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RS partners with Omega Engineering adding to its portfolio of sensors and industrial control products

Automation Mag

Omega Engineering, part of the DwyerOmega family of brands, is an international, integrated, single-source supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions for industrial process measurement and control applications, including sensing, control, and monitoring technologies.

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Implementing a hierarchy of automation safety

Control Engineering

Safety comes in many forms and is a critical aspect of manufacturing operations. Safety Insights. It starts with fundamentals like awareness and having the right equipment on-hand. While a good starting point, it is really the first step in the journey and can go in much greater detail.

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Soft actuators in robots emit light in colors, patterns

Control Engineering

Fireflies that light up dusky backyards on warm summer evenings use their luminescence for communication — to attract a mate, ward off predators, or lure prey. These glimmering bugs also sparked the inspiration of scientists at MIT. Taking a cue from nature, they built electroluminescent soft artificial muscles for flying, insect-scale robots.

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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

This is how we build our products, this is the steps that each product takes, this is, if in a process manufacturing environment, we have our recipes. Andersen: Please see: “ Modern edge computing accelerates smart manufacturing initiatives for discrete manufacturers.” We have a lot of information in these systems.

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Control Engineering November 2022 online table of contents

Control Engineering

Operational technology (OT) systems are in more danger than ever of being hacked and manufacturers have to step up their awareness. Digital transformation and IIoT’s impact on process manufacturing. Leveraging the OT edge to navigate process manufacturing. See four ways the OT cyber attack surface is increasing.

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Epicor: Solutions that are Made With You, For You

Fabricating & Metal Work

The software is specialized for make-to-order manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing. Epicor Advanced MES collects data directly from equipment and operators on the shop floor in real time, maximizing data accuracy and process automation.

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Hot Control Engineering machine and process safety articles in 2023

Control Engineering

Control Engineering most-viewed articles online about machine and process safety stories published in the last year include stories on electrical safety for machines, removing IT/OT barriers, edge machine safety solutions and more. Also: See additional machine safety and process safety stories.