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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduces new cybersecurity obligations for manufacturers of products with digital elements. Understanding the evolving harmonized standards is important, but manufacturers must also determine how to translate regulatory requirements into practical product security measures. This webinar brings together two complementary perspectives.

Experience the premier industrial operations event to illuminate your path ahead.

Software monetization must be calculated for the value provided after the initial sale: the tangible value the software brings to the customer's core business operations.

Anthropic’s new plugin for manufacturing includes skills for work—ranging from pricing a new job to diagnosing a stopped machine—that organizations can build on to fit their specific operations.

Welcome to the November 2026 issue of the International Society of Automation’s online magazine, Automation.com Monthly. The focus is IIoT and digital transformation enabled by sound data strategies.

Get ready for the 2026 ISA Black Friday Sale, November 17-30! Prepare to take advantage of amazing discounts on ISA training courses and standards. Don't miss this chance to transform your skills!

New liquids automation capabilities extend the DeltaV FB3000 RTU beyond traditional flow computing, integrating critical measurement, control, and communications within a single, cybersecure platform.

Industrial security teams are absorbing alert loads that process engineers would never accept for operators, and the cost shows up in sleep and judgment before it shows up in incidents.

Because iChain was shaped inside one of Lenovo’s most complex operating environments, the customer-ready solution carries forward more than a technical design. It reflects practical lessons about integrating AI with established supply chain systems.

The future is here: AI applications that let engineers and technicians use natural language to query industrial data, troubleshoot technical issues, and optimize automation processes.

Real-time visibility is only the first step toward operational excellence in food manufacturing. By connecting production data with assigned actions, corrective workflows and measurable results, intelligent operations platforms help manufacturers close the loop between identifying problems, resolving them and driving continuous improvement.

This approach separates two questions that a like-for-like migration combines: What can the new platform support, and what configuration should be implemented once current systems are validated?

How AI-enabled vision technology helps manufacturers improve quality and address labor challenges.

For healthcare organizations, protecting operational technology is essential to protecting patient care by maintaining the integrity and safety of systems that support essential medical services.

OT cyber risks are often rated before being defined. A practical method builds the risk scenario first (zone, asset, criticality, threat source, threat level, threat action, and vulnerability) before assessing likelihood and consequence.

This article details the vital role of inline process analytics in chlor-alkali production. Precise control of pH, ORP, and conductivity across brine purification, membrane electrolysis, recycling, and wastewater optimizes chemical dosing, protects equipment, and ensures safe, efficient performance.

Every automation decision is more informed, strategic, and straightforward with Okuma Factory Automation as your partner and provider.

Go into the instrumentation cabinets of almost any process plant built before the 2000s and you'll find that most of it still works exactly as it did thirty or forty years ago. So, the question isn't really whether that old infrastructure still does its job. It's whether it can keep up with what plants are now being asked to do with their data. 

Hilscher’s netRAPID 90IC combines multiprotocol industrial communication, IIoT connectivity and integrated security in a compact 18 × 45 mm plug-in module. Its replaceable design simplifies integration and servicing for field devices.