We and Omron are hosting a FREE Tech Showcase and Workshop at Innovative-IDM’s DFW (Lewisville/Coppell) training center, Thursday, February 27. This event, held in several cities across North America, is FREE to design engineers, plant managers and others interested in IIoT and industrial connectivity. See below for all the details. REGISTER HERE! Spaces are limited....

We recently had the opportunity to create a furnace control system for a customer.  We built the system using an Omron CJ2M Programmable Logic Controller and a Parker IPX series Human Machine Interface touchscreen computer running Windows XP Pro.  Part of the sales pitch was the system’s ability to send email and text message alerts if the furnace had a...