Redundancy – Ask the Right Questions
What are the two primary concepts of system redundancy?
Data Management for good SCADA Design
There’s an old saying about Systems data… put rubbish in
Remote Plant – how to manage?
Why are unmanned process plants often un-monitored?
Designing your HMI with I.S. in Mind
Is a single source of truth possible for an enterprise information management system?
Preparing for the Systems Integration Experience
What is a Systems Integrator?
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…