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January 2010 |
Sponsor: GE Intelligent Platforms |
The Power of Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX on Embedded Devices
With iFIX Embedded, you can now build your HMI and operator interfaces with a market-leading HMI/SCADA platform! It delivers both standalone server and client capabilities with unsurpassed features, functionality and scalability for your HMI and operator-level applications.
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Sponsor: ScadaTEC |
ScadaPhone
ScadaPhone, by ScadaTEC, celebrates 10 years of fruitful evolution this year. ScadaPhone’s ongoing development, spurred by ScadaTEC’s receptive attitude to customer requests and suggestions, has culminated into the most powerful & reliable Windows based SCADA alarm dialer on the market today.
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| Featured Articles |
Hacking The Industrial SCADA Network
Pipeline & Gas Journal, November 2009
By Frank Dickman, RCDD
Malicious hackers have discovered supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and distributed control systems (DCS) Now that inexpensive solutions are available, the security of industrial networks can no longer be ignored. With threats to industrial networks increasing in complexity and scope, decision makers need to take action before it is too late.
Changes at ISA - A Current Volunteer Leader's Perspective
by Don Frey, ISA Volunteer Leader
Faced with unprecedented declines in demand for training, advertising, and exhibit space, the ISA has had to make drastic cuts in its budget for 2010. Some significant areas where cuts have been made are in the areas of professional staff, frequency of publication of InTech magazine, ISA E-News production and distribution, and future ISA EXPO offerings.
SCADA Security, Compliance, and Liability – A Survival Guide
Pipeline & Gas Journal, September 2009
By Clint Bodungen, et al
Operators face an almost overwhelming number of standards, guidelines, and best practices that require interpretation with little guidance. Operational and security requirements are often confusing, sometimes inconsistent. Security-related documents often purport to be the required standard even when they are not while security programs are not tailored for specific operations. Addressing this requires an understanding of the requirements and development of an appropriate solution.
Machine Data Acquisition Capabilities Grow
Control Design, September 2009
By Phil Burgert
Better data acquisition technologies for factory settings are raising interest among machine builders and their customers. Maintenance and service top the list of benefits that can be leveraged, but increasing capabilities for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems also are coming along.
Plant Intelligence
Industrial Automation Asia, September 2009
By Martin Ahrens and Holger Oettel, WinCC, Siemens
The increasing volume of process data requires that the integration of corporate processes is both horizontal and vertical. A SCADA system meets this challenge with extended functions for web-based analyses, ad-hoc reports and characteristic value-based evaluations.
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| Application Stories |
The Water Works
Control, October 2009
By Tom Pagakis, Carlsbad Municipal Water
The SCADA system employed by Varlsbad, CA, monitors current status and provides remote control abilities for all of Carlsbad's water and reclaimed water. The key components for these systems are SNAP controllers from Opto 22.
Emerson completes control system upgrade at Detroit Water and Sewerage
Emerson installed an Ovation control and SCADA solution that monitors and controls the entire water distribution system and wastewater collection system.
ARC Informatique´s PcVue software controls wind farms in Spain
PcVue SCADA software centralized information from 10 Iberdrola Ingenier wind farms. Up to 2.5 million data items are monitored by 13 PcVue file servers and multiple FrontVue client stations, which communicate via OPC over a 1,000 Mbps redundant TCP/IP Ethernet network.
CC-Link network supports SCADA system at pharmaceutical plant in Brazil
A CC-Link open fieldbus network and Mitsubishi Electric controls now serve as the SCADA system for the Mantecorp pharmaceutical facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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| White Papers |
Understanding and Minimizing Your HMI/SCADA System Security Gaps
By GE Intelligent Platforms
Understanding and minimizing the security gaps in your HMI/SCADA system can be a challenge due to complex, multi-layered technologies. This white paper describes where vulnerabilities within an HMI/SCADA system may lie, and how companies can take proactive steps to address susceptible areas such as the software technology and communications elements through security-based software capabilities to protect their systems.
Video Transmission Using Cellular Gateways
By Greg Santos, Longwatch
By using cellular technology, video can be transmitted from remote sites to HMI/SCADA systems at a relatively low cost. Includes guidelines on cellular services, how to set up a cellular system, and lists of resources.
The Advantages of Plant-wide Historians vs. Relational Databases
By GE Intelligent Platforms
While relational databases (RDBs) are designed to manage relationships between contextualized data, plantwide historians are built specifically for manufacturing and process data acquisition and presentation. They offer key advantages over RDBs, including built-in data collection capabilities, faster speeds, higher data compression, robust redundancy, enhanced data security and quicker time to value.
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| Featured Training |
International Market Access Seminar
February 10, 2010 Montclair, NJ
Department of Commerce and TÜVRheinland will provide an overview of the Global Regulatory Approvals Process and review potential roadblocks. Price: $99.
OPC Foundation - OPC Seminar Houston
February 24, 2010
Location: Houston, TX, USA
This vendor sponsored seminar will include an overview of OPC Classic including Data Access, Historical Data Access and Alarms and Events all with hands-on demonstrations. The seminar will also include an introduction to the new OPC Xi and a review of OPC Compliance.
ISA Introduction to Industrial Automation Security and the ANSI/ISA99 Standards
March 25, 2010 Wilmington, DE
Understanding how to secure factory automation, process control, and SCADA networks is critical if you want to protect them from viruses, hackers, spies, or saboteurs. Price: $545.
ISA Cyber Security for Automation, Control, and SCADA Systems
April 5 through May 28, 2010
This course is offered online and utilizes online training modules, additional text materials, online evaluations, and email discussions. Students will have access via email to an instructor and have an opportunity to participate in live Q&A sessions with the instructor and other class participants. Price: $1,210.
ISA Introduction to the Management of Alarm Systems
April 13, 2010 Edmonton, AB, Canada
This course focuses on the key activities of the alarm management lifecycle provided in the ANSI/ISA18.00.02 standard, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries. The activities include the alarm philosophy development, alarm rationalization, basic alarm design, advanced alarm techniques, HMI design for alarms, monitoring, assessment, management of change, and audit. Price: $545.
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| Company & Organizational News |
ISA appoints Bill Lydon chief editor for InTech
Automation.com's Bill Lydon was appointed editor of InTech, further strengthening ISA’s partnership with Automation.com to jointly publish several e-newsletters for InTech and Automation.com subscribers.
COPA-DATA opens office in Princeton, NJ
Austrian HMI/SCADA company formed COPA-DATA USA and named Rainer Michelis as the Managing Director.
25 Years of PC-Based Control
At the 1984 ISA Show, 25 years ago, Intellution introduced The Fix, the first configurable PC-based HMI/SCADA software program. Process control and automation changed forever.
ARC says Oil & Gas sector will invest in automation
Automation expenditures by the upstream oil and gas sector, which includes exploration, production, and pipelines, are expected to grow at an annual growth rate of nearly seven percent over the next five years.
Invensys adds systems integrators as Wonderware partners
SIs include E-Technologies Group, DLT&V Systems Engineering, Global Automation Partners, SYSMAKER Engenharia de Sistemas Lda, and Autoware S.r.l. Unipersonale.
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| Project News |
ABB to power Bangalore metro
Products to be supplied include transformers, capacitors, relays and the associated cables and switchgear. ABB will also provide a SCADA system to monitor and control the installation.
Open Systems International to control Dairyland Power Cooperative
OSI will upgrade and replace the energy management system and SCADA system at Dairyland Power, a generation and transmission cooperative based in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
JMP Engineering to supply SCADA system to Waterloo
JMP Engineering will provide a SCADA system for the Manitou Drive Biosolids Dewatering Facility and Kitchener Wastewater Treatment Plant in Ontario, Canada.
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| Featured Events |
ARC's 14th Annual Orlando Forum
February 8, 2010 - February 11, 2010
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
Operational Excellence Forum covers collaboration tools and technologies that enable businesses to move beyond integration and begin to have people, teams, and organizations work together more effectively.
Smart Grid China Summit 2010
April 22, 2010 - April 23, 2010
Location: Beijing, China
Energy shortage and sustainable development is a common concern worldwide. How to build automatic, informationized and interactive power grid is a major challenge for each country now. Energy shortage and sustainable development is a common concern worldwide. How to build automatic, informationized and interactive power grid is a major challenge.
Automation Technology Egypt 2010
May 10-12, 2010 Cairo, Egypt
The conference is mainly aimed at demonstration of advanced developments in the domain of automation and information technologies in industry and new opportunities for business development.
Automation/Robotics World Show 2010
August 27, 2010 - August 29, 2010
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Automation & Robotics World Show 10, the country's most awaited exhibition gives a way to success to the new innovations and opportunities for that vast industrial segment comprising of power, Pharmaceutical, Terminal Automation, and Tank Farm Automation.
ISA announces Automation Week show
October 4-7, 2010 Houston, TX
ISA Automation Week, a knowledge-based conference event, will deliver critical knowledge on the application of automation technologies in processing and manufacturing environments. |
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