Industry analysis is the study of a specific market for which a company currently sells its products; or plans to enter in the near future. The process of industry analysis entails studying the scope ...

When the Industry 4.0 working group presented its results at the Hannover Fair in 2013, it hardly made any impression within the process industry. Following my webinar, "Industry 4.0: A Blueprint for ...

The process industry, characterized by continuous, large-scale production, is vital to modern manufacturing. In recent years, integrating big data and artificial intelligence (AI) into process ...

There is no underestimating the impact that the process manufacturing industry has on society today. Process manufacturing deals with formulas and basic ingredients, as in biotech, pharma and chemical ...

Process manufacturers live in a highly regulated, risk-averse and occasionally volatile world. Those operational factors are a primary reason why the digitization of process industries have lagged far ...

Several 2025 year-end reports and data releases paint a nuanced picture of the global chemical process industries (CPI) as we ...

Process manufacturers are under pressure. Growing pressure, in fact. (For our purposes, process includes companies in the rolled goods, woven goods, packaging, extrusion/injection molding and ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

Automation World has been reporting on research into expected automation technology spending trends as the pandemic begins to wind down. Two articles published thus far from this research look at ...

Industry 4.0 initially focused on discrete manufacturing, and now there is a growing focus on applying Industry 4.0 concepts to process automation. The same concepts are being applied to process ...