Software & IT

Ensuring Australia’s food bowl will not be empty amidst global food shortages

28 September, 2022 by Rob Stummer, Asia Pacific CEO at SYSPRO | Supplied by: SYSPRO

To build more resilient supply chains going forward, food production companies should consider investing in technologies that involve all stakeholders.


Digital twins allow plants to be emulated before investing

19 September, 2022 | Supplied by: Rockwell Automation Australia

Rockwell Automation demonstrated digital twin capabilities at its recent ROKLive automation event in Sydney.


Mitsubishi Electric MELSOFT MaiLab data science tool

12 September, 2022 | Supplied by: Mitsubishi Electric Australia

MELSOFT MaiLab is a data science tool that uses AI technology to enable non-specialists to more easily analyse and diagnose factory data.


IoT vulnerability disclosures grow 57% in six months

29 August, 2022 | Supplied by: Claroty

Vulnerability disclosures impacting IoT devices increased by 57% in the first half of 2022, according to new research released by Claroty.


Cyber attack on UK water utility has serious implications: Claroty

19 August, 2022 | Supplied by: Claroty

A recent ransomware attack on Staffordshire Water has serious implications for Australia's critical infrastructure, according to Claroty.


The Evil PLC: using the PLC as an attack vector against the engineer

17 August, 2022 | Supplied by: Claroty

Claroty has released research into a new type of cyber attack that weaponises programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in order to exploit engineering workstations.


The lights-sparse versus the lights-out factory — Part 2

27 July, 2022 | Supplied by: Siemens Ltd

The marriage of digital and physical manufacturing technologies will soon enable increasing flexibility, making it possible to accommodate mass customisation.


Dragos and Emerson expand global cybersecurity agreement

22 July, 2022

Dragos extends ICS/OT cybersecurity to Emerson's DeltaV DCS to protect process industries.


Turning installed base into profits with online monitoring

19 July, 2022 by Tom Hu* | Supplied by: HMS Industrial Networks

After-sales service is often viewed as a competitive differentiator, a source of customer satisfaction, and often a profit generator.


Siemens cloud-based PLM software now available in ANZ

19 July, 2022 | Supplied by: Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens brings Teamcenter X cloud-based PLM to Australia and New Zealand, making PLM software available to more companies.


ABB and Red Hat partner on scalable digital solutions

18 July, 2022 | Supplied by: ABB Australia Pty Ltd

ABB has announced it will provide digital solutions to customers on demand and at scale using Red Hat OpenShift.


The lights-sparse versus the lights-out factory — Part 1

06 July, 2022 | Supplied by: Siemens Ltd

Optimising manufacturing towards the digital and autonomous factory of the future.


IOTech announces a major new release of Edge XRT software

28 June, 2022

Edge XRT 2.0 provides extended OT connectivity, auto-discovery, a new MQTT API to simplify integration and management, and improved performance and scalability.


Predictive maintenance alleviates food and beverage production challenges

28 June, 2022 | Supplied by: Open IIoT

In the tightly regulated world of food and beverage production, a breakdown in the production line can result in a whole batch of products being discarded.


Rockwell named a Visionary in Gartner Magic Quadrant for MES

22 June, 2022 | Supplied by: Rockwell Automation Australia

Rockwell Automation has been named a Visionary and Plex Systems a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems.


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