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Articles by Colm Gavin
Weidmuller USA Releases National PCB Design Survey: Engineers Share Insights on PCB Design Tools and AI Tool Impacts, Gaps
Reliability is dominant priority in device connectivity for 79% of engineers. RICHMOND, Va., July 23, 2026 — Weidmuller USA, a leading provider of smart industrial connectivity and automation products and solutions headquartered in Richmond, Va., announces the release of significant findings from a national survey of 400 engineers in North America to understand how they design PCBs, evaluate components and use emerging tools such as AI in their workflow.
Simulation capabilities are critical for operations, as well as design
Product changeovers that join the physical with the virtual Industry 4.0 is a term that describes data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, networked “smart factories” as the harbingers of the fourth industrial revolution. One key aspect of data-driven operations is using simulation as a tool to optimize production, reduce downtime risks, and deliver the highest efficiency possible in industrial settings.
Closed-Loop Digital Twins Keep Holiday Shipping on Schedule
Summary Closed-Loop Digital Twins Keep Holiday Shipping on Schedule The conclusion of every year provides a familiar refrain in the intralogistics industry. As people worldwide purchase holiday gifts and goods, distribution and fulfillment centers keep the shuffle moving by picking, shipping, stocking, and recording around the clock.
Robots can Talk the Same Language
Driven by technological innovations, increasing applications, falling prices and greater adoption of factory automation, the use of robots is ballooning globally. From just 2013 to 2017, the number of annual industrial robot installations more than doubled in the combined American, Asian, Australian and European markets. The rise of robots is streamlining many corners of factory automation, ranging from automotive to pharmaceutical to electronics manufacturing, among many others.
Top 5 Plant Engineering articles December 14-20, 2020
Courtesy: Swagelok (Note: Photos featuring associates without masks were taken prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.) The top 5 most read articles online, from December 14-20, 2020, for Plant Engineering covered the 2020 Top Plant, Product of the Year finalists, testing and maintenance programs, maintenance automation and digital twins. Links to each article below. 1.
Data flow, alarms, simulation, cybersecurity, robotics
By Mark T. Hoske December 20, 2020 Automation, controls, and instrumentations are critical, innovative, interesting and productive, and Control Engineering offers information on Boeing’s automation adjustments to its 737 Max and developments on data flow, alarm design, digital twins and simulation efficiency, cybersecurity and robotic programming, among others.
Keeping Cyclospora at bay in a food processing plant
Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked contaminated salad kits to a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora that infected more than 700 people. In 2019, the culprit was contaminated fresh basil, triggering a recall by the exporting company. How do outbreaks like this happen?
Replacing seven SCADA systems with one
When we’re travelling, we all want to move through airports as quickly as possible. We want that for our bags too. That’s why the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) launched its ambitious, $1.5 billion Baggage 2025 program. GTAA operates Toronto Pearson International Airport, and it had a strong vision for improving Toronto Pearson’s baggage handling system.
How modern simulation software addresses intralogistics challenges Original
Learning Objectives Simulation software helps improve the management and optimization of internal production and distribution processes. Digitalization provides new methods for intelligent and efficient operation in warehouse settings. Advanced simulation software brings the software and live equipment worlds together. The end of the year is notorious for causing sudden onsets of panic as the weight of the holidays hits, and the realization of purchasing gifts sinks in.
Blurring the boundaries between design and automation
How virtual commissioning and digital twins reduce time to market and minimize risk By Noam Ribon and Colm Gavin Machine, station, line, and system development is usually sequential: Mechanical design, electrical design, and automation are performed one after the other. If a mistake is made anywhere in the development process and is not detected, the error costs grow substantially over the phase of development. Undetected errors can be expensive during commissioning.
Efficient boiler control programming
Jimmy Bruner smiled. The control systems manager at Hurst Boiler and Welding surveyed the three 24-in. monitors before him. Moving back and forth between the screens, he made a change first on one display, then on another, programming the controls for the company’s latest custom boiler order easily and quickly. Bruner’s satisfaction with his work stems from a number of recent developments at his company, but firmly at its root is a newly adopted control programming software package.
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