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7 Tips for Better Controls and Instrumentation RFP/RFQ Results
End-of-year budgeting is here again and your project that has been postponed for several years has finally been made a priority. As with many, the project needs to be started before the actual year-end so that the funds can be separated across two fiscal years. Unfortunately, time is running out and you need to send out a request for proposal (RFP/RFQ) as soon as possible. To do this, you gather the few drawings you have, even though they are not up to date, and try to gather your thoughts on how to write the scope of work.
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- Network & Networking Security
How Does IIoT Affect Me?
The purpose of this blog is to bring awareness to the advances of the IoT (Internet of Things) and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and to initiate conversations among different groups within an organization to better understand the direct impact of IIoT on their company’s success.
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- Network & Networking Security
How Vulnerable Is Your Industrial Control System (ICS)?
Robert Mueller, former director of the FBI is quoted to have said there are two kinds of companies; ones that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked. Other experts have noted that many companies have been hacked but are not yet aware of it because they do not have the tools to detect the event. Two influential factors are the business pressure to consolidate as much data/information as possible for profit and to “do more with less.”
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- Control Systems
Fresenius, Cross Company use Siemens Simatic Batch to satisfy FDA requirements
This is a guest post from Control. Read the original here.
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- Network & Networking Security
The Growing Need For Industrial Control System Cybersecurity
The following addresses several key points of security threats on the Industrial Control System (ICS). This includes, but is not limited to, all elements of the control layer infrastructure: PLC/DCS HMI (Eng and Operator Stations) / SCADA / RTU / Web Server Instrumentation & Electric Devices This information should interest the following people:
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- Control Systems
A Phased Migration from Siemens APACS to Siemens PCS 7
Siemens announced the start of the “cancellation” phase of APACS products in 2011. If you still have APACS hardware running your plant, then there’s a good chance that you’ve started looking at migration options and Siemens recommends the SIMATIC PCS 7 line of controllers and remote I/O.
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New Partnership with Altizon for IIoT Solutions
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New Partnership with Indegy for Cybersecurity Solutions
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- Process Controls
Commissioning For Process Controls: The Pursuit of Excellence
Commissioning is a team effort to document the continuity of a project as it moves from one project phase to the next. To achieve commissioning excellence requires that the testing documents be accurate and written in an orderly fashion. The Documentation Gatekeeper, a.k.a the Commission Lead, is responsible to develop, teach, implement, and guard the integrity of the process to produce accurate testing documents.
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