Recent advances in the internet of things (IoT) have resulted in an explosion of new products and applications for automation, including smart homes and cities, autonomous vehicles, fastening ...

Pilz is a leading, innovative automation technology company offering integrated safety management from the simplest safety sensor to complete plant risk assessment. Pilz provides worldwide, ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

In May, a 61-year-old man was working on an Alaska oilfield when he was killed by a front-end loader. Sadly, tragic incidents like this are all too common in the oil and gas industry, which is known ...

A common sense look at the regulatory framework of machine safety, best practices and practical solutions to ensuring a safe machine and workplace. The basics of safe automation will be reviewed.

With all the reports of the death of RPA, we believe it is time to introduce a new term to encompass the automation efforts within an organization: Enterprise Automation Architecture (EAA). Since RPA ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Software is automatic. By its very nature, software is an automated and autonomous entity that we ...