Boiler systems play a crucial role across industrial, institutional, commercial, and other large-scale facilities. The systems are often complex and require meticulous oversight to ensure optimal ...

S4x14 CONFERENCE -- Miami -- A researcher has rigged a programmable logic controller (PLC) with a low-cost hacking tool that can shut down a process control network with a text message. The so-called ...

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 ...

Southern California Edison (SCE) has been remote controlling and automating substations since the late 1940s using a combination of single point-to-point supervisory control and single ...

In May 2019, less than a year before the start of the COVID pandemic, Mitsubishi Electric made a key move for its industrial system portfolio with its acquisition of Iconics. Beyond traditional SCADA ...

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 ...

Supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems sit in the background in industrial settings, performing all kinds of important jobs but in an ad-hoc ...

The transition to real-time visibility of production data in a food manufacturing environment can be an arduous task. But a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) platform is laying the ...