An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, ...

A system that has combined different functions together in order to work as one entity. See integration. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Editor’s Note: This month we take a dive into our vault, revisiting the Building Automation column that was printed five years ago, in August 2017, by longtime Engineered Systems columnist Ira ...

Directed by our industry advisory board and the late John Stiernberg of Stiernberg Consulting, we set out to discover how many companies work with communications, life safety, security, network ...

From initial discovery through final training and support, successful automation projects require disciplined execution of each phase including engineering design, procurement, factory testing, and ...