Achema Frankfurt 2018 Achema , Frankfurt 2018 Achema 2018 is where the worlds process engineering industry showcases its best gear and this year was no different. What a great show. Of particular interest to process automation engineers were the themes of Pharma 4.0 and Modular automation. Pharma 4.0 is mostly just marketing spin, but serialisation is […]
Industrie4.0 & IIC consortium leaders duke it out Regardless of the IoT political atmospherics, Hannover Messe 2016 was once again the highlight of the year worldwide for every manner of innovation related to manufacturing. Lot size of one. In full effect at the SAP stand. This year saw the USA as country partners with Germany […]
A couple of years back, whilst I was between train-wreck automation project contracts, I somehow got to looking at overall factory floor integration in the context of modern internet software development technology that was upending every other industry except ours. The more I looked at industrial automation, the more I thought that the only way […]
Serialisation wireframe overview Serialisation. This compelling event for the pharmaceutical industry is now being tackled by the OPC foundation Open-SCS working group. Though a bit late to the game for a number of markets, its still of value for all future implementations for new drugs. One of their main objectives is to standardise the data […]
OPCUA Conference 2015 from the outside looking in.. Why is OPCUA so popular? It sits on ethernet, is a secure client-server object oriented way to expose object data. And now it is open source too. Spike is based on OPCUA and exposes a generic set of data semantics i.e. objects from some well known process […]
