Articles & News on SCADA & RTU
Honeywell earns ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) Level 2 certification for Contro
- June 7, 2018
- News
The certification recognizes the cyber security features of the ControlEdge RTU, which is used for remote automation and control applications such as wellhead monitoring in the oil and gas industry
Honeywell earns ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) Level 2 certification for Contro
- June 7, 2018
- News
The certification recognizes the cyber security features of the ControlEdge RTU, which is used for remote automation and control applications such as wellhead monitoring in the oil and gas industry
How Oil & Gas Operators Are Investing for Innovation
- May 31, 2018
- Case Study
By Stephany Romanow, Industry Consultant Because of the ever-changing business environment, O&G operators can no longer thrive, or even survive, by relying solely on yesterday’s technologies. They must reinvent themselves to be competitive within the marketplace and remain attractive to investors.
Honeywell to help process monitoring at Romanian refinery
- May 30, 2018
- News
OMV will use the Honeywell Connected Plant's Process Insight Reliability Advisor to continuously feed plant data through Honeywell UOP process and fault models, and to provide performance information and process recommendations.
Sharing Industrial Cybersecurity Guidance Across Sectors
- May 25, 2018
- News
By Eric C. Cosman, ARC Advisory Group Recently, there have been several efforts to apply and adapt standards developed for one sector or industry to others. ARC Advisory Group expects this trend to continue as industry groups, suppliers, and asset owners strive to optimize their response.
Radiflow releases industrial cybersecurity app for the Palo Alto Application Framework
- May 23, 2018
- News
Radiflow’s industrial cybersecurity app for the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework is based on the company’s iSID industrial Intrusion Detection System for ICS and SCADA networks. The iSID system performs ongoing mapping of the industrial assets and alerts on any anomalies in their behavior.
Digital Factory Comes into Focus at Hannover Messe 2018
- by Bill Lydon
- May 22, 2018
- Feature
Resembling more a bustling city than a trade fair, the 71st Hannover Messe was very busy and chock full of energy and innovation this year, with over 200,000 attendees from 75 countries. Focusing on the theme 'Integrated Industry – Connect & Collaborate', the Digital Factory was front and center.
A Guide to Customized PROFINET Validation
- May 16, 2018
- News
While serial bus systems will continue to play an important role in the future, solutions based on Industrial Ethernet are becoming increasingly common with Industry 4.0 applications. The focus is less on cable measurements, signal levels or signal shapes, but in the case of standards such as PROFINET, utilization and the greatest possible availability of the networks are the focus of interest.
Bedrock Automation announces partnership with Wunderlich-Malec to deliver automation solutions
- May 8, 2018
- News
Wunderlich-Malec will deliver Bedrock OSA from its 32 U.S. locations. Bedrock’s control systems combine standards-based control and embedded security with industrial hardness and edge control.
Tatsoft announces authentication of its SCADA software to the Bedrock control system root of trust
- April 27, 2018
- News
FactoryStudio 2018 developers will be able to generate Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for the Bedrock Certificate Authority (CA). These certificates provide users with a cyber secure connection between their control system and their HMI and SCADA applications.
Seeq announces $23 Million Series B to fund IIoT analytics growth strategy
- July 18, 2018
- News
Seeq has secured $23M in Series B funding led by the Altira Group with participation by Chevron Technology Ventures, next47, the Siemens-backed global venture firm, Second Avenue Partners and other existing investors.
OSI to help Arizona power company replace legacy distribution systems
- June 29, 2018
- News
The ADMS will replace the utilities’ legacy Outage Management System (OMS) with an integrated, enterprise OT solution that enables operational decisions based on information from various grid devices and automated meters.
Honeywell to help Egyptian petrochemical company enhance propylene production
- June 28, 2018
- News
Honeywell also will provide the process design package, proprietary and non-proprietary equipment, on-site operator training, technical services for startup and continuing operation, and catalysts and adsorbents for the project.
Honeywell focuses on digital transformation at Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas symposium
- June 22, 2018
- News
More than 1,300 delegates from across the oil and gas, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining sectors are attending the event, which features numerous displays of the newest technologies along with dozens of Honeywell- and customer-led sessions and technical discussions.
ABB to help build Maharashtra, India digital substation
- June 22, 2018
- News
ABB has received the order from the Engineering and Procurement Company (EPC) Stelmec Ltd. for this digital substation which will be operated by Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL),
Moore Industries announces 50th anniversary celebration
- June 19, 2018
- News
Since 1968, Moore Industries has been serving process manufacturing businesses and fortune 500 companies in oil, gas, mining, chemical, power generation, water/waste water treatment, pharmaceutical, food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, semiconductor, and biotechnology industries.
Exploring the World of Virtual Commissioning
- June 19, 2018
- Feature
By Robert Glass, ABB Industry 4.0 continues to open up new opportunities across food and beverage manufacturing. Virtual commissioning is one of these key technologies. This article explores the concept of virtual commissioning and how system testing can benefit the food industry.
Siemens announces automation partnership with Sartorius Stedim Biotech
- June 12, 2018
- News
This agreement provides that Sartorius Stedim Biotech will use Siemens automation technologies, which will include industrial PCs, the S7-1500 software controller, the TIA Portal and the SCADA system Simatic WinCC, among others.
Siemens and Bentley Systems announce the Process Industries Academy
- June 12, 2018
- News
The Academy’s aim is to share best practice for plant engineering and operations. Academies are situated in the strategic locations of Karlsruhe, Germany (Siemens Process Automation World), Houston, Texas/USA (Bentley’s Digital Advancement Academy) and Shanghai, China (Siemens Process Industry Centre for Excellence) to support the global process industry.
SAP and Endress+Hauser to cooperate to develop IIoT applications for the process industry
- June 11, 2018
- News
The goal is to fully integrate the Endress+Hauser field instruments as digital twins into the SAP cloud platform. Both companies want to take advantage of the services and smart apps from SAP’s Leonardo system as well as Endress+Hauser’s IIoT offering.
CyberX releases Global ICS & IIoT Risk Report
- November 7, 2017
- News
The data clearly shows that OT networks are ripe targets for adversaries, whose motives range from criminal intent to operational disruption and even threats to human and environmental safety
Reexamining the Role of SCADA Systems in Digital Manufacturing Operations
- November 3, 2017
- News
By: Alan Cone, Siemens Industry, Inc. The data revolution is firmly underway within today’s manufacturing industry. Those companies that capture their “big data” and leverage that analyzed data as a framework for making faster, better decisions will lead the industry in productivity and time to market.
Growing Automation Professionals: Developing Skilled Labor Improves the Economy
- October 3, 2017
- Feature
It is a simple fact in today’s industrial environment that the world needs more automation professionals. Closing this skills gap has been a well-documented priority for a number of organizations, as a result.
ISA releases technical report on capturing and transmitting knowledge in continuous process automati
- September 21, 2017
- News
The work of the ISA106 standards committee, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations, is intended to provide a framework for building some of that knowledge into automated procedures.
Bedrock Automation helps City of Lynchburg, Virginia enhance control of wastewater treatment operati
- September 19, 2017
- Case Study
The City implemented Bedrock to control both de-chlorination and storm water remediation operations, and is planning other integration and control applications as part of its ongoing modernization program.
Seeq to sponsor 2017 Ignition Community Conference
- September 18, 2017
- News
The annual Ignition Community Conference (ICC) to be held on September 18-20, 2017 in Folsom, CA. This ICC is hosted by Inductive Automation for partners and customers of the Ignition SCADA system.
Inductive Automation announces Miller Eads as Premier Integrator
- September 8, 2017
- News
Miller Eads is a system integrator providing a variety of specialized electrical services to diverse clients. The company has completed thousands of community projects of every size and scope.
OSI to supply distribution management system to Texas power company
- September 7, 2017
- News
OSI’s solution will replace MSS’s legacy QEI system. This system will provide MSS with improved distribution operations.
Closing the Gap: 10 Tips for Using HMI/SCADA and MES as Your “On Ramp” to the Digital Thread
- September 6, 2017
- Feature
By Matthew Wells, GE Digital In today’s economy, data is a valuable commodity; companies rely on it to run their businesses, be more competitive in the market, and enable increases in productivity. In order to take advantage of data, however, a business needs to connect and automate its back-end systems and processes in order to make sense of the data, identify patterns and formulate solutions.
Smart Mobile Devices and Human Machine Interface: How to turn visibility into action for SCADA and B
- September 5, 2017
- Feature
By Lucie Villéger, PcVue Inc. Historical approaches to monitor, diagnose, maintain and control industrial and building assets must be reconsidered. A new architecture optimized for the mobile SCADA and BMS user is needed.
Applying Apps in Industrial Automation
- August 31, 2018
- Feature
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
- August 29, 2018
- News
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
- August 29, 2018
- News
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
- August 27, 2018
- News
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
- August 23, 2018
- Feature
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.
Novotek announces Future of Automation event in The Netherlands
- August 15, 2018
- News
Novotek’s future of automation event, on October 11, 2018, will cover a range of subjects related to the industry, encompassing everything from manufacturing intelligence and data visualisation to securing industrial processes and the role of machine learning in industrial plant management and maintenance.
USMTO Report: Manufacturing technology orders up 22 percent in first half of 2018
- August 13, 2018
- News
The latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report from AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology showed that orders totaled $417 million for the month, down 14 percent compared to May’s totals, and sit at $2.55 billion for the year.
Honeywell Process Solutions announces partnership with aeSolutions for process safety integration
- August 8, 2018
- News
This integration pairs the HAZOP/LOPA, SRS, and SIL Verification requirements from aeShield with Honeywell’s Safety Builder, Process Safety Analyzer, and Trace into a Process Safety Suite.
AVEVA announces partnership with Virsec to enhance industrial cybersecurity solutions
- August 1, 2018
- News
With this partnership, AVEVA customers gain access to in-memory cyber protection for Industrial Control (ICS) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.
HUG 2018 - Honeywell Users Group Americas Wrap-up: A Heavy Focus on Batch and Cyber Security
- July 24, 2018
- Feature
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Featuring numerous displays of the newest technologies, along with dozens of Honeywell and customer led sessions and technical discussions, the Honeywell Users Group Americas (HUG) buzzed in San Antonio this June with over 1,300 attendees.
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