Safety & Security for Life
Teaching AI Functional Safety
In today’s technology-driven manufacturing ecosystem where artificial intelligence (AI) appears to fall into play in just about every discussion, there is little doubt there could be a huge opportunity for use in functional safety moving forward.
Safety Solution: Services Provide an Answer
Manufacturers these days are working on a set of assumptions when it comes to functional safety: Workers are aging out and retiring at a fast rate, replacements are difficult to find, and demand for products is continuing to rise.
Finding a Solution to the Safety Brain Drain
A safety professional walks into the same plant he has been working at for the past 35 years and hears a sound that seems off. It could be anything, but he homes in on one particular area where the sound is coming from and goes to work fixing the problem.
Filling the Cyber Talent Gap with Managed Security Services
One of the most well-known facts about industrial control system cybersecurity is there is a serious lack of qualified experts to fill vital roles at manufacturing enterprises.
Closing Pandora’s Box with Managed Security Services
There is an unsung hero these days that remains a steady but sure backbone as digitalization continues its march forward allowing for unprecedented growth and productivity in the manufacturing sector – cybersecurity.
How Process Safety Management Plays a Role in Sustainability
It is no secret global warming is continuing to grow and present a problem for the world. It is also no secret the manufacturing sector is a large contributor to this world-wide dilemma, however, as the industry heads toward a lofty, but achievable goal of carbon neutrality, safety can play a vital role.
Energy Transformation and Process Safety Management
Ethylene production is a highly hazardous environment, where the process works under very high pressures, very high temperatures, and fast thermal reactions. Everyone in the industry has done a good job of making ethylene crackers safe and efficient where it is possible to reuse the steam to help drive power generation. But the next move, and it will be sooner than you think, is electrification will start to take over to fire up the furnaces and fossil fuels become obsolete.
Keeping Process Safety Management In Scope with Digitalization
There is a dichotomy of sorts going on across the industry: Digitalization is taking hold where manufacturers are connecting devices to garner all kinds of information to create more informed decision-making and increase productivity, but the fear is safety could be left in the technological dust.
Growing Age of Industry 5.0 and Process Safety
There was a time not too long ago a grizzled veteran operator could walk into a plant and just by listening to the buzz of the process, he or she would know the process was running properly. A true human-centric observation.
Spotlight on Smart Building Cybersecurity
It wasn’t that long ago when an attacker was able to gain access into the network a Las Vegas casino through a thermostat connected to a fish tank, and then pivot to compromise the database of high roller gamblers.
Protecting Against Ransomware Attacks
Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, Toshiba, CNA Financial are just a few of the well-known ransomware attacks that have caught the public’s eye over the past year or so.
Securing the Supply Chain: Ensuring a Trust Relationship
Leonardtown, Maryland, Town Administrator Laschelle McKay was going about her day when she learned the town’s entire network was shut down. The town’s IT company is a client of management and security software provider, Kaseya, which earlier had suffered an attack where hackers had gotten in and added malicious code.
Cybersecurity: Foundation for Digital Transformation
We need to change our mindset around cybersecurity. Manufacturers can’t just flip a switch and turn off its operations, especially when a process runs for years at a time. With that in mind, operators, engineers, and executives have to be able to adjust and work with what is happening out on the plant floor as a part of everyday life.
Project Awareness: Don’t Bolt On Security, Build It In
A request for a quote (RFQ) or request for information (RFI) comes out and the excitement is palpable because the manufacturer is now going to get the upgraded system it has needed forever, and suppliers are going to help their customer grow and gain efficiencies while they generate added revenue. A classic win-win.
Protecting Non-Critical Infrastructure
A cyber attack occurs and the first thing all experts think about is protecting the critical infrastructure, and deservedly so, but an equally key aspect is understanding and protecting the critical infrastructure for manufacturers within non-critical infrastructure industries.
Cybersecurity in the New Normal
The human spirit. Not one to rely on the tried and true, but, rather, always ready to acquire, react and respond to whatever daunting issue it is facing. Human spirit will rise to any occasion and come forward with ideas and innovations to counteract – and conquer – any kind of adversity.
Securing Digital Transformation
An Internet-enabled industrial CCTV system went live online not too long ago and in three short minutes the camera started to get malicious traffic requests. Think about it: One system placed on the massive Internet and it started getting attacks in three minutes.
Mindset Changing on Safety and Profitability
Safety systems continue working silently in the background, chugging along keeping a constant vigil over manufacturing operations to ensure everyone goes home safely at the end of the day.
Safety, Connectivity and IIoT
Increased connectivity across any manufacturing enterprise, from the oil and gas industry all the way to making buttons for a clothing line, has the potential to hike business intelligence, productivity and profitability.
Security: People as a Strength
It wasn’t that long ago when a German steel mill fell victim to a cyber attack that resulted in parts of the plant failing and a blast furnace workers could not shut down through normal methods.