When considering the building blocks of your plant, imagine actual building blocks. “The principle of modularity is best explained by Lego building blocks,” said Jakob Dück, global industry segment ...

With revolutionary smart building concepts, building automation over IP is the case where building automation and IT merge completely over IP-based systems. The intelligent network reduces the ...

This article is part of BD+C's special five-part Technology Report 2014: Top tech tools and trends for AEC professionals. Someday Building Teams may look back on today’s construction methods and ...

The maturation of communications technologies and the expansion of industry standards relating to cabling systems and protocols have made facilities and IT managers hungry for a single cabling system ...

Ethernet has become a mainstream communications protocol and sits atop the control pyramid in building automation. Recently, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined an ...

MILWAUKEE — Johnson Controls, a global manufacturer of smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, has announced an update to Metasys, the company’s building automation system (BAS) that provides the ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In order for the federal government to successfully implement a ...

Download this article in PDF format. Buildings—with a carbon footprint even greater than that of the transportation sector—account for a significant portion of the total energy consumption in the ...

Technology is already having a profound effect on how buildings are designed, built and occupied, but perhaps the most interesting part about discussing the effects of technology on the built ...

Simplified machine designs with fewer components run more efficiently and are less expensive to build. Older mechanical power transmission and actuator technologies, such as chain, rack and pinion and ...

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced the launch of ...