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An unnamed manufacturer needed to gather comprehensive temperature and humidity data across facilities where vacuum furnaces operate to harden materials. An OPC server connected 10 sensors to the control system.

By Rohit Bhargava, Microsoft With more than 10,000 OPC products available in the marketplace today, and deployments estimated to be in the tens of millions of instances, OPC UA enables companies to get started on business transformation today.

RedFox achieved ATEX/IECEx certification by BASEEFA enabling these Layer 3 switches to be installed in potentially explosive atmospheres.

The project called for between 1,000 and 1,500 well sites to come online in 2014, and beyond 6,000 by 2030, over an area of more than 4,500 km2.

The City of Enid, Oklahoma, uses Iconics software and OPC to manage its water production, distribution and reclamation system.

Older versions of VxWorks are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Icon Labs has a solution.

HART Protocol permits two-way communications, so instrument parameters for smart devices can be interrogated and adjusted from anywhere on the 4-20 mA loop.

Exida certified the Honeywell Experion C300 Controller R410 to the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

ISA and Ultra Electronics 3eTI will conduct the webinar at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 30 September.

Industry needs to continue to demonstrate how optimal and government-grade cybersecurity can be achieved to the satisfaction of senior control industry security and operating managers

Frost & Sullivan says the global cybersecurity market for control systems is expected to grow at a rate between 20 to 25 percent every year till 2021.

Tailored Solutions & Consulting specializes in the protection of trade secrets, intellectual assets, and other sensitive information.

The eSTORM software security testing tool can be used by certification bodies in the ISASecure industrial automation and control system (IACS) cybersecurity certification program.

By Markus Bladh, HMS Industrial Networks According to our latest market research, PROFINET and PROFIBUS are two of the most dominant networks on the global market today. White paper shows how HMS products connect systems.

Verizon Wireless certified the NetComm Wireless 4G WiFi M2M Router (NTC-140W-01) for deployment in the U.S.

Paradox Engineering provides open standard urban and industrial wireless sensor network solutions, global virtual networks and OEM versions of its core network technologies.

The part is labeled with client’s part number and company info, so when the end user needs a replacement, or wants additional parts, they will be contacting the OEM.

Governing Board officers serve two-year terms and ensure adherence to annual plans and budgets.

New version of EDSA and SSA certification requirements to become effective 1 February 2016.

By John Rinaldi, Real Time Automation Because of the discontinuity between the factory floor and the Enterprise, opportunities to mine the factory floor for quality data, interrogate and build databases of maintenance data, feed dashboard reporting systems, gather historical data and feed enterprise analytic systems are lost. But there is a reliable, highly secure and reliable solution.