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FeatureSecuring New Threats: Industrial AI-Powered Applications and Autonomous Agents
Treat AI engines as high-risk zones, adapt frameworks such as ISA/IEC 62443, and keep humans actively in the loop. -
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Remote and condition monitoring in chemical plants
Automation.com, January 2012 By Gianni Minetti, Paradox Engineering Chemical plants struggle with growing complexity and are often instrumented for process control. Wireless sensors might not always be a viable option, while wireless transmission seems to be the best choice. So how to conjugate these two elements? -
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Systems integration for Industry 4.0
By Nick Boughton, Boulting Group Connected devices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives, including the most traditional industry sectors. Here arethe challenges connectivity poses for industry, particularly with regard to systems integration and the water industry. -
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Westermo helps Electricity North West upgrade to Ethernet/IP communications network
The modernised, `non-operations’ network provides reliability and bandwidth helping the company to better monitor and control the supply of electricity to 2.4 million properties in the UK. -
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Energy Efficiency: How Everyone Can Generate Negawatts
By Don Frieden, Wonderware An organization can reduce their energy consumption in two primary ways. First, they can reduce their level of production. The second is retrofitting existing assets and modifying current work processes. -
FeatureFive Enterprise-grade Networking Capabilities You Need for Your Operations
A successful collaboration between IT and OT hinges on a couple of conditions–the operational network must have the security and manageability capabilities of IT run networks, and IT tools, in turn, must adapt to the operational networks' unique industrial features. -
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IoT Solution Leverages Experience
By Bill Lydon, Editor A discussion with CEO Jerry Chase and Director of Products Dave McCarthy about the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) offering DataV and related services. -
FeatureUpskilling to Adapt to Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 requires professionals to upskill and adapt to the changing demands of automation and digital transformation. -
FeatureThe Role of AI and Smart Connectivity: A Digital Journey Within IT and OT
Those that successfully integrate OT and IT systems through IIoT will be better positioned to harness the full potential of AI. -
FeatureWhat Is MQTT, and How Can Industrial Automation Companies Use It?
MQTT is considered to be a lightweight messaging protocol for sending small packets of information in limited bandwidth applications. -
FeatureManufacturing in the AI-Powered Age: Hackers Set Their Sights on Smart Factories
The transformative powers of AI in manufacturing have not gone unnoticed—by hackers! -
NewsHPE Threat Labs Report Reveals Cyber Adversaries Are Morphing Their Business Model to Scale and Accelerate Attacks
A new HPE Threat Labs report brings together world-class network threat research expertise and experience. -
FeatureSecuring a Safer Foundation for AI in Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Governed Industrial AI for connected work takes the risk out of AI integration while inspiring frontline workers to work smarter. -
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450 Routers enable remote monitoring at Thames Water sites
eWON Ethernet routers allow Thames Water to remotely monitor and control critical assets located at its water pumping stations and sewage treatment works across the UK. -
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RTU as an Intelligent Remote Gateway
By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems. -
FeatureDoes Your Company Have Vision to Leverage Disruptive Industrial Automation Innovations?
When technology that has the potential for revolutionizing an industry emerges, typically only a few companies with vision see it as attractive and leverage it. -
FeatureOT Cybersecurity 2026: Six Data‑Driven Trends From the State of Smart Manufacturing Report
OT cybersecurity is no longer a bolt‑on afterthought but the connective tissue of modern manufacturing. -
FeatureA Look at Two Cyber Reporting Processes: EU CRA and US CIRCIA
Cyber incident reporting is entering a new phase on both sides of the Atlantic. -
FeatureOPC Experts Interviews: The Technology Behind OPC UA
Learn how the science of the open platform communication standard, OPC UA, is applied across the industrial automation sector from an interview with Uwe Steinkrauss, CEO of Unified Automation. This is the second in the series of OPC Experts Interviews. -
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An Introduction of Tibbo's AggreGate SCADA/HMI
By Victor Polyakov, Tibbo Systems This whitepaper is an introduction AggreGate IoT Platform-based products. In 2010, two years after AggreGate Network Manager release, Tibbo started AggreGate SCADA/HMI project ‒ fourth-generation SCADA system.