ARCwire Industry News

As we’ve learned, digital transformation can be a challenging, if necessary, journey.  At each year’s Forum, we learn more about how pioneering companies are overcoming these challenges and the associated operational and business benefits.  This year, one of the key Forum takeaways was that culture, rather than technology, is often one of the major barriers to digital transformation.

Ericsson has unveiled the next steps in the evolution of cellular IoT with the addition of two new defined markets, Industrial Automation IoT and Broadband IoT, to join the company’s existing cellular IoT market segments of Massive IoT and Critical IoT. 

Honeywell announced the latest release of Secure Media Exchange (SMX), a cybersecurity solution to protect industrial operators against new and emerging Universal Serial Bus (USB) threats.  SMX now includes patent pending capabilities to protect against a broad range of malicious USB device attacks, which disrupt operations through misuse of legitimate USB functions or unauthorized device actions.

KBC, a Yokogawa Company, announced the release of a new high-fidelity analytics technology, VM-MPO 6 at the ARC Industry Forum held in Orlando, Florida.

​​​​​​​Silixa Ltd announces the launch of Carina XwellXpress, the crosswell low frequency strain and microseismic monitoring service that accurately locates microseismic and strain events in real-time through wireline interventions.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium (OpenFog) announced that they have finalized the details to combine the two large and influential international consortia in Industrial IoT, fog and edge computing. 

Rockwell Automation introduced the new Allen-Bradley CompactLogix 5480 controller, designed to help industrial workers to strengthen their grasp of production and make more informed operating decisions.

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in January.

Executive Overview

The need to improve industry response to address cybersecurity risk is well established. Each new incident report increases awareness of the risks faced.

Today, many equipment manufacturers are reclaiming the service relationship from the distribution channels with a modern field service management system and remote monitoring, thus allowing the move from reactive to proactive services.  Adding IoT to their products provides the infrastructure for predictive maintenance and proactive service.