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 Biden administration is moving to add more safeguards to the nation’s critical infrastructure by establishing a new voluntary public-private collaboration that will focus wholly on industrial ...

It’s long been known that a reactive approach to industrial control system maintenance is not an ideal strategy. Working from a reactive stance, in which problems are corrected as they occur, results ...

At the end of February, PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group)—the consortium for open hardware specifications—introduced InterEdge, a modular architecture for process control systems ...

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Across industrial sectors, aging infrastructure poses one of the most significant operational challenges. Many plants still run on control systems designed decades ago—systems that cannot meet modern ...

CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spiroflow Automation, a leading full-service industrial control, networking and automation provider, has launched its new website, www.spiroflowautomation.com. The new ...

Industrial-automation system design presents unique challenges. This is, in fact, the story of conflicting demands. The introduction of low-cost modular racks to house system components such as ...

Some of the biggest challenges faced in securing industrial control systems involve integrating legacy and aging operational technology with modern IT systems. Engineering workstation compromises were ...

Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States ...

The distinction between protecting information technology (IT) and protecting operational technology (OT) became very clear in 2010, when the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility Natanz was attacked by ...