Articles and News

By Michael Risse, Vice President, Seeq Corporation These five types of people often hinder big data analytic projects, but recognizing their characteristics can make them allies instead of enemies.

Statseeker's downloadable whitepaper provides insight into the digital transformation that IoT technology is bringing to manufacturers. The paper will cover IT/OT convergence, big data collection, and more.

Teel Plastics was inspired to find a solution that would allow operators to control all pieces electronically and reduce human error. They ultimately found that Kepware’s IoT Gateway for KEPServerEX provided the way to control all the essential components.

Verizon’s Cat M1 network is built on a virtualized cloud environment which enables IoT solution deployment and nationwide scaling aimed at increasing IoT adoption for developers and businesses with new and more economical IoT data plans.

Stacks, chimneys and other gas handling equipment can take all sorts of forms depending on the application, but a common element is the need for effective temperature measurement of the gas at various points in chimneys.

By Ola Lennartsson, Axis Communications For a long time, physical security was strictly analog, and it’s only connection to the IT network was at its end point. But now, now that IP-based security systems are becoming the norm, with all the associated benefits, both IT & OT professionals need to be aware that the game has changed.

The PartnerNetwork program is designed to help industrial companies better solve their production and automation challenges by working with an expansive network of suppliers, distributors, system integrators, and machine and equipment builders.

By Matt Smith, Cortet Engineering This article will help readers navigate through the deluge of IoT information and identify which technology choices will have the biggest positive impact on upcoming product plans.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Connectivity is the name of the game in today’s IIoT atmosphere and ODVA is the latest to join the push for open communication standards. ODVA’s Common Industrial Cloud Interface (CICI) Special Interest Group is working on enhancements to ODVA specifications to connect CIP (Common Industrial Protocol) protocols, EtherNet/IP & DeviceNet with cloud applications.

The FieldComm Group Plant of the Year is an international award presented to end user companies in the process automation industry to recognize the exceptional and valuable application of FOUNDATION Fieldbus, FDI and / or HART Communication technologies.

The meeting event, “Pharmaceutical Cybersecurity Convocation: A Critical Executive Dialogue,” will be held at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Convention Center in Framingham (Boston area), Massachusetts, in conjunction with ISA’s Food & Pharmaceutical Industries Division (FPID) Symposium.

By Arun Ananthampalayam, Honeywell Process Solutions Whether you are a tool builder or an application developer – if your software needs to access automation data, you may want to implement OPC UA connectivity to ensure your system can access data via the world’s most popular, standards-based, open connectivity solution. The question is: How to best do this?

By Alan Grau, Icon Labs Recent WikiLeak documents allege that the CIA developed, or sought to develop, or even “borrowed”, cyberattack technology that could target a wide range of IoT devices, including smart TVs, connected cars, and mobile phones. What can we learn from this?

By Matt Smith, Cortet Engineering This article will aim to help your decision-making process by explaining the existing technologies and attempting to demystify the ocean of IoT protocols.

The idea for the competition is for engineers, makers and students to come up with innovative applications and solutions based on the open IoT gateway.

The M2M & OPCF user group has been founded in order to document and spread best practices for building secure communication solutions and smart services based on device and machine data.

Matrikon's downloadable OPC whitepaper discusses how vendors can enable their new and existing products with OPC technology to compete on the IIoT/Industrie 4.0 landscape

An array of examples from practice will allow visitors to experience applications and innovations demonstrating the competitive benefits to be gained by merging the real and the virtual worlds.

ISA has technology needed to solve infrastructure security challenges, such as the world's only industrial cybersecurity standard, ISA99/IEC62443.

Alongside OPC UA and other control protocols, the echocollect gateway (version 7.10) includes publisher functionality of the MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) protocol.