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.

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

Author Patrick Bouwman explains how his book, Fundamentals of Process Control: Principles and Concepts, helps up-and-coming automation professionals build a solid foundation. What inspired you to ...

Process automation in chemical research is witnessing an era of rapid technological expansion due to the fast-paced progress of hardware and robotics, aided by advanced computational methods ...

Since about 2015, when Don Bartusiak, the then chief engineer at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, publicly advocated for the development of a new, standards-based, open—yet secure—process control ...

According to Jeske, MTP-based modular automation is designed to turn even the most complex processes and automation infrastructures into subsets of “easily configurable building blocks, where each ...

Drag-and-drop control solutions offer opportunities for more scalable deployment of automation, but do they also marginalize value offered by automation programmers?

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: KROHNE Group, a leading global manufacturer of process instrumentation, measurement solutions and services, is proud to kick-off the latest learning and awareness program ...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 340, Automation (Mar., 1962), pp. 29-37 (9 pages) As process technology has shifted from batch to continuous operations, ...