Expanding advanced industrial automation

Comau and Omron Robotics have signed a strategic collaboration agreement aimed at accelerating the adoption and deployment of advanced industrial automation solutions for manufacturers...

Going Green (and Earning Some Too)

Automation Service’s Steve Ploudre explains how recycling process control equipment improves the environment and the bottom line Plants have long faced the dilemma of replace...

Pandemic Community Tracing Right Under Our Feet

Last year in Michigan, the municipal government of Macomb County, Oakland University, and Michigan State University partnered with water monitoring systems provider Aquasight, launching...

Welcome to the Internet of Things

Sensaphone® will introduce its Sentinel™ PRO remote monitoring system, an enhanced version of the Sentinel cloud-based system, at WEFTEC 2015. Sentinel PRO monitors up...

A Tough Pump for Tough Times

Though the last twelve months presented challenges for several industries, many manufacturers navigated these troubled waters to bring new products to market. For example,...

Stop Falling Behind Your Competitors

Brad Wolff is author of People Problems? How to Create People Solutions for a Competitive Advantage and the managing partner for Atlanta-based, workplace optimization...

When Experts Weigh In, Oversight Can Save Consumers Money and Cut...

Since 2008, Marianne DiMascio has been working to advance the goals of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE) Appliance Standards Awareness Project...

Are Engineering Careers Still the Way to Go?

Dr. Steve Mackay has worked in engineering throughout Australia, Europe, Africa, and North America for the past thirty-five years as a design and commissioning...

The Promise of Better than “Best Efficiency”

Nate Maguire is Xylem’s Americas Business Unit Director of Industry and Agriculture, Applied Water Systems unit. He recently sat down with MPT to share...

Energy Audits Get Results

ABB and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, have identified significant energy-saving potential through a strategic research partnership focused on the cooling and...