Episodes

Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about AI Identification, SoftPLCs, IPCs, ZeroTrust, Industrial Wireless and more in our Automation This Morning blog for March 8, 2023. First up we have a press release from Siemens here about their new Passenger Train manufacturing facility in North Carolina. Score one for manufacturing local! In product announcements, today we have a new product from Cognex here which is an AI driven product identification camera touting quick...

Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about PLCSim v18, Bar Codes, Ethernet, FID02, Optimization, Smart Devices, AOIs, MTConnect, Flash Memory, Vision, Steppers and more in our Automation This Morning blog for March 7, 2023. First up we have a press release here from Endress-Hauser about their new location in Indianapolis, Indiana. Next, in product announcements today we have news here about a new Cognex Dataman 282 Bar Code Reader. We also have a new product announ...

Daily Industrial Automation News Roundup: Today we're covering news about Ultrasonic Sensors, Chillers, Speed Control, DFM & Industry 4.0, Data Protection, Condition Monitoring, Simulating Modbus and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday March 6, 2023. First up we have a new product announcement from Pepperl+Fuchs here about their new ultrasonic sensors with CAN interface. Next we have a couple of new products from SMC, with the first here being a new Thermo Low Temp Chiller. The o...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Siemens FDE, FactoryTalk Optix, Banner Temperature Sensors, Turck RFID, TopServer as Modbus Device, Stepper Troubleshooting, Zero Trust and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday March 3, 2023. First up we have a press release from Siemens here about providing access to unused field data from production for the integration of IT and OT. Next we have a press release from Rockwell Automation here about their ne...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Motors, Reporting, Modbus, KNX, Pwn2Own, LOTO, Light Curtains, Simulating XYZ Machines, Node-RED, Coils, Alto, IEEE, Tower Lights, Valves, Ethernet IO and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday March 2, 2023. First up we have a press release from Siemens here who is launching a new motors and large drives company named Innomotics. Next we have news here about the release of the latest version of SyTech's XL...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about AI, Light Curtains, Next Gen Wireless and Encoders, Ignition Cloud, SuperTrack, Flex5000, Scalance switches and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, March 1, 2023. First up we have a press release from Rockwell Automation here announcing an update to their line of Branch Motor Control Protection devices. Next we have another press release, this one from Yokogawa here detailing their new Autonomous Contr...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about CAN XL, PLCNext, EtherCAT, Actuators, Robot Controls, Packaging Trends, Raspberry Pis, Ransonware, Data Trends, Pipetting and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 28, 2023. First up we have a press release here from CAN In Automation about the third generation of CAN, CAN XL, being shown in recent live demonstrations. Next we have a press release here from the PLCNext community announcing that th...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about IPCs, Robot Trends, High Speed Systems, Tunnel Tech, PanelView, Redundancy, Industrial Networks, ViewSE and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 27, 2023. First up we have an announcement here from Advantech about a new 15" and 21" editions of it's UTC-500 lines of industrial PCs. Next we have a new article from Schneider Electric here discussing how their Harmony wireless devices can increase pro...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Barcode Verification, Windows 10 IoT, Top Server, Commutation of DC Motors, IEC104, S7-1500, Codesys 3.5, Sharing Distributed I/O and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 24, 2023. First up in our new article section is an article from Cognex here about the difference between Barcode Verification and Barcode Quality. Next we have a new article here from OnLogic discussing Windows 10 IoT and how it...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about IIoT, SMC, HMI Cybersecurity, Thermal Monitoring, Stratix, UPSs, Profinet, Pendant Stations, Power Monitoring and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 23, 2023. First up in our new products section is a new IIoT focused industrial PC from ASRock here. Next we have new Vacuum Pad/Bowl attachment from SMC here. From new products to new articles, the first in this morning's roundup is from Stahl he...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Cobot Grippers, PoE Budgets, AS-i Safety, Machine Vision, 3D Printing & Robots, NEC 2023 Changes and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 22, 2023. First up in our new products section are new grippers here from SMC designed specifically for cobots. We also have a new product announcement here on A3's website about a new gripper coming from Flexiv which is based on Geckos. And over on Flexiv's ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Stepper Drives, Digital Nameplates, Robot Trends, Ransomware, ViewSE, CIP Safety & Security and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 21, 2023. First up in our new products section is the announcement here of the P8000 Stepper Drive from Kollmorgen, We also have an announcement on the ISA's website here about Fuzzy Logic's release of their Fuzzy Studio robot programming software. First up in our n...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about 3D Safety, NAT, Din Rail UPS, Regulator, Filtration, ControlLogix and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 20, 2023. First up in our new products section is a new Din-Rail mount UPS from Eaton here. Next is a new Sick Safety Rated 3D camera here supporting an area up to 4 meters, and a safely level up to PLc. Wago also has new Terminal Blocks here in its TopJob line, of which my interest was peake...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Cobots, Haptics, IPC, APC, MQTT, UPC UA, DIO, Free TIA Portal and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 17, 2023. First up is a press release here from the IEEE celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the IEEE Foundation which does many good things like providing free STEM lesson plans here. Next we have an interesting article (and video) here from Fanuc about using Cobots with AMRs or AGVs to operate ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about 3D Sensors, IEC 61850, Condition Monitoring, Dual Booting, ITOps, Saving Energy, Python on PLCs, HDMI vs DP, and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 16, 2023. First up is a new product announcement here from Banner about their ZMX Series 3D Time Of Flight Sensor which can measure and monitor objects within a three-dimensional area. Next up is the latest update of Inductive's Ignition product he...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Rockwell, Prosoft, Leviton, Locus, Cybersecurity, Intel, OnLogic, Siemens, Omron, Schneider and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 15, 2023. First up is a new blog from Rockwell Automation here which touts the many benefits of it's new FLEX500HA Universal I/O. Next we have a new article here from Prosoft Technology about the latest version of its Ethernet/IP to DHRIO gateway. There's also an ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Straton, Seneca, EXOR, Cybersecurity, Rockwell, CiA and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 14, 2023. First up we have a new press release here from Straton Automation about Seneca using their IEC-61131 PLC Engine inside of their PLCs. Next we have a new product announcement here about a recently released EXOR Industrial HMI, the ex7070, WEB. Over on the SME site we have three excellent new arti...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Cognex, Advantech, Siemens, Aspentech, Thermosystems and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 13, 2023. First up we have an announcement from RS here detailing the addition of new suppliers including ILME and ABB Robotics. Next up is a new product announcement from Cognex here about their new high speed barcode reader, the DataMan 580. Advantech also announced a new product here, the UTC-300 line ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Banner, Pepperl-Fuchs, Acromag, SMC, Copia, Software Toolbox, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 10, 2023. First up in our daily product roundup is a new multicolor indicator with optical sensing for touchless activation product from Banner here. And for our podcast with Banner about their entire line of buttons and indicators, click here. Banner also has a new IP69K waterproof LED ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Banner, Inductive, Siemens, Schneider, Beckhoff, Opto22, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Thursday, February 9, 2023. First up in our daily new product roundup is a 10 Meter Range version of Banner's Q5X Laser Sensor here. Banner has also added 3-Pin M8 editions to its S15L family, which you can learn about here. Over on the SME website we have a new Cyber Security article here, which discussed ch...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about ISASecure, ABB, PI, Electromate, Digi-Key, Inductive, SME, Rockwell and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Wednesday, February 8, 2023. First up is a press release from ISA here about an ISASecure initiative to develop OT cybersecurity site assessments. Also from the ISA is news here about the Digital Twin Consortium and OPC Foundation working together on new colabortations. The we have an announcement here from...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Allied, Leviton, RTA, EtherCAT, ViewSE, RTLS, Omron, Fisher, Unitronics, MDT and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Tuesday, February 7, 2023. First up is a press release here that Allied Electronics and Automation is now RS. Next we have a new Fiber Optic product line expansion announcement here from Leviton. As far as new articles, the good folks over at RTA released a new blog here about three reasons to love...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Picking an HMI, Telecom, Middle Mile Networking, Brakes and Clutches, Motion in PTZ Cameras, and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Monday, February 6, 2023. First up is an article on the ISA website here submitted by Anaheim Automation sharing six tips for selecting an HMI. Next up are two articles from the folks over at WWT. The first one here discusses what they see as four trends in telecommunications. The s...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: Today we're covering news about Softing, Mitsubishi, B&R, Balluff, Idec, Anybus, Denso, AS-i and more in our Automation This Morning blog for Friday, February 3, 2023. First is a press release from Antaira here about how they just obtained a patent on their iPoE Budget Control feature, which helps to avert damage to Antaira industrial PoE switches by preventing the switch from overrunning its set PoE budget. Next we have several new and updated product ...