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The New Era Food Safety Rules give companies just three years to increase food safety—the countdown begins now.

Smartphones on the plant floor: Bring your own device (BYOD) or use company-owned devices? This question no doubt conjures up a multitude of things—good and bad—for personal devices on the plant floor, for example, connecting people with equipment and company data and providing workers with actionable information on the process and maintenance to make good decisions.

Moving from an automated plant to a smart factory is a leap forward but well worth the effort to enable a fully connected and flexible system—one that can use a constant stream of data from connected equipment and production systems to learn and adapt to new demands.

Nearly every industry is full of acronyms. LEED, USGBC, IMP, SIP, ICF, AIA, BIM, CAD, P.E. and ASHRAE are the construction-related acronyms I was able to prattle off without really thinking about it. But keeping straight what they stood for when I first started out took a little bit more time, let alone understanding which was which.

Connect process control with building management controls to save energy, improve efficiency.

iCube Control is automation technology designed to put engineers, application developers, machine builders and designers in total control over their systems.

The problem with a single article describing what’s new in saving energy is that by now we know where most of the energy waste is, and we’ve probably already fixed those issues—picked the low-hanging fruit.

Next-gen warehouses will continue to be run on remodeled iterations of machine learning algorithms that are gaining super cognitive powers.

With today’s crowded Wi-Fi bands, cellular may offer a real advantage.

While automation may bring to mind thoughts of faster machines and fewer people on the line, it’s about much, much more.