Yokogawa's Centennial Forum was held in Tokyo on November 5, 2015. At the event, their new corporate vision, "Co-innovating Tomorrow," was introduced to around 100 executive guests, including clients and worldwide business partners.
PAS Inc., a leading solution provider of process safety, cybersecurity, and asset reliability for the energy, power, and process industries announces the latest release of their ICS cybersecurity software, Cyber Integrity 5.0. With enhanced support for workflows and security policies, the software now automates a closed-loop patch management process and provides enhanced dashboard capabilities.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the availability of its customizable edge-to-cloud IoT solution that enables companies to get its product to market quicker while helping to reduce risk, cost, and development cycles. The Mentor IoT solution comprises a unique customizable IoT gateway System Design Kit (SysDK), a cloud backend, and runtime solutions on which to build an array of IoT edge devices.
Rockwell Automation has added three new applications to its Rockwell Software Studio 5000 development environment to help engineers speed development of automation systems as they design a Connected Enterprise. These applications, along with the Studio 5000 Logix Designer application released in 2012, bring more functionality together into one environment to help improve automation design productivity.
The Studio 5000 environment now includes the following:
Rockwell Automation will release PlantPAx model predictive control (MPC) software, which for the first time embeds fully functional MPC technology into Logix controllers to help maximize equipment performance. When used in process applications ranging from consumer to heavy industries, PlantPAx MPC reportedly can help improve overall control in a single machine or an entire line to help to maximize throughput, increase yield, reduce quality variability and improve energy usage.
Rockwell Automation released its new IO-Link master for the Allen-Bradley POINT I/O system and IO-Link enabled sensors, designed to help users go beyond detecting machine problems to help enhance machine productivity. The IO-Link master consists of enhanced sensors used to help simplify configuration and implementation, monitor machine health, and communicate data and diagnostics in real-time via the global IO-Link communication protocol.
Siemens and the Maharashtra state government will start dialysis centers at Government Medical College (GMC) and Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India by January 2016. Siemens will also impart training and manage the functional aspects.
IBM Redesigns its Flagship BI Solution with Built-In Smarts for Accelerated Modeling and Reporting
IBM announced a redesigned user experience of its flagship business intelligence solution, Cognos Analytics, based on the same self-service design principles as Watson Analytics.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced an update to the Mentor Embedded Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) targeting low power applications for connected embedded and internet of things (IoT) devices. The Nucleus RTOS supports the development of applications utilizing the ARM TrustZone in Cortex-A processors. The ARM TrustZone technology provides a system approach to create processor partitioning that isolates both hardware resources and software to help create a more secure world that is better protected from software attacks.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will be releasing an enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) on November 27. This new version, R4.01, features an expansion of Yokogawa's lineup of I/O devices and introduces crucial new SIS components. In addition, the FieldMate Validator software has been enhanced to work with this latest version of ProSafe-RS.
Outline of new features of R4.01 includes as follows: