December 2016: Feature Articles

• Temperature measurement within the plastics industry
• Ethernet on the fly is just faster
• Five future challenges for ­industrial Ethernet switches
• Intelligent energy monitoring with the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and TwinCAT IoT

November 2016: Feature Articles

• Is your network infrastructure ready for the IIoT?
• The replacement of Profibus DP with Profinet
• Economical and reliable network solutions
• Protect the wireless network
• Mechanical drives in a nutshell
• PC Control telescope surveys the skies
• Is the geared motor dead?
• How can cognitive technology and AI be applied to manufacturing?

October 2016: Feature Articles

• Paving the way towards digitalisation
• Flow measurement in pulp and paper applications
• Accurate measurements for process and quality control of LNG
• The Internet of Things is more than a vision
• eXtended Transport System
• Critical connectivity elements for wireless AS/RS and AGV systems
• Schneider Electric’s expanded range of service-oriented drives

September 2016: Feature Articles

• Banner Engineering’s L-Gage LTF
• Leak detection systems for pipeline safety
• Take today add tomorrow
• The future of vehicle crash testing
• Industrial automation system design
• Diagnostics and error localisation with EtherCAT
• A short guide to lightning and surge protection
• The Connected Enterprise
• Pokémon GO: reflections on the process industry
• Ready for big data with TwinCAT
• Pocket-sized OTDR with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
• Nick Denbow’s European report: Sales and marketing people to admire

August 2016: Feature Articles

• Understanding dynamic range and the versatile future of radar technology
• Traceability through serialisation deters counterfeiters
• Intelligent photoelectric sensors
• PC-based control in high precision manufacturing
• SecureIT – basic cyber defence by Yokogawa
• Implementing intelligent CNC machine tools with EtherCAT

Technews Industry Guide - Industrial Internet of Things 2016: Feature Articles

• Cybersecurity implications of the Industrial Internet of Things
• Nick Denbow's Industrial Internet report: The future for IoT
• How to determine the business need for industrial Internet applications
• Continuous networks from office to sensor
• Linking automation and cloud technology
• Locally developed M2M solutions
• Beckhoff solutions for Industrie 4.0 and IoT

July 2016: Feature Articles

• Nothing is standard here
• eXtreme fast control for conveyor belt monitoring
• Innovative new valve manifold
• Integrator for Industry 4.0
• Improving OEM service performance with remote monitoring
• Integrating legacy serial devices into the IoT
• Safety over EtherCAT
• Yokogawa releases the EJXC40A digital remote sensor
• Successful control system cutover at Saudi Aramco processing plant
• Some things change, some stay the same

June 2016: Feature Articles

• Adroit Technologies lead in the M2M space
• Control system upgrade at RBCT stabilises plant-critical operations
• Wireless connectivity for AS/RS and AGV systems
• Synchronising industrial Ethernet networks
• Process optimisation through integrated condition monitoring

May 2016: Feature Articles

• Endress+Hauser’s water flow measurement solution
• ABB Instrumentation for bleaching of pulp suspensions
• Interoperability: an EtherCAT factor of success
• Compact and high-precision glass cutting machine
• Wireless communication saves the bottom line
• Safety in the block
• A portfolio approach to operations IT solutions management
• IT solutions for small server rooms and micro data centres
• Advice for using SNMP in I/O intensive ­applications

April 2016: Feature Articles

• EtherCAT Automation Protocol
• Products become solutions
• Cloud-based solution for data collection
• Integrated energy data management enhances PC-based control
• Implementing passenger Wi-Fi ­networks: five key considerations
• Wireless communication in Smart Grid deployments

Technews Industry Guide - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2016: Feature Articles

• Asset Performance Management evolves
• Why organisations invariably underestimate the true costs of MRO
• Understanding the data and true value of a calibration certificate
• Maximised operating potential through data integration
• By your side

March 2016: Feature Articles

• Meet challenges and beat the odds at X-Change 2016
• Enabling efficient and visual substation network management
• Vision technology for driverless transport systems
• Next-gen technologies pave the way for future manufacturing
• How exactly does IT support ­manufacturing compliance?
• Scalable control technology ­simplifies machine building
• How fieldbus systems are really ­selected

February 2016: Feature Articles

• Production data for even more ­productivity
• Mitsubishi Electric’s new factory automation energy solution
• Increased productivity and process visibility at Pioneer Foods
• Flow measurement at a sugar mill

January 2016: Feature Articles

• Everything you need in a control valve
• Cobre del Mayo mine chooses Alia
• Advancements in HMI are ­changing upstream oil and gas
• Endress+Hauser introduces new data manager
• Compact explosion protection know-how
• From motion tasks to intelligent Industry 4.0
• IT organisations need to prepare for an uncertain future