IIoT & Connected Manufacturing
Automation World asks industrial automation experts how to connect legacy equipment with cloud platforms, edge computing, industrial IoT protocols and advanced analytics without disrupting operations.
Plan SCADA and HMI upgrades around uptime: connect first, replace later.
Automation & Controls
Control Global argues that digital integration, configuration management and consistent measurement data matter as much as the instruments themselves when assessing process-control risk, because the same number can mean different things.
Audit units, ranges and configuration for the same tag across systems; inconsistent definitions are a risk.
Automation & Controls
A Control Global blog argues that process sensor monitoring at the physics level can show which information is inconsistent with reality when the PLC and HMI both report a valve as open.
Independent process sensing can catch a PLC and HMI that agree with each other but not the plant; consider it on critical valves.
Smart Manufacturing & Digital Twin
Automation World says choosing a Manufacturing Operations Management suite takes more than MES functionality. Manufacturers should evaluate how well systems connect planning, production, performance metrics, integrations and compliance controls.
Use those connections as RFP criteria and ask vendors to demonstrate them end to end.
Process Technology
Processing says hybrid models let biopharmaceutical manufacturers build autonomous processing capability in phases, from PAT and closed-loop control, gaining real value at each stage while staying aligned with regulatory expectations.
Phase autonomy and tie each stage to a measurable gain and a regulatory check.
Robotics & Cobots
Robotics & Automation News contrasts humanoid robots, which draw crowds at warehouse automation shows, with AMRs already moving goods in thousands of facilities. It argues the two are at very different stages of commercial maturity in 2026.
For warehouse moves today AMRs are the proven option; keep humanoids to a watched pilot.
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