Jan Van Den Bossche highlights how the adoption of standardised open communication protocols and low-code tools has affected the role of SCADA software in industrial environments.

The ISA-112 Part 1 standard provides a vendor-neutral and technology-independent framework for the long-term management of ...

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 ...

As power companies build hybrid projects combining solar, wind, battery storage and hydrogen assets, they face the challenge of integrating dozens of different control systems and data types from ...

Traditional manufacturing software platforms like SCADA, MES and historians are powerful, but custom software is filling the gaps configuration alone can no longer cover.

The ISA112 consensus-based technical standard identifies and promotes best practices. When it comes to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, oil and gas industry users and vendors ...

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 ...

Critical national infrastructures such as the National Grid, water and other utility networks have SCADA technology at their heart. SCADA-driven systems are typically found in industrial systems such ...

In this sixth article in a series focusing on the need for improved information assurance and cyber situational awareness in the electric power industry, we continue a survey of government and ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 8-- PetroChina Co. Ltd. has awarded two supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system contracts to Calgary-based Metso Automation Inc., the automation and control technology ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

We’ve covered the troubles with SCADA security at length, but have yet to see a real consensus on how to proceed. Amol Sarwate, security research manager at Qualys, took a crack at making sense of ...