ONDEX Automation today announced the acquisition of The Fitch Company, a leading electrical engineering and process automation systems integrator based in Rumford, Maine. This is ONDEX's sixth ...

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 ...

The control systems world is changing. Historically, process control systems—which include all industrial control, process control, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed ...

Manufacturing process controls include all systems and software that exert control over production processes. Control systems include process sensors, data processing equipment, actuators, networks to ...

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 ...

Batch process manufacturers are continuously looking for new ways to improve processes and production techniques and to be more efficient to remain competitive. Although manufacturers see new ...

When it comes to process-control systems, reliability is crucial and failure can be costly or dangerous. A combination of good design practices, component selection, and testing can enhance ...

The main purpose of an automation strategic plan is to improve our ability to manufacture and sell products by a better utilization of people, equipment, raw materials, and facilities. Three key ...

How self-tuning can support an adaptive control strategy. How Model Reference Adaptive Control can improve adaptability. The different types of MRAC. A certain amount of flexibility is always good to ...

Across the semiconductor industry, both FD-SOI and finFET transistor technologies are in high volume production, with IC manufacturers looking to extend both technologies to gain additional ...