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How and why to draft a scope of work when considering automation controls projects.

Lots of facility engineers and facility

Bottlenecks.  They handicap your throughput, mess with your utilization, and throw a wrench in your schedule.  Sometimes the solutions

Challenge
As part of a retool, a customer was looking to upgrade their Siemens ET 200x field devices.  This legacy

In many ways and for many reasons, facilities are being asked to become nimbler and adapt to change more

On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 11:00 AM CT, John Shipley will be joining Automation World to present

Virtually testing improvements in your plant allows you to test changes with just a few clicks.

Siemens Tecnomatix® Plant

There are many factors to consider when deciding on a vision system in your automation system.  Three of the

This week, we released our first app on the MindSphere Store.  MindSphere is the open cloud-based IoT operating system

Here’s the situation: you are on site, working on a project. You have encountered equipment that is nearly as

When writing software, it’s important to write code that is organized and contains descriptive comments. This helps the code

Note: In March 2018, Siemens acquired the leader in RTLS technology, Agilion. 

Have you ever spent hours searching your

Last month, we officially opened our brick and mortar office in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Our Indiana presence has been