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SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Automate.io - a leading workflow automation platform has announced a new technology partnership with Notion. With this partnership, Automate.io has become the first iPaaS platform to launch an integration with Notion's new API. This iPaaS integration will bring a major productivity boost to Notion customers as they can now automate their business workflows by connecting Notion to 200+ cloud apps available on Automate.io.

Notion is an all-in-one workspace used to create systems for knowledge management, note-taking, project management, and more. Automate.io's Notion integration will help teams from around the world automate their manual and repetitive processes while also reducing their cognitive load of switching between multiple apps.

"Notion is the most requested app on Automate.io and we're thrilled to be the first iPaaS partner to launch a robust integration with it. Our integration will enable Notion customers to synchronize data with other business applications and automate workflows," said Ashok Gudibandla, CEO of Automate.io.

Reports show implementing workflow automation increases ROI by 30% to 200% in the first year itself. Here are some use cases Notion customers can automate with this integration:

"By partnering with Automate.io, our customers around the world will be able to do so much more with Notion and integrate with the software and services they use the most," said Cristina Cordova, Head of Platform & Partnerships at Notion. "We can't wait to see what folks build! This is only the beginning as we build out our API and open up new possibilities."

To learn about all the possible Notion workflows, visit Automate.io's Notion integration page.

About Automate.io:Automate.io is the world's easiest iPaaS and workflow automation platform. It helps businesses connect cloud applications to automate repetitive processes, with no IT help. It brings the power of workflow automation to non-technical people and empowers everyone in the organization to work smart. Over 40,000 businesses use Automate.io to automate workflows and improve organizational efficiency.

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In 2015, Deutsche Telekom started to apply robotic process automation (RPA), one of many tools in the whole process automation space. Over time the company developed an army of more than 2,500 RPA bots in a huge success story. But they also had to learn that even if RPA has process automation in its name, it does not really automate processes, but tasks.

This is a common misunderstanding that is rooted in the complexity of the process automation landscape, where tool categories are multidimensional and difficult to capture. In this article I will answer the question I get asked almost every day (what is process automation?) and provide an overview of the process automation space.

For the sake of brevity, I will narrow the scope of process automation to the following:

Other process automation use cases are explicitly out of scope:

Now, there are two very different types of digital or integration processes:

There is some gray area in between these two categories when you customize your standard software. But companies have become more and more cautious about doing this because of bad experiences in the past.

The decision needs to be made separately for every process you have in the company. And please note: There is no right or wrong decision, except that your choice should reflect your business strategy. This article will focus on tailor-made processes.

Tailor-made processes involve building software for process automation. This is software to build software and can be roughly categorized in terms of two dimensions (the nature of the tools, and the nature of the automation), as illustrated in the figure below:

With these two dimensions, you can sort tools into the four major buckets described in the next sections.

Typical examples of low-code task automation include application integration tools and RPA:

Low-code task automation tools are great for solving simple integration problems in isolation and help to remove manual integration work, such as copying data over from system A to system B. The immediate business value is the reason that RPA is such a huge success.

However, the automation scope must be simple enough. And note that resulting solutions are often untested, naive, and hard to maintain. Many solutions focus on the happy case and forget exceptional situations, which then hit unexpectedly in production, often going unnoticed. This can make the solutions brittle.

Automating single tasks in a developer-friendly way typically means leveraging not only software development but also the following:

In contrast to low-code solutions, developer-friendly solutions require software developers to be involved. On the other hand, these developers are generally very productive, as they can work in the stack known to them. Also, the resulting solution is typically more stable and can solve more complex problems.

Task automation tools do not implement business process flows. However, a series of RPA bots, integration tasks, or event subscriptions might form a logical chain that implements a business process. This comes with two challenges. First, the process flow does not have its own persistence, making it hard to determine the current state of any instance. Second, the control flow logic is nowhere visible, making these architectures hard to understand and maintain. (This is further described in my talk, Complex event flows in distributed systems.)

There are two categories of tools that focus on providing visibility into these chains of tasks:

Process automation tools automate the control flow of multi-step processes. Their focus is less on the single task and more on the interplay between tasks. Processes are typically long-running in nature, which leads to their own requirements for the tool (persistence, operations tooling, etc).

Low-code tools aim to allow non-developers to implement these processes. Typical tool categories include the following:

Some of these tools can really help to automate simple processes. If you are a startup, you might get along with a typical set of SaaS applications and then connect them using iPaaS solutions sufficiently. But these approaches fall short on complex business processes or integration scenarios.

What I have regularly found is that low-code products do not deliver on their promise and less tech-savvy citizen developers cannot implement core processes themselves. As a result, companies have to revert back to their IT departments and ask them to assign professional software developers to finish the job, which in turn are not productive with proprietary low-code stacks.

There are tools that allow software developers to productively work on process automation projects:

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First Nine months of Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights

Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Highlights

BEIJING, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hollysys Automation Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: HOLI) ("Hollysys" or the "Company"), a leading provider of automation and control technologies and applications in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter and first nine months ended March 31, 2021 (see attached tables). The management of Hollysys stated:

Industrial Automation ("IA") business finished the third quarter with revenue and new contracts at $67.5 million and $106.7 million, representing 97.1% and 68.7% YOY growth, respectively. For the first nine months of the 2021 fiscal year, IA revenue and new contracts achieved 44.1% and 34.0% YOY growth, respectively.

Rail business finished the quarter with revenue and new contractsat $30.7 million and $15.7 million, recording 7.0% YOY growth and 215.2% YOY growth, respectively. For the first nine months of the 2021 fiscal year, rail business revenue and new contracts showed a 7.5% YOY decrease and 10.2% YOY growth, respectively.

Mechanical and Electrical Solutions ('M&E') business finished the quarter with revenue and new contracts at$11.8 million and $19.6 million, recording34.1% and 1.2% YOY decrease respectively. For the first nine months of the 2021 fiscal year, M&E revenue and new contracts recorded 3.9% and 16.4% YOY decrease, respectively.

COVID-19 remains a challenge to M&E and overseas business. We will keep monitoring the impact on this sector and risk control remains a key focus.

Third Quarterand First Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021 Unaudited Financial Results Summary

(In USD thousands, except for number of shares and per share data)

Three months ended

Nine months ended

March 31, 2021

March 31, 2020

% Change

March 31, 2021

March 31, 2020

% Change

Revenues

$

109,907

80,768

36.1%

$

434,702

374,106

16.2%

Integrated solutions contracts revenue

$

85,769

67,673

26.7%

$

333,943

301,814

10.6%

Products sales

$

6,543

3,588

82.4%

$

21,569

16,249

32.7%

Service rendered

$

17,595

9,507

85.1%

$

79,190

56,043

41.3%

Cost of revenues

$

68,737

55,928

22.9%

$

276,257

240,977

14.6%

Gross profit

$

41,170

24,840

65.7%

$

158,445

133,129

19.0%

Total operating expenses

$

20,978

13,317

57.5%

$

82,945

65,121

27.4%

Selling

$

7,160

6,168

16.1%

$

25,596

23,838

7.4%

General and administrative

$

12,215

8,946

36.5%

$

36,035

30,130

19.6%

Research and development

$

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Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez joined MeriTalks CDM Central: the Age of the Cyber Defenders virtual conference on May 12 to discuss how the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program and automation are impacting the agency.

Were aggressive and excited adopters of zero trust architecture and when we look at the zero trust architecture, we cannot look at that without thinking about how are we leveraging automation, and how are we leveraging the capabilities that CDM is already delivering and will deliver as part of that service delivery around zero trust architectures, said Hernandez.

Two components that Hernandez said the Education Department is looking at include the concept of least functionality, least privilege, and collecting great data from CDM and other places. He said the agency would like an analyst to focus more on the data and the impact, and less time on the repeatable action of analysis.

Thats really what were focused on and we see that as the sweet spot for automation in our enterprise, said Hernandez.

Hernandez added that when we talk about AI and machine learning, what were really talking about is can we take just oceans of information? And thats whats interesting, thats changed for us five years ago, 10 years ago we didnt have enough information, but now we have too much information. And how can we use technologies like automated machine learning and machine learning to start to understand what does normal look like in all of these recent breaches?

Using the SolarWinds Orion breach as an example, Hernandez explained that its important to make sure the agency is understanding behavior and making sure a system is behaving as it should. Machine learning can be a resource to understand what does normal look like or what should normal look like, he said.

For the next iteration of CDM, Hernandez said the agency is starting to talk about Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and where that intersects with CDM. Additionally, identity access management will play a larger role in the next iteration of CDM, according to Hernandez, who said, if we cant identify with great assurance authorized individuals, authorized services, and what level of authorization they have its going be really hard to do some of the other more advanced pieces of CDM, until we get the foundational pieces.

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When configuring automated assembly lines, engineers must protect workers from dangerous moving equipment. No one should lose a finger to a press or get clocked by a fast-moving robot arm.

For simple applications, hard-wired systems with safety relays are sufficient. However, as the system grows to include more inputs and outputs, wiring becomes expensive and difficult to troubleshoot. Diagnostics are limited. If new functionality is needed, these systems require significant rewiring and new validation efforts. Hard-wired systems also limit the ability of engineers to create complex safety systems, such as multiple safety zones around a collaborative robot.

Fortunately, its possible to provide safety functions over a standard communication network, such as EtherNet/IP, an industrial network protocol that adapts the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) to standard Ethernet.

Because CIP exists solely in the application layer of the OSI and TCP models, its easy to add high-integrity safety services and diagnostics without requiring special communications hardware. This leverages existing communications infrastructure and helps reduce life-cycle costs. This enhanced protocol is called CIP Safety, and it can co-exist with other communication protocols, like CIP Motion and CIP Security.

CIP Safety provides fail-safe communication between nodes, such as safety I/O blocks, safety interlock switches, safety light curtains and safety PLCs in safety applications up to Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3, pursuant to IEC 61508 standards.

Safety application coverage in CIP provides the ability to mix safety devices and standard devices on the same network or wire for seamless integration and increased flexibility. Safety data in the device is packed into the CIP Safety protocol, which resides inside an Ethernet IP packet, which becomes an Ethernet frame. Since making a safety-rated network would be impractical, the CIP Safety protocol leverages the black channel principle, putting the intelligence in the end-devices instead of the network hardware. The end-devices perform the diagnostics on the CIP Safety protocol to detect each type of error that could occur in the network, so the device can still go to a safe state when an error occurs.

EtherNet/IP and CIP are managed by ODVA Inc., a global trade and standards development organization with more than 300 corporate members, including some of the worlds leading industrial automation companies.

One of those companies is Bosch Rexroth. Last year, the companys drive-integrated SafeMotion machine safety platform received the ODVAs CIP Safety over EtherNet/IP certification, adding to the companys capabilities to support major safety automation buses, including CIP Safety on Sercos, PROFIsafe on PROFINET, and FailSafe over EtherCAT.

SafeMotion technology is available on Bosch Rexroth IndraDrive intelligent servo drives.

With this latest certification, SafeMotion can now be integrated into almost any new or existing machine automation architecture, giving machine builders more options in machine safety functionality. Adding safety capabilities in the drive can alleviate additional hardware and components.

SafeMotion can be used to monitor up to 20 safe and certified motion functions, such as safe torque off, safe brake control, safe direction and safe stop. It provides the maximum level of safety (Cat 4, PL e, SIL 3) for all functions.

Bosch Rexroth supports all major safety automation buses through a multi-Ethernet port on the drive, making it easy to specify one drive platform with a variety of options, regardless of the PLC. Using one bus system for both standard and safety communication also simplifies system architecture and reduces cabling and installation efforts for the machine builder.

With easy system integration, engineering staff arent required to manage additional hardware and software applications. The Bosch Rexroth drive and SafeMotion functionality work right out of the box, requiring no additional tuning. Base parameters typically work for all applications, saving installation time. Software, firmware, configuration, setup and features are identical across the entire Rexroth IndraDrive platform.

In addition, Bosch Rexroth integrates several free tools into their servo drives to help save time and costs with safety validation and required technical documentation, even across series machines. These tools include the machine acceptance testwhich validates the SafeMotion functionsas well as the ability to create screen clips and plot velocity, position, monitoring and thresholds.

Certified SafeMotion functionality is available throughout the entire Rexroth IndraDrive series, from 100 watt to 4 megawatt drives.

For more information visit https://www.boschrexroth-us.com/drive-integrated-safety.

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CIP Safety Simplifies Wiring of Automation Systems - Assembly Magazine

Accounts payable (AP) automation is hot right now a simple search for AP automationreturns over 80 million results. In fact, arecent report identified that for many, especially in the enterprise space, automating and optimising procure to pay processes has become their highest, near term priority. Surprised? You should not be. The pandemic threw many core business processes, like payments, into disarray, as teams were unable to get into the office and follow their existing, often manual processes, so the need for change and improvement accelerated into focus and to the top of our to do lists.

So, here is a question or two for you is it time for you to automate yourAP function? Will it help? How can you be sure if any transformation project will really drive business value? Can you expect a suitable return on your investment? To help answer these important questions, lets break down some of key claims AP automation evangelists often make; identify some of the value drivers for many AP automation project; and pose the questions you should be asking yourself, and your platform provider, to ensure that you are on the right track to achieve a return on investment.

AP automation allows you to go completely digital you need never deal with a paper invoice again! Well, this sounds perfect, especially if your accounts team is working remotely. But, in truth, going 100% paper free is reliant on your suppliers being helpful, compliant, and joining you on your digital journey. The benefits that come from automating and digitising most of your invoices can be hampered by a handful of suppliers, who continue to use and send in paper invoices, perhaps, because they did not know about the new system or have not been transitioned over successfully.

Supplier onboarding therefore becomes central to any successful AP automation project, but unfortunately, it is often overlooked or mismanaged. A recentsurvey by Dow Jones Risk and Compliance found that a third of all new supplier onboarding undertaken in the last 12 months was likely to have been executed incorrectly.So, should you expect your platform provider to onboard all your suppliers for you? Probably not, although, some will. The ease of use, cost, and accessibility of the AP solution you choose to implement can have a big impact on how effective your supplier onboarding program is.

The key questions you need to ask yourself before committing to a project or expensive AP solution, include: Will your platform provider provide any support or guidance to onboard your suppliers? What value and experience do they bring to that part of the project? And how easy does your platform provider make it to receive digital invoices? Do they include email, e-invoicing (such as PEPPOL) etc?

AP automation helps to prevent fraud. Invoice fraud is a growing issue across the globe with scammers working on very sophisticated ways to intercept invoices and manipulate them. Digital invoice processing and accounts payable automation claims to solve this problem, but does it? Lets take a look at how most platforms process and check invoices:

All the above sounds great and will certainly keep you well covered against fraud, if we are only talking about reducing the risk of duplicate payments and stopping payments to suppliers that do not exist in your system. But if you ran the type of scam through this same process where the invoice is intercepted before it gets to you and the bank account details are changed it would not get picked up.

When invoice processing is done correctly, data verification of invoice data can completely mitigate the risk of invoice fraud. You need to make sure you choose a platform that can perform the following invoice data verification checks:

AP automation will improve accuracy and reduce the level of manual work required.This is a commonly held assumption, and the key claim that is typically sold to organisations by AP service providers. Amongst claims that you can ultimately reduce the headcount of your AP team by investing in such and such technology, or that with a touchless accounts payable solution you will mitigate expensive mistakes and dont need as many resources checking data entry.

In fact, most AP platforms use optical character recognition to read your invoices. Most OCR powered AP platforms can, at most, promise accuracy rates of 90%. Which sounds great, right? But lets consider for a minute, what that really means. A 90% accuracy rate means that 90% of the fields that are captured on any given invoice are correct. Not that 90% of invoices are captured correctly. So, if you are reading / capturing a conservative 10 fields on each individual invoice (supplier name, ABN, gross sum, net sum, tax amount, reference person, invoice date, invoice currency, invoice number and bill to name) then this means that one in ten of those fields will need to be manually corrected. Not so good. Add to this the fact that manual entry of invoice data currently accounts for 3.6% of errors made on invoices (AP Association Facts and Statistics). You are still, or at least should be, spending a lot of time manually checking each invoice and correcting data.

Here are some key questions to ask your provider before you engage their services:

AP Automation drives greater control over how your invoices are processed. Ensuring that invoices are not missed, lost, payments delayed, and that your approval policies are adhered to.This may be true; however, any level of control is driven by the approval and exception workflows that exist in your system. Many (54%) businesses still see invoices being sent to the wrong place (AP Association Facts and Statistics); either, directly to individuals, rather than an accounts payable address; or to old and out of date email addresses. Which often results in lost or untraceable invoices, late payments, and relies on individuals finding those invoices and uploading them into the correct systems. A suppliers bank account details often need to be validated against a supplier master list manually. A fit for purpose AP Automation solution should have baked in KYC processes, which eliminate the need for any validations, or any possibility for an invoice originating from a fraudulent sender.

Unsurprisingly many businesses find themselves in a situation where silver-bullet technology cannot fix their bad processes.

To increase your control over how your invoices are processed and to ensure that the correct policies are being adhered to,you need have a clear delegation of authority and thought through, rule-based, invoice routing, approval process. You should use the opportunity to automate any process as an opportunity to apply best practice to those processes. Start by asking your provider the following questions:

So, finally, is AP Automation worthwhile? Absolutely yes. But, as I have highlighted, it is important that you align the right technology with the right processes and that your teams and suppliers all realise the real business benefits of AP automation. Despite the issues I have identified in this piece, AP is one of the easiest areas of your business to automate, with new technologies making the data capture, validation, and workflow much easier. With 72% of organisations spending as much as 520 hours per year on manual accounts payable tasks the opportunity to drive real time cost savings is huge.

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Clearing the fog around AP automation. Can it really save you cash and drive business value? - Finextra

Mosaic is a worldwide leader in the phosphate and potash mining industry and employs over 3000 people in five countries. Mosaic was instantly impressed by the Emperor ROS, entirely designed and manufactured in Quebec City, and was eager to integrate this solution to maximize their remote operations and automation while increasing their employees' well-being by providing better working conditions. Mosaic has installed many Emperor ROS units in its Florida office and is saying that the revolutionary solution from MWE Lab has transformed its business by enabling to operate, manage and control equipment in safer, more efficient and predictable ways.

https://www.mwelab.com/en/blog/20210511_ros_mosaic.html

According to MWE Lab's founder and president, Martin Carpentier, the Emperor fills an increasing need for companies to provide better working conditions to their employees while increasing productivity.

MWE Lab is a Quebec-based company founded in 2008. It specializes in the design, conception and manufacturing of optimized work environments for individuals and corporations.

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$('#page-carousel-' + fullVideoId + ' .page-carousel-lg-slides').css('display', 'block'); WVM['player_settings' + fullVideoId].slider = $('#page-carousel-' + fullVideoId).bxSlider({ maxSlides: 4, minSlides: 4, slideWidth: 305, infiniteLoop: false, hideControlOnEnd: true, useCSS: true, pager: false, slideMargin: 15, moveSlides: 1, nextText: '', prevText: '' }); }else{ WVM.IS_DESKTOP = false; $('.page-carousel-wrapper').css('display', 'block'); } }); } }; WVM.setupToggleButton = function(fullVideoId, player){ if($('.nextplay-switch-' + fullVideoId).length > 0){ new DG.OnOffSwitchAuto({ cls:'.nextplay-switch-' + fullVideoId, height: 24, trackColorOn:'#F9F9F9', trackColorOff:'#222', textColorOn: '#222', textColorOff: '#222', textOn:'On', textOff:'Off', listener:function(name, checked){ var theVal = 1; if(!checked){ theVal = 0; } $.ajax({ url: '/ajax/update_autoplay_video/', data: { autoplay_on: theVal }, type: 'POST', dataType: 'json', success: function(data) { WVM['player_settings' + fullVideoId]['autoplay'] = checked; }, error : function(){ console.log("Error loading video"); } }); } }); } }; WVM.setupAccordionButton = function(fullVideoId){ var deviceName = 'desktop'; $('#next-dropdown-accordion-button-' + fullVideoId).on('click', function(){ if($(this).find('i').hasClass('fa-chevron-up')){ //hide $(this).find('i').removeClass('fa-chevron-up'); $(this).find('i').addClass('fa-chevron-down'); if(deviceName == "desktop" && !$('#media-container-' + fullVideoId).hasClass('floating-video')){ $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.page-carousel-wrapper').slideUp(); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.mobile-list-wrapper').hide(); }else{ $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.mobile-list-wrapper').slideUp(); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.page-carousel-wrapper').hide(); } var currVideoId = WVM['player_state' + fullVideoId]['VIDEO_ID']; var nextVideoId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currVideoId); //playerId, mediaId, fieldName var myTitle = WVM.getPlaylistData(fullVideoId, nextVideoId, 'noprefixtitle'); //alert("Getting title " + myTitle); $('#video-slider-nexttitle' + fullVideoId).css('display', 'inline'); $('#video-slider-nexttitle' + fullVideoId).html(myTitle); }else{ //expand $(this).find('i').addClass('fa-chevron-up'); $(this).find('i').removeClass('fa-chevron-down'); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.mobile-list-wrapper').css('display', 'block'); if(deviceName == "desktop" && !$('#media-container-' + fullVideoId).hasClass('floating-video')){ $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.page-carousel-wrapper').css('display', 'block'); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.page-carousel-wrapper').slideDown(); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.mobile-list-wrapper').hide(); if(!WVM.player_state156223['CAROUSEL_INIT']){ WVM.setupCarousel(fullVideoId); } }else{ $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.mobile-list-wrapper').slideDown(); $('#media-container-' + fullVideoId + " " + '.page-carousel-wrapper').hide(); if(!$('#media-container-' + fullVideoId).hasClass('floating-video')){ if(!WVM.player_state156223['CAROUSEL_INIT']){ WVM.setupCarousel(fullVideoId); } } } $('#video-slider-nexttitle' + fullVideoId).css('display', 'none'); } }); var currVideoId = WVM['player_state' + fullVideoId]['VIDEO_ID']; //console.log("current Video " + currVideoId); var nextVideoId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currVideoId); var myTitle = WVM.getPlaylistData(fullVideoId, nextVideoId, 'noprefixtitle'); //console.log("setting title " + myTitle); $('#video-slider-nexttitle' + fullVideoId).css('display', 'inline'); $('#video-slider-nexttitle' + fullVideoId).html(myTitle); }; WVM.sendbeacon = function(action, nonInteraction, value, eventLabel) { var eventCategory = 'Video'; if (window.ga) { //console.log("sending action: " + action + " val: " + value + " label " + eventLabel); ga('send', 'event', { 'eventCategory': eventCategory, 'eventAction': action, 'eventLabel': eventLabel, 'eventValue': value, 'nonInteraction': nonInteraction }); } }; WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex = function(mediaId, returnArrayIndex){ var currId = null; if(mediaId == null){ return null; } for(var x =0; x 20){ if(fullDuration > 1 && ((fullDuration - fullCurrent) > 1) && !$('.vjs-loading-spinner').hasClass('badspinner')){ console.log("hiding spinner"); $('.vjs-loading-spinner').addClass('badspinner'); } } var duration_time = Math.floor(this.duration()); //this is a hack because the end video event is not firing... var current_time = Math.floor(this.currentTime()); if ( current_time > 0 && ( fullCurrent >= (fullDuration - 10) )){ var currId = playerState.VIDEO_ID; var newMediaId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currId); //if(playerSettings.autoplay_next && newMediaId){ if(newMediaId){ if('desktop' == "iphone" && playerState.AD_ERROR){ console.log("skipped timeupdate end"); }else{ WVM.load_video(newMediaId, true, playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); } } } if(!playerState.START_SENT){ WVM.sendbeacon('start', true, playerState.VIDEO_ID, playerState.VIDEO_TITLE); playerState.START_SENT = true; } var currentTime, duration, percent, percentPlayed, _i; currentTime = Math.round(this.currentTime()); duration = Math.round(this.duration()); percentPlayed = Math.round(currentTime / duration * 100); for (percent = _i = 0; _i = percent && __indexOf.call(playerState['PERCENTS_TRACKED'], percent) 0) { playerState['PERCENTS_TRACKED'].push(percent); } } } }); //player.off('ended'); player.on('ended', function(){ console.log("ended"); playerState.IS_PLAYING = false; WVM.sendbeacon("complete", true, playerState.VIDEO_ID, playerState.VIDEO_TITLE); var currId = playerState.VIDEO_ID; var newMediaId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currId); //if(playerSettings.autoplay_next && newMediaId){ if(newMediaId){ WVM.load_video(newMediaId, true, playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); }else{ console.log("Playlist complete (no more videos)"); } }); //player.off('adserror'); player.on('adserror', function(e){ //$('#ima-ad-container').remove(); WVM.lastAdRequest = new Date().getTime() / 1000; console.log(e); console.log("ads error"); var errMessage = e['data']['AdError']['l']; playerState.AD_IS_PLAYING = false; playerState.IS_PLAYING = false; // && errMessage == 'The VAST response document is empty.' if(!playerState.AD_ERROR){ var dTime = new Date().getTime(); WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl = WVM.getFirstPrerollUrl(); console.log("calling backup ad tag url: " + WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl); WVM.activePlayer.ima.changeAdTag(WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl + "?" + dTime); WVM.activePlayer.ima.requestAds(); //WVM.activePlayer.src({ // src: masterSrc, // type: 'video/mp4' //}); //WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl = ""; } playerState.AD_ERROR = true; }); //player.off('error'); player.on('error', function(event) { if (player.error().code === 4) { player.error(null); // clear out the old error player.options().sources.shift(); // drop the highest precedence source console.log("now doing src"); console.log(player.options().sources[0]); player.src(player.options().sources[0]); // retry return; } }); //player.off('volumechange'); player.on('volumechange', function(event) { console.log(event); var theHeight = $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .vjs-volume-level').css('height'); var cssVolume = 0; if(theHeight){ cssVolume = parseInt(theHeight.replace('%', '')); } var theVolume = player.volume(); if(theVolume > 0.0 || cssVolume > 0){ $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .mute-overlay').css('display', 'none'); }else{ $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .mute-overlay').css('display', 'block'); } }); WVM.reinitRawEvents(playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); setInterval(function(){ WVM.reinitRawEvents(playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); }, 2000); } if(!WVM.rawCompleteEvent){ WVM.rawCompleteEvent = function(e){ var playerState = WVM['player_state156223']; console.log("firing raw event due to all other events failing"); var currId = playerState.VIDEO_ID; var newMediaId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currId); //if(playerSettings.autoplay_next && newMediaId){ if(newMediaId){ WVM.load_video(newMediaId, true, playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); } }; } if(!WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent){ WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent = function(e){ var playerState = WVM['player_state156223']; var rawVideoElem = document.getElementById('html5-video-' + playerState['ORIGINAL_ID'] + '_html5_api'); var fullCurrent = rawVideoElem.currentTime * 1000; var fullDuration = rawVideoElem.duration * 1000; var current_time = Math.floor(rawVideoElem.currentTime); console.log("raw timeupdate: " + fullCurrent + " out of " + fullDuration); if ( current_time > 0 && ( fullCurrent >= (fullDuration - 50) )){ var currId = playerState.VIDEO_ID; var newMediaId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currId); if(newMediaId){ console.log("loading new video from rawtimeupdate"); WVM.load_video(newMediaId, true, playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); } } if(!$('.vjs-loading-spinner').hasClass('badspinner')){ $('.vjs-loading-spinner').addClass('badspinner') } }; } WVM.reinitRawEvents = function(playerId){ var playerState = WVM['player_state' + playerId]; var rawVideoElem = document.getElementById('html5-video-' + WVM['player_state' + playerId]['ORIGINAL_ID'] + '_html5_api'); //COMPLETE EENT if( WVM['player_state' + playerId].COMPLETE_EVENT){ rawVideoElem.removeEventListener('ended', WVM.rawCompleteEvent, false); } rawVideoElem.addEventListener('ended', WVM.rawCompleteEvent, false); //TIME UPDATE EVENT if( WVM['player_state' + playerId].TIMEUPDATE_EVENT){ rawVideoElem.removeEventListener('ended', WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent, false); } rawVideoElem.addEventListener('ended', WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent, false); WVM['player_state' + playerId].COMPLETE_EVENT = true; WVM['player_state' + playerId].TIMEUPDATE_EVENT = true; };

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) Rockwell Automation is participating in Creators Wanted, a campaign that highlights opportunities in modern manufacturing.

The virtual event series is working with Rockwell Automation to provide information on how technological advancements are changing the industry.

The program begins on Thursday, May 13 at 11 a.m.

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Rockwell Automation to participate in 'Creators Wanted' campaign - WDJT

Automation Anywhere acknowledges Parascript for Partner of the Year Award in IMEA

Longmont, CO, May 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- May 12, 2021 Longmont, CO - Parascripta developer of cognitive capture software, driven by data science that processes over 100 billion documents annuallyannounced today that it has won the Automation Anywhere Partner of the Year for Technology Alliances in India, the Middle East and Africa (IMEA). The Global Partner awards were presented at the Automation Anywhere Virtual Partner Summit on April 14th to recognize Automation Anywhere partners worldwide for their outstanding innovations, investments and dedication to providing solutions and services that customers rely on to intelligently automate their businesses.

The Partner of the Year award for Technology Alliances recognizes Parascript for its excellence in building and delivering innovative solutions with Automation Anywhere resulting in high customer satisfaction.

Automation Anywhere is pleased to recognize Parascript for the Partner of the Year Award in IMEA, said Griffin Pickard, Director, Technology Alliance Program, Automation Anywhere. Parascript exemplifies the partner qualities necessary to build strong technology alliances worldwide and were excited to continue working together to enable business transformation and customer success.

We are proud to be recognized for our technology alliance by Automation Anywhere, the leader in RPA across IMEA, said Greg Council, Parascript Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. There are a lot of high value, complex processes that rely on access to document-based information beyond only the text. Parascripts focus is on enabling any information within a document to be analyzed and processed, even signatures on contracts.

Using Automation 360, the Automation Anywhere RPA platform, customers can accelerate their digital transformation through the automation of repetitive front and back-office business processes, ultimately freeing employees to focus on more innovative, higher-value work.

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Parascript Intelligent Document Processing powered by Smart Learning aids RPA automated processes through the conversion of complex document-based information into structured data. Customers can easily train and deploy skills to perform a variety of document-oriented tasks including location and verification of signatures and long passages of handwritten information. Once trained, skills are contained in portable files that are easy to distribute and deploy.

About Parascript, LLC

Parascript develops Intelligent Capture that works like you want. Parascript software, driven by data science and powered by machine learning, automates simple and complex document-oriented tasks such as document classification, document separation and data entry for industries including banking, insurance, logistics and government. It puts the power of a team of data scientists and machine learning experts in your hands. Every year, more than 100 billion documents for financial services, government organizations and the healthcare industry are processed by Parascript software. Visit Parascript.

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5/10/2021

LONDON Schlumberger andNOV announceda collaboration to accelerate automated drillingsolutions adoptionby oil and gas operators and drilling contractors. The agreement will enable customers to combine Schlumberger surface and downhole drilling automation solutions with NOVs rig automation platform to deliver superior well construction performance. This integrated offering enables the automation of manual workflows, improving safety, decision making, consistency, and efficiency in drilling operations.

We are pleased to collaborate with NOV and to integrate their rig automation interface with our drilling automation solutions to unlock higher performance for operators and drilling contractors. Leveraging downhole and surface automation applications, we can deliver enhancements in operations safety and efficiency, and deliver top-quartile wells for our customers consistently, said Olivier Le Peuch, CEO, Schlumberger. This partnership will help accelerate customers adoption of drilling automation technologies, enabling superior well construction performance.

Through this collaboration, NOV demonstrates its commitmenttodeliveran open digital automation platform that enables drilling contractorstoachieve higher consistency, safety, and efficiency with improved wellbore quality,saidClay Williams, Chairman, President and CEO, NOV.We continue to investin digital solutionsthat provide valuefor our customers.Drilling automationallows rig crews to focuson the big pictureto drive performanceandless on manual, repetitive tasks.

The combined solution leverages advanced AI from the Schlumberger DrillOps* on-target well delivery solution, while NOVs NOVOS process-automation platform controls all NOV rig equipment within the operational envelope. The two technologies will work seamlessly together to manage compliance to procedure and to reach best-in-class operational performance.

The family of DrillOps solutions includes open and modular technologies that leverage Schlumbergers deep drilling domain knowledge and advanced machine learning applications to execute the digital drilling plan consistently and to automate drilling tasks, attaining higher levels of efficiency. More detail on the DrillOps solution can be found here.

NOVOS is an open platform, automating repetitive drilling activities, benefiting contractors by allowing drillers to focus on consistent process execution and safety, and benefiting operators by optimizing drilling programs.

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Schlumberger and NOV collaborate to accelerate adoption of automated drilling solutions - WorldOil