Hopefully by now you’ve had some fun playing around with some of the many Generative AI tools available for free across the internet. Whether you’ve asked ChatGPT to write some poetry for Mother’s Day or tested out the powerful image rendering capabilities of...
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Pragmatic Innovation Unlocks the Next Generation of Automation
There can be little doubt that the automation industry has seen significant innovation over the last four decades, from dedicated equipment, to off the shelf components, to electronic marshalling, to virtualization. In fact, those massive innovations only scratch the...
The Future of Automation is Coming, and the Foundational Technologies are Emerging Today
For decades, or perhaps even longer, many manufacturers considered productivity and sustainability to be at odds with each other. Sustainability technologies were expensive, so they weren’t worth implementing because they would eat into profits. However, in the last...
It’s Time to Break Up—Automation’s Future will be Defined by Decoupling
As Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine, there are many exciting changes coming as Emerson embarks on its Boundless Automation™ journey and evolves the modern control system in to a next-generation automation platform. However, what...
Collaboration is Key: Bridging the IT/OT Gap
As more and more process manufacturers are digitalizing their operations, operational technology (OT) teams are more frequently crossing paths with information technology (IT) teams. It has, in fact, become something of a cliché—the frustrated OT team struggling to...
Boundless Automation Brought to Life
Emerson’s Boundless Automation vision has been front and center at the 2023 Exchange Immerse users’ conference in Anaheim, California. Numerous subject matter experts have shared the way they have seen Emerson’s technology innovation influenced by Boundless Automation...
Ready the Plant for a New Era of Automation
It didn’t take long for the rise of the internet to upend the way process manufacturers do business. Over the span of just a few years, plants went from prioritizing a rigid, isolated control system structure to needing ways to integrate across the enterprise to...
Preparing for the Holistic Automation Future
In their recent article in Plant Engineering, Emerson’s Claudio Fayad and Erik Lindhjem share that selecting plant control and reliability technologies is no longer a matter of convenience. Rather, project teams have shifted focus to delivering increased value across...
The Future of Automation is Boundless—and its Foundation is Software
As Emerson Exchange 2022 wrapped up, people were talking quite a bit about two new concepts they heard a lot about in their sessions: boundless automation and software-defined control. But as is the case with any announcement of a future vision, people were left with...
Data Defines the Future of Control
We hear so much today about digital transformation, but, as Emerson’s Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine, digital transformation has been happening for far longer than we all imagine. In fact, “The modern distributed control system...
Emerson’s Vision of the Future of Automation Technology
Emerson’s Peter Zornio hosted a 2022 Emerson Exchange panel with Claudio Fayad and Laura Schafer on their vision for the future of automation technology.
Automation Strategies for the Field, Edge and Cloud Continuum
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