Download the PDF of this article. Automation and robotic systems are replacing many human-operated processes in engineering industries. This trend is happening in places you’d expect (like assembly lines and product manufacturing), but also in more unlikely industries—replacing pharmacists and food service employees, for instance. As we have reported before on Machine Design, with more […]

Some technology vendors are getting an assist in their efforts to make inroads in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Bill Hoffman, president of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) in Needham, Mass., sat down with CRNtv to discuss how his organization is helping major tech vendors build out the ecosystems needed to support IIoT. The

Image Courtesy The Internet of Things (IoT) has been hailed as one of the biggest disruptive forces of the 21st century – and for all the right reasons. We are now speaking to our cars, refrigerators, and home appliances; things that would have landed you in a mental asylum about two decades ago. The network

The Week Ending April 14 Topping this week’s roundup of companies that came to win is VMware, which took a big step into the realm of multi-cloud system performance monitoring and management with a deal to acquire Wavefront. Also making the list are Xerox for hiring a channel veteran from Tech Data to manage its