SCADA systems are a key operational tool that manufacturers rely on to visualize, troubleshoot and improve their operations. After all, it’s the crucial connection between the process control systems ...

For smaller municipal utilities and co-ops, it can be a challenge to upgrade and automate existing distribution substations and support infrastructure due to constraints in space, budget, labor, ...

SCADA systems have long played a role in the power sector, managing and monitoring various processes and equipment in traditional power-generating settings. Now, the changing landscape of energy ...

Two reoccurring issues we are seeing in U.S. manufacturing are modernization projects and aging infrastructure, and in Riverside, Calif., the Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) faced the former ...

The Internet of Things needs technology to connect people to machines and processes. From the operators on the plant floor to the execs in the C-suites, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA ...

Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is or has the potential to be a data-rich environment, with ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

It's been seven years since the game-changer Stuxnet worm was unearthed and thrust the industrial control sector to a new reality where cyberattacks could sabotage even air-gapped physical plant ...

The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...