In this episode, The Journal’s Digital Editor Maggie MacHale brings the written word to life by reading the article, “5 Strategies to Strengthen Industrial Cybersecurity.” It’s written by Kamil Karmali, Senior Global Commercial Manager of Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. 

You’ll learn how a three-phase protection strategy and mandatory regulatory reporting requirements can help safeguard manufacturing systems from evolving cyber threats.

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In this episode’s news roundup, The Journal’s Executive Editor Theresa Houck reports on issues affecting manufacturers and producers every day, including:

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In this exclusive episode of our “Automation Chat” podcast from the show floor at Automation Fair 2024, The Journal’s Managing Editor Amanda Joshi chats with Max Davitt, Regional Sales Manager with LinMot USA, about the company’s linear motors, linear rotary motors and other linear systems. Learn how its linear rotary motors with CIP Sync provide flexibility and speed, combining two electromagnetic servo motors in just one slim housing, enabling combined linear and rotary movements.

Also learn about LinMot E-Guides, which are linear guides that can be mounted together to form a gantry or semi-gantry design and can be used with multiple stators on the same guide. And, learn about the company’s IP69K-rated motors for harsh environments.

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In this episode, The Journal’s Digital Editor Maggie MacHale brings the written word to life by reading the article, “How Kimberly-Clark’s DCS Upgrade Eased Scalability.” It’s written by David Greenfield, Editor in Chief of our sister publication Automation World and Contributing Editor to The Journal. 

You’ll learn how a unified control system helped this global consumer packaged goods company integrate production technologies while reducing workforce training for its tissue manufacturing operation.

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In this episode, Executive Editor Theresa Houck chats with Anthony Murphy, Vice President of Product Management at Plex, by Rockwell Automation, about:

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In this February 2025 news alert, The Journal’s Executive Editor Theresa Houck reports on issues affecting manufacturers and producers every day, including:

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Digitization is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and advanced technologies are helping manufacturers create a connected environment to increase efficiency and mitigate the skilled worker shortage. In this insightful episode, The Journal’s Executive Editor Theresa Houck discusses 8 important industrial automation trends helping companies develop smart industrial plants.

You’ll learn about smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge & cloud computing, digital twins, robots & cobots, connected worker technology, wireless private 5G connectivity and more.

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In this episode, Executive Editor Theresa Houck chats with Griffin Hodnett, Product Manager of Automation at Mettler-Toledo, about the company’s IND360 MultiACM weight indicators for automated tank/vessel weighing.

You’ll learn how these weight indicators are designed for easy integration into automation systems to minimize complexity for OEMs, system integrators and end-users, and help customers set up tank systems quickly and get additional data from tank weighing scales. Individual weight values are available for up to 4 strain gauge load cells for better condition monitoring. The LoadAdvisor feature provides live guidance for commissioning tank systems, cutting costs, eliminating errors and improving measurement accuracy.

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In this exclusive episode of our “Automation Chat” podcast from the Automation Fair 2024 show floor, The Journal’s Managing Editor Amanda Joshi talks with Mike Wurster, Director of Strategic Alliances and Dave Ulmer, Channel Support Engineer at Stratus Technologies. Learn about the company’s ztC Edge, a secure, zero-touch, DIN-rail mountable edge-computing platform with built-in virtualization and fault-tolerant workload protection. With industrial interoperability and OT manageability, it enables quick, easy delivery of both highly available and fault-tolerant virtualized edge applications.

Also learn how the company collaborates with Claroty, Fortinet and Rockwell Automation to include pre-validated cybersecurity protection.

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In this episode, Executive Editor Theresa Houck tells you what topics we’re covering in the next edition of The Journal From Rockwell Automation and Our PartnerNetwork magazine — our February 2024 issue. Our print magazine mails February 25, and our digital issue launches February 27. Learn about upcoming stories on:

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