Articles & News on Situational Awareness

Industrial Monitoring’s Maturity Challenge: From Reactive to Proactive

  • by David Montoya
  • September 18, 2025
  • Feature

A frustrating gap still exists between expectation and reality in Industrial 4.0.

Rethinking Industrial Alarms for a Safer, Smarter Plant

  • by Bob Myles
  • August 8, 2025
  • Feature

The future of industrial alarms lies in their transformation from basic alert mechanisms into intelligent, integrated components of a larger operational ecosystem.

Using OPC for Secure Alarm Integration: A Case Study

  • by John Weber
  • April 14, 2025
  • Case Study

Create unified data sets for alarm and event data regardless of system age or location.

WERMA Wins the iF DESIGN AWARD 2025

  • April 8, 2025
  • News

LineLIGHT Fusion sets new standards in the field of integrated signaling.

Configuration Change Management, Interoperability Play Roles in Mitigating Risks

  • by Syed Belal
  • April 7, 2025
  • Feature

Focusing on interoperability improves safety factors such as system integration, monitoring and control, diagnostics, emergency response and situation awareness.

Case Study: Empower Multi-Vendor Secure Alarm Aggregation, Real-Time Tunneling and Integration

  • by John Weber
  • February 20, 2025
  • Case Study

Alarm and event data is critical to industrial operations to notify operators of problems, convey status of process sequences, support the optimization of operations and predict maintenance needs.

Top 100: WERMA Signaltechnik Once Again Named Innovation Champion

  • February 19, 2024
  • News

The signaling technology manufacturer has made it into the TOP 100 innovators for the sixth time.

ProMAT 2023: Werma Presents Intelligent Signal Technology for the World of Today and Tomorrow

  • March 8, 2023
  • News

At ProMAT in Chicago (USA), visitors can experience "WeASSIST," the cross-industry and cloud-based solution for monitoring and optimizing all processes live in use and put it through its paces on site.

The New WERMA Catalogue Is Here!

  • January 23, 2023
  • News

Werma's new catalogue for 2022/2023 is available now and is full of clear and concise product information.

Groundbreaking ISA18 Committee Looks to the Future While Honoring the Memory of a Lost Leader

  • January 17, 2023
  • News

In 2023, ISA18 will begin work on the next version of ISA-18.2. This effort and those of the ISA18 working groups are open to all ISA members and the public. This feature originally appeared in the December 2022 issue of InTech magazine.