Automation & Controls

How a factory knows what is happening on its own floor. Sensors, PLCs, SCADA, machine vision, predictive maintenance.

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06Industrial IoT Sensors 101: How Factories Monitor Equipment NewA cooling water pump runs for years, then its bearing seizes and the line stops, though the warning was there for weeks. What a factory actually measures on a machine, how each sensor works, where to mount it and how fast to read it, how the signal reaches a controller, and how to rank what the system raises: warning, alarm, trip.10:16Oct 16, 2026