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On 22 July, 1962, NASA’s Mariner 1 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, set to complete humanity’s very first interplanetary flyby of Venus. The Atlas-Agena rocket climbed perfectly into the clear Florida sky for exactly 293 seconds, when it began to veer erratically off course.
In the world of industrial automation, isolating OT from IT has been the paradigm for cybersecurity best practices for decades. It’s simple and it’s highly effective – if physical processes are isolated from the IT network, an IT breach doesn’t result in a major operational disruption. This isolation was referred to as the hard air-gap. In this siloed ecosystem, a facility’s legacy PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA networks were significantly less exposed to external cyber threats because of physical isolation, though risks from removable media, contractors, and internal access still existed.
E Tech Group will present and exhibit at the 2026 ISPE Boston Area Chapter Product Show on October 7 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Sura Hadi, Director of Laboratory Automation and Industrial Robotics (LAIR), will lead a session titled “From Pilot to Production: Scaling Lab Automation Without Breaking Compliance, Data Integrity, or Teams,” exploring the challenges organizations face when expanding successful lab automation initiatives into regulated production environments. Attendees can also visit E Tech Group at Booth W69 to discuss laboratory automation, robotics, systems integration, compliance, and strategies for scaling automation.
E Tech Group, a leading provider of industrial automation and systems integration, 2025 System Integrator of the Year, and Platinum-certified Rockwell Automation Partner, today announced an Authorized System Integrator Agreement with Rainbow Robotics that expands E Tech Group’s collaborative robotics offering for customers across the United States. Under the agreement, E Tech Group serves as a Servicing System Integrator for Rainbow Robotics’ collaborative robot lineup.
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