White Papers
New Motion Control Techniques for Servo and Step Motors
- White Paper
This paper explores the benefits and limitations of the stepper servo control technique, also called closed loop stepper, and explains why it is attracting serious attention from machine designers.
Actions from Insights: Making the Most of Data in Manufacturing
- White Paper
This special report from Smart Industry features expert perspective from OSIsoft principals and partners on a range of topics in the world of digital manufacturing—from smart strategies to evolving processes to operating your plant as an innovation hub.
Information Technology and Operations Technology: Beyond Convergence
- White Paper
The whitepaper outlines why organizations need to move beyond IT/OT convergence to ensure full integration—for enterprise security.
Eliminating Friction From Industrial IoT Initiatives
- White Paper
In "Eliminating Friction," VP of Business Development Dave Westrom explains that the true cause of failure is the lack of getting to value quickly. After all, time is money, and the more time spent trying to launch a successful IIoT initiative, the greater likelihood it will fail.
Achieving Energy Efficiency and Sustainability with Data-driven Insights
- White Paper
Organizations need data-based energy management solutions to succeed in the era of digitalization, says a new ABB whitepaper.
Choosing the Right Power Measurement Instrument
- White Paper
To empower development teams to fulfill their objectives across the development cycle, it is important to consider a whole solution approach toward instrument selection.
Manual Work Meets Modern Automation to Empower Workers with Handicaps
- White Paper
This paper explores how Martinshof Werkstatt Bremen is empowering workers with handicaps to excel operating manual workstations, which are indispensable, despite advancing digitalization.
How Digital Transformation and IoT Can Contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- White Paper
This paper uses a modified version of the Golden Circle, changing the original sequence to Why-What-How to approximate how organizations currently operate and thereby increase the chances of achieving the relevant UN SDG.
A Snapshot of Digital Transformation Progress
- White Paper
To develop insight about how organizations are keeping up with the changes and transformations taking place throughout the industrial sector, the Digital Transformation Council and ARC Advisory Group, in conjunction with ISA and Automation.com, conducted a survey of industrial companies. This white paper summarizes the results of the survey.
How to Grow Your Business with Collaborative Automation
- White Paper
Collaborative automation has become a versatile,cost-effective, and user-friendly technology that allows businesses of almost any size (and any level of technical expertise) to increase productivity, improve quality, and respond more nimbly to changing customer demands.