Digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are some examples of rapidly developing areas of technology that will have a big impact on how ...
Continuous-process industries are at an inflection point regarding what they can do with automation, making now an ideal time to address inefficiencies and hazards. The era of the remote workforce has ...
Since about 2015, when Don Bartusiak, the then chief engineer at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, publicly advocated for the development of a new, standards-based, open—yet secure—process control ...
The advancement of technology and the industry’s transformation from manual to automated and Industry 4.0 are exposing several vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). These ...
Article 409 provides the minimum safety requirements for industrial control panels (What's an Industrial Control Panel? below). Because this section of the Code is only a couple of pages long, it ...
Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a basic approach in industrial engineering that improves the quality and speed of manufacturing processes. Starting in the 1920s, SPC employed statistical methods ...
When a cyber-attack reportedly compromised nuclear centrifuges at Natanz over a decade ago, cyber-threats against industrial control systems (ICS) were still an underground phenomenon. A far cry from ...
Do you have a perimeter firewall connecting your business to the public internet? With the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and digital transformation efforts, the number of devices below ...