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Sercos scheduled three technical webinars for May and June that will provide interested parties insight into the technology.

ADLINK is using a machine-to-machine (M2M) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution from Gemalto to provide remote system monitoring and real-time maintenance for connected devices.

Multivac packaging machines work in multi-shift operation up to seven days a week. Diagnostic data requested via remote service provides insight into the machine status at all times. An mGuard security appliance protects the VPN.

RAM 9000 RTUs can securely monitor remote devices via AT&T's 4G LTE cellular communications in North America.

Vevon will be responsible for software engineering, enterprise IT operations, cyber security, advanced technologies and IT training.

The Industrial Cybersecurity business will help clients protect their control systems from both intentional and unintentional cyber-initiated events. John Cusimano will run it

NEXCOM provides a broad range of industrial computing solutions for demanding industrial environments.

The product portfolio that Softing Industrial Automation acquired includes solutions for monitoring industrial networks, incljuding PROFIBUS, PROFINET and Industrial Ethernet.

The SABIC Olefins plant in Teesside, UK, uses Emerson's wireless condition monitoring and prediction system to detect potential problems with pumps before they disrupt normal operations.

Brochures include a revised Sercos III brochure and a competency brochure, "The fast route to Sercos."

“Industrial Ethernet Technologies: Overview and Comparison” gives valuable insight into today’s most important Industrial Ethernet technologies.

The ISA Cybersecurity Conference 2014, to be held 9-12 June in Detroit Michigan, USA, will bring together experts in industrial cybersecurity, best-practice security approaches and leading technology solutions.

Wibu-Systems was founded by Oliver Winzenried and Marcellus Buchheit in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1989. Wibu-Systems challenges hackers. In several international Hacker's Contests since 2001, participants were unable to crack Wibu-Systems' protected software.

The discontinued support impacts millions of both personal and professional users worldwide, including the many companies that have implemented Windows XP in industrial automation applications.

The free seminar on 22 July 2014 in Marietta, Georgia, will educate area business and manufacturing leaders on the recently launched US Cybersecurity Framework.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Recently founded by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel, IIC is another organization focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and the connected world. The goals of this group are to break down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds.

Sercos International, supplier of the Sercos automation bus, exhibited Sercos-capable products at Hannover Fair.

The free seminar 13 June 2014 at Chevron’s Houston, Texas offices will educate area business and manufacturing leaders on the value and importance of the recently launched US Cybersecurity Framework.

Changes include enhancements to the central search function as well as the “download,” “events,” and “product” sections of the website.

With this specification, a controller can exchange complex data structures horizontally with other controllers independently from fieldbus system or vertically with other devices using an OPC-UA server.