Process Historians – Do they have a limited shelf life?
How will we survive without Industrial Automation Process Historians?
The Top 5 problems with SCADA Systems
Since SCADA Systems are typically considered industrial-grade and robust, it’s common to assume they’re flawless, right?
Redundancy – Ask the Right Questions
There are two primary concepts of redundancy when considering process and automation systems.
Data Management for good SCADA Design
There’s an old saying about data… “put rubbish in, get rubbish out”
How to manage remote plant
Why are unmanned process plants often un-monitored?
Designing SCADA Systems with Data in mind
Is a single source of truth possible for an enterprise information management system?
Preparing for the Systems Integration Experience
A systems integrator is a unique animal that finds pleasure in connecting unlike systems to produce a system or solution of superior functionality.
Operational Historian vs. Enterprise Historian
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,…
Cyber Security for Industrial Controls Systems
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.…