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How to Ensure Useful Data Extraction from a PI Historian System 

Data is an ever-present and growing benchmark in all industries. However, sometimes it may feel like it’s cloaked in mystery. There’s often a question of, why is collecting process data important? You then start to go down the rabbit hole trying to answer…..How do you get data out of your equipment? How do you decide … Continued

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Are you applying edge computing technologies properly?

This article originally appeared on ControlEngineering.com. In the Control Engineering webcast, “Edge series: Edge computing applications,” Jeffrey Allen, applications engineering manager at E Tech Group, and Nate Kay, control systems engineer at MartinCSI, explained how edge computing applications can be used for mission-critical, high-reliability automation and control applications. The webcast is archived for a year … Continued

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Edge series: Edge computing applications- Webcast

Applications Engineering Manager, Jeff Allen recently co-presented a webcast for Control Engineering covering how edge computing can be used for mission-critical, high-reliability automation and control applications. Applications demonstrate how edge computing can be used for mission-critical, high-reliability automation and control applications. See how system integrators have applied edge computing and see how it integrates in … Continued

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Delivering a 1.5 Year ROI on a $2M Line Automation Recontrol

A larger steel service center client was seeing troubling trends in its temper mill cut to length line: Increasing downtime, lower-than-desired yields, and higher scrap losses.  The client was hampered in its ability to troubleshoot and improve the processes because the OEM equipment and its controls and drives programs were a “black box” solution. This … Continued

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