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Bedrock Automation announces Industrial Control Systems Life Cycle Cost Analysis – Quantitative Ev

  • July 18, 2018
  • News

The whitepaper, Chapter Five: Industrial Control Systems Life Cycle Cost Analysis – Quantitative Evaluation, delineates 450 different factors that impact costs across the following six phases of the industrial control system (ICS) life cycle: engineering, installation, commissioning, maintenance, system, and cyber security.

PLCopen announces SFC software construction guidelines

  • July 6, 2018
  • News

This document explains the advantages of Sequential Function Chart, SFC. This is a very expressive graphic formalism of the IEC 61131-3 standard. It is not considered a programming language as it needs other languages to express transition conditions and actions.

GE concludes Nigerian manufacturing skill development program

  • July 3, 2018
  • News

Participants were trained at a temporary scaled version of GE Garage at the venue comprising select equipment like 3D printers, CNC mills, laser cutters amongst others.

Who Will Set Future Industrial Automation Standards?

  • June 26, 2018
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The ability to enhance industrial and process automation efficiency, through the application real-time enterprise computing, cloud applications, and IoT devices. While such investments can be a gamble, the cards are laying in the automation industry’s favor.

Kaspersky Survey: 3/4 of respondents concerned about ICS cybersecurity incident

  • June 26, 2018
  • News

To gain a better understanding of the issues and opportunities faced by ICS organizations today, Kaspersky Lab and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC – a CXP Group Company) conducted a survey of 320 global professionals with decision-making power on OT/ICS cybersecurity from 25 countries across the globe from April – May 2018.

Rockwell Automation announces senior leadership transitions

  • June 19, 2018
  • News

Ted Crandall, senior vice president, Control Products & Solutions (CP&S), one of the company’s two operating segments, announced his intent to retire near the end of the calendar year 2018.

Next-Gen Industrial Communications As a Tool to Solve Networking Problems

  • June 8, 2018
  • Feature

By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 Traditional industrial networking methods have proved workable but difficult to implement. The next generation of communication technologies may work to ease implementation while addressing security concerns.

IFR Study: Robots to double worldwide by 2020

  • May 30, 2018
  • News

According to the International Federation of Robotics, more than 3 million industrial robots will be in use in factories around the world by 2020. This means that the operational stock will more than double within seven years

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.

Retrofitting Cybersecurity

  • May 25, 2018
  • Feature

By Robin Whitehead, Boulting Technology Many systems that have been retrofitted for compatibility with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are not well protected. This article explains the top considerations to ensure cybersecurity when retrofitting a system.