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Fiona Treacy is a Managing Director within the Industrial Automation Business Unit at Analog Devices, where she leads a precision analog technology development team, go to market team, and business development team, all focused on accelerating customer development within the Industrial Automation market. Engineering a More Sustainable Future | ADI 3 Foreword Foreword Industrial factories and buildings account for approximately 50% of the world's energy consumption¹. To achieve a net zero goal, manufacturers are looking to automation technology for answers. Digitizing, connecting and interpreting what has widely become known as the Intelligent Edge is required to access insights capable of unlocking energy efficiencies and productivity enhancements upon which sustainable manufacturing capabilities are built. New insights from the data-driven digital factory ecosystem help to inform real time decision making to maximize factory utilisation, ensure asset uptime and optimize energy usage. Analog Devices is uniquely positioned to lead the Intelligent Edge, with innovations that enable end solutions to meaningfully shape the future of industrial efficiency and sustainability. ADI has a proven history as a catalyst of breakthrough advances, built on a foundation of rich domain expertise and an ability to partner with customers to develop comprehensive solutions to the toughest challenges. Our technology helps to conserve energy through tailored innovation and adaptive edge intelligence, enabling better control of industrial operations. For motor control applications, variable frequency drives leverage ADI's leading precision measurement solutions for faster, more efficient control of motor velocity, torque and position. Condition-based monitoring platforms from ADI monitor motor performance and provide motion insights on loading profiles in real time to detect motor Fiona Treacy Managing Director, Industrial Automation faults or anomalies, thereby increasing utilization. There are ever- increasing demands on the modern factory's connectivity network whereby both real time and non-real time data, derived from multiple sources across the factory, must be analysed quickly and reliably, at the intelligent edge. The ability to transport, analyse, and merge this data with existing information streams within the factory is paramount. The concept of the converged IT/ OT network within the digital factory offers one unified factory network, where all devices, machines and robots are connected and interconnected, and speak the same language. This requires low latency, time bound, low power, robust, industrial connectivity technology. With such heightened interconnectivity, security becomes an inevitable concern, as smart factory environments expose people, technology, processes and intellectual property to cyber threats. A fundamental aspect of securing a factory network is authentication of each new device attempting to connect to the network. Ultra-low power secure authentication technology from ADI enables public key cryptography even in the most power and computational-resource constrained designs. This eBook outlines how power efficient motion control, precision low power asset health monitoring and adaptive intelligent sensing accelerate manufacturers digital transformation journey to ultimately help in achieving their sustainability goals. It contains a detailed analysis of topics such as motor encoders, a single-pair Ethernet condition monitoring vibration sensing solution, and the redesign of an RTD-based temperature sensor for the smart factory age. The final article covers the IEC 62443 series of standards and how to defend against infrastructure cyberattacks, a prominent topic in an ever-advancing digital age. 1 https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/pdf/industrial.pdf Adobe Stock / Chungking – stock.adobe.com