American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) the leader in open architecture, PC-based HMI touch panels, Industrial panel PCs (IPCs), HMI Systems and touch-screen interfaces for a broad range of industrial ...

If there’s a holy grail in the field of automation, it’s true plug-and-play—or plug-and-produce—capability. But with decades of devices and software created to run on proprietary systems still in ...

But not every business process is a good fit for automation, so it's incumbent upon companies to determine which processes are best suited to automation and which ones are best handled by humans. How ...

Automation takes mechanization one step further. While mechanization replaces manual labor with machines, automation replaces human guidance with controls hardware, computers, and programming (PCs, ...

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows. In 2015, ...