Articles & News on Compliance & Regulations
IEEE 1394 and Industrial Automation: A Perfect Blend
- by Gaurav Sareen
- January 11, 2004
- Feature
The industrial Automation.community can benefit in many ways by taking a close look at how 1394 has benefited the world of consumer electronic devices. The impact of 1394 on the industrial control field is likely to be as disruptive and revolutionary and will enable new applications to be developed due to the flexibility and improved economics of this new control architecture.
Stimulus Policies Improve Outlook for China’s Manufacturing Output
- by Samantha Mou
- January 5, 2024
- Feature
To better understand how China’s manufacturing industry is performing and its outlook for the future, we spoke with Interact Analysis Research Analyst Samantha Mou.
Global Energy Regulation Roundup: April-July 2023
- by Gaven Simon
- October 10, 2023
- Feature
The “Global Energy Regulation Roundup” is dedicated to capturing and understanding emerging climate policies.
Mikrotron Camera Helps Scientists Devise Better Quality Control Method for Additive Manufacturing
- May 12, 2023
- News
Scientists at the Technical University of Darmstadt have developed a highly accurate method for determining thermal solidification characteristics of metal parts built with laser-based powder bed fusion, an additive manufacturing technique.
World Metrology Day 2023 Celebrates 'Measurements Supporting Global Food System'
- May 9, 2023
- News
The annual event focuses on the role of accurate measurements in addressing the challenges of providing safe, nutritious food to everyone globally.
Yokogawa Acquires Science Based Targets Certification for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
- March 20, 2023
- News
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that the Yokogawa Group’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2030 have been certified by the SBT Initiative as being science-based targets.
FCI Flow Meters and Flow Switches Comply With UAE Conformity Assessment Scheme (ECAS)
- September 30, 2022
- News
An independent evaluation and review confirms the thermal sensing technology Air/Gas Flow Meters and Flow/Level/Temperature Switches manufactured by Fluid Components International meet the new requirements of the Emirates Conformity Assessment Scheme (ECAS) and the Emirates Quality Mark.
Honeywell Launches Digitized Workforce Management Suite of Solutions to Support Health Compliance and Remote Operations
- July 22, 2020
- News
Honewell's digitized workforce management suite incorporates elevated body temperature detection, digitized site entry compliance check, digitized workforce management, worker safety monitoring, and remote collaboration capabilities.
Sanitization monitoring system for workstations
- July 20, 2020
- News
Banner Engineering's Clean Workspace Monitoring System establishes scheduled workspace sanitizing as an integral part of the return-to-work process.
Open Standards Mean More Options for Industrial Automation
- by Bill Lydon, Automation.com
- July 15, 2020
- Feature
By Bill Lydon
Open system options continue to emerge from nontraditional suppliers and standards groups, and this is a trend that I expect will accelerate and enable multivendor interoperability at all levels of the system architecture.
Worldwide Blossoming of Country-Centric Open Manufacturing Initiatives
- by Bill Lydon, Automation.com
- July 1, 2020
- Feature
By Bill Lydon
The impact of open manufacturing initiatives continues to be a worldwide affair. These initiatives continue to grow as industry recognizes the need to modernize and the Industry 4.0 movement (called “Industrie 4.0” in Germany, its country of origin) continues to accelerate.
PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) publishes OPC UA specification for PROFINET
- June 18, 2020
- News
This specification describes a standardized OPC UA object model for PROFINET devices which enables PROFINET devices from a wide variety of different manufacturers to transfer device data to asset management systems in a standardized way, for example. Standardization makes information collection significantly easier for tool manufacturers, regardless of the manufacturer, but this is just the beginning of PI’s vertical integration strategy.
NCCoE announces 10 technology collaborators for Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments project
- June 9, 2020
- News
These collaborators will work with the NCCoE project team to provide a practical solution to help manufacturers protect their industrial control system(s) (ICS) from data integrity attacks.
IFR Report: How nations invest in robotics research
- June 7, 2020
- News
What are the targets of the officially driven government research funding programs and what can we learn from these findings? This has been researched by the International Federations of Robotics and published in the new paper “World Robotics R&D Programs” by IFR.
FDT Group releases FDT 3.0 – FDT IIoT Server (FITS) standard
- June 4, 2020
- News
The FDT 3.0 standard is intended to accelerate the evolutionary journey into the Fourth Industrial Revolution by enabling an ecosystem of FDT-based solutions to meet demands for IIoT and Industrie 4.0 applications.
The Missing ‘Industry 4.0/Digitalization’ Link – Open Programming Standard Conformance & Certification
- by Bill Lydon
- May 27, 2020
- Feature
By Bill Lydon
Achieving the benefits of digitalization requires organizations to leverage Industry 4.0 and IoT (Internet of Things) concepts, technology, and architecture with open standards.
FDT Group and ODVA announce addition of FDT 3.0 support to Common Industrial Protocol
- May 27, 2020
- News
FDT and ODVA share a common core mission that includes advancing open, interoperable information and communication exchange for the industrial automation marketplace.
Prosys OPC announces acceptance as member of Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
- May 20, 2020
- News
The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, which was launched at that time, currently has 55 members. In the meantime, four working groups have come together to develop concrete use cases for each of the industry segments and technologies.
SATO joins RAIN RFID Alliance
- May 1, 2020
- News
The RAIN RFID alliance aims for the advancement of IoT technologies, with specific focus on promotion of the UHF RFID standard (ISO/IEC 18000-63 and GS1’s EPC “Gen2”) through the testing, support and education of service providers and end users.
ODVA General Meeting Focuses on Industrial Digitalization
- by Bill Lydon, Automation.com
- April 30, 2020
- Feature
By Bill Lydon
More than 120 industry professionals from more than 50 companies attended to focus on supporting industrial digitalization through the association’s device connectivity technologies, which include the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) and the network adaptations of CIP: EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, ControlNet and CompoNet.
ODVA announces enhancements to EtherNet/IP Specification
- April 20, 2020
- News
The latest enhancements to The EtherNet/IP Specification provide network diagnostics, methods to lower bandwidth and resource requirements for devices, and the addition of IIoT building block infrastructure.
Phoenix Contact, Weidmüller, Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), Fluke Networks, and Telegärtner partner to create SPE System Alliance
- April 20, 2020
- News
The partners in this group are pursuing the goal of driving the development of SPE further forward for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and may branch out to other areas as well. The System Alliance has now also been joined by Datwyler, Kyland, Microchip Technology, Rosenberger, SICK, O-Ring, Draka/Prysmian Group, and University 4 Industry.
Moxa joins OpenChainProject to support open source compliance
- April 15, 2020
- News
Moxa joins an array of companies that have already become Platinum members of the OpenChain Project, including ARM Holdings, Bosch, Cisco, Comcast, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, Microsoft, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Siemens, Sony, Toshiba, Toyota, Uber, and Western Digital.
ODVA announces joint working group with OPC Foundation
- April 1, 2020
- News
The collaboration between ODVA and the OPC Foundation will result in secure communications between devices that are a part of a CIP-enabled Industrial Control System (ICS) and other OPC UA enabled applications allowing communication between CIP devices and OPC UA devices as well as with cloud and enterprise level services.
Softing joins Endress+Hauser Open Integration partner program
- March 30, 2020
- News
All the partners are suppliers of control technology, fieldbus infrastructures, measurement technology or actuator technology: Auma Riester, Bürkert, Festo, Flowserve, Hima Paul Hildebrandt, Honeywell Process Solutions, Mitsubishi Electric, Pepperl+Fuchs, Phoenix Contact, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Turck and recently Softing Industrial Automation.
HARTING announces Single Pair Ethernet technologies
- March 25, 2020
- News
The company has been driving the creation of a Single Pair Ethernet standard for the Industrial marketplace since 2015 along with other industrial companies and global standards bodies, such IEC and IEEE.
ISA announces Quick Start Guide: An Overview of the ISA/IEC 62443 Series of Standards
- March 24, 2020
- News
The guide explores how and why IT and OT/ICS need unique types of protection against cyber threats and offers recommendations on patch management.
CMMC Academy announces CMMC 1.0 Reference Guide
- March 18, 2020
- News
The CMMC 1.0 Reference Guide is intended to help defense suppliers understand the U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity compliance program. The online guide is available to members of the Academy.
IEC SC 48B Standards Committee for Copper Connectors publishes IEC 63171-6
- February 26, 2020
- News
T1 Industrial is the future interface for single pair Ethernet applications in industry. This standard is supported and integrated by the SPE relevant standards ISO/IEC 11801-3, ANSI TIA 1005-x and IEEE802.3cg.
Managing Compliance in Food Production
- January 23, 2019
- News
By Dominique Stucki, ABB Control Technology There was widespread panic across Europe in mid-2017 when millions of eggs were recalled due to being contaminated with Fipronil — a highly toxic insecticide that is banned in the EU.
United Nations commission to integrate ISA standards into cybersecurity regulatory framework
- January 8, 2019
- News
The ISA/IEC 62443 standards are developed primarily by the ISA99 committee of the International Society of Automation (ISA), with simultaneous review and adoption by the Geneva-based International Electrotechnical Commission.
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