Issue Archive

Network Security To-Do List
How to Minimize Existing Threats and Keep Ahead of New Ones

Don't Over-Specify Ethernet Switches
Industrial Ethernet Can Operate in Harsh Environments. But for Light Manufacturing and Assembly Operations, Industrially Hardened Ethernet Switches Can Be Overkill.

Security Prevents Unauthorized Access
It Begins With Password Control and Firewall Maintenance, but Requires Layers of Chores and Vigilance to Prevent Unauthorized Access

From Exotic to Everyday
Industrial Networking Celebrates Its 10th Birthday. How Does the Industrial Networking Landscape Look Today Compared With When We First Launched in 2002?

A Taste for Troubleshooting
You Dont Need to Have a Complicated Machine to Benefit From Machine Diagnostics via the Cloud

Wireless Topologies
There Are a Number of Considerations to Be Made With Wired Networks, but When Working With Wireless Networks, There Are Even Larger Range of Variables Considered

All the Right Connections
Gateways and Protocol Adapters Help Users Resolve an Ever-Growing List of Network Options

Terminations for the Apocalypse
What's the Likelihood Your Terminations Will Stay Under the Screws?

Shell Canada Site Receives 2011 HART Plant of the Year Award
Shell's Scotford Upgrader Facility Won This Year's Award for Using HART Communication to Expand Capacity Safely and Efficiently

ODVA Recommends Cybersecurity Guidelines
Interconnectivity between plant floor and enterprise systems can boost productivity, it can introduce security risks

PLCopen, OPC Foundation Connect on MES
PLCopen and OPC Foundation have begun to cooperate on manufacturing execution system (MES) connectivity, integrating machine and process data for MES use based on OPC UA and PLCopen standards.

Wireless Sensor Networks Expand
The wireless sensor network (WSN) market is poised to grow rapidly in the coming years