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Podcast: Ensuring success for your OT-IT convergence
Huffman Engineering teams up with Smart Industry Every OT and IT journey is different, so two SMEs from Lincoln, Nebraska-based Huffman Engineering join the podcast with some tips and to share some positive summer vibes from their clients on their routes to integration. Scott Achelpohl June 10, 2026 For this episode of Great Question: A Manufacturing…
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Ensuring Success for your IT-OT convergence in Industrial Automation
Looking to improve productivity, operational resilience and efficiency? IT/OT alignment may be the biggest piece of the puzzle. Trust a certified system integrator like Huffman Engineering Inc. to share their expertise in both IT and OT to help move your next project forward. The biggest benefits include: Key Outcome: A secure, connected, and data-driven operation that improves…
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Essential Guide to Choosing a CSIA-Certified System Integrator
When your automation project impacts production, quality, compliance, or operational efficiency, choosing the right system integrator matters. That’s why many manufacturers, utilities, and life sciences companies seek out CSIA-Certified System Integrators. Therefore, in industrial automation projects confidence in project success from the start is vital. According to the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA), certification provides…
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Alarming Updates: Reliability & Resilience in Industrial Automation
GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL MODERNIZES FACILITY After acquiring a new facility, this global animal health facility needed to upgrade and migrate the existing alarm notification systems to their new shop floor network. “Existing WIN-911 systems were also on legacy versions of the software and were not true redundant systems. Consolidation allowed the two systems to become one…
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Alarming Updates: Connectivity & Response Time in Industrial Automation
GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL MODERNIZES FACILITY After acquiring a new facility, this global animal health facility needed to upgrade and migrate the existing alarm notification systems to their new shop floor network. “Existing WIN-911 systems were also on legacy versions of the software and were not true redundant systems. Consolidation allowed the two systems to become one…
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How Do you Tackle Legacy Industrial Control System Upgrades? Make a Plan or Risk Costly Downtime
In this article highlighting legacy upgrades, Huffman Engineering explores a step by step methodology for upgrading aging infrastructure. According to the recent poll Digitalizing Industrial Motors & Drives: Four Upgrades Enabling the Next Era of Efficiency, “Extending asset lifetime and improving efficiency are overwhelming drivers.” The next most frequently cited motivators are the desire for improved operational…
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Manufacturer Revives De-Commissioned System to Advance Production
Int this article highlighting industrial process automation, Huffman Engineering explores how a decommissioned system can be revitalized for re-use. Dormant since 2013, a seal-coating system at a pharma manufacturing company returned to use in production through intelligent automation upgrades, proving sustainability, cost-efficiency and digital transformation can coexist in manufacturing. Key Automation Highlights 48% of North…
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How to make automation & process control ideas work
Huffman Engineering uses core values to steer system integration for more than 40 years Mike Bacidore Feb. 12, 2026 Key Highlights in automation & Process Control “Making Ideas Work” at highly regulated businesses has its own set of unique challenges. “We take someone’s ideas for their manufacturing plant, pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations, water, wastewater,…
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Automation Upgrade Enables Use of Simulation to Transform Production Decision-Making
Automation Upgrades found from Huffman Engineering published in Automation World
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Huffman Engineering, Inc. Opens Kearney Office
Huffman Engineering, Inc., a proven leader in the automation and system integration space is excited to announce the opening of a Kearney office at 1111 Central Ave., Suite A in Kearney. As full-service engineering and automation needs have grown in the Midwest, from design to implementation, Huffman Engineering has experienced growth right alongside our valued…
