Episodes

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 ...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering news about Opto22, Electromate, Robotiq, Copia, Process Automation, Rockwell, Siemens, Omron, CAN and more in today's edition of Automation This Morning for Thursday, February 2, 2023. First up is a press release from Opto22 here that they are again holding in-person training on the groovEPIC controllers. Next we have a new product announcement here on the Electromate website about two new vacuum grippers from Robotiq. On the...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering news about KUKA, TATSOFT, CODESYS, MOXA, TSN, HMIs and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Wednesday, February 1, 2023. First up is a new article here from CODESYS about the most recent release of their Safety SIL2 support. Next is a press release from Moxa here about being the first IPC manufacturer to win IEC 62443-4-2 Certification. We also have a new product from Kuka which you can read about here. It cove...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering news from Rockwell, Aveva, SME, Schneider, Omron, Emerson, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Tuesday, January 31, 2023. First up is a new article from Rockwell here promoting their expertise in Semiconductor applications: Next up is a new article here from Aveva about their Manufacturing Execution Software and its capabilities: We also have two new articles from SME this morning. First up is one discussi...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering news from SMC, Digi-Key, ISA, Antaira, PTC, Prosoft, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Monday, January 30, 2023. First up in our new product category are two new products from SMC. First we have a new Electric Actuator here, followed by a new Vacuum Flow device here. NOTE: Those looking to learn more about air amplification can catch our previous podcast on the subject here. As far as new technical artic...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering news from PLCopen, Unitronics, Software ToolBox, Universal Robots, Fisher, ISA, as well as upcoming events, new videos, and a Tech Tip on Rockwell's CCW (and more) in this edition of Automation This Morning for Friday, January 27, 2023. First up in our new product category are some new DC to DC converters and End of Arm Tooling from Automation Direct. Learn all the details about these two products lines here. Next up is the l...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering new products, gateways, regulators, fieldbuses, bacon and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Thursday, January 26, 2023. First up is a new product from Banner Engineering. The product was designed to provide in-line protection for critical devices with M12 connections. To find out more, check out the Banner product announcement here. Next we have a new Gateway product from Automation-Networks. The new ANC-800...

Daily Industrial Automation News and Tips: This morning we're covering guides, valves, switches, fieldbuses, cybersecurity and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Wednesday, January 25, 2023. First up are a couple of new press releases. In the first here, Allied Electronic and Automation claims to now have the largest selection of industrial controls in North America. You can check out their industrial controls offering here, and let us know in the comments if you think they're r...

Your Daily Industrial Automation Update: This morning we're covering new application stories, facilities, articles, product literature and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Tuesday, January 24, 2023. First up is a new application story from ABB about how they helped a automotive sensor manufacturer implement co-bots to increase productivity. You can read the full article here. Next is a story from Endress-Hauser about the grand opening of their new office in Mexico which you ca...

Your Daily Industrial Automation Update: This morning we're covering grand openings, AI, new products, patches, downloads, and more in this edition of Automation This Morning for Monday, January 23, 2023. First up is the opening of the "eXplore Live" exhibition at "The Smart Factory @ Wichita." Located on Wichita State University’s Innovation Campus, The Smart Factory includes a fully operational production line and other exhibits which you'll find the details about here. Next up is the grand op...

Your Daily Industrial Automation Update: This morning we're covering a new community project and well as new products, networks, network interfaces and cabling, and new literature in this edition of Automation This Morning for Friday, January 20, 2023. First up is a new, public "crowd" project from the folks over at PLCnext. The goal of the "Beehyve" project is to get input from the community on new solutions to make beehives better for bees and beekeepers alike through automation. Learn all the...

Your Daily Industrial Automation Update: This morning we're covering New Products, Articles, Interviews, Podcasts, and upcoming Events in Automation This Morning for Thursday, January 19, 2023. First up is news from Phoenix Contact that they have acquired IS5 Communications. Not having heard of them before, I checked them out and they appear to be a company focused on industrial networking products, as you can see here on their website. Next is news from Opto22 that they will be featuring a demo...