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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.

By John Rinaldi Investing in new control and automation systems is an expensive and disruptive activity, particularly when the majority of the data is already instrumented and sitting in controllers, drives, sensors and other devices in the plant. There is a far more cost effective and non-disruptive way to acquire and use the data trapped on the plant floor.

All existing and new products for Ethernet applications from Harting conform with the requirements for the use of PROFINET.

SignalFire designs and manufactures specialized wireless mesh networking systems for uses in challenging and hazardous locations.

Netbiter gateways connected to Rockwell PLCs control the different systems in the EF International Language Centre in Oxford, UK.

By Alex Perng, Nexcom IoT relies on close connections among sensors, gateways, networks, and servers; and IoT gateways play a key role in building these connections..

Industrial wireless deployment saves significant costs compared to an equivalent wired installation, resulting in savings of 20 to 30 percent in simple configurations.

The global passive optical LAN (POL) market was valued at $9.89 billion in 2013, growing at a CAGR of 19.2% from 2014 to 2020 and is estimated to reach $33.88 billion in 2020.

Report covers the importance of the machine to machine (M2M) communication protocol OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) in achieving Industry 4.0 goals.

The global fiber optic connectors market is exhibiting enormous growth on the account of rising demand for improved security, high bandwidth, and fast connectivity.

IoT Gateway Starter Kit simplifies device-cloud connection, accelerates IoT application development, and speeds deployment for a wide variety of application environments.

The global cloud security market was worth US$ 4.50 Bn in 2014 and is expected to reach US$ 11.84 Bn by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 12.8% from 2015 to 2022. North America was the largest market for cloud security in 2014 which accounted for around 45% of the global market revenue.

By Tom McKinney, HMS Industrial Networks WiFi, Bluetooth or Zigbee? Here’s a review of the available short range wireless standards for industrial applications.

PACTware 5.0 is based on the FDT2 standard.

The global telecom API market is expected to reach a value of $ 323.44 Bn by 2022. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 23.6% during the forecast period from 2015 to 2022.

The cloud-based IT infrastructure to map Industry 4.0 application scenarios comes from MES supplier iTAC.

Dr. Lindner joined FBGS in 2008, and has held various leadership positions within the organization. Lindner has been instrumental in driving new developments for the next generation of fiber optic sensing systems.

Taking measures to manage industrial technology upgrades and ensure control systems are safe is key to protecting the operational integrity of plant infrastructure

The global Access Control and Authentication market is expected to reach a value of US$ 49,890.3 Mn by 2020. The market would grow at an estimated CAGR of 15.3% during the forecast period from 2014 to 2020.

For secure passwords there are different strategies. Some swear on a password generator which generates random passwords from digits, special characters, uppercase and lowercase letters. Others try to use reproducible passwords based on an individual scheme.