Resources for Discrete Manufacturing & Machine Control

Webinar: Making Product Quality Profitable for Manufacturers
- Webinar
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the current state of quality in manufacturing, key challenges, and how Plex QMS addresses those challenges.

Webinar: Best Practices for HMI/SCADA Security
- Webinar
With outdated system architectures, unsupported software, and obsolete hardware, as well as a lack of HMI/SCADA deployment best practices, your system reliability decreases—while your risk and potential for disaster increase.

Automation Salary Survey 2020-21
- White Paper
This Automation.com 2020-2021 Automation Salary Survey report will explicate data collected in mid-2021 about the salaries and work lives of automation professionals across the globe in various industries and stages of their careers.

Webinar: Scalability in Automation - Who’s the Weakest Link?
- Webinar
This webinar discusses the criteria to consider when implementing an automation system that can scale, such as architecture, and the maximum number of users and control points, since an underperforming system can have a huge impact on your application.

White Paper: Getting Your TSN Product to Market
- White Paper
Created for automation vendors, “Getting your TSN product to market” provides a practical insight on how to implement the technology and the importance of conformance testing for TSN products.

Webinar: Honeywell Versatilis Configurator – Meet the Future of Handheld Configurators and Technician Mobility
- Webinar
Learn how the latest technology overcomes the shortcomings of custom-built handheld communicators and improves the user experience and efficiencies of field technicians and engineers.

Automation & Control Trends Analysis 2021: The Digitalization Dozen
- Ebook
Bill Lydon's sixth annual trends report discusses new technologies from outside the realm of traditional automation solutions, as well as the rapid expansion of proven tools and techniques, that are being applied to improve the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of manufacturers.

Case Study: Machine Builder Bridges PLC and Enterprise System Databases Without Writing Code
- White Paper
Trantek Automation, a machine builder specializing in robotic welding systems, was facing a challenge connecting information technology (IT) systems with production machinery. The tManager Enterprise Appliance Transaction Module provided a solution. With this innovative appliance in place, TranTek Automation quickly delivered a plasma cutting robotic system that could communicate with its customer’s enterprise database without having to write any code.

2020 Industrial Automation Salary Survey
- White Paper
Conducted in Fall 2020, the Automation.com 2020 salary survey reflects the early effects of pandemic-related economic upheavals for engineering, business and technical professionals in manufacturing and industry.

New Motion Control Techniques for Servo and Step Motors
- White Paper
This paper explores the benefits and limitations of the stepper servo control technique, also called closed loop stepper, and explains why it is attracting serious attention from machine designers.