Control's 10 most-read articles of November 2017

Dec. 7, 2017
From the top news from Rockwell Automation Fair, to best practices with SCADA, analytics, and more, these were the most-read stories on controlglobal.com in November.

1. Live from Rockwell Automation Fair 2017

The editors of Control, Control Design, and Smart Industry were on site at Automation Fair to bring you the breaking news and best sessions from this world class event. Read more.

2. Rockwell Automation leading with heart

In his keynote address to media gathered for the company’s Automation Perspectives event in the lead-up to the 26th annual Automation Fair in Houston, stock valuations and other matters financial took a back seat to a more human side of the business. Read more.

3. Patience has rewards: Top 50 automation companies of 2016

The Top 50 worldwide and North American process control and automation suppliers are making slow, consistent gains with help from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Read more.

4. Talent shortage drives diversity initiatives

Rockwell Automation creates a culture of inclusion, earning the 2017 Catalyst Award. “The war for talent is going to get even more challenging.”  Read more.

5. SCADA reflects and reinvents

The cloud, IIoT, virtualization and other forces are reshaping supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) into new forms and functions, but can they do it securely? Read more.

6. Industrial automation: The next generation

The Innovations booth at this year's Rockwell Automation Fair showcases the company's exciting new technologies, which are on the verge of release. Read more.

 7. The greatest source of process control knowledge

A tribute to thought leader and Control Process Automation Hall of Fame member Greg Shinskey. Read more.

8. Ask the experts: PID terminology causes confusion

Definitions of terms evolve as control technology advances and proprietary algorithms merge. Read more.

9. Instant analytics aid in production optimization

Rockwell Automation advances its scalable FactoryTalk Analytics offering, from Devices to Machines and beyond. Read more.

10. New product: EZRack PLC and I/O

The EZRack PLC automation controller and remote I/O device is IIoT- and Wifi-ready, has USB data logging up to 64 GB, free programming software and simulator package. Read more.