SCADA systems are a key operational tool that manufacturers rely on to visualize, troubleshoot and improve their operations. After all, it’s the crucial connection between the process control systems ...

While both human machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies connect humans with equipment, HMIs tend to be local to a machine, allowing a user to ...

Energy software sits at the intersection of operational technology and IT, so the engineering bar is higher than in most ...

For smaller municipal utilities and co-ops, it can be challenging to upgrade and automate existing distribution substations and support infrastructure due to space, budget, labor, technical skills, ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s USGS agency reports that there are about 67,000 large (utility-scale) wind turbines in operation in the United States. These thousands of wind turbines are ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Little-known fact: The power plant able to generate the most ...

SCADA systems have long played a role in the power sector, managing and monitoring various processes and equipment in traditional power-generating settings. Now, the changing landscape of energy ...

The ISA-112 Part 1 standard provides a framework for modernizing supervisory control and data acquisition systems and making them easier to design, build, operate and maintain. Supervisory control and ...

Cytiva and Rockwell Automation launched the figurate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system designed to remove digital bottlenecks during biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Working ...

Two vulnerabilities found in industrial control system software made in China but used worldwide could be remotely exploited by attackers, according to a warning issued on Thursday by the U.S.

Some of the vulnerabilities could allow attackers to access systems with ease. Patches are not available for all the flaws. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published ...

We’ve covered the troubles with SCADA security at length, but have yet to see a real consensus on how to proceed. Amol Sarwate, security research manager at Qualys, took a crack at making sense of ...