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    To connect the technologies used in food and beverage production, packaging, shipping and recycling, Tetra Pak is working with a variety of partners—including ABB, SAP, Ericsson, and others—to change how business is conducted in this industry and help reduce energy use and emissions.
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    Global Companies Collaborate On the Future of Packaging

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    April 9, 2019
    To connect the technologies used in food and beverage production, packaging, shipping and recycling, Tetra Pak is working with a variety of partners—including ABB, SAP, Ericsson...
    The Pioneers of Packaging 4.0
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    The Pioneers of Packaging 4.0

    Stephanie Neil
    June 5, 2018
    In two separate moves, Tetra Pak and SIG partner with Microsoft and GE Digital, respectively, signaling a shift toward smart equipment and modernized service operations.
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    The Embedded Cybersecurity Trend

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    Feb. 8, 2018
    Though IT and software-based approaches to industrial cybersecurity will continue to be critical aspects of automation system security, embedded firmware-based approaches are ...
    OPC UA's scalable security concept.
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    How to Use OPC UA for Secure Communications

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    Jan. 18, 2018
    A new white paper from the OPC Foundation provides details for end users, system integrators, device vendors and OEMs on how to secure industrial data exchanges with OPC UA.
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    Managing Water: IIoT App Supports Sustainable Farming

    Aaron Hand
    July 14, 2017
    SCADAfarm—a cloud-based system built by WaterForce and Schneider Electric on Microsoft Azure—helps farmers monitor and control their irrigation and wastewater, saving resources...
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    Scalable, Current, Real-Time SCADA in the Cloud

    Aaron Hand
    July 6, 2017
    Cloud services were much in the limelight at the Honeywell Users Group symposium this year, including Honeywell’s new Experion Elevate cloud-based SCADA.
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    Software

    Digital Twin Concept Comes of Age

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    Nov. 21, 2016
    Demonstrations at GE’s Minds + Machines 2016 event show how virtualization is fast reaching a tipping across industry as more companies discover business-changing insights from...
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    What the Developing Microsoft-OPC UA Relationship Means to You

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    June 28, 2016
    The release of a new OPC UA open-source reference stack from Microsoft will speed the ability to connect plant floor devices of all types for greater interoperability.
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    IIoT

    Is the Internet of Things Dead?

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    June 2, 2016
    Some are already claiming IoT is dead for consumer products, but do such pronouncements mean anything for industrial IoT?
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    Field Level to Cloud Connections Take Off

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    May 12, 2016
    Displays by Lenze and Beckhoff at Hannover Messe highlighted the trend toward enabling field-level devices to send data directly to the cloud for analysis.

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    Siemens Industrial Copilot Uses AI for Human-Machine Collaboration

    Nov. 1, 2023
    Siemens and Microsoft announce the release of Siemens Industrial Copilot, which uses generative AI to improve how manufacturers design, develop, manufacture and operate.
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    Using AI to Help Operators and Technicians

    Sept. 22, 2023
    Microsoft is focusing efforts around the use of artificial intelligence to create a data-driven collaborative manufacturing workforce.
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    Plant Maintenance

    Siemens and Microsoft Team Up with Open AI

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    July 20, 2023
    By connecting Siemens Teamcenter PLM with Microsoft Teams and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, multiple new capabilities can be brought to industry, from helping frontline workers correct equipment...
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    Digital Transformation

    Siemens and Microsoft Partner on Generative AI for Industry

    April 25, 2023
    As part of the new Siemens Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams, this integration of generative artificial intelligence reportedly enables users to input feedback verbally to aid...
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    Getting to the Edge with Industrial Communications

    Benson Hougland
    Nov. 1, 2022
    A look back at the key technology developments that delivered Industry 4.0 gives us a good indication of where industry is headed.
    Jeff Winters of Microsoft presents at Inductive Automation's Ignition Community Conference 2022.
    IIoT

    Digitalization Changes Everyone’s Job

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    Oct. 18, 2022
    With a direct, high-level view of the impacts across industry, Microsoft’s Jeff Winter says when digital transformation is successful, it fundamentally changes everyone’s job....
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    Siemens Digital Industries Software Focuses on Digital Transformation

    Dick Slansky
    June 6, 2022
    Lean about what what shared at Siemens Digital Industries Software's analyst/media event this year.
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    IIoT

    IT-OT Convergence Has Always Been The Path Forward

    Daymon Thompson
    May 14, 2022
    Long before Industry 4.0 and cloud-connected architectures became possible, innovators championed PC-based technologies for industrial automation.
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    How to Implement Analytics and Stay in Control of Your Big Data

    Daymon Thompson
    March 21, 2022
    Applying analytics tools in the same engineering platform as the controller, motion control, and HMI can lead to more successful Internet of Things implementations and boost competitive...
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    Why the MQTT Protocol is So Popular

    James R. Koelsch, contributing writer
    Feb. 25, 2022
    This first installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains how an ultra lightweight data transfer protocol became a widely used data gathering...

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    Augmented Reality Maintenance Demo

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    April 3, 2019
    There’s been a lot of buzz the past few years about how augmented reality can be used to guide workers through various maintenance and repair procedures. At Hannover Messe 2019...
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    Hannover Fair 2015 Highlights: Day One

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    April 23, 2015
    A brief look at two of the many exhibits visited on our first day at Hannover Fair 2015. This video showcases the Bosch Rexroth exhibit and its focus on Industry 4.0 down to hydraulic...

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    Thanks to an investment in cloud ERP, Core Technology Molding was not only able to keep operations going, but tripled its business during a pandemic year.
    IIoT

    Pandemic Accelerates Edge-to-Cloud Digital Transformation

    Beth Stackpole, contributing writer
    Dec. 15, 2021
    An Automation World survey reveals an uptick in cloud and edge deployments as manufacturers roll out performance monitoring, collaboration, quality assurance, and predictive maintenance...
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    The State of Cloud-Based Automation Today

    Stephanie Neil
    Sept. 14, 2021
    A look at how digitalization and the need for scalability are driving more interest and investment in cloud-based industrial applications and how automation technology suppliers...
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    When Artificial Intelligence Comes to Control

    James R. Koelsch, contributing writer
    July 15, 2021
    Applications of machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence have been recognized in robotics and analytics. Now the technology is adding some spice to basic control...
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    Mars Partners with Microsoft for its Global Digital Transformation

    Stephanie Neil
    June 1, 2021
    The plan includes a “cloud-first” strategy, leveraging AI, IoT, and digital twins across its businesses, focusing on intelligent supply chains, and delivering hyper-relevant consumer...
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    5 Things to Consider About Your Plant Floor Data and IIoT

    Marc Immordino
    May 19, 2021
    From getting data to the cloud to machine learning and analytics, there are some key aspects of the Industrial Internet of Things that should not be overlooked.
    Siemens Industrial Edge offers option to connect to Google Cloud services.
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    Google Cloud Targets the Manufacturing Industries with Siemens

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    April 29, 2021
    Siemens is integrating Google Cloud’s data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies with Siemens’ Industrial Edge platform.
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    Open AI Energy Initiative Partnership Formed

    David Miller
    Feb. 26, 2021
    Shell, Baker Hughes, Microsoft, and C3 AI fuse their expertise to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for energy sector applications.
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    Crossing the Interoperability Chasm

    David Greenfield, editor in chief
    Dec. 17, 2020
    A new white paper from the Open Manufacturing Platform highlights production asset level connectivity issues, with a focus on OPC UA and MQTT.
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    Microsoft Extends Industrial Focus with Expanded Rockwell Automation Partnership

    Oct. 22, 2020
    The aim of this new partnership is to connect development, operations, and maintenance teams through a “singular, trusted data environment” that extends from the edge to the cloud...