents.
Control Engineering 2023 SCADA research: Many wait too long to upgrade
Upgrades for SCADA software should be implemented sooner for better results, admitted Control Engineering SCADA software buyers, specifiers and integrators, according to recent research.
Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2023
Leading-edge automation technologies are helping solve workforce shortages and economic challenges by adding efficiency. Automation salaries increased more than bonuses fell. Worker shortages were cited as a threat by nearly half of respondents in 2023.
Control Engineering research: Edge computing, AI
Control processes, SCADA and HMI are leading applications for edge computing; enhancing control capabilities is a common use of artificial intelligence.
5 fast facts on exclusive Control Engineering research: How to apply controllers
Five fast facts about Control Engineering research on how to apply controllers follow. See link for the report.
Advice on how to apply controllers: Control Engineering research
Controllers should have easier to use software and be easier to program, according to Control Engineering subscribers providing advice for “How to apply controllers” research.
Networks, computing purchasing for automation
Purchasing Industrial Computing and Networking, August 2022: Control Engineering research says one-third of buyers would switch vendors; half would consider given good reason; just 15% were very satisfied. For responses to a write-in question, honesty was most important.
Automation helps combat labor shortages
Think Again: Are automation and controls helping to fill the growing manufacturing skills gap? Control Engineering research, “Purchasing Considerations for Automation Systems & Control Systems” shows an increase in spending for the next 12 months in most categories.
Automation experts wanted: Hire, retain the best, webcast says
Research and advice assist with hiring and retaining automation experts, according to a May 25 Control Engineering webcast, citing recent research, with system integration help.
Career, salary survey 2022: Engineering concerns
Leading concerns were workforce and supply chain shortages from respondents to the 2022 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey research.
Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2022
Solve the workforce challenge: Automate, innovate, hire and retain great workers. Lack of skilled workers, materials and the economy are biggest threats to manufacturing. Lack of available skilled workers jumped from 37% in 2021 to 57% in 2022.
Career, salary survey 2022: Engineering advice
Education and attitude were leading advice categories from respondents to the 2022 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey research.
Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2021
Career update: COVID-19 accelerates innovative technology implementations; engineering salaries increase; job satisfaction is high. The lack of skilled workers, economy and lack of necessary materials are biggest threats to manufacturing.
Career, salary survey 2021: Advice
Respondents to the 2021 Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey research provided related advice, and education was the most-offered of six topics.
OT, IT collaboration helps IIoT
Recent research indicates more operational technology and information technology collaboration, and 40% are spending more to do it. See a dozen bits of OT/IT collaboration advice.
Hot topics in Control Engineering
Research: For 2021, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), control system integration, instrumentation, industrial wireless, industrial PCs, industrial Ethernet, and advanced process control are among hot topics; 18 topics are in the top 10; 62 are in the top 20.
Research: Controller programming methods, advice
Control Engineering 2020 research on industrial programmable controllers said ladder logic continues to dominate programming, software integration and simulation capabilities are increasing, and survey respondents seek programming flexibility. See six software-related programmable controller changes since 2018 and nine programmable controller bits of software advice.
Top products since COVID-19 pandemic relate to air control, cleaning
In the New Products for Engineers Database by CFE Media and Technology, 5 of the top 6 products cover control of air or cleaning, since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11.
Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2020
Career update: Many subscribers work in critical industries; half of non-salary compensation relies on profits, some changed by COVID-19. Lack of skilled workers continues to be the top threat to manufacturing for the survey period ending March 16, before more recent COVID-19 impacts.
Education, attitude, communication are top tip topics from 2020 salary survey respondents
Career update: Top areas of advice offer by respondents to the 2020 Career and salary survey from Control Engineering, CFE Media and Technology, cover education, attitude, communications. Advice also includes engineering tips, project management, and workplace strategies.
Rapid testing platform adapted to try and catch COVID-19
Duke University biomedical engineers have adapted a low-cost platform to diagnose COVID-19 thanks to an NSF grant.
Top 5 Control Engineering Articles April 6-12, 2020
Articles about COVID-19's impacts on engineers, manufacturers and electronic industry, and advanced process control were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from April 6-12, 2020. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Poll results, week 2: Doubled adverse COVID-19 impact on engineers, industry
Research analysis, advice: Adverse effects of Coronavirus more than doubled in just a week for visitors to Control Engineering, Plant Engineering, Oil & Gas Engineering, and Consulting-Specifying Engineer websites taking a survey on COVID-19 impacts on engineering. For respondents answering March 11 to 19 and March 20 to 25, 13% felt a “great deal” of impact in the first week and 35% the next week.
Top 5 Control Engineering Articles March 30 to April 5, 2020
Articles about coronavirus research, and how it is affecting the industry and business operations were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from March 30-April 2, 2020. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Survey results: increased recognition of COVID-19’s adverse impact
Digital work from home is fine, but manufacturing takes place in the physical world
Poll results: Coronavirus, COVID-19 impact on engineers and industry
Coronavirus impact data was collected from March 12 to 17 from visitors to Control Engineering, Plant Engineering, Oil & Gas Engineering, and Consulting-Specifying Engineer websites. Half of respondents’ business have negative effects; half have supply chain problems. Results cover impact on business, company responses, travel, future outlook, government strategies and other topics.
Coronavirus diagnostic might be tested on patient samples soon
A variety of MIT research projects are being developed to aid efforts to detect and prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Department of Energy seeking input in response to COVID-19
The Department of Energy (DOE) is looking for input and collaboration on science and technology response to the coronavirus.
Learning about the automation engineer
Five findings from the Control Engineering 2019 Career and Salary Study as it relates to automation engineers and their feelings on their profession.
PMI rebounds as manufacturing’s fundamentals remain solid
Index increases to 56.6% as new orders, production levels point to a positive start to 2019
2018 ERP, IIoT and the Cloud Study
The IIoT for Engineers 2018 Enterprise Resources Planning, IIoT and the Cloud Study unveiled several key findings regarding usage of ERP, IIoT, and the Cloud. This includes connections to process control, HMIs, SCADA, data historians, alarm management, and data acquisition systems.
