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Office in San Jose, Calif. to provide local sales and engineering for Beckhoff customers throughout California.

The OPC Foundation and the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The OPC Foundation and the M2M Alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The OPC Foundation and Profibus & Profinet International (PI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

By Gregory Wilcox, Rockwell Automation Hackers and malicious individuals are also targeting manufacturers and industrial operators. These industrial network breaches may not be making the evening news, but they certainly should serve as convincing evidence for organizations to make industrial security a top priority as they move toward a model of enterprise-wide connectivity and increased information-sharing.

The program includes AUMA, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt, Honeywell Process Solutions, Mitsubishi Electric, Pepperl+Fuchs, Rockwell Automation, R. STAHL and Schneider Electric.

Production of hydrogen and electricity at zero emissions, thanks to aluminum combustion.

By Aron Semle, Kepware Technologies OPC UA, HTTP, MQTT, CoAP, DDS, and AMQP all have a place in IoT. Which protocols take majority market share is unclear, but each has its pros and cons. It’s important to pick the protocol that best fits your needs, and select technology partners that can adapt to these protocols.

By Bill Lydon, Editor This year Siemens launched a new line of panel controls and indicators named the SIRIUS ACT. This product line overhaul was based on learning from customers, new design methods, leveraging new technology, and applying new manufacturing methods.

The new site provides a framework for sharing the organization’s vision for the future of industrial automation as well as improving the user experience for professionals in the industrial automation sector.

Elections were held in conjunction with ODVA’s 2015 Industry Conference & 17th Annual Meeting of Members, October 13-15, 2015 in Frisco, Texas.

Lynch is Global Marketing Director at GE’s Intelligent Platforms business.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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