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Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?

Red Lion’s PAX2C PID controllers offer PID control options for process and temperature applications that require local control across automation processes.

PSW14 pressure switches can feature either a single switch with adjustable hysteresis or a dual switch with fixed hysteresis.

Bedrock Cybershield 2.0 firmware enables authentication and encryption of I/O networks and field devices and protects compliant networks and user applications such as controller configuration, engineering and SCADA.

Servo-Flo 704-HV two-component, variable-ratio, high-volume, meter-mix dispense system is ideal for automated, semi-automated or robotic dispensing applications. Its dual-servomotor design provides fixed and variable flow- rate dispensing or variable flow-rate profiling.

The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) organization has renewed EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet as standards in its sensor bus network communications activities.

The EPX2 E/P transmitter is designed for use with normal instrument air, but it can also be used with natural gas, making it possible to use the transmitter in remote locations where no electrical power is available to drive air compressors. Its low power requirement of 3mA@12Vdc allows it to be powered by a battery or solar panel at remote sites.

The HEC-P6000 family is designed for controlling mobile equipment, communicating with various serial buses and communications protocols, logging system data, and adding IoT capability to existing systems with the Divelbiss VersaCloud M2M platform.

Altus, a Brazilian company, will distribute AFCON SCADA/HMI software Pulse in Brazil.

Sierra Wireless, IBM, Eurotech, and the Eclipse Foundation established an M2M Industry Working Group to ease the development, testing, and deployment of machine-to-machine solutions.

The SDLM-025-095-01-05 and SDLM-025-095-01-01 Direct Drive Linear Actuators are also available as a complete plug-and-play linear motion system with a matching motion controller.

OPK-541 pinpoints the exact source of all leaks in hydraulic equipment, compressors, engines, gearboxes, fuel and other synthetic and petroleum-based fluid systems.

Turck's ARGEE technology is designed to empower manufacturers to add logic to compatible I/O devices without a PLC. The ARGEE environment is accessible via an HTML5-compatible web browser.

Annual sales of PROFIBUS nodes reached a new high of 3.4 million in 2006 according to figures just released by PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International). This brings the total number of PROFIBUS nodes installed worldwide to 18.8 million. PROFIBUS remains on track to surpass 20 million nodes by 2008.

Ethernet Direct now provides 4 support locations in Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and soon in Delhi.

Connect One opened a new office in San Jose, CA, and hired Ehud (Udi) Yuhjtman as President. Connect One manufactures semiconductors and device servers for Internet connectivity for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications.

This program allow data center managers to know that their building management system has been integrated and proven out with PDI's Branch Circuit Monitoring System (BCMS). BCMS can monitor and report current and voltage measurements on each individual circuit branch breaker which can prevent overloading any of these circuits.

RA Controls is a division of INTROL Group, and is able to offer design, supply, installation and activation of automatic and electrical appliances.

The free 220+-page "Understanding New Developments in Data Acquisition, Measurement, and Control" handbook is a practical guide to high performance test and measurement. The handbook is divided into nine sections that discuss issues influencing the selection of data acquisition and control equipment.

Dataforth has increased production capacity by 50 percent through significant additions to production machinery, product inventory, square footage, and staff.