Month: November 2025

From Automation to Autonomy: Reflections on Rockwell’s Fair

Every year, Rockwell’s Automation Fair gives us a chance to step back, take stock of where the industry is heading, and reconnect with the ideas shaping the next wave of manufacturing. This year in Chicago, the message was unmistakable:

We are moving from Automation to Autonomy

And it’s not just marketing language. It’s a shift that touches everything — from how systems are designed and how operators engage with them, to how integrators like Live Automation deliver value.

Don’t Lose Your Logic: How to Back Up a V-Series HMI the Right Way

Whether you are working on a new machine or an old one, backing up the application and any working memory is critical for uptime and emergencies. Combine that with Fuji Electric’s excellent replacement pathway (going back to the 90s), and having the application in hand in case of machine failure or damage saves precious work hours.

In this blog, we will cover the various types of data that can be backed up from a Fuji Electric HMI and how exactly to go about backing them up.

Monitouch V-Series HMI Non-Volatile Memory: Assigning SRAM

Non-volatile memory is essential for storing critical data. It allows for persistent configurations and direct data access of the persistent without having to rely on external media. These advantages come with the Human-Machine Interface (HMI), meaning any external media does not have to be cared for or warrantied.

Every Monitouch HMI comes with more than a hundred kilobytes of Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), whose data is maintained by a coin cell battery in the rear of the HMI. This area is used for Logging and Alarms, but the programmer can also use it for saving everything from recipes to machine configurations. In this blog, we will cover how to assign SRAM to be used as an internal memory device and a simple use case with a Macro.