Why Real-Time PLC Performance Monitoring Matters for Uptime and Safety Most production problems do not start with a hard failure. They show up as longer scan times, delayed network responses, intermittent I/O faults, or nuisance alarms that operators learn to ignore. Without visibility into what the PLC is actually doing, those signals are easy to…
The need for improved cybersecurity has been raised often in the past few years. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the manufacturing sector is the most targeted by cyberattacks. Industrial IoT, intellectual property (IP) theft, phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks are its main threats. But security issues are a concern across the entire…
Edge computing is the newest advancement in the automated industrial world. Like the advent of cloud computing, edge computing is a revolution in faster and more efficient automation and control. But how does this work in automation and control system environments? And how will it benefit you, practically? In this article, we outline how this…
