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Software monetization must be calculated for the value provided after the initial sale: the tangible value the software brings to the customer's core business operations.

Because iChain was shaped inside one of Lenovo’s most complex operating environments, the customer-ready solution carries forward more than a technical design. It reflects practical lessons about integrating AI with established supply chain systems.

Real-time visibility is only the first step toward operational excellence in food manufacturing. By connecting production data with assigned actions, corrective workflows and measurable results, intelligent operations platforms help manufacturers close the loop between identifying problems, resolving them and driving continuous improvement.

How AI-enabled vision technology helps manufacturers improve quality and address labor challenges.

For healthcare organizations, protecting operational technology is essential to protecting patient care by maintaining the integrity and safety of systems that support essential medical services.

OT cyber risks are often rated before being defined. A practical method builds the risk scenario first (zone, asset, criticality, threat source, threat level, threat action, and vulnerability) before assessing likelihood and consequence.

This article details the vital role of inline process analytics in chlor-alkali production. Precise control of pH, ORP, and conductivity across brine purification, membrane electrolysis, recycling, and wastewater optimizes chemical dosing, protects equipment, and ensures safe, efficient performance.

Every automation decision is more informed, strategic, and straightforward with Okuma Factory Automation as your partner and provider.

Go into the instrumentation cabinets of almost any process plant built before the 2000s and you'll find that most of it still works exactly as it did thirty or forty years ago. So, the question isn't really whether that old infrastructure still does its job. It's whether it can keep up with what plants are now being asked to do with their data. 

Hilscher’s netRAPID 90IC combines multiprotocol industrial communication, IIoT connectivity and integrated security in a compact 18 × 45 mm plug-in module. Its replaceable design simplifies integration and servicing for field devices.

The key to achieving an optimized warehousing system is to design an autonomous one that can adapt itself to change on the fly and improve over time.

Older manufacturing plants face network segmentation challenges from legacy equipment, undocumented OT assets, limited budgets, and minimal resources. This article offers a practical, manageable, and meaningful approach for these manufacturers to strengthen their cybersecurity.

Cyberattacks have exposed weaknesses in internet connectivity for operations and remote access at water and wastewater facilities that are being addressed in national and global cybersecurity standards.

How AI-powered vulnerability discovery is changing the threat landscape for operational technology asset owners and product suppliers—and why ISA/IEC 62443 matters more than ever

Industrial AI requires a connectivity path that carries data from a physical event through AI processing to machine action. Learn how each stage shapes the next and what must be considered when designing the complete path.

Training completion does not equate to readiness for a specific emergency. Actions required during hazardous material releases must be detailed, responsibilities defined, and competence verified.

The emergency plan should eliminate assumptions by detailing the situation, personnel roles and responsibilities, known hazards, access to and from the area, equipment availability, and handover processes. After it is developed, it should be rehearsed.

Treat AI engines as high-risk zones, adapt frameworks such as ISA/IEC 62443, and keep humans actively in the loop.

AI must have clear, consistent and standardized data models to consume and utilize data efficiently and correctly. The authors describe how to develop those models.

Human-in-the-loop AI helps industrial organizations amplify human expertise, preserve institutional knowledge, and make smarter decisions.