Plant automation has historically been the responsibility of the control system engineer—you know, the instrumentation guy, the DCS guy, the PLC and HMI guy. Interfaces were straightforward with ...

Certification programs like those offered by Cisco and Juniper Networks can help network engineers document their proficiency in network automation. Modern networks require more dynamic changes than ...

After five years of consistent growth, automation and control engineers in the U.S. reported sluggish growth for the year as the decade nears its end. The Automation ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...

Systems Development Engineer Ravi Kiran Reddy Bommareddy eliminated vendor dependencies and manual bottlenecks across Amazon's fulfillment network, proving scal ...

Automation takes mechanization one step further. While mechanization replaces manual labor with machines, automation replaces human guidance with controls hardware, computers, and programming (PCs, ...

The financial situation of the average automation engineer got a nice boost in 2018. As the salary of the average automation professional rose for the fifth consecutive year, our salary survey found ...

When Humana needed to transform its fragmented network data from scattered spreadsheets and tools into a comprehensive, automated system, the healthcare insurance provider turned to Network to Code ...

Industrial automation systems are increasingly deployed in environments where operating conditions are far from ideal. High temperatures, corrosive chemicals, c ...