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 ...

Computerized process-control systems run some of the most critical infrastructures in the U.S., such as power utilities, water treatment plants, chemical plants and mass-transit systems. Until ...

The ISA112 consensus-based technical standard identifies and promotes best practices. When it comes to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, oil and gas industry users and vendors ...

With a grasp on the technology components of supervisory control and data acquisition systems, industry can better use SCADA modernization as a key component of automated data collection. SCADA ...

A new tool from security researchers that came out of work at Digital Bond's S4 conference in January automates password cracking for a common industrial control system. The main trouble with securing ...

Many utilities depend on cellular communications—both public and private—to provide the connectivity required for grid operations. However, cellular networks were originally designed with a focus on ...

The software includes Rapid Application Configuration Environment (RACE), an interface that was specifically designed to create an easy to use SCADA application development environment. Advantech ...