Bill Dehner

Technical Marketing Engineer, AutomationDirect.com

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Bill Dehner is a Technical Marketing Engineer at AutomationDirect.com.

Figure 1: Lightweight portal devices like this AutomationDirect Stride Pocket Portal can be quickly and easily installed to add IoT capabilities at any type of facility.

Lightweight Automation Options

Some automation applications don’t need a full-blown control system, and today’s lightweight devices can offer targeted and economical options.

This AutomationDirect Productivity2000 controller offers significant data logging capabilities with 32 GB of storage space, filling the needs for many data collection applications.

Data-Driven Trends

The tried and true industrial data collection methods of the last several decades will expand into the future as Big Data and IIoT technology developments lead to more data, analytics and related benefits.