Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
As factory infrastructures transition to cloud compatibility and the number of interconnected intelligent devices grows, a host of company benefits and new business opportunities are possible. For example, the large volumes of data generated from a ful...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
As industrial designers incorporate remote, fully interconnected factory equipment to reduce costs and simplify maintenance, the exposure to data disruptions or system cyber attacks becomes apparent. According to the 2013 Internet Security Threat...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
随着工业应用中对嵌入式设备的大量应用，设计师们所面临的连接性、可管理性和安全性问题将不断增加。作为整体计划的一部分，所有这些设备连同中央控制中心必须能够共享流数据并对流...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
With widely available virtualization software and new hardware-assist architectures, industrial designers can readily combine multiple factory functions into a single hardware platform in order to minimize development costs, power requirements, and the...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
With fully interconnected embedded devices now the norm in many factory settings, industrial design teams are implementing predictive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime, lower personnel costs, and increase production. There are basically three d...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
As the number of embedded devices in industrial applications skyrocket, designers are faced with a growing list of connectivity, manageability, and security problems. Each of these devices along with the central control hub must be able to share and re...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
erionnAs design teams create remote and mobile industrial automation systems, the commercial cellular infrastructure has become a popular technology to implement M2M and cloud connectivity. Cellular networks offer some advantages and deployment options...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
As industrial manufacturers increase the use of computer-controlled production line machinery and equipment to improve product quality and lower costs, the need for continuous process observation becomes vital. Intelligent system monitoring technology ...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
Smart is the new cool, and if there’s any machine among the plethora of Internet-connected gadgets and systems available today that you’d want to be smart, it’s the one that’s monitoring or even sustaining your health.The ...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
While “share the love” may serve as the theme song for many charitable organizations and hippie retailers, “share the data” may be the new rallying cry for the previously closed, unyielding health care industry.The ability...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
Medical innovations come in a variety of forms, from something as large and intimidating as a virtual 3D video X-ray that continuously takes pictures above or underneath a patient to something as convenient and (hopefully) discreet as a bra that detect...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
Industrial manufacturers are always looking for faster and more efficient factory automation systems to increase production rates and lower costs while extending their lifecycle to interact with multiple generations of technology. At the same time, the...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
Embedded control systems drive the critical and complex industrial machinery necessary to turn raw materials into finished goods in a factory environment. These systems must be designed for maximum reliability in order to avoid the high costs and lengt...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications strategies combined with cloud computing technologies promise to transform the industrial landscape from an assortment of isolated individual systems into a network of interoperable devices. Pervasive M2M connect...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
Mobility in health care represents a win-win-win for health care providers, insurers, and patients by simplifying information exchange, reducing costs, and improving patient health and outcomes. Embedded technology vendors are also looking to cash in o...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
It’s one thing to have your Facebook account hacked – you might unknowingly confuse and/or tick off a few friends – but consider the potentially dire consequences of having all your private medical data stolen, lost, or in some insidi...
Jennifer Hesse, Managing Editor —
While the term “X-ray” evokes pictures of bone scans, the imaging modality can be used for many other functions besides identifying a busted fibula.X-ray devices have advanced to laser-sharp precision – able to study and manipul...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
A typical industrial system may require multiple hardware and software updates over its life span as designers and management strive to optimize factory automation equipment and lower production costs. Typical hardware changes include a wide rang...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
Modern factory support and production test systems must be general purpose, remotely programmable, and flexible enough to handle a variety of input ranges and types, speeds, and functions. In addition, many in-process inspection stations now incl...
Warren Webb, Editorial Director —
The new 3rd-Generation Intel Core™ (codenamed Ivy Bridge) platform delivers substantial performance, I/O, and power efficiency improvements for designers of industrial embedded systems. New architectural enhancements yield as much as a 20% i...
