Ground up Strategies for Asset Performance Management
This benchmark report from SAP analyses how top-performing companies boost their return on assets and financial performance. This benchmark investigates the ways top performing ...
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Redundancy in Serial-to-Ethernet Communications
This paper describes how Digi technologies eliminate single points of failure for networked devices. What is redundancy and why is it important? Requirements for redundant conn ...
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Open Industrial Wireless Solutions: Realizing the Full Potential of Wireless
In the current global economic climate, manufacturing facilities are being continually pushed to grow the efficiency and profitability of their processes. The incentives to improve ...
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The A-B-C's of Ethenet/IP
This technical reference paper from Acromag provides in-depth discussion of the CIP protocol, explains OSI layers and illustrates key concepts. EtherNet/IP was first presented ...
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What’s ahead for the PLC market in 2010?
Although financial conditions have already improved more than expected during the second half of 2009, the global recession is not over, and response of global manufacturing indust ...

HANNOVER MESSE 2010 covers all aspects of industrial automation
HANNOVER MESSE 2010 will play a major role in boosting business activity. This applies above all to the industrial automation sector. To stay ahead in the current economic climate ...

European Machinery Directive: What it Means
There has been significant discussion and speculation over the past few months regarding the status of EN 954-1:1996 and the superseding document EN ISO 13849-1:2006.

A Difficult Year for the Global PLC Market Draws to a Close
2009 has been an extremely difficult year for most PLC suppliers. Global PLC revenues are estimated to have been 19.1% lower than in 2008. According to IMS Research, in its recentl ...

European Commission allows more time to meet new safety standards
The European Commission recently extended the deadline for transition from EN 954-1 until Dec. 31, 2011. This extension provides an additional 24 months for machine builders to mee ...