Industrial Computing Reference Materials

Description: Converging information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) offers many benefits including lower risks, better decision-making and lower overall costs. ...

Description: Bridging the gaps between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) can improve performance on the floor and reduce risks to operations. ...

Description: The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) can integrate different types of data and information to give manufacturers a better picture of how everything works in facilities. See four AIoT factors ...

Description: FOUR IIOT CONSIDERATIONS FOR HARDWARE, APPLICATION INTEGRATION ...

Description: While human-machine interface/supervisory control and data acquisition (HMI/SCADA) systems offer some protection by design, it is not enough ...

Description: Many cybersecurity steps are simple, but they must be done. ...

Description: Learn the primciples of predictive maintenance and why organisations are implementing predictive maintenance systems to reduce energy waste in and industrial context. ...

Description: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to enable direct communication between humans and computers by reading and identifying signals from the brain and acting on them. Their main inspiration comes from ...

Description: A proportional-integral-derivative controller is a control loop mechanism often used in industrial control systems where continuous control is needed. ...

Description: High reliability and highly reliable are two terms that are thrown around a lot in the embedded computing industry. Do they mean the same thing? No, they do not. High reliability is a well-accepted ...

Description: On the surface, it may not appear that there's a difference between consumer versus commercial versus industrial versus military product grades, particularly at the component level. But I assure you ...

Description: NVIDIA Jetson Orin series is the latest set of processors released by NVIDIA with a maximum AI performance of 275 TOPS. Learn how Orin compares with its predecessors including Jetson AGX Xavier, ...

Description: NVIDIA Isaac ROS is one of the most commonly used operating systems in the robotics world. Learn what NVIDIA Isaac ROS is, its functions, and how to get started with your development journey using ...

Description: Most industrial environments can be very challenging with dust, oil, and water in the air. These challenges can make the selection process tricky when selecting an industrial PC. Consumer computers ...

Description: An ISMS tailored to your company can mitigate IT-related risks and reduce any resulting damage or costs. In addition, a risk-oriented action plan improves the economic efficiency of your security ...

Description: Proficiency should be a priority for the storage in computers. The importance of NAND flash technologies is its ability to increase its chip capacity while efficiently reducing the cost per bit. What ...

Description: Digital input and (DI) and digital output (DO) modules for automated industrial controllers have, historically, used discrete components in their design. ...

Description: ML on embedded devices has many advantages. It eliminates the need to transfer and store data on cloud servers, and reduces data loss and privacy leaks during data transfer. It also reduces the theft ...

Description: IoT devices enable enterprises to understand the needs of their customers and offer products that meet their specific needs. From offering related products to increasing customer loyalty, the Internet ...

Description: IP rating defines levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosures against forces from foreign bodies, tools, solid particles, or moisture. In IP rating, the first number refers to the ...

Description: When people try to buy new industrial computers for offices or industries, there might be endless of options to choose from. Of course everyone want to make the right purchase without waste time or ...

Description: An open frame monitor is a display that is integrated into a bare metal chassis without an enclosure or bezel. ...

Description: Learn what ROS (Robotic Operating System) is and the benefits it offers to robot developers. Also develop an understanding of the different versions of ROS. Finally, you can have a look at the cameras ...

Description: Keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM), is an industrial instrument that allows users to control numerous amounts of computers all at the same time starting at keyboards, video monitors and the mouse. This ...

Description: No one questions the need for cybersecurity these days. With attacks coming on a daily basis, the question today is “how do I secure” rather than “why should I secure” or ...

Description: COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the embedded computer industry, particularly on the hardware side. COTS products are optimized for efficient, sometimes ...

Description: Quantum computing has been around for several decades now, but still sounds a bit like a mysterious modern-day Holy Grail. In his Master thesis, Alexander Hungenberg (ETH Zurich) explains how a Red ...

Description: Quantum technology is clearly the way to go when you're looking for faster, smaller and more precise high-tech solutions. Unfortunately, the extremely small size of these systems also makes them more ...

Description: In Smart edge technologies, IIoT devices, sensors, actuators and controllers are used to track the health of equipment and the moving parts within it. With edge computing, the machine does not need to ...

Description: Over the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has meshed into various industries. The era witnessed a dramatic increase in tools, applications, and platforms based on AI and Machine Learning ...

Description: Tin whiskers are hair-like crystalline filaments that grow outward from the surfaces of certain metals, including tin. Although they can grow on other metals, they're called "tin whiskers" because the ...

Description: Recently, embedded.com ran excerpts from Embedded Computing for High Performance, a book by João Cardoso, José Gabriel Coutinho, and Pedro Diniz, which was published last spring. ...

Description: Over the past couple of months, we've been running a series summarizing the excerpts taken from Embedded Computing for High Performance by João Cardoso, José Gabriel Coutinho, and Pedro ...

Description: Paco Rabanne, the men's fragrance, has gone high tech, with a robot shaped bottle which has a cap with a chip that connects you (via smartphone) to some online content. ...

Description: At the back end of the IC manufacturing process, semiconductor handlers are used to sort products into different types of packages. The handlers have to perform sorting, picking, and placing, so their ...

Description: Seamlessly leverage existing infrastructure by integrating new intelligent devices. ...

Description: SCHURTER offers its customers complete HMI solutions with the right display to meet all desired requirements. With our knowledge and extensive sourcing channels, we select the optimal display for the ...

Description: The rapid expansion of unconventional drilling that has occurred over the last 10 years has driven demand for industrial sand to levels higher than they have ever been. ...

Description: While U.S. lawmakers are determining what infrastructure needs to be protected, states are taking measures to keep the threat in focus. ...

Description: ClearBlade, the Edge-focused IIoT software company, and WINSYSTEMS, INC., the industry-leading solutions provider of embedded computer systems have announced a partnership to deliver turnkey solutions ...

Description: Highly reliable embedded systems start with secure, rock-solid hardware designs, such as those provided by WINSYSTEMS. The application software provides the unique functionality systems developers ...

Description: The PLC or Programmable Logic Controller has revolutionized the automation industry. Today PLCs can be found in everything from factory equipment to vending machines, but prior to New Year's Day 1968 ...

Description: The Challenge The company had several different necessary requirements that made finding an off-the-shelf solution difficult. Included in these requirements were long term monitoring and storage of ...

Description: Early this year, after nearly a decade since the release of the Armv8, Arm introduced its new Armv9 architecture. This new architecture is in response to the ever-increasing demand for the specialized ...

Description: Challenge Thinaer systems use Raspberry Pi nodes that communicate with smart sensors via Bluetooth Low Energy. These smart sensors however, don't provide high-accuracy temperature or high-speed ...

Description: Challenge Shear wave tensiometry is a non-invasive technology that facilitates measurements of muscle-tendon loading during motion. It has traditionally been done with benchtop systems which confine ...

Description: The Challenge The drivetrain is the heart of a wind turbine. It contains the generator and gearbox which converts the rotation of the blades into electricity. Wind turbine gearboxes can undergo severe ...

Description: Teguar has partnered with Ready Robotics for its launch of Forge/OS 5. Forge/OS 5 is a universal operating system that allows you to program and control all of the robots in your production ...

Description: Where industry 4.0 was all about smart technology, a large part of which was getting the machines to do most of the work, industry 5.0 is more about getting human judgment back in the game. The ...

Description: Fully waterproof stainless steel computers, waterproof rugged tablet PCs, and partially waterproof panel PCs and all-in-ones. Learn the differences here. ...

Description: Rugged durability is essential to collecting data in harsh environments: ...

Description: In modern manufacturing, automation is key. Those charged with overseeing processes need to spend more time acting on actionable insights and less on manually monitoring those processes, as ...

Description: Here's how to solve this ...

Description: Supporting Raspberry Pi® in OEM and Test and Measurement Applications ...

Description: The various ways you can use the RP-16 to receive and/or spot CW, RTTY, and other digital modes (including FT8 and FT4). ...

Description: The second part of The Reverse Beacon Network blog about using Red Pitaya's SDR. ...

Description: In this video, M0JPI talks about a logic analyzer, what it is and the different types that exist. ...

Description: Learn how to capture an analog waveform using a data acquisition device and various software platforms. ...

Description: RO Scientific is a small engineering company as well as the MCC distributor in Romania and specializes in providing custom DAQ solutions. With expertise in both system design and software development, ...

Description: Teguar's tips for choosing a CPU for your industrial computer. ...

Description: Heatsink dissipates heat from a computer without a fan. Comparison of types of heatsinks in Teguar Computers. ...

Description: What's the difference between Windows 10 Pro and IoT? ...

Description: Despite being visionaries in implementing intrinsic cyber security, we don't have a crystal ball into the future of cyber events, but we do have plenty of informed opinions. Here are some of our ...

Description: The SolarWinds hack that dominated news cycles late last year is among the largest and most pervasive known cyber intrusions by a nation-state. Bedrock Fellow Sam Galpin analyzes what we know so far ...

Description: The Florida water plant that was the subject of a cyber-attack last week may have dodged a bullet, but it highlights the vulnerability of the nation's water supplies and the need for better security ...

Description: Digital transformation isn't just for automating process operations. It is potentially changing the way that capital projects will be delivered, reducing the cost and speeding time to value for major ...

Description: Article identifies upstream compressors, tanks, lease automated custody transfer (LACT) units, rectifiers, test points, pipeline inspection gauges (PIGs) and gas meters as assets that could benefit ...

Description: Designing an embedded system suited to IoT requires a different approach than a classic embedded design. It is safe to assume that an 'Embedded IoT' device will be connected, at some point, to the ...

Description: What is Cloud? The Cloud is a combination of middleware and software services offered to carry out complex computations, processing, and analytics, as well as to provide storage, database networking ...

Description: If you imagine an IoT ecosystem, a gateway is what sits between the devices and sensors to communicate with the cloud. ...

Description: We spoke to Eivind about the development of the Futurehome project; their plans for the future and how collaborating with Premier Farnell helped them to turn their vision into a reality. ...

Description: We reached out to our global customer base with an IoT survey between September 2019 and December 2019. We got 2,015 completed questionnaires, primarily from engineers of IoT solutions, in 67 ...

Description: what exactly is smart parking system? At the foundation of any smart parking system lies the technical solution that provides real-time parking space availability data. In today's smart city projects ...

Description: From connected things to living in the data, preparing for challenges and IoT readiness ...

Description: After achieving global recognition and successfully building a data network that covered the entirety of their home city of Amsterdam, The Things Network recently announced a partnership with Premier ...

Description: The creativity of this new era is boundless, with amazing potential to improve our lives. What does the IoT need to become a reality? In this white paper, Freescale and ARM partner to answer that ...

Description: Wireless communication is one of the most desired modes of communication (connectivity) between two or more devices. In this technology, the data communication is performed and delivered over the air ...

Description: Teguar's key requirements for edge computer hardware. ...

Description: Edge Computing increases processing speeds, system reliability, and information security. ...

Description: From Teguar's new Knowledge Center: Edge computing explained. ...

Description: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has issued new guidance for supply chain risk management, acknowledging risks throughout the lifecycle of supply chains and making ...

Description: important information at a time when ransomware perpetrators are beginning to target industrial operations. ...

Description: The importance of more open, secure, and integrated automation. ...

Description: The mining industry was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, but, according to recent analysis by McKinsey & Company, it is in recovery - fueled in part by lower energy prices. As it does ...

Description: Ransomware attacks on ICS are on the rise and the OT data and functions hosted by Windows applications are the most vulnerable. ...

Description: Do you know the difference between Serial, COM and RS-232? Here's a quick overview of serial ports. ...

Description: The Industrial and Healthcare industries will be transformed by 5G technology. 5G capable phones and devices, including Teguar's 5G Rugged Tablet, are opening the door to faster internet speeds, ...

Description: The concerns about industrial power supplies that cybersecurity authority Joe Weiss raised in his "Unfettered" Controlglobal.com blog in 2018 are even more valid today. ...

Description: "Trust everyone - but cut the cards," is essentially the premise of Zero Trust cyber security. Zero Trust assumes that everyone or everything with access to your digital systems has inappropriate ...

Description: A recent study from Rystad Energy Group estimates that automation and digitalization can save upstream operators $100 billion in the 2020s, which represents about 10 percent of their 2018 spend ...

Description: On May 1, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency with respect to the threat to the U.S. bulk-power systems and issued an executive order prohibiting federal agencies and U.S. persons from ...

Description: The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have urged critical infrastructure facilities to take immediate action to secure their operational ...

Description: In a recent Automation.com editorial, editor Bill Lydon calls for increased vendor compliance and certification to open interoperable programming standards ...

Description: As countries, states and businesses begin to reopen, we do so with cause and some anticipation. Deloitte & Touche explores this in a recent report titled: Embedding trust into COVID-19 recovery, in ...

Description: We have compiled a list of the 5 most significant benefits of using an EtherCAT-based data acquisition system. If you're not already familiar with EtherCAT, prepare to be enlightened. If you're among ...

Description: Designing a device that accurately measures thermocouples in the uncontrolled environment of the Raspberry Pi was challenging. This article explains the difficulties in making accurate thermocouple ...

Description: If you have ever had doubts that electronic component counterfeiting is real, this 2017 article on the website Ataviat will likely change your mind. ...

Description: What is a cleanroom, how are clean rooms monitored, and what type of computers can be used for clean room manufacturing? ...

Description: Machine Vision Systems use a mix of cameras, computers and software to make instantaneous decisions regarding food quality, packaging consistency, CT scan diagnosis, avoidance of a vehicle collision, ...

Description: In this article, Logic PD identifies the seven glaring root causes of failure in IoT product development and offers solutions for each of these pitfalls. There are a wide range of Sins identified and ...