By Jennifer Hooker IEN Staff June 27 2008 —Remember when a car was a simple means of transportation to get from point A to point B? A leather interior and a nice paint job isn’t enough to make your car drool-worthy anymore as more vehicles are Learn more

In addition to delivering high-speed packaging solutions with robotic precision the VersaPak gantry robot series and VersaTrak collation conveyors from AMF Automation Technologies provide a high level of flexibility for quick changeovers Learn more

Safety components and systems grow increasingly flexible and scalable and integration with other plant floor systems is edging closer to reality "We will see the wider adoption and greater sophistication of safety controllers," predicts Tom Knauer Learn more

IEN Where are strides being made in ease of integration including flexibility/scalability; safety management; and safety design? Guajardo Safety network devices have added increased reliability productivity and safety by offering unprecedented Learn more

HiOPC Expert Edition from Hirschmann Electronics enables industrial Ethernet users to incorporate network monitoring into their HMI environment using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) technology SNMP is the standard protocol developed to Learn more

BusWorks® 900EN Series I/O Modules interface analog and discrete I/O signals directly to an Ethernet Modbus/TCP 10/100 network Twelve-channel inch-wide I/O modules operate independently of any buscoupler or I/O rack without any special system Learn more

IEN Describe the major security concerns facing industry How can they be addressed?Ryan Terrorist attacks food scares and computer hackers have all contributed to raising awareness of the ability of outside forces to cause havoc with day-to-day Learn more

Today's manufacturers are poised to profoundly transform the way they do business -- a transformation that will be based on emerging technology.According to a recent report by the National Association of Manufacturing overall production increased Learn more

IEN What is your definition of lean manufacturing? Does it include Six Sigma flexible manufacturing plug-and-play?Quebbemann: Lean manufacturing consists of using the intelligence of new technologies in an efficient and cost-effective manner.IEN Learn more

Lean manufacturing Six Sigma plug-and-play flexible manufacturing -- companies are searching the cupboards for solutions as the U.S economy shows signs of contraction At center stage is the lean enterprise The heart of lean is the Toyota Learn more