The U.S. currently faces a growing threat from cyber-attacks against its critical infrastructure (CI) vital to our modern society. Many understand this growing threat but don’t know the origins of a ...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) technologies were adopted early by the electric utility industry to assist in the monitoring of the widely distributed grid. Electric utility SCADA has ...

Technology convergence is well-known in nearly every sector. We’ve all seen it happen in the consumer tech sector, most notably as our cell phones transformed into smartphones that allow us to make ...

Despite increasing signs of overlap between SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and MES (manufacturing execution systems), the two automation mainstays are more likely to co-exist as a ...

Utilities of all sizes face the challenge of efficiently monitoring real-time substation performance across their networks. Each substation is or has the potential to be a data-rich environment, with ...

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 ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quorum Software, a leading provider of energy software worldwide, today announced that it has acquired zdSCADA, an established leader in cloud-based supervisory control and ...

Incremental upgrades are no longer enough. What the industry needs is to fundamentally rethink what an automation platform must be.

As told by Ian Verhappen and Graham Nasby. The ISA108 committee is working in a collaborative effort with IEC SC65E WG10 on an important emerging area of automation: intelligent device management.