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What is the difference between IT security and OT security?

Industrial automation has been a bit slower to make an impact on the maintenance department. The nature of the work and the conservative tendencies of industry are perhaps some reasons for this. Recently, though, there has been more focus on automation in maintenance. These efforts have led to influence maintenance in several ways, which will be covered below.

Maintaining security posture across converged environments is crucial to reduce unnecessary cyber risk.

The digital transformation of industry has given new momentum to the connection of the operational technology of the plant floor to the information technology of the higher-level enterprise. However, making the most of the potential of digitalisation requires more than just a network connection between these two levels of the business.

Cybersecurity expert Steve Mustard, the incoming 2021 International Society of Automation (ISA) president, was recently invited to speak with the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA).

AI will become an integral part of setting up and using AMRs, simplifying their deployment process and improving their workflow; AMR users will be empowered to make more informed decisions, even without technical expertise, and robots will become the first line of support, predicting when intervention is needed or automating troubleshooting.

As pharmaceuticals companies Pfizer and Moderna give us cause for optimism on the vaccine front, our research shows that earlier estimations of the damage caused to manufacturing output in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic have seen positive adjustments, and that recovery is therefore going to be faster. So, we have what is potentially good news on two fronts.

Industrial automation marketing needs to be shaken up with more modern methods and approaches. This part of the blog series focuses on email marketing.

This ISA blog series highlights a few organizations working for better diversity and inclusion, such as the National Girls Collaborative Project.

This blog series will discuss a few ICS cybersecurity myths, starting with the misconception that air-gapped ICS networks are completely protected.

ARC Advisory Group and Automation.com recently collaborated on a web survey to gauge the current take up of various manufacturing execution system (MES)-related functionalities in the context of digital transformation. This article summarizes our key takeaways from this survey using only those respondents who identified as end users.

5G is a rapidly growing market and will reach 300 billion USD by 2025 as forecast in the IDTechEx report "5G Technology, Market and Forecasts 2020-2030." However, there are many common misunderstandings about 5G that might lead to the wrong interpretation.

According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, The temperature sensor market is projected to garner noteworthy gains on account of surging application across diverse electronic appliances.

What is Industry 4.0? What is smart manufacturing? Definitions vary, but the important thing is how you define these concepts at your organization.

Sponsored by DriveLock SE The onward march of smart factory and digitalization initiatives has led to a huge increase in the IT connectivity of industrial manufacturing systems. This raises important questions about how to secure them–especially heterogeneous systems.

There’s no doubt that this year has brought a mountain of change—especially in the manufacturing industry. As it is clear, this "new normal" will extend throughout most, if not all, of 2021, we need to collectively be better at identifying risk, empowering teams and adapting to change as it comes.

For some time now, the future mobility vision–in which totally autonomous vehicles are an everyday reality and shared mobility services are widely adopted–has been heralded as the future of mass transport. However, as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has inexplicably changed transport behaviour, both at a consumer and commercial level, the consensus is that it will significantly impact the shape of tomorrow’s strategy.

Business leaders should insist on integrating legacy machines into smart manufacturing systems.

The ISA99 committee has begun the work of addressing misconceptions and possible impediments to the acceptance and adoption of the ISA/IEC 62443 standards.

On the whole, the value of IT and OT convergence with Edge Computing offers three core benefits to enterprises that need to extract data from the operational edge, gain insight, manage mission critical applications, and reduce IT costs and management.