IT vs OT- When Worlds Collide
In early March 2017, the Pentagon sent out a notice to its employees:
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In early March 2017, the Pentagon sent out a notice to its employees:
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The ‘smart’ industrial facility is upon us. We’re already accustomed to having information about nearly anything at our fingertips; Industry 4.0 looks to extend that immediacy and extract vital information from your sensors, equipment and plant floor. You may say “well yeah, we’ve been doing that for years,” and to some extent that’s true; we’ve been able to organize and promote information from machines for years, bridging the gap between plant floor operators and upper management.
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As they do in any business, corporate manufacturing leaders know, with as much certainty as they know that the sun will come up in the morning, that they have some amount of error, waste, and inefficiency in their operations.
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The programmable logic controller, or PLC, has been around forever by high tech standards. The original PLCs came out in the late 1960s, and the venerable PLC 5 has been doing admirable service since its introduction in 1988. Time and technology have caught up with the PLC 5, however, and the product is no longer manufactured. Indeed, Rockwell/Allen-Bradley now recommends replacing your aging PLC 5 hardware with ControlLogix (CLX) control systems.
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Jerry Zeigenfuse passed away peacefully this week.
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