Depending on who you ask, the risk to the U.S. electrical grid is either not a big deal, disastrous, or somewhere in between. READ MORE

Bill Lackey, vice president of Automation at Motion Solutions, tells us why the firm believes EtherCAT is leading the race in Ethernet connections. A decade ago, communications in machines took place on a point-to-point basis. If you were building... READ MORE

The Industrial Internet of Things can give packaging-line managers a better idea of how operations are going, and thus the ability to make better decisions. Each year, manufacturers lose thousands of dollars to waste. Every plant or line manager... READ MORE