Control Engineering Europe – March 2019

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Control Engineering Europe March 2019 3

Due to the early timing of the Hannover Messe this year, instead

of producing a preview of the event we will be putting together

a bumper event review in the May issue. We will, however, still

be producing our annual Hannover e-newsletter, so keep an eye

out for this, which will bring you details about a few of the best

product launches to look out for at the event. The lead theme

this year will be ‘Integrated Industry - Industrial Intelligence’,

highlighting the growing interplay between automation and

energy technology, IT platforms and artificial intelligence, which

is driving the digital transformation of industry.

In this issue of Control Engineering Europe we take a closer look

at edge devices which are considered to be a key element of Industry 4.0 success and which

also allows data to be processed outside of the cloud, which brings with it data security

benefits. This feature section starts on pg 10.

Suzanne Gill

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INDUSTRY REPORT

4 IEC 60034-23 explained.

EDITOR’S CHOICE

6 AI controller reduces downtimes; simplified plant
floor to business systems communication.

EDGE COMPUTING

10 Edge devices are a key to Industry 4.0 success.

12 Cloud computing has limitations which can be
overcome by processing data at the edge.

14 Driving the secure edge lower in the signal chain.

INTERNET OF THINGS
16 Moving from the whiteboard to full deployment.

ROBOTICS

17 The role of robotics in flexible production.

18 We look at the automation trends influencing
manufacturing and packaging industries.

20 Demystifying robot programming.

MACHINE VISION

22 Find out about the evolution of the GigE vision

standard.

CALIBRATION

24 Generate ROI with an integrated calibration

solution.

25 Calibrating temperature measurement devices.

MONITORING

26 We look at the trends in seismic monitoring and

protection.

CYBER SECURITY

28 Proactive management of plant security.

FINAL WORD

31 John Browett argues that the transition to gigabit

Ethernet networking technologies has to start now.