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By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Much like the Fieldbus wars that marked the industrial automation industry of the 1990’s, there are early-warning signs of competing standards developing in TSN activity that could ignite a similar wave of chaos.

By Tom Ayral, Honeywell Cyber Security Various industry studies and intelligent guess-work already allow us to develop a first-pass financial estimate of potential losses from cyber attacks – which allows an estimate of the savings that implementing an effective cyber security program could bring.

Northrop Grumman chairman and chief executive officer Wes Bush announced that he will step down from the position of chief executive officer effective Jan. 1, 2019. He will remain chairman through July 2019.

With complex, critical products manufactured across multiple manufacturing sites, the challenge was to ensure manufacturing execution with the highest level of traceability, which could no longer be met by legacy tools.

To become certified, solution partners undergo a rigorous, multi‐faceted process facilitated by Siemens. A Siemens senior consulting engineer out of Karlsruhe, Germany audited multiple aeSolutions safety projects to ensure their project configuration workflow processes followed Siemens‐documented best practices, as well as international functional safety standards (IEC 61511).

The primary operations at the Knightdale, North Carolina location include the manufacture and shipment of Powervar’s GTS Series, Sinergy III, and Security Plus UPS products.

This is designed for outdoor applications such as factory automation, security, ITS transportation, power/utility, water wastewater treatment plants, and any other extreme ambient weather environments.

To meet a variety of Artificial Intelligence solution-ready system requirements, the AI embedded computer has one USB 2.0 port, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one HDMI 2.0 port and four SMA type antenna connectors.

The user can connect the SPA to the compressed air supply on an existing machine, providing them with analysis options for key machine characteristics, such as compressed air consumption and possible leakages.

Technical guidance on ways to optimize settings and options for PID controllers from industry veteran Greg McMillan and participants in ISA's Mentor Program.

PLÜMAT will be introducing the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions by CADENAS to its business units of engineering, development and work preparation in the course of 2018.

KEPServerEX version 6.5 includes secure deployment guidelines, greater project file protection, enhanced password configuration and other updated security components.

The panel PCs are designed to meet the requirements within factory automation, transportation, and embedded applications.

Asyril’s URCaps plugin, available on the Universal Robots+ Solutions platform, enables integration of any Asycube in conjunction with any Universal Robot.

With the aid of TwinSAFE SC technology, it is possible to make use of standard signals for safety-related tasks in any network or fieldbus system.

Designers can now copy and paste code from the Connected Components Workbench software to the RSLogix 500 or Studio 5000 software and vice versa.

An intrinsic safety barrier prevents excess voltage and current from reaching the hazardous area.

The $1 million in overall funding will go to 25 institutions of higher learning across North America to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational programming. These grants help achieve DENSO’s goal of exposing students to the careers available in manufacturing

This investment round was led by ST Engineering Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital unit of ST Engineering. Radiflow’s existing investors, led by Zohar Zisapel, also participated in this investment round.

Working together, the two companies will help manufacturers and other businesses to help deploy solutions for monitoring and control, industrial automation, asset tracking and field service operations.