Emerson’s New I/O Interface Software Helps Future-Proof Operations, Reduce Modernization Costs up to 40% DeltaV IO.CONNECT enables manufacturers to keep existing I/O infrastructure, shorten downtime, accelerate ROI and increase flexibility of capital expenditures

The third edition of the EY Reimagining Industry Futures Study reveals that enterprises are looking to 5G to help alleviate immediate business pressures brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and related global events.

The partnership sees both companies working together to sell Centrin Data’s data centres and services in China including their Wuhan and Kunshan data centres which have a strong financial customer base.

Asia saw more cyberattacks than any other region in the past year, experiencing over 1 in 4 attacks in 2021. Financial services and manufacturing organisations together experienced nearly 60 percent of attacks in Asia.

The world is digitally transforming at a pace that is accelerating every day. Across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), organisations are turning to digital technology to increase efficiencies and transform customer experiences.

The more distributed its users, and the more devices that connect remotely, the greater the potential attack surface area for threat actors. Keeping this attack surface limited and protected is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today.

IBM is the first partner to offer cloud infrastructure and technical managed services as part of the RISE with SAP offering.

At its recently concluded Winterstock event, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) unveiled Lenovo TruScale High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS), delivering the power of supercomputing to organisations of all sizes through a cloud-like experience.

How time-sensitive networking is synchronising operations and driving the future of smart manufacturing.

How to manage a complex network of new and legacy equipment? Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of Crosser shares insight into how manufacturers can successfully manage data from both new and legacy equipment.

Every digital touchpoint is exposing manufacturers to potential cyber-attacks.

As a global leader in the design and manufacture of microconnectors for the banking industry, Linxens’ products and services enable card manufacturers to easily integrate the latest innovations such as the dynamic three-digit security code or biometrics.

The Sophos Rapid Response team has so far seen AvosLocker attacks in the Americas, Middle East and Asia-Pacific, targeting Windows and Linux systems.

Hypertherm, a U.S. based manufacturer of industrial cutting systems and software, recently announced the release of Production Manager, an optional module for its ProNest advanced CAD/CAM nesting software.

The second edition of Southeast Asia’s flagship geospatial and location intelligence event grows to host fast-developing industry solutions.

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are at the core of almost any automated system. They’ve been used in manufacturing for decades and are known for their reliability and ability to withstand harsh operating conditions. However, embedded systems can perform the same function for a fraction of the price.

Claroty shared on 8 December 2021 its intent to acquire Medigate, a healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) Security company. The industrial cybersecurity vendor now has amassed US$635 million in funding.

Kofax, a supplier of Intelligent Automation software for digital workflow transformation, unveiled its top 10 predictions for 2022 as businesses navigate the new challenges accelerated – and in some cases, caused – by the global pandemic.

Tencent Cloud highlights commitment to global digitalisation in newly launched data center covering Brazil and other Latin American countries

EcoStruxure Automation Expert, the world’s first software-centric industrial automation system, enables hardware-agnostic automation system design to mix and match hardware from different vendors and automate them with a single software platform.

Its new Filogic solutions combine advanced Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features with the latest voice processing and power-management technologies.

ADLINK’s embedded MXM graphics modules are the first modules to use NVIDIA’s embedded GPUs based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture, bringing edge computing and embedded AI to numerous vertical markets including healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and more.

Siemens Digital Industries Software adds NVH system prediction capabilities to its Simcenter portfolio for early design and virtual prototyping.

The Asia Pacific region mirrors trends in Europe, where 42 percent of data center operators believe there is not enough skilled labour to deliver increased capacity requirements.

Across Australia and Asia, the industrial cybersecurity company supports companies in the oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing, water, and electrical power industries, and of late, the food and beverage sector, and notably, the pharmaceutical sector for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

Ennoconn to integrate its Digitalisation-as-a-Service strategy with Google’s advanced cloud solutions and services to create next-gen digital industrial products and new revenue models.

Siam Cement Group (SCG)’s Cement-Building Materials Business utilises cloud-based solution with enhanced SAP S4/HANA to streamline and enhance operations.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teams up with SAS, the US-based multinational developer of analytics software, to transform the drug development process to prevent infectious disease threats from turning into a pandemic like COVID-19.

49 percent of IT teams in Singapore say the attacks targeting their organisation were too advanced for them to deal with on their own.

Shure, a global manufacturer of audio equipment, launches the Stem Ecosystem, a new and cost-effective audio conferencing ecosystem which alleviates the major pains in virtual meetings currently experienced by IT professionals and everyday users, for the first time in Southeast Asia.

If organisations, regardless of their size, are not proactive in preventing such attacks, these trends are likely to continue even after the pandemic subsides.

This article looks at the Internet of Things (IoT) as an enabling technology for the Smart City.

A successful attack on critical infrastructure could disable or destroy production lines and industrial processes, leave cities in the dark or shut off critical lifesaving technologies. The repercussions are grave and difficult to bounce back from.

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) to deliver an integrated, cost effective, virtualised edge computing solution with VMware. In addition, organisations can now plan their data center cloud and edge infrastructure solutions using Lenovo Open Cloud Automation management software.

Malaysia Airlines chooses Fuel Insight and FlightPulse to transform its fuel efficiency program. GE Digital’s Aviation Software solutions help operators meet sustainability goals by monitoring and reducing fuel usage and emissions.

Service builds on IBM hybrid cloud expertise in developing connected vehicle solutions based on open-source technologies.

Funds will be deployed to explore growth opportunities in Singapore and Malaysia, and kickstart its expansion into Thailand.

AVEVA’s  Operations Control solutions are available as a single subscription for the first time, as subscription-based models are predicted to grow at a pace nearly four times that of traditional software over the next five years in the industrial automation markets, ARC Advisory Group said.

ExtraHop Networks, Inc., the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, announces on 2 September 2021, that it had more than doubled its business across the Asia Pacific region in the first half of 2021.

This article is an Interview with David Yang, Intelligent Logistics SRP Product Manager, Advantech on the implementation of an uninterrupted cold chain management solution at Taiwan’s Hypermarket Leader.

The end of 2020 will see only two percent of the world’s eight billion mobile subscriptions using 5G.  But, even though the vision for 5G is still far from being realised, the work on 6G has begun.

AA interviewed Heng Kwee Tong, head of engineering and customer solutions at SPTel, on network resiliency, managing costs, and automating in times of crisis.

With the current pandemic surpassing all countries globally, the life sciences industry is under pressure to find a vaccine through clinical trials and deliver high quality medicines.

Manufacturing supply chains are designed to save costs by moving the manufacturing process to the most efficient locations and by minimising inventory.

predictive analytics plays an important role in improving product quality and reliability across the manufacturing sector.

The current situation around COVID-19 will most probably induce a shift in the verticals that look into 5G deployment.

In combining peripheral sensors, gateways, and cloud resources, IoT applications are becoming unprecedented targets because of the number of potential attack surfaces and security vulnerabilities they contain.

Rackspace foresees three trends taking off in 2020 that could shape the C-suite’s strategy to overcome those challenges and capture the opportunities.

Technology enabling data capture and analysis, connectivity, monitoring and control is becoming the new baseline for smart buildings of tomorrow. Understanding what it is and where it is headed is critical.

With cyber-attacks being an increasing occurrence, industrial, commercial and residential installations need a strategy to guard their IT networks.

As international conflicts migrate to the digital domain, state-sponsored hackers are increasingly targeting energy grids, intending to cause outages that could disrupt the critical infrastructure of entire nations.

Flowserve uses a decentralised IT architecture bringing computing closer to the edge, and this is expected to be a prerequisite for future digital production processes.

Edge computing is growing fast, and network architectures must adapt to support this growth.

Wireless protocols to consider for your next Industrial Internet of Things application.

For businesses operating critical infrastructure systems, the risks have never been greater. There are consequences that reach far beyond business and reputational damage.

The future of the process industry is digital worldwide, under the banners of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT).

New retraction system for energy chains ensures fail-safe operation of robots in modern factories. Article by igus.

First used in 2009 for the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain technology has moved far beyond its initial adoption in the financial services sector and is being applied across many industries, including manufacturing.

The CC-Link Partner Association has created a new industrial open network specification “CC-Link IE TSN” as the next generation CC-Link IE network.

We are living in an era of digitally transforming world, networking billions of smart solutions across and producing a huge amount of data. Considering Transition to Industrial IoT Networks?

Manufacturing is rapidly entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution where the old and formerly closed environments systems meet new, connected ones.

The Promise Of The Edge In Asia’s Manufacturing Industry That is where the edge comes into play: the place where computing occurs, in between the data centre and the cloud.

Computing infrastructure is an ever-changing landscape of technology advancements. Current changes impact the way companies deploy smart manufacturing systems to leverage advancements.

Enterprises are deploying SD-WAN solutions to provide secure and direct branch connectivity to the cloud while lowering overall WAN costs. By Rami Rammaha, Director of Product Marketing, Silver Peak.

For industries that rely on physical assets, smart connectivity enables vastly superior performance by unlocking value from digital transformation. At the heart of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are Smart Connected Assets and the evolution of APM 4.0.

Of the more than 700 IT decision makers surveyed for the report by 451 Research, 56 percent say at least a quarter of their data centre and cloud capacity is already supporting IoT. By Martin T. Olsen, VP of Global Edge and Integrated Solutions, Vertiv.

IAA spoke with Cynthia Lee, Regional Director, ASEAN, CyberArk, about the cyber threat landscape in the region and why privileged accounts are important in cybersecurity.

In today’s world, cybersecurity is necessary to ensure critical automation systems remain safe and fully operational. However, implementing cybersecurity controls is a very technical and labour intensive task. Article contributed by Honeywell.

Industrial control systems (ICS) underpin individual businesses and critical infrastructures around the world. They maintain control of power stations and nuclear plants, water distribution systems and manufacturing sites – and today, they are routinely targeted by cyber attackers.

SCADA systems have been part of the industrial and utility landscape for many decades. For pipeline SCADA systems, the wide area coverage and operation of processes in remote locations provide a number of unique cybersecurity issues. By Kevin L. Finnan, System Consultant, Yokogawa Corporation of America.

Every industrial company today is discussing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Experts say that IIoT enables companies to engage technology and expertise more than ever before. Managers know that instruments and systems they buy can be equipped with digital technology to gather real-time data at every measurement point. By Susan Wang, Wireless Manager, Asia Pacific, Emerson Automation Solutions.

Today’s manufacturing environment is facing the challenge of rapid acceleration in both the speed-of-business and in the proliferation of new digitised technologies. These trends are impacting all of society and most workplaces. The amount of change taking place is breathtaking. Innovation is making its presence felt at all levels. Consider the fact that 48 percent of the organisations currently listed as Fortune 500 companies were not on the list in the year 2000. Innovators have displaced traditionalists and those that continue to succeed do so in large part thanks to their ability to reinvent themselves.

The solution uses Ixia’s IxNetwork to enable network equipment manufacturer partners to self-certify their products with VMware NSX in a range of network topologies, helping them save significant costs while improving time-to-market.

Singapore: EOS, a technology supplier in the field of industrial 3D printing of metals and polymers, has joined the MindSphere World e.V. (registered association) that promotes the open, cloud-based IoT operating system MindSphere. This organisation comprises companies including Siemens, Festo and Kuka. EOS is to chair the organisation’s Additive Manufacturing work group.

Empowered with machine learning capabilities, FactoryTalk Analytics learns the process and looks for trends in the data, proactively presenting users with insights before an issue arises.

Against the backdrop of an ‘on-demand’ economy, Asian businesses are finding it necessary to provide better, more compelling and personalised customer experiences. By Ryan Goh, VP and GM, Zebra Technologies Asia Pacific

Machine-to-machine integration and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) are reinventing manufacturing as we know it, giving birth to the Smart Factory that is connected, intelligent and aware – enabling newfound levels of productivity and predictability. By Vincent Tang, regional VP, Asia, Epicor Software.

Autonomous cars are set to totally transform our driving habits but they could also have a major impact on society, from city planning to mobility. By Ludovic Lassauce, Director, Business Development, Business Collaboration, Mobility and IoT at Tata Communications

Since the technology first emerged in 2008, blockchain has quickly become synonymous with the digital currency bitcoin and the financial sector. Blockchain’s association with bitcoin stems from its role as a foundational concept in the original bitcoin paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto. In his paper, Nakamoto proposed a peer-to-peer electronic payment system, and the blockchain is used to secure bitcoin transactions without the need for a centralised governing body or trusted intermediary, such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), or a bank.

The term ‘digital twinning’ is gaining in popularity with the advancement of Industry 4.0, which is seen as the next phase of the digitisation of the manufacturing sector. By Terri Hiskey, VP Product Marketing, Manufacturing, Epicor Software

Microsoft, Linux, Google, and Apple started rolling out patches addressing design flaws in processor chips that security researchers named Meltdown and Spectre. Contributed by Trend Micro

Where are the enablers for growth in 2018 likely to come from? Here, we identify the top trends that Epicor believes will be central to success in the upcoming year. By David York, regional VP, UK and Ireland, Epicor Software

Thanks to advances in technology, infrastructure frameworks, and growing cloud adoption, companies no longer need to rely exclusively on data scientists to reap the benefits of Machine Learning. By Jason Bissell, Senior VP and GM, APAC, Talend

A security researcher has revealed serious flaws in the way that most contemporary Wi-Fi networks are secured. By David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

David Hughes, Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Silver Peak shares his thoughts on what 2018 holds for the Cloud infrastructure market.

Digital technology, automation and the Internet of Things are dramatically improving manufacturing quality and reducing costs. By Cynthia Lee, Regional Director, ASEAN, CyberArk

What are the tipping points that could push Industry 4.0 in the direction of becoming a fully realised concept? By Jonathan Wilkins, marketing director of obsolete industrial parts supplier, EU Automation

Data is the new battleground. For companies, the situation is clear – their future depends on how quickly and efficiently they can turn data into accurate insights. By Mike Tuchen, CEO, Talend

Honeywell General cyber security protects against cyber-attacks that compromise IT systems where the consequences might involve the loss of intellectual property, databases or loss of operation. What follows are 12 steps that should be performed to minimise the risk of an industrial cyber security attack. By Thomas Ayral, Cyber Security Specialist, Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security

A privileged account security solution is designed to be a complete solution to protect, monitor, detect, alert, and respond to privileged account activity. Privileged accounts represent the largest security vulnerability an organisation faces today. By Jeffrey Kok, Director of Pre-Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan, CyberArk

In an exclusive interview with Industrial Automation Asia, Eric Duffaut, Chief Customer Officer, Software AG explained…

As the number of connections increases through the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), security becomes a central issue to protect data. By Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR) Team, Trend Micro

Modernising pipeline operations can enhance flexibility, data management and security. By Jason P. Wright, PlantPAx Business Manager, Rockwell Automation

With the rise of Industrial Automation (IA) in manufacturing, legacy Operational Technology (OT) has become increasingly outdated. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is paving the way for industrial organisations to harness the latest technologies and remain competitive in a rapidly evolving industry. By Michael Fyson, Regional Sales Director for ANZ & ASEAN, Stratus Technologies

This article offers a look into the factory of the future and presents fundamental steps that every manufacturer should take now to prepare for seamless integration when the Internet reaches the factory. Contributed by marketing department, Microscan systems

With industry 4.0 increasingly upon us, the enterprise must ensure their ERP systems are compatible with new standards. By Sabby Gill, executive VP, International, Epicor Software Corporation

An ABB manufacturing execution system raises productivity for DSM Nutritional Products. By Matilda Steiner, ABB

Understanding the proper way of implementing a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in the context of Industry 4.0 is important to gain the most benefits. By Sascha Graef, MPDV Asia

Building a resilient network infrastructure is an important element of any industrial communication system.

Creating a small security tracking solution does not mean asset tracking is about to go mainstream.

RFID technologies are growing in prominence with the rise of smartphones and technologies such as NFC. IAA interviewed.

As Internet-connected devices continue to increase, so will the need for more data centres. Industrial automation is as important as ever in ensuring the efficient operation of these data centres. By Patrick Flynn, group leader of sustainability, IO.

Connectivity is evolving and with that new challenges are emerging. With greater connectivity, security.

The challenges for future-proof Industrial Communication Networks will be discussed. By Andreas Rehm.

The top 10 recommendation for plantwide ethernet/IP deployments will be given. By Du Xiaohan, Business Manager.

While in recent years the M12 connectors had only been used for connections on the sensor-actuator level the range of applications meanwhile has extended itself to data transfer and power supply.

Cables can degrade if they are not maintained and properly cared for. Cable carriers are designed to guide and protect cables and hoses on moving machinery, ultimately extending the cables life.

With the emergence of the cloud, distributed design has now becoming the norm, rather than the exception, with designers working in different locations to achieve their design aims.

With more autonomy to the Southeast Asian operations, Schaeffler hopes to get a further foothold in the region with its offerings.

Most system migrations are due to obsolescence but the modernised system is proven to benefit plant owners and addresses cyber & network security concerns which will be discussed here.

IAA interviewed Joe Cowan, CEO, Epicor Software, on the company’s cloud solution and the future of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). By Mark Johnston.

Understanding the proper way of implementing a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) in the context of Industry 4.0 is important to gain the most benefits. By Sascha Graef, MD, MPDV Asia.

Initially introduced in the aerospace and automotive sectors connecting CAD with engineering and manufacturing requirements in order to speed up product development cycles as well as managing quality and cost, PLM is now a ‘strategic business approach to solving the problem of managing the complete set of product definition information,’ as defined by CIMdata.