Almost every enterprise leader I've worked with over the past years has asked a version of the same fundamental question: "How do we maintain operational excellence when our business environment ...

Control system technologies are continually evolving, providing designers and facility owners with an ever-increasing array of options. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and distributed control ...

While automation is definitely part of the goals of artificial intelligence, and in particular automating things that require human cognitive capabilities, simply automating things doesn't make them ...

With more amounts of data to manage, organize, and make sense of, robotic processes are becoming increasingly valuable to businesses seeking to save time and be more efficient. Not everything needs to ...

Workflow is the completion of tasks. Workflow is also defined as the repeatable actions taken to ensure information, documents, data, and tasks move, or flow, between departments or an entire company.

Dow has a diverse portfolio of manufacturing chemical and power plants and a rich heritage of process automation to run them. As facilities grow and expand, they tend to accumulate a wide range of ...

Here's what you need to know about robotic process automation, including major software vendors, how it might affect jobs, and how to start using RPA. Image: Olivier Le Moal, Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

Don Bartusiak, chief engineer, process control at ExxonMobil at the ARC Forum last year. It was two years ago that control system suppliers contemplated ExxonMobil’s request for an open process ...

The world’s appetite for French fries is enormous. People consume more than 7 million tons of factory-processed French fries globally each year. In fact, the use of processed potatoes – including ...