At the core of the Arduino PLC Starter Kit lies the Arduino Opta mini PLC, a state-of-the-art microcontroller that serves as the brain of your automation projects. This powerful device boasts seamless ...

Just two months after Siemens announced its Eigen Engineering Agent AI tool for industrial automation engineering at the ...

Traditional methods like dated ZIP files and shared network drives lack the structure and accountability needed for multi-developer automation projects. Git can work as a simple change monitor ...

About 10 years ago engineers were exploring the limits of uses for Linux, the open-source operating system for computing devices. I’ve followed this project from the beginning. Curt Wuollet, an ...

For many years in the industrial automation sector, end-user petitions for openness and flexibility had been at odds with what suppliers were willing to offer. Especially in the case of digital ...

Reflecting on my 30-year career as a project manager, I have come to realize process automation projects have unique challenges, which make them more difficult to execute than other types of projects.

OpenPLC is an open-source industrial controls platform that allows the transformation of popular microcontrollers into a programmable logic controller (PLC). OpenPLC is a fully functional open-source ...

At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, France, Siemens announced two new capabilities for the »Eigen Engineering Agent«, its purpose-built AI for industrial automation engineering. Launched in April 2026 at ...

Automation projects rarely go exactly as planned. Requirements shift; teams move at different speeds and a delay in one area can quietly impact everything that follows. What appears to be a technical ...