Flexible communications software and services can help upgrade functionality while preserving existing HMI and other automation system components. Manufacturing sites simply do not appear in their ...

The release of Part 14 of the OPC UA standard known as Publish-Subscribe (“PubSub”) by the OPC Foundation is an important milestone for this key IoT technology. As PubSub continues to gain adoption in ...

The decisive difference today no longer lies in additional sensor technology or automation, but in the quality of integration. Production systems only realise their full potential when data is ...

Researchers from Claroty this week disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in vendor implementations of the Open Platform Communications (OPC) network protocol that is widely used in operational ...

The OPC Foundation, dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications announces MDIS has selected OPC UA as the Master Control System (MCS) and ...

New white paper from Cogent Real-Time Systems provides background information and practical considerations for plant engineers and managers interested in implementing redundancy in a data ...