Industrial Automation

Fourth Generation SCADA Systems: Modernizing Remote Industrial Monitoring

Fourth Generation SCADA

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have been around for over 40 years now and have allowed a plethora of industries to enhance and improve their management, monitoring, and control processes with the help of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Industrial PC’s (IPC’s). Modern SCADA systems are currently being transformed by the advent of …

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Reviewing 3D Machine Vision and Its Applications in the Industry 4.0 Age

3D

With technological innovation occurring at a faster rate than ever before, many once expensive technologies are being made significantly cheaper. And nowhere is this more true than in the field of 3D machine vision. While machine vision is no new technological development, the emergence of cheaper 3D imaging cameras and sensors has recently been the …

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