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The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA)–a collaborative forum to advance OT cybersecurity awareness, education, readiness, standardization and knowledge sharing–announced its new Advisory Board leadership for 2023-2024.

Temperature sensor failure can wreak havoc on processes where maintaining temperature is critical and monitoring must be continuous.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) will participate in the Hannover Messe Trade Show April 17-21, 2023.

UFT continues momentum, adding two leading equipment solution providers in highly strategic Texas and Midwest regions.

Doosan Industrial Vehicle (DIV), a global South Korean forklift manufacturer, has partnered with Kollmorgen to secure their leading position in the material handling industry.

Over the past few years, countries that lack the land mass required for solar plants have turned their attention to the water-based alternative: floating solar islands.

The most state-of-the-art Kyocera facility will be constructed on about 37 acres in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, and will feature new automotive and communication innovations.

Despite unrest in Eastern Europe, Endress+Hauser Group demonstrates growth and stability for 2022.

The environmental benefits and consequences, power capacity, and overall advantages of the 22.5GW power plant in Three Gorges, China

The number one influencer, event speaker and thought leader Jeff Winter, is a leading member of ISA’s Smart Manufacturing & IIoT Division.

Motion Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce the newest Motion Ai facility, located at 71 Cherry Hill Drive, Beverly, Massachusetts, 01915. The new facility officially opened on Dec. 1, 2022.

Denali is collaborating with AWS to provide end-to-end automation capabilities to the enterprise as a global operational technology systems integrator.

The Swiss 3D Visual Autonomy provider announced its participation in this year’s edition of the renowned logistics event in Stuttgart, Germany.

Construction on the 75,000 square-foot facility is now complete, and company leaders are hosting a grand opening celebration.

The New division SEA Smart Service Link has increased customer satisfaction enabling higher packaging equipment performance and functionality while creating new revenues for Sealed Air.

The investment reflects increased customer demand for electrification and automation products.

AW-Lake Flow Meters ensure ultraprecise metering of chemicals used to create foams utilized in commercial, industrial and marine applications.

German drive specialist Flender has announced that Christian Terlinde will take over the company’s Group CFO position starting July 1.

Users receive a choice of perfectly dimensioned options for electric and electromechanical drive components in minutes.

The fully integrated digital solution will deliver remote visualization and control over operations, driving productivity and making the Arizona facility one of world’s most efficient and sustainable.

Asset owners in virtually all sectors must determine the best approach to addressing the cybersecurity risks associated with their operations. While many larger companies already have a robust program, others are still struggling to determine how to proceed.

February saw 240 ransomware attacks, a 45% increase over January.

ABB’s Robotics and Discrete Automation business is expanding its presence in Ireland by opening a new office in Dundalk, Co Louth.

Global technology, software and engineering leader Emerson will exhibit advanced, discrete automation solutions, from the factory floor to the cloud, at Hannover Messe.

The leadership team of Okuma Corporation, a world-leading builder of computer number control (CNC) machine tools, controls and automation systems, is honored to announce the company’s 125-year anniversary in 2023.

More than 300 startups at Hannover Messe highlight their diversity and innovative strengths. From platforms for conducting penetration tests and industrial electrolysis systems on a multi-megawatt scale to quantum computers that store information in individual atoms, they are active across industry sectors.

New financing brings total raised to $222 million; existing investor participation highlights confidence in Covariant’s roadmap to fix today’s broken supply chain.

Digitalized plants and processes can only be reliably administered if available documentation reflects the current status of the production plants.

Swedish manufacturer Tarkett acted on data gathered from 10 connected motors; projects system ROI of less than 18 months.

At JEC World 2023, held April 25-27 at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, CGTech will demonstrate how advanced programming strategies and simulation can lead to the production of better composite parts.

“Location Intelligence” software expands SIMATIC RTLS location platform to include the Digital Twin of performance and warehouse.

Endress+Hauser, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2023, remains confident for the current year.

New gear motors help the City of Newport, Oregon, watestwater treatment plant address capacity limitations, save energy costs, and process up to 15 million gallons daily.

From Greg McMillan and the ISA Mentor Program team.

Learn about automated reconnaissance, phishing, and propagation to defend against automated ransomware and cybercriminals.

Franklin Electric Co., Inc. recently held its annual Commercial Summit, a gathering of team members from business units throughout the Americas.

Wohlers Report 2023 shows an overall worldwide growth in AM products and services of 18.3%, continuing a trend of double-digit AM industry revenue growth in 25 of the past 34 years.

The Thief River Falls Mayor has declared April 3 “Digi-Key Day.”

The MES & Industry 4.0 International Summit, to be held on Sept. 7-8, 2023 at Alfândega Congress Centre in Porto, is aimed to help manufacturers "Connect for a Smarter Future."

Electromate Inc., a leading distributor of industrial automation products, motion control systems and robots has announced a new partnership with Spin Robotics, a Danish manufacturer of collaborative robot (cobot) accessories.

The new division will begin operations April 3, 2023, and be based at the Okuma America Corporation headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

Siemens demonstrated the newest version of its engineering framework, TIA Portal v18, during PROMAT in Chicago from March 20-23, 2023.

One year of stable operation demonstrates this next-generation control technology can decrease environmental impact, achieve stable quality and transform operations.

sensXPERT invites visitors at Automatica 2023 to an AR Experience with its intelligent sensor technology Digital Mold for real time process optimization.

With the Young Engineering Award, Deutsche Messe will for the first time honor a female expert from the STEM field who is no more than 30 years old, and has achieved exceptional things in her technical sphere.

Inspiring keynotes and technical bootcamp sessions will feature exclusive content from Citrix, HP, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, VMware and more.

Surface inspection systems (SIS) are used in flat steel production for the inspection of strip surfaces.

The ISA president discusses welcoming and mentoring young professionals with industry connections, ISA resources, leadership, and management.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) announced that IriusRisk SL has joined ISCI as a Technical Member in support of the ISASecure Cybersecurity Conformance Scheme.

“Industrial Transformation–Making the difference”–in line with the main theme of the Hannover Messe, Baumüller will demonstrate how digital marketplaces can support machine building in the future.

DENSO Products and Services Americas, Inc., an affiliate of leading global mobility supplier DENSO Corp., announced the retirement of senior vice president Richard Shiozaki and vice president of Sales Fran Labun.

Leaders from Michigan State University, NASA, Siemens, MIT and Ericsson will share insights on machine learning, 5G, digitization, team building and more.

Endress+Hauser successfully conducted two load tests of a realistic Ethernet-APL setup with components from various manufacturers. The results confirm the new technology’s reputation as a game-changer in industrial communication.

At HANNOVER MESSE, companies can find solutions to achieving CO2-neutral production.

At Hannover Messe, April 17-21, 2023, Softing Industrial will present the edge products in hall 015, stand F48.

i.safe MOBILE, innovation and global market leader for explosion-proof mobile devices and solutions, continues to drive the area of technology and innovation and participates as a strategic partner and investor with a seven-digit amount in the Austrian startup Senseven.

The enterprise licensing of an innovative process analytics solution was key to year-over-year increases.

Siemens will pressent the Digital Data Chain at Hannover Messe.

Basler AG is today publishing its annual report for the financial year 2022.

Cybersecurity and IT security are giving all companies plenty to think about. Especially with increasing digitalization, protecting networks, computer systems, cyber-physical systems, machines and data is becoming increasingly important. Hannover Messe offers solutions and defensive strategies.

The partnership gives Zephyr’s community of IoT developers and device manufacturers advanced runtime protection, threat detection, and continuous device monitoring.

The Industrial Ethernet Week 2023 presentations provided an update on the technology and the importance of connectivity to achieve the goals of industrial digitalization/Industry 4.0.

Reduce product development cost and time-to-market by mapping the manufacturing process and employing leading-edge hardware automation, productivity-increasing software, robotics and motion control solutions.

ABB and Pace CCS join forces to deliver a solution that reduces the cost of integrating carbon capture and storage (CCS) into new and existing industrial operations.

The trailblazer in new automation technology boosted sales by 33.4% in the U.S. while increasing market share, adding talent and expanding office footprint.

Material handling workers expose themselves to danger every time they conduct tasks such as manual labor such as loading and carrying heavy parts or moving loaded pallets with forklifts onto towering storage racks. In addition, material handling processes are plagued by human error and inefficiencies. The answer to these problems and many more is robotics.

At Advanced Factories this year, which runs from April 18-20 in Barcelona, Kivnon will highlight one of the latest additions to its AGV portfolio, the K55 Pallet Stacker.

This project for Statkraft helps to restore missing system inertia for the stable operation of the UK power grid.

Siemens and Daimler Truck AG will implement a Siemens Xcelerator digital engineering platform to enable efficient product development and lifecycle management of trucks and buses.

Festo Didactic developed a digital learning portal–the Festo Learning Experience, or Festo LX–to make it easier to create individual learning experiences for trainers and trainees.

The market for position sensors, such as linear displacement transducers, has experienced a tremendous change.

The German robotics and automation industry expects its turnover to grow by 9% reaching 15.7 billion euros in 2023.

Industrial network security is not an option anymore—it is a necessity.

What does it mean to achieve the ISA CAP certification?

Combine machine learning and UEBA for advanced threat detection discussing insider threats, faster incident responses, and fewer errors.