Redundancy – Ask the Right Questions
What are the two primary concepts of system redundancy?
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Data Management for good SCADA Design
There’s an old saying about Systems data… put rubbish in
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Designing your HMI with I.S. in Mind
Is a single source of truth possible for an enterprise information management system?
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Enterprise Information Solutions
Enterprise Information Solutions has a wide scope of software solutions including SCADA Software, SCADA Historian (Data Historian for short), edge technologies like software device drivers, advanced applications, Control Systems, EAM gateways and the list goes on. At the core of Industrial Automation, is SCADA and Process Data Historian. These mature product types have become the…
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Operational Historian vs. Enterprise Historian: What’s the Difference?
Historian systems have seen a rapid increase in use throughout various industries in the past decade or so. Data Historians improve how manufacturers, continuous process plant and utilities operate and manage their assets efficiently. Data Historian systems were built with the specific purpose of acquiring instrumentation data used in operational control, aiding in supervisory capacities,…
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Aussie Infrastructure needs to be more Cyber Secure
If the lights go out, or the water is contaminated, who do we blame? Can we blame…
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The Network Boundary has changed
Ten years ago, “Operational Technology” (OT) vendors had only just really started to embrace Ethernet and TCP/IP as enterprise wide and global networking technology. The devices were generally designed “assuming” they would be on isolated “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition” (SCADA) network segments and “something else” was going to take care of any security issues.…
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Production Performance – Implementing OEE
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a standard method for measuring the improvement opportunity of a production process. It provides a single number that benchmarks a work cell’s performance. A work cell could be a single machine, a group of machines, a line or an entire production facility. OEE directly links to several loss factors that…
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Process Historians – Do they have a limited shelf life?
Big data concepts have been embodied inside critical infrastructure companies for nearly two decades. Historian technologies have been used to save our environment and manage the most stringent critical infrastructure in the world. Tier 1 process historians have key features such as high compression, extremely fast data access, API access to proprietary stored data, standard…
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Process Historians – It’s just infrastructure?
We have been implementing Enterprise Data Historian to Australian Industry (primarily Infrastructure/Utilities) for the past 16 years and we noticed a few things about most organisations; They do not trust their data or use it effectively Managing data accurately and the impact of data on the organisation is not part of or understood by…
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Industrial Automation on the verge of change
Industrial Automation is set to become commoditised, but why aren’t we there yet?
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Why is Systems Design Critical for Industrial Automation Solutions
Industrial Automation is generally accepted to be of a quality one level higher than the quality expected for consumer grade or domestic applications. Well-designed industrial automation systems increase business productivity and efficiency because they have been built for a purpose for a specific outcome and performance. When the system design is finalised by formal testing,…
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The Importance of Predictive Maintenance Services and Predictive Analytics
We all rely upon many machines and equipment to deliver community infrastructure, transportation and the production of the essentials of life. If any of this essential equipment fails, then not only does that imply maintenance costs, but operators face operational downtime, which hurts the bottom line for their organisations. To ensure risk mitigation of any…
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SCADA, PLC and RTU Solutions
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are essential to most industrial, critical infrastructure and manufacturing organisation across a variety of industries. However, SCADA, PLC and RTU solutions are complex in nature and often for large-scale projects include a variety of equipment and even locations. In almost all scenarios, the discipline of IT (Information Technology)…
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Implement EAM and Predictive Analytic Solutions with an Aspentech APM (MTELL) Partner
When you have many assets to manage, including equipment and machines, you want to be able to monitor these assets to ensure that they function well and undergo routine and necessary maintenance on time. But what if you could predict with confidence before a failure occurs. Would that change how often you pulled down a…
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Water SCADA Solutions that include Information Systems, RTU, HMI and PLC
Effectively monitoring water infrastructure can lead to identifying and ultimately minimising operational losses. The investment in management and control of water infrastructure is of less value if the cost to operate complex technology does not drive better overall business performance. Water SCADA solutions may include SCADA Software, SCADA Historians (process data historian), PLCs, and RTUs…
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Getting SCADA data into your Asset Management System
Organising data for Asset Managment The “Internet of Things” or “Internet of Everything” is grabbing the attention of many. Asset managers want a more cost effective way of managing their “things”, unfortunately acquiring the information from existing internet devices can be challenging and overwhelming. Yes, the data may be there and available using a legacy…
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