Building a Safety Component Fortress Around Equipment
Safety systems play a crucial role in industrial equipment, protecting personnel, guarding against machine damage, and minimizing unscheduled downtime. To make a machine totally safe, we could build a wall around it, cut the power, send staff home, and lock the doors after them. That approach isn’t particularly practical, however. Instead, we use safety technology to detect hazardous conditions and bring equipment to a known safe state as quickly as  possible Let’s look at the tools and techniques we can use to accomplish this goal.
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Cybersecurity: Pursuing Basics First
For industrial automation users, the cybersecurity struggle is compounded by the variety and vintages of devices and technologies present in their operations, and often in service for many years before cybersecurity was a serious consideration. The volume of cyberattacks continue to increase and the threats become more sophisticated, and both offensive and defensive technologies evolve. Furthermore, standards and regulations continue to be updated.
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