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When Topology Kills Communication: Modbus and PROFINET Failure Fixes with Phoenix Contact and Schneider Hardware

Line, star, ring, and tree networks fail in predictable ways. Here is how to find the fault fast, with real component values and switch settings.

Line, star, ring, and tree networks fail in predictable ways. Here is how to find the fault fast, with real component values and switch settings.

When Your Aluminum Factory Gets a Cybersecurity Checkup

Picture this: a sprawling facility in Cisterna di Latina, Italy, where aluminum billets are cast, extruded, and shaped into profiles that end up in everything from skyscrapers to window frames....

Picture this: a sprawling facility in Cisterna di Latina, Italy, where aluminum billets are cast, extruded, and shaped into profiles that end up in everything from skyscrapers to window frames....

BlackBerry's QNX Is Betting That Robots — Not Cars — Will Be Its Next Gold Mine

Ask anyone old enough to remember the early 2000s what BlackBerry means, and they'll probably describe a tiny keyboard, a blinking red light, and the addictive click-clack of thumb-typing at...

Ask anyone old enough to remember the early 2000s what BlackBerry means, and they'll probably describe a tiny keyboard, a blinking red light, and the addictive click-clack of thumb-typing at...

When AI Writes Code, But Engineers Still Call the Shots

Not long ago, Mark Reitzel asked an AI to build him a web version of a Japanese card game his father used to own. Ten minutes later — poof —...

Not long ago, Mark Reitzel asked an AI to build him a web version of a Japanese card game his father used to own. Ten minutes later — poof —...

When Automation Goes to Extremes: From Warship Assembly Lines to Donut Factories

In the world of industrial automation, scale is everything — and few things illustrate that better than the polar opposites of U.S. warship production and snack food manufacturing. On one...

In the world of industrial automation, scale is everything — and few things illustrate that better than the polar opposites of U.S. warship production and snack food manufacturing. On one...

Humanoid Robots: The Four-Point Plan to Transform Manufacturing Quality

Walk onto almost any factory floor today, and you’ll see robots that look nothing like people—articulated arms bolted to concrete, AGVs beeping their way down aisles, conveyor belts that never...

Walk onto almost any factory floor today, and you’ll see robots that look nothing like people—articulated arms bolted to concrete, AGVs beeping their way down aisles, conveyor belts that never...