Resources for Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0

How to Grow Your Business with Collaborative Automation

  • White Paper

Collaborative automation has become a versatile,cost-effective, and user-friendly technology that allows businesses of almost any size (and any level of technical expertise) to increase productivity, improve quality, and respond more nimbly to changing customer demands.

Enabling Digital Transformation with IoT Performance and Properties Measurement

  • White Paper

Written for all IIoT stakeholders, the white paper explains why measuring the efficiency and efficacy of industrial digital transformation solutions across industries is essential.

Automation 2020: Industrial Cybersecurity

  • Ebook

In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020 from Automation.com, find out how to bolster business resiliency in the face of cyberthreats, how to protect against threats to industrial control systems, the latest on USB port intrusion threats, the next big step in EtherNet/ IP security, and more.

Webinar: Empowering Power for the Digital Age

  • Webinar

This webinar explores the need to distribute power to the edge, the rewards of doing so, and how power supply digital architectures are evolving to reduce costs and to empower the Industrial Internet of Things.

Securing Industrial Environments with OT Endpoint Management

  • Webinar

Join us on May 28th to learn a practical approach to applying many of the same best practice IT principles into the OT environment and hear a real-world example of an operator bringing the appropriate skills, technology and processes to enable similar endpoint risk management to OT as to IT.

IIoT Extends the Operational Excellence Value Chain

  • Webinar

Join this webinar to see what becomes possible when you take control and connect the entire value chain for reduced risk, improved on-time delivery and greater customer satisfaction.

IIoT At Work – Planning For The Next Installation

  • Webinar

The audience will receive a comprehensive review of the challenges and solutions for the next IIoT deployment.

Automation 2020: IIoT and Smart Manufacturing

  • Ebook

Formerly called Advancing Automation, this ebook series includes sponsored and curated articles from a variety of experts on the latest in smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 topics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

Hybrid Heuristics for High Speed Route Optimization

  • White Paper

This paper discusses the challenges faced in route planning and how existing algorithms are largely insufficient. It also discusses how the use of a hybrid heuristic method derived from the combination of straight line heuristics and real road distance metrics presents the best solution to solving the challenge of planning efficient routes at high speed for last-mile deliveries today.

Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Technical Solution Design Principles

  • White Paper

This white paper is focused on helping readers understand in detail the Open Industry 4.0 solution reference architecture framework for interoperability. It provides a dive deep into key design principles of its members defined and supported end to end solutions