HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil said today it has signed collaboration agreements with six other companies to accelerate the development of Open Process Automation (OPA) systems. The companies ...

ABB has launched the latest version of its flagship distributed control system (DCS), ABB Ability System 800xA 7.0.

The Automation Extended program helps industries modernize distributed control systems without disruption by building on ...

With the increased focus on return on assets (ROA) and Operational Excellence (OpX), users must find ways to effectively migrate from one generation of control system to the next, whether it is from ...

The next phase of collaborative robots eliminates the need for programming. Applications such as machine tending and palletizing can be deployed in a few simple steps. Robot programming has come a ...

Happy days are here again for the vendors of process automation equipment. It may not be the “jumping-up-and-down” kind of happy. But it is the kind of happy that comes from market revenues moving ...

Automation is not a new concept and has taken many forms, whether business process automation, application-to-application messaging or even robotic engineering and manufacturing. As these automation ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6841) announces that it has been selected by ExxonMobil as the system integrator for the first field trial of an Open Process Automation* ...

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 ...