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AVEVA partners with TOMRA to embed SCADA technology for produce industry
The first Compac product resulting from this partnership is Smartline, which is built on Wonderware by AVEVA. Smartline features an operational dashboard for visualisation of line performance and a user interface designed to facilitate line control for packhouses of all sizes. -
PLC and DCS: How Do They Differ & How Did They Come About?
By Mondi Anderson, RealPars A DCS or distributed control system is similar to a PLC in that it has rugged computer controllers, however, the DCS contains multiple autonomous controllers that are distributed throughout a system, also used for automating processes. -
Open Systems International announces Al Eliasen as Chief Operating Officer
Eliasen is an automation industry professional with more than 25 years of experience in corporate operations and engineering management. At OSI, he has overseen all project delivery operations to date. -
HANNOVER MESSE 2018 Report: Industrial technology providers collaborating to bring digital factory to life
HANNOVER MESSE USA 2018 covered more than 114,200 square feet of exhibit space and featured 510 exhibitors who showcased their innovations to a record breaking 129,415 registered visitors attending both shows. -
HANNOVER MESSE 2018 Report: Industrial technology providers collaborating to bring digital factory to life
HANNOVER MESSE USA 2018 covered more than 114,200 square feet of exhibit space and featured 510 exhibitors who showcased their innovations to a record breaking 129,415 registered visitors attending both shows. -
ISA announces ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018 standard
ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018, Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems: Technical Security Requirements for IACS Components, provides the cybersecurity technical requirements for components that make up an IACS, specifically the embedded devices, network components, host components and software applications. -
ABB to help Egyptian power company digitalize electric grid
The scope of supply includes an ABB Ability Network Manager SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)/Energy Management System (EMS), more than 120 Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and a fiber-optic communications network to monitor and control the grid. -
How ICS Security Attacks Can Cripple Smart Cities
By Ben C. Garber, Ultra Electronics, 3eTI Cyber attacks can bring these thriving smart cities to a standstill and create utter chaos. Ensuring cyber-physical security against local and foreign adversaries is the new challenge for today’s city planners. -
ABB helps enhance SCADA, security for Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline
As part of the project and for the first time in a subsea water crossing, ABB has installed a fiber optic leak detection and subsea pipeline monitoring system detecting events such as anchor drag. -
Process Solutions announces launch of Robotic Controls Division
The division is being formed in response to customer and supplier demand, along with the Northwest region’s lack of service providers for robot-based automation. -
The Next Generation of HMI and SCADA
By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 The next generation of HMI and SCADA technologies is now poised to deliver the rich interfaces users expect, with even easier connectivity to the thriving variety of Internet of Things devices. -
Honeywell UOP introduces Alfa Laval Packinox as member of Honeywell Connected Plant initiative
Through the Honeywell Connected Plant initiative, Alfa Laval can help refiners and petrochemical producers improve operation and operating reliability of their Alfa Laval Packinox special welded heat exchangers -
Are Industrial Protocols Going the Way of AppleTalk, DecNet & Netware?
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The industrial automation industry has a reputation and history of being behind the technology adoption curve. With an prganizational need for reliability and system availability, the key question is: When is a new technology reliable enough that the benefits outweigh the risk? -
Seeq to sponsor Ignition Community Conference
The ICC is hosted by Inductive Automation for partners and customers of the Ignition SCADA system. -
HANNOVER MESSE announces "Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence" theme for 2019 event
The theme of HANNOVER MESSE 2019 underlines the growing importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the production and energy industries, including such areas as energy efficiency and use and autonomous production processes as well as challenges in terms of interfaces, protocols and security. -
Applying Apps in Industrial Automation
By Don Pham, IDEC Smartphone and tablet users prefer apps to browser-based access for everyday tasks, and this preference is spreading to industrial automation. -
ABB to upgrade process control for Belarus substation
As part of the upgrade, the substation will be equipped with digital technology. ABB will supply protection and control equipment, an ABB Ability MicroSCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system and a digital process bus. -
Tatsoft announces opening of San Francisco office
Customers can evolve their SCADA from the previous generations technology to a new environment leveraging the Microsoft .NET Framework, SQL databases, displays and Industry 4.0 concepts, the foundation for FactoryStudio. -
ABB releases digitalization guide for oil and gas operators
The guide suggests that building a digital strategy requires preparing and retraining executives, investing in talent, continually exploring the potential of digital, assessing and benchmarking current data architecture, working the data harder and greater collaboration throughout the supply chain. -
Improving Manufacturing with Predictive Analytics
By Stefan Reuther, COPA-DATA Research by IndustryWeek shows that equipment failure is the cause of 42 per cent of unplanned downtime. This article explains how to leverage predictive analytics to reduce factory downtime and increase business competitiveness.
