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John Burns

John Burns is director of OT Threat Hunting at Dragos Inc. The company has a global mission to safeguard civilization from those trying to disrupt the industrial infrastructure. It is a privately held company based in the Washington, D.C. area with a regional presence around the world. The Dragos Platform is designed to monitor, manage and respond to cyber threats to industrial control systems. The company also provides urgent incident response services, threat intelligence and a variety of tools to protect critical OT assets.

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News

Indegy announces integration of Cybersecurity Suite with IBM’s QRadar Security Intelligence Platform

The integration between its Indegy Industrial Cybersecurity Suite and IBM’s QRadar Security Intelligence Platform i designed to bridge the visibility gap between enterprise information technology (IT) environments and industrial, operational technology (OT) environments.

01 February, 2019 | 1 minutes
Feature

Cybersecurity and Physical Safety

By Nick Boughton, Boulting Technology As entire systems have become electronic and software-based, safety and security must also be delivered digitally. This article explains how cybersecurity vulnerabilities can diminish physical safety

01 February, 2019 | 3 minutes
News

Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) announces selection of 11 robotics projects

ARM projects work to strengthen U.S. manufacturing by addressing critical gaps in industrial and collaborative robot deployment and skills development to support plant automation.

By: ARM

01 February, 2019 | 4 minutes
News

Epsilon announces Colin Whitbread as Managing Director

Whitbread will lead the global technology, service and operations teams from Epsilon’s London office. He will be responsible for driving the transformation of the company’s technology innovation and delivering new levels of customer experience for the global business.

By: Epsilon Integration & Solutions

01 February, 2019 | 1 minute
Industry Product

Mikotron introduces EoSens camera series

Mikrotron will introduce a suite of cameras at the SPIE Photonics West, taking place February 5-7, 2019, in San Francisco, CA, at the Moscone Center.

01 February, 2019
Industry Product

TM Robotics announces THE600 SCARA robot

The THE600 is the latest addition to Toshiba Machine’s range and builds upon the specifications of the THE400.

01 February, 2019
Industry Product

Abaco announces FMC172 Wideband Low Latency FMC Module

Designed for customers developing embedded computing applications in electronic warfare, digital radar, wide band receivers and wireless communications SDR among others, it brings ADC and DAC functionality on a single card.

01 February, 2019
Industry Product

Monnit releases Monnit 4G LTE International Gateway

The Monnit 4G LTE International Gateway is based on a 4G LTECAT-M1/ NB1 wireless engine and integrates Monnit's wireless access point network (WAN) for use with Monnit Wireless Sensors. The gateway allows the sensors to operate on cellular networks.

By: Monnit Corp.

01 February, 2019
Industry Product

Microchip Technologies introduces ATECC608A-MAHTN-T Crypto Authentication device

The solution brings hardware-based security to the LoRa ecosystem, combining the MCU- and radio-agnostic ATECC608A-MAHTN-T Crypto Authentication device with The Things Industries’ managed join servers and Microchip’s secure provisioning service.

01 February, 2019
Industry Product

AutomationDirect introduces NITRA GVP series pneumatic miniature solenoid valves

GVP series 12 or 24 VDC solenoid valves are available in 10mm and 15mm valve widths and in 2-way or 3-way normally closed configurations. Latching solenoid valves are available in 3-way normally closed configuration. Latching solenoid valves will stay open after being momentarily energized.

By: AutomationDirect, Automation Direct

01 February, 2019
Feature

AutoQuiz: What Flow Sensor Naturally Generates a Pulsed Output to Represent Flow Rate?

Turbine meters almost universally use a magnetic pickup to determine the number of rotations of the spinning turbine element.

By: Joel Don

01 February, 2019 | 1 minutes
News

Bedrock Automation to help Temblor Petroleum to implement cloud-based well head control

The application enables Temblor to monitor and operate well heads remotely, providing secure real-time production data while minimizing the requirements for onsite operators.

31 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
News

Industrial Internet Consortium to unite with OpenFog Consortium

The announcement brings OpenFog members into the IIC at a time when their complementary areas of technology are emerging in the mainstream. The first formal meeting of the unified organization will be held in Raleigh, N.C., from February 11-14.

31 January, 2019 | 1 minute
Case Study

Rockwell Automation helps Midwest Farmers Cooperative enhance distributed control systems

MFC worked with system integrator Wachter Inc. to design an automated facility, based on the PlantPAx distributed control system (DCS) from Rockwell Automation.

By: Rockwell Automation

31 January, 2019 | 3 minutes
Feature

Automatic Reward: How an Underused Tax Incentive Can Save Automation Companies Money in an Instant

By Tracy Lustyan, alliantgroup Those looking to offset the costs of development and implementation of automation tools should look at the R&D tax credit.

31 January, 2019 | 3 minutes
Case Study

ABB helps enhance Spanish indoor skydiving facility with variable speed drives

The Windoor Realfly vertical indoor wind tunnel in Empuriabrava uses variable speed drives (VSDs) to control the fans that generate winds of 150-300 km/hour.

By: ABB

31 January, 2019 | 3 minutes
News

ABB and SUSI partner for microgrid and energy storage projects

The global energy transformation brings challenges and opportunities for the power sector. These include ensuring power availability and managing complex grids with a growing number of diverse, distributed energy resources and a high penetration of renewables.

By: ABB

31 January, 2019 | 1 minute
Industry Product

PI releases model E-619 piezo amplifier

Providing sink/source currents up to 10 amps and an output voltage swing of 160V-pp (-30V to +130V), the piezo driver delivers up to 1200 watts of peak power. A temperature sensor input provides overheating protection of piezo actuators.

By: PI Vision

31 January, 2019
Industry Product

L-com introduces Cat5e direct burial cable series

L-com’s Cat5e direct burial cable features outdoor-rated jackets which protect against moisture and UV (sunlight) damage. Additionally, the cable is EIA568 color-coded for compatibility with standard installations

By: L-com

31 January, 2019
Industry Product

Dynamic Systems announces Advanced Checkmate Mobile inventory application

The Advanced Checkmate Mobile application records inventory from receiving through storage and shipping and has a feature to count inventory and print a discrepancy report.

31 January, 2019