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  • How Can Software Support Next-Generation People-Centric Manufacturing?

    How Can Software Support Next-Generation People-Centric Manufacturing?
    By: Contributing Authors
    23 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Top Ten Trends for enterprise IT in India

    Technology trends include increasing smartphone penetration, growth of a semi-skilled workforce, Community networks, and Konnected Network of Things (KNoT)
    20 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • ISA introduces cybersecurity certificate program

    The ISA99/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist Certificate is designed to help professionals involved in IT and control systems security improve their understanding of ISA99/IEC 62443.
    19 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Shipments of cellular M2M devices in industrial automation up

    Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 22.5 percent, cellular shipments are expected to reach 2.1 million in 2018.
    18 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Green Hills Software to supply security software to HP

    Green Hills will supply INTEGRITY Multivisor virtualization technology to Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (UK).
    18 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Sercos Safety and Industrial Ethernet webinars available

    Sercos is making recordings of webinars on the topic of “CIP Safety on Sercos & EtherNet/IP” and “Common Sercos III and EtherNet/IP Infrastructure” available free and on-demand.
    17 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • EtherCAT Test Centers expanded

    To best meet the rising demand for official EtherCAT Conformance Tests, the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has expanded the EtherCAT testing services.
    16 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Industrial Cyber Security Compliance & Enforcement

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Cyber security is now becoming a hot topic with users and vendors of industrial automation systems. Brigadier General Rudolf Peksens fears a cyber-Pearl Harbor. The big question is, "Will companies make cyber security investments without legal enforcement?"
    16 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Moxa to supply communications equipment to Terra Ferma

    Terra Ferma will use Moxa hardened communications equipment for a remote SCADA monitoring and IP surveillance system which Terra Ferma will market to the oil and gas industry.
    13 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA

    Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA

    Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA
    By: ISA Past-Presidents
    12 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Sercos International SPS IPC Drives show report

    At the SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremberg, Sercos International displayed twelve demo points from different manufacturing companies as well as exhibits from more than twenty companies.
    11 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PROFI Network Updates from the General Assembly Meeting

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Four North American members presented why they support PI standards and are members of the board. User presentations further highlighted that existing plants have many types of networks that can benefit from efficient gateways and proxies to further enhance automation with new controls and instruments.
    11 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Fieldbus Foundation updates Foundation Fieldbus Technical Specifications

    The updated specification includes additional support for fieldbus device replacement and backwards compatibility, Device Description (DD) templates, field diagnostics and alarm/alert integration.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens Introduces Managed Security Service

    Service includes assessment of security posture, implementation of recommended security measures and transitions into ongoing defense against cyber security threats in Industrial Control System environments.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Developers of Dream Report come out of hiding

    By Bill Lydon, Editor I recently had the opportunity to discuss Ocean Data Systems – a little company you likely have never heard of - with Roy Kok, their VP of Sales and Marketing. Their product, Dream Report, is OEMed by a number of well-known software providers. Here is a synopsis of my interview with Kok.
    08 December, 2013 | 6 minutes
  • Cyber Security Lessons from a Military Leader

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Major General Robert E. Wheeler gave a compelling and informative keynote presentation on cyber security at the ISA Automation Week conference in Nashville, TN on November 6, 2013. The cyber security challenges faced by the military and industrial automation systems are strikingly similar.
    08 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • EtherCAT celebrates 10th anniversary

    It has now been 10 years since the organization first began its activities at the 2003 SPS IPC Drives show with 33 official founding members.
    06 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Industrial Ethernet growing in China

    The usage of Fieldbus is not as common in China as in Germany or the United States. This is mainly because Chinese customers are encountering networking technology much later.
    05 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • COPA-DATA researches bridging geoinformation and process data

    The objectives of the research are to connect geoinformation (device locations) to important data from industrial process monitoring and process control.
    05 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Lantronix Announces M2M Design Contest

    The design contest covers innovative machine-to-machine (M2M) applications that use Lantronix products, and is open to all designers worldwide.
    05 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
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