#IIOT

Emerson Named IIoT Company of the Year, Again

Company awarded for fifth time for the power of its Plantweb digital ecosystem, which includes AspenTech.
#iiot #VMAnews

Design

Improving the Reliability of Valves with Embedded Features of Today’s Smart Actuators

Texas plant expansion will achieve 320 million gallons per day of treated water capacity.
#actuators #iiot #controls

PETRONAS and Emerson to Collaborate on Digital Transformation and Decarbonization

Memorandum of Understanding signed, will enhance remote operations and strengthen cybersecurity while reducing carbon footprint.
#iiot #VMAnews

Insights

Leading Cybersecurity Firm Predicts More Threats to Industrial Organizations in 2023

Kaspersky ICS CERT researchers share their predictions for next years’ industrial control system-focused developments as well as risks that organizations should prepare for in 2023.
#automation #iiot #controls

Applications

Open and Shut: Smart, Reliable Thief Hatch Monitoring in Tank Batteries

A hatch left open or not fully sealed allows emissions to continuously vent out into the atmosphere. While producers once worried about lost product, the focus has shifted to environmental concerns.
#iiot #automation

Manufacturing

Siemens Announces New R&D Collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

CATCH will be the entry point for many manufacturers to understand how and why additive manufacturing is crucial to designing products more effectively, manufacturing them closer to the point of purchase and creating a more resilient supply chain.
#iiot #VMAnews #automation

Applications

CASE STUDY: Building the World’s Most Secure Data Center Inside a Mountain

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Securing data is vital to a world that has come to depend on it. All options are on the table as long as they deliver added protection.
#iiot

Insights

Five Reasons Why the Right Strategy Leads to the Success of Digital Transformation Implementation

The past few years have proven that digital transformation (DT) is more than just a trend. It is becoming one of the frontrunners for ensuring business continuity through modernizing times. However, despite being an essential component for adaptability in a competitive industry, not all companies would consider their DT implementation a success.
#iiot #automation #basics

Technical

DOE Launches Cybersecurity Program to Modernize Grid

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Lab have launched the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator to support efforts to modernize the grid and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
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Design

Emerson's New Edge Solutions Simplify Creation of Advanced IIoT Applications

Contributed by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

PACSystems Edge Solutions help OEMs and end users rapidly configure and implement advanced edge computing, visualization and IIoT technology
#iiot #VMAnews #automation

Technical

Flowserve Expands its RedRaven IoT Tech Suite

Edited by Margo Ellis, Former Editor, Valve Magazine

Flowserve Corp., a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, announced it has expanded its revolutionary industrial IoT service suite, RedRaven—giving companies even greater insight into the performance of their flow control systems by now offering valve-specific capabilities.
#iiot #VMAnews

Insights

Global Lighthouse Network Members Discuss Industry 4.0

Edited by Chris Pasion, Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining

The Global Lighthouse Network says the most viable way to turn Industry 4.0 into a reality is to put an empowered workforce at the center of digital transformation.
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Applications

Study: offshore rigs need cybersecurity improvements

A two-year study concluded that deep-water drilling rigs are not prepared in general to protect themselves against cyber attacks. Rigs need more than firewalls and antivirus software to be secure, the study found.
#iiot

Education

Using the Internet of Things for Supply Chain Visibility

One factor I noticed was that every article on the subject of the Internet of Things (IoT) was about applications inside the factory and not within the supply chain. For example, there were articles on machine monitoring, equipment monitoring, preventive maintenance, and smaller topics.
#automation #iiot #maintenance-repair

Technical

Pneumatic Valves: New Technology for a Digital Transformation

Principles built around the Industrial Internet of Things have guided the automation industry’s rapid adoption and mainstreaming of many production systems.
#components #knowyourvalves #iiot

Insights

Innovation Across Many Industries

The digitalization revolution brought about the creation of technologies that integrate data gathered during physical processes.
#iiot #automation

Insights

Cybersecurity in the Time of COVID-19

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—in addition to the health scares and the rapid economic downturn—another hazard lurks: cyberattack.
#iiot

Technical

Digital Twins: Connecting Real and Virtual Space

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has been all over the news in recent years, transforming how manufacturing and other industries function.
#iiot

Insights

Online Control Valve Diagnostics in Today’s Cybersecurity World

The topic of cybersecurity usually brings to mind data breaches that impact financial or private information, stolen intellectual property or disruption of major events such as political elections.
#iiot #controls

Insights

Implementing the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Many names have been given to the current state of technology in manufacturing including the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Industry 4.0.
#iiot #automation