National Instruments, widely known as NI in the test and instrumentation worlds, will become the Test & Measurement unit in Emerson after the completion of the $8.2 billion acquisition. The St. Louis, ...

Critical manufacturing and process control instrumentation is steadily gaining smarts, allowing companies to collect and analyze a smorgasbord of data at pivotal points in their operations, leading to ...

Developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), the ISA-5 series of standards are essential for industries that rely on complex instrumentation and control systems, including chemical ...

The UL certification mark hardly needs an introduction, given that it appears on more than 22 billion products each year. Those familiar with the sign will have the general sense of its meaning: A ...

GPIB or Ethernet? Some early testing results and recommendations can help you focus on the realities of each technology. Ethernet, with its higher bandwidth and ubiquitous usage, seems a natural ...

Welcome to the first installment in a new series of content from Automation World. This Peer-to-Peer FAQ series will focus on explaining the most common and trending technologies in the world of ...

Advanced packaging is transforming semiconductor manufacturing into a multi-dimensional challenge, blending 2D front-end wafer fabrication with 2.5D/3D assemblies, high-frequency device ...

A data filter is a device, algorithm, or process that removes some unwanted components or features from a data signal. The unwanted component may be random noise (perhaps from mixing turbulence or ...

At some point in our lives, we have dropped a drinking glass or knocked over a glass-blown knickknack, only to watch it hit the floor and shatter into pieces. We learn from any early age that glass is ...