Both AI and automation are changing the nature of work. When used together, these two technologies hold great promise to improve human productivity and make existing business processes more efficient.

Robot technology is often associated with dangerous, dirty or dull work. Robotic process automation (RPA) takes that concept into the digital world. As a software tool, RPA sets out to free human ...

Effective pre-implementation planning is critical for successful adoption of intelligent process automation (IPA). The comprehensive IPA pre-implementation framework outlined in this document provides ...

During the pandemic, there was a significant uptick in the number of low-code, no-code, and process automation platforms and other business platforms that have these capabilities as features. A recent ...

Owing to the rapid external changes in the corporate world because of the pandemic, businesses have been pushed into the remote work model whether they liked it or not. But thanks to the advantages of ...

Robot programming has come a long way. Today, there are various approaches, from simple hand-guiding all the way to leading-edge platforms that achieve next-level usability by eliminating programming ...

Safety has always been a concern on the factory floor when it comes to the technology driving automation systems, and more and more automation technology providers are trying to make it easier to ...

Since about 2015, when Don Bartusiak, the then chief engineer at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, publicly advocated for the development of a new, standards-based, open—yet secure—process control ...

Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...

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* ...

Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed digital players entering vertical markets at an astonishing rate, introducing radically new offers, disrupting the ways in which businesses interact with ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ONDEX Automation today announced the acquisition of The Fitch Company, a leading electrical engineering and process automation systems integrator based in Rumford, Maine.