Process automation and control encompasses hardware, software, systems and methods that measure, regulate, manipulate and visualize industrial processes for optimum consistency, efficiency and safety.

Automation involves a very broad range of technologies including robotics and expert systems, telemetry and communications, electro-optics, cybersecurity, process measurement and control, sensors, ...

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows.

Since hydrogen production is currently more expensive than traditional fuels, controls engineers play a key role in lowering ...

Robotic process automation (RPA) has emerged as a pivotal tool for efficiency and productivity in modern businesses. Used in applications ranging from system navigation to data extraction ...

American Fidelity combined DataRobot and UiPath technologies to combine automated machine learning and robotic process automation.

The strict segregation of safety systems and process control is just plain wrong these days. Automation suppliers have developed strategies for integrating what until now have ...

The safety system shares power supplies, module carriers and field terminals with the Matrix Process Control System. A single Matrix SafetyNet Workbench can be used to develop both process control and ...

This month, Control looks at workforce complexities, dilemmas and solutions to an aging workforce in process automation. In this brief survey, we want to know what you think about the effects of ...

Automation and machine control are useful technological advancements for the construction job site. This assistance technology is trending in wheel loaders and dump trucks.