Every controlled electrical or mechanical machine has a human-machine interface (HMI) in the form of a pushbutton, lever, or touchscreen. At a high level, an HMI has three basic elements: input, ...

A modern factory is a far cry from Henry Ford’s 1913 assembly line. That plant revolutionized manufacturing, but the introduction of industrial computing in the 1950s marked the beginning of ...

While both human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies connect humans with equipment, HMIs tend to be local to a machine, allowing a user to ...

Reducing shop-floor hardware, Siemens’ Simatic Automation Workstation delivers centralized software-defined factory automation and control. The system allows manufacturers to replace a hardware ...

Wrestling big data to the ground and forcing it to give up its most valuable information is not a task for the faint-hearted. The volume of data produced by a factory’s machines often overwhelms the ...

Remote machine monitoring is becoming a common feature of automated equipment as part of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) implementations. The software and hardware required varies from vendor to ...