The annual UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition is set to take place on 6 June 2019 at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes.

Phoenix Contact, Weidmüller, Reichle & De-Massari, Belden, and Fluke Networks recently announced that they are to jointly develop mutually compatible components for Single Pair Ethernet (SPE).

Together, Rittal and Innovo Cloud have created digital twins as well as the necessary infrastructure ecosystem for connected Industry 4.0 scenarios.

Dr Maurice J Wilkins offers some food for thought about the need for UK industry to come together to ensure that the engineering workforce is prepared for the digital transformation.

PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) has published a security whitepaper documenting the basic concepts for protecting the PROFINET protocol.

ODVA has released its first round of specification enhancements to its technologies for 2019, which includes specific enhancements to the EtherNet/IP Specification, including key updates to the CIP Security technology.

The new Rittal plant in Haiger represents the company’s largest-ever single investment, enabling it to establish an advanced manufacturing facility for its new AX compact and KX small enclosure ranges. The facility has been designed to embrace the principles of Industry 4.0.

Brian Harrison highlights the findings of a report on the cost of cyber security testing for manufacturers.

PROCENTEC has announced the addition of three new shareholders / partners. Pieter Barendrecht, Matthew Dulcey and Raoul Heesters will, in addition, form the basis of a new board and will work together to steer the future of the company.

Avnu Alliance, an industry consortium driving open, standards-based deterministic networking, has produced a new technical whitepaper, titled Avnu Alliance Business Impact Whitepaper on Time Sensitive Networking: New tools to manage and converge networks, improve performance and reduce costs.

Research has found that the manufacturing sector has the greatest potential for energy savings, yet many organisations are failing to act on opportunities to cut cost and carbon.

Moxa has announced its participation in the OPC Foundation Field Level Communications (FLC) initiative as part of its ongoing commitment to the development of time-sensitive networking (TSN) technologies.

Phoenix Contact is one of the first companies in Germany to have been certified by TÜV SÜD in accordance with the IEC 62443-4-1 and 2-4 series of standards for IT security.

Following significant growth in the use of mobile plant equipment, Bureau Veritas is warning companies to be vigilant when it comes to achieving compliance.

ODVA has released the first round of specification enhancements to its technologies for 2019, which included specific enhancements to The EtherNet/IP specification, including key updates to the CIP Security technology.

Siemens Digital Industries Software and SAS have announced a partnership that will help companies create new IoT edge and cloud-enabled solutions by applying SAS and open source streaming analytics through MindSphere.

Emerson has acquired KnowledgeNet (KNet) software from Integration Objects. KNet’s analytics application software is designed to accelerate digital transformation initiatives for process and hybrid industries.

The addition of a new portfolio of PLCs – part of Emerson’s acquisition of General Electric Co.’s Intelligent Platforms group – has allowed the company to offer more end-to-end automation solutions for its traditional process control customers.

Emerson has received the industry’s first ISASecure System Security Assurance (SSA) Level 1 certification for cybersecurity for its latest DeltaV distributed control system (DCS).

Industrial camera manufacturer IDS is running Industrial Vision Days in the UK at the National Space Centre, Leicester on 14th May 2019 and HMS Belfast, London 16th May 2019.