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  • Panduit announces acquisition of Atlona

    Panduit announces acquisition of Atlona

    As part of the acquisition, the Atlona team will join Panduit’s Enterprise business group. Atlona will continue to serve its customers from its global headquarters in San Jose, Calif. for all sales, customer support, and training related inquiries.
    22 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • A Brave New World of Industrial Automation, Robotics and Taxes

    A Brave New World of Industrial Automation, Robotics and Taxes

    By Stephen Hayes, Beckhoff Automation One of the key economic concepts for government to iron out before IDT can deliver performance, is the contributory capacity that robots, automation and AI fulfil in the overall economy.
    22 January, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • Kaspersky announces patch of seven vulnerabilities in Moxa’s ThingsPro Suite

    Kaspersky announces patch of seven vulnerabilities in Moxa’s ThingsPro Suite

    Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS CERT) experts have identified and patched seven previously unknown vulnerabilities in Moxa’s ThingsPro Suite.
    22 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • Siemens helps Brazilian steel works company digitalize operations

    With a goal of increasing productivity and shortening the development time of new products, Maxiforja has adopted Femap software, the Plant Simulation solution in the Tecnomatix portfolio, the Teamcenter portfolio, NX software and Line Designer from Siemens in order to reach its goal of becoming a digitalized enterprise.
    18 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • PI (Physik Instrumente) announces Dave Rego as Vice President and General Manager of PI’s North American Operations

    PI (Physik Instrumente) announces Dave Rego as Vice President and General Manager of PI’s North American Operations

    Rego has proven himself over his 18 years of growth within PI USA’s sales operations and in progressive sales leadership while working at PI USA’s Auburn headquarters.
    18 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Object Management Group issues two RFPs to create new standards

    Object Management Group issues two RFPs to create new standards

    Organizations interested in submitting must send a letter of intent (LOI) by the LOI deadline indicated in the RFP document. Submitting a LOI is not legally binding and does not commit an organization to being part of a submission team.
    17 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Bill’s Deep Dive: HART PSK Modem Expands Applications with 8 Times Speed Increase

    Bill’s Deep Dive: HART PSK Modem Expands Applications with 8 Times Speed Increase

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) protocol, adopted worldwide, provides digital signal and measurement data from smart field instruments in a wide range of control, monitoring, and automation applications.
    15 January, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • Mocana announces integration with Unified Automation’s High Performance OPC UA SDK

    Mocana announces integration with Unified Automation’s High Performance OPC UA SDK

    This integration enables industrial manufacturers and operators to replace OpenSSL, an open source crypto library, with Mocana’s cybersecurity software solution that is FIPS 140-2 validated and compliant with industrial cybersecurity standards.
    15 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Hannover Fairs USA names Ed Nichols as vice president of events

    Hannover Fairs USA names Ed Nichols as vice president of events

    Nichols will manage the commercial vehicle show portfolio, which currently includes the North American Commercial Vehicle Show (NACV Show 2019). He also will develop new North American events in the fire and safety segment of the company’s portfolio of INTERSCHUTZ exhibitions & conferences.
    14 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • Digitalization and the Food and Beverage Industry

    Digitalization and the Food and Beverage Industry

    By Robert Glass, ABB Digitalization encompasses a transformation in the way industrial environments work. For the food and beverage industry, this means companies can better comply with legislation through a transformation in areas including connectivity, smart sensors, traceability, cloud computing and monitoring.
    10 January, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • ControlSoft announces acquisition of eSimulation and DxT3

    ControlSoft announces acquisition of eSimulation and DxT3

    Through this acquisition, eSimulation can offer a range of solutions to the midstream and upstream industries. For example, ControlSoft’s MANTRA advanced process control (APC) platform can help stabilize gas plants, condensate stabilizers, and fractionation facilities and enable operators to effectively hit optimization targets
    10 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • CyberX announces patent for ICS Threat Monitoring Analytics

    CyberX announces patent for ICS Threat Monitoring Analytics

    The patent covers analytics for detecting anomalous behavior in ICS networks incorporating specialized ICS protocols such as Modbus and DNP3, and specialized ICS devices such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
    10 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
  • Senseye and Iconsys partner to launch predictive maintenance service

    Senseye and Iconsys partner to launch predictive maintenance service

    The companies have joined forces to launch a digital maintenance service that combines Iconsys’ expertise in industrial data collection and integrated manufacturing systems with Senseye’s prognostics and predictive maintenance software.
    09 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack at Every Stage

    How to Prepare for a Cyber Attack at Every Stage

    By Andrew Kling, Schneider Electric Hackers follow a process to launch an attack, and there’s a concurrent process for manufacturers to defend themselves from these attacks. By describing both of them, organizations can ensure they’ve addressed every element of their cyber risk strategy.
    08 January, 2019 | 5 minutes
  • Inventory Management 4.0

    Inventory Management 4.0

    By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation A shocking amount of capital is tied up in inventory. Along with accounts receivable and accounts payable, inventory represents $1.1 trillion in cash – equivalent to 7 per cent of the United States GDP. This article explains the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in accessing this cash.
    04 January, 2019 | 3 minutes
  • TrendMiner announces analytics partnership with Borealis

    TrendMiner announces analytics partnership with Borealis

    TrendMiner was selected upon rigorous test case analysis. In a first stage TrendMiner’s smart self-service analytics solution will be rolled out to the engineers and production experts to support operations with a “big data” approach.
    03 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Addressing Challenges in Process Automation and IIoT

    Addressing Challenges in Process Automation and IIoT

    By John Fryer, Stratus Technologies Manufacturing professionals looking to implement IIoT and edge computing need to ask themselves the following questions to identify underlying challenges and figure out how to address them.
    02 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • HARTING announces appointment of Uwe Graff to Board of New Technologies & Quality

    HARTING announces appointment of Uwe Graff to Board of New Technologies & Quality

    Gräff assumed the position of Managing Director at HARTING Technology Group at the beginning of 2015, and was initially responsible for the Market and Development area at HARTING Electric and the Development division at HARTING Electronics.
    02 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Hilscher announces support for PROFINET @ TSN technology

    Hilscher announces support for PROFINET @ TSN technology

    The support for PROFINET @ TSN technology will be on its portfolio of netX multiprotocol network controllers. netX is a single-chip ASIC that provides a master and/or slave communication connection to all Industrial Ethernet systems, fieldbuses and Industry 4.0 protocols.
    20 December, 2018 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By Hilscher
  • Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and GlobalPlatform announce IIoT liaison

    Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and GlobalPlatform announce IIoT liaison

    Under the agreement, the IIC and GlobalPlatform will work together to align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security and privacy for the industrial Internet.
    20 December, 2018 | 1 minute
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