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By Gerrit Boysen and Mariam Coladonato, Phoenix Contact The requirements placed on a firewall in a production zone are different from those in the office world. Therefore, using an industrial firewall with a NAT function can support the individual, simple segmentation of networks.

Murata’s ISA100 Wireless Stack & Communication Module has achieved ISA100 Wireless Certification

By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the years there have been only a handful of truly disruptive industrial automation and control technological shifts that significantly impacted manufacturing productivity and efficiency. With the latest technologies that are enabling IoT, we may be on the cusp of another shift.

By Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation Legacy networks with only a small number of I/O modules and other devices are being replaced with complex networks that have hundreds of I/O modules. EtherNet/IP features an active infrastructure and can accommodate an almost infinite number of nodes to give manufacturers optimal flexibility when either designing their networks at the onset or expanding them in the future.

By Shannon R. Foos and Kevin Zomchek, Rockwell Automation IP connectivity from the industrial control system through the gateway – either IO-Link or HART – closes the last meter to provide connectivity to devices that are sitting in the field. These two networks allow industrial operations to bridge to an IP network as seamlessly as possible, making today’s plants more future-ready for the industrial IoT.

Kontron’s family of IoT boards, gateways, modules and systems will be integrated with Wibu-Systems CodeMeter technology to provide security for IoT applications

Tempered Networks security platform helps Rockwell Automation customers safely connect and protect critical infrastructure, communications and vulnerable endpoints from cyber-security threats.

Honeywell’s Industrial Cyber Security business is now offering the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform to industrial customers.

By Bill Lydon, Editor This article expresses my thoughts on major automation and control trends for 2016 and beyond. Key topics include IoT, automation architecture, cloud, analytics, integration, robots and more.

By Dee Brown, Brown Engineers Maximum cyber security protection is possible only when cyber security protection is embedded deeply into the control system electronics from birth.

By Jonathan Wilkins, European Automation The increasing availability of inexpensive, wireless sensors now lets facilities measure safety, regulatory compliance, equipment reliability and energy efficiency without breaking the bank.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the years, automation users have complained about being locked into an industrial automation vendor’s system architecture. ExxonMobil has had enough of proprietary, closed systems and they are leading the charge to build the next generation, multi-vendor automation system.

The video titled, "A Guide to Wi-Fi and Frequency Hopping Antenna Selection," delves into the different types of antennas and characteristics to keep in mind, such as the antenna’s pattern, gain, and polarity.

The award is for a research project that quantified the performance of an ISA100 Wireless based safety system at an offshore operational site.

Modbus book explains why this 40-year-old technology still matters.

HMS says Industrial Ethernet is growing faster than before and now accounts for 38% of the market. EtherNet/IP is in first place within industrial Ethernet globally.

The discussion at this year’s forum will focus, among much else, on standards for communication in the Industrial Internet of Things.

The global data center security market was valued at US$ 4.05 Bn in 2013 and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 12.6% during the forecast period from 2014 to 2022

By Glenn Schulz, Managing Director, FDT Group FDT Technology holds the key to integrating a wide range of devices and networks in today’s complex process automation architecture. Ongoing development of this technology, driven by growing instrumentation supplier involvement, is enabling end users to realize the true potential of decentralization, transparency, integration, and a unified view of all data and functions within the manufacturing enterprise.

The AVnu Alliance is a community creating an interoperable ecosystem of low-latency, time-synchronized, highly reliable networked devices using open standards