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Big Data Focus at 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium
Big Data is Big News in just about every corner of our digitally connected world. Leveraging massive amounts of process data archives is a game changer for practically any industrial process, enabling -
Six Steps to Control System Cybersecurity
You might find that your automation systems are not as secure as they should be, and we have the solutions that will help you make improvements. -
Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters
By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software. -
Softing's PROFINET software helps control steel plant
SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama. -
Fieldbus Foundation Conducts live demo in Brazil
Fieldbus Foundation conducted the first live demonstration of its FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM) technology at the Petrobras research and development facility (Cenpes) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -
National Instruments to resell Kollmorgen Servos
NI will sell Kollmorgen’s EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive and single-cable AKM motor. -
Sercos publishes news magazine
32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems. -
CodeMeter provides cyber-security for Smart Factory Demo
SmartFactoryKL demonstration plant, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, uses CodeMeter as the security component for protecting the transport algorithms. -
RTU as an Intelligent Remote Gateway
By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems. -
Implementing Security for Industrial Automation Systems (Part 2)
Application of management, operational & technical controls will reduce risks to industrial automation & control systems and will mitigate vulnerabilities. -
NIST says MTConnect works with robots
In the test at NIST, MTConnect enabled a robot conversant in ROS-Industrial to load and unload parts into an MTConnect-conversant lathe for cutting, precisely when the machine tool was ready to perform the task. -
Where's the Beef? Kepware finds it
Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention. -
Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure
The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products. -
Pepperl+Fuchs publishes Online Sensor and Systems Catalog
1,000+ page resource guide covers proximity, photoelectric, and ultrasonic sensors, rotary encoders, positioning systems, inclination and acceleration sensors, AS-Interface products, identification system RFIDs, and logic control units. -
Honeywell Adds New Members to PKS Advantage Program
GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network. -
11th sercos PlugFest successfully completed
During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products. -
Ethernet in Process Automation to Double by 2016
Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market. -
Implementing Security for Industrial Automation Systems (Part 1)
Implementing cybersecurity programs for industrial automation & control systems requires identification of areas to be protected & assessment of threats. -
PAS announces PAS University
PAS University offers training solution courses in alarm management, control loop optimization, high performance HMI, cyber security and change management. -
HART Communication Foundation Hosts Free Event
The HART Communication Foundation will host a free one-day event for end users on June 27 (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.) at the Marriott Westchase hotel in Houston, Texas.
