Since about 2015, when Don Bartusiak, the then chief engineer at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, publicly advocated for the development of a new, standards-based, open—yet secure—process control ...

Lori Schafer is CEO of Digital Wave Technology, an AI/GAI-native platform for master data with RAD for unified enterprise solutions. As AI adoption accelerates, many consumer-facing companies are ...

Automation is not a new concept and has taken many forms, whether business process automation, application-to-application messaging or even robotic engineering and manufacturing. As these automation ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* ...

For decades, the OT world has had to navigate the challenges of proprietary systems and vendor lock-in as they pined for solutions modeled on the open standards and interoperability precedents that ...

A limited labor pool compels a potato farmer to think outside the box. The solution? Two rugged electric finger grippers mounted to a cobot arm that handle the 52.5-lb boxes. Combination of powerful ...

Ineffective communication can lead to misunderstandings, errors, duplicated efforts and lack of clarity on a project’s status. Companies that lack a collaborative and transparent environment are ...

If you think your process automation system has run its course, you’re not alone. It was recently forecast that $65 billion worth of process automation systems are nearing the end of their useful life ...

Control system technologies are continually evolving, providing designers and facility owners with an ever-increasing array of options. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control ...