From Reuters By Liz Hampton and Ethan Lou | HOUSTON/NEW YORK All it took was a pair of bolt cutters and the elbow grease of a few climate activists to carry out an audacious act of sabotage on North America’s massive oil and gas pipeline system. For an industry increasingly reliant on gadgets such as […]
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Solvay Green River is developing a 20-year vision for the future of its process control system assets. Kevin Kelley learned the value of control system lifecycle management the hard way. Following three losses of control system power in 2012, the process control foreman at Solvay Chemical’s Green River soda ash production facility in southwestern Wyoming […]
All too often, people claim their systems are air-gapped, and therefore have no cyber vulnerability. But Alternating Current (AC) power cords cross the ostensible “air gap”, and power supplies for laptops, servers, ICSs, etc. have rarely been addressed for cyber security vulnerabilities. Alex McEachern from Power Standards Laboratory will provide a hands-on demonstration of two […]
“Reading, Pa.-area manufacturers are increasingly finding that prospective workers lack the skill set required to perform necessary job functions like basic math and technical tasks. And if this trend continues to grow, it could compromise the ability of those companies to stay viable. That’s the message Dan Fogarty, director of the Berks County Workforce Development […]
Protective relays are used to protect electric equipment such as motors and generators from electric faults. As an analogy, they are the circuit breakers in your house. Digital protective relays provide a higher level of reliability, more functionality, and the ability to provide direct integration into multiple devices including SCADA compared to the older mechanical […]
Sometimes executives view automation as a black hole where money goes in, but no benefits ever come out. In the third in a four-part series on increasing the return on automation investments, we explore how to justify the investment to win over their support. The U.S. economy continues to grow despite challenges within certain industry […]
Spanish headhunter Samuel Pimentel just can’t find the candidates. After a frustrating search for specialist consultants for a client, he’s given up and is casting his net elsewhere. “We were looking for people for two months,” Pimentel, a partner at Ackermann Beaumont Group for Spain and Latin America, said in a telephone interview. “We managed […]
Dow Chemical to cut about 2,500 jobs globally
DuPont’s global alarm management leader, Nick Sands, walks Stan and Greg through the elements of ANSI/ISA-18.2-2016, “Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industry.” By Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner Stan: I remember the alarm panels in the good old days of analog controllers. You had to be selective as to the type and number […]
SMX removable media scanner, deep packet inspection among latest Honeywell cyber security enhancements. When it comes to cybersecurity, there’s no set it and forget it. Today’s malicious probes, intrusions and attacks don’t just multiply, but constantly shift and evolve. This means cyber security solutions must also continuously update their awareness, coverage and responses to […]