Panduit Corp. a major provider of wire harness, heavy duty cable management, and control panel solutions, announced the launch of its new Panduit GTS-E, Cable Tie Hand Tool that offers its users a lower handle force and resulting impact shock to help increase productivity and better promote worker safety.
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced its first security assessment-focused testbed: the Security Claims Evaluation Testbed. IIC member organizations UL, Xilinx, Aicas and PrismTech are collaborating on the project to provide an open and easily configurable cybersecurity platform for evaluation of endpoint, gateway, and other networked components' security capabilities. Data sources can include industrial, automotive, medical and other related endpoints requested for secure operation analysis.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the launch of a solution to enable Voice over LTE for virtualized networks using TCS' Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Concerto platform.
Digital Technologies, such as virtualization and Cloud, are driving development of next-generation networks that are intelligent and programmable. In a world where smart-devices are growing rapidly and demand for mobile data is exploding, Virtualized mobile Networks help us maintain high end-user experience by improving service agility and scalability.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), announced the launch of its Digital Reimagination Studio in Santa Clara, designed to help customers and partners rapidly ideate bold new innovations and build industry changing concepts.
A large group of senior executives from major oil companies, offshore drilling contractors, maritime companies and service contractors attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday to mark the official opening of a new advanced simulation facility in Dubai.
Siemens India showcased state-of-the-art future-ready products and solutions at ELECRAMA 2016, held from February 13-17, 2016 in Bangalore, India. ELECRAMA is said to be the biggest congregation of men, machines and ideas that power the world around us. Among the solutions are efficient power transmission & distribution, automation systems, efficient drive systems, smart grid, intelligent buildings, and industrial software.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the launch of the Open Manufacturing Language (OML) initiative that directly addresses the need for a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly-specific Internet of Manufacturing solution. This will help enable IT teams, solution providers, and equipment providers to better integrate shop-floor data, which should help create or enhance added-value manufacturing execution solutions based on a single, normalized, vendor-neutral communication interface.
IBM announced it has donated Quarks to the open source community. Quarks offers a standard way to do analytics at the edge, enabling organizations to do continuous streaming analytics from the center to the edge. Quarks offerings a programming model and runtime that can be embedded in gateways and devices. Quarks addresses existing limitations by analyzing data locally, on gateways or at edge devices.
Bedrock Automation has introduced a cyber secure, standalone Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for industrial control system applications. The Bedrock UPS.500 features powerful onboard electronics that enhance the performance advantages of lithium ion (Li-Ion) polymer battery technology, manage Bedrock's patented deep authentication cyber protection and enable secure Ethernet communications. A sealed NEMA4x aluminum housing provides protection from cyber tampering and enables use amidst the most challenging field installations.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that its Mentor Embedded Linux (MEL) platform has been updated to Yocto 2.0 and expanded to include new security enhancements and additional industrial protocols. The new release includes Wurldtech Achilles Communications Certification Level 1 and Level 2, an industry benchmark for securing industrial connected devices. This certification protects the critical embedded infrastructure, helping to reduce the risks of cyber security threats and attacks.