This article is from the September 2016 issue of CONTROL ENGINEERING China, originally titled: Cybersecurity Mindset Required in the Era of IIoT As the application of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) increases, the potential risks of cyber attacks are also on the rise. To prevent these risks from becoming a reality, manufacturing companies need … Read more
#Aifan Selected# Xiaomi has so many smart devices that newcomers may feel overwhelmed and unable to get started quickly. This article will help you understand Xiaomi’s smart devices and the functions they can perform. ———————— This content is authorized for reprint from Aifan; selected and pushed by Aifan Technology. Author / Wan Gu Yue Source … Read more
At three o’clock that morning, I was dealing with an unexpected online failure with my colleagues, where dozens of service nodes needed urgent configuration updates. Manual operation? Not realistic. Writing a temporary script? Too slow. At that moment, I remembered the Ansible + Python automation framework I had configured earlier. Within three minutes, all node … Read more
Introduction to Ansible Playbook A Playbook is a component of Ansible used for configuration management. While Ansible’s AD-Hoc command functionality is powerful and can accomplish some basic configuration management tasks, AD-Hoc commands cannot support the configuration management of complex environments. In our practical use of Ansible, most of the time is spent writing Playbooks. In … Read more
Copy files from a remote server to a local computer. This can be accomplished using the Ansible fetch module. This is useful when you want to copy certain log files from a remote server to your local machine. By default, a directory named after each host you are connecting to will be created in the … Read more
Ansible Inventory The inventory is used to define which hosts are managed by Ansible. The inventory supports the following formats: • IP addresses • Hostnames • Ranges (<span>server[b:c]</span>) • Host groups (<span>webserver</span>) • Subgroups (<span>lnmp:children</span>) Inventory 172.25.250.10 [webserver] server[b:c] [mysql] 172.25.250.1[3:4] [lnmp:children] webserver mysql • Directly defining a hostname or address, currently <span>172.25.250.10</span> does not … Read more
1. Overview of Intelligent Solutions for Industrial Robots With the deepening of Industry 4.0, the intelligence of industrial robots has become a core driving force for the transformation and upgrading of modern manufacturing. The intelligent solutions for industrial robots aim to enhance the robots’ autonomous decision-making, environmental perception, and collaboration capabilities by integrating advanced technologies … Read more
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are automation control systems used in industrial production, manufacturing processes, and facility management, designed to achieve real-time monitoring, control, and optimization of production processes.ICS are core components for achieving automation, improving production efficiency, ensuring safety, and reducing manual intervention. They are widely used in industries such as oil, chemicals, electricity, metallurgy, … Read more
In the current revolutionary wave of artificial intelligence empowering various industries, robots are gradually becoming the “core workforce” of modern factories. The performance limits of robots are determined not by the mechanical arms or sensors, but by their “brains”—the controllers. The Xinchang Haihe Laboratory’s Unmanned Systems Research Center focuses on “autonomous control” and “high-reliability embodied … Read more
PLC File Management: Engineering Archiving Standards to Avoid Version Confusion! Introduction Hello everyone! Today I want to talk about a seemingly ordinary but extremely important topic — PLC Engineering File Management.<span>"Isn't it just storing a file? What's so difficult about it?"</span> I believe many engineers have thought this way, but reality can often be harsh: … Read more