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E Tech Group installed and commissioned a standard Electrical Power Monitoring System (EPMS) in parallel with a data center’s existing system to maintain the original combined EPMS and Building Management System (BMS) until it could be upgraded.
With increasing digitalization and the convergence of IT and OT networks, industrial facilities face more sophisticated cyber threats than ever before. Protecting sensitive data, production processes, and critical infrastructure is essential to avoid costly disruptions, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage. Secure Your Company with a Cybersecure Control System Cybersecurity continues to gain more and more momentum in manufacturing, and for good reason. Some of these facilities can be responsible for millions, sometimes billions of dollars in business, quickly gaining attention and, unfortunately, becoming a target for a cyberattack if not properly secured. At a time when manufacturing facilities tend to be among the most impacted by the decline in available workforce, the need for more flexibility in production capabilities takes precedence over most other initiatives. The rush to connect available assets for consolidated control and monitoring, and integrating their data collection and analysis, will sometimes push decision makers to leap before they look. Not always considering any of the following, or lack thereof, may become an active threat without proper planning: Too often, the process of upgrading and updating automated systems starts before taking stock of what measures are in place to protect this investment. Unfortunately, realizing they may not be as well protected as they once thought comes on the back of a cyber-attack, rendering them victims and leaving them to act REACTIVELY instead of PROACTIVELY. Nothing Beats a Proactive Approach to Industrial OT/ICS Security To avoid adding to any further expense to what can already be a hefty sum while performing any number of control system upgrades to remedy the aforementioned challenges, it’s best to act proactively. If done correctly, it can severely limit the vulnerability of a cyber-attack and provide the framework to continually assess, adapt and prevent most future threats. Being proactive will involve a combination of strategies and practices to expect, prevent, respond, … Continued
Data is an ever-present and growing benchmark in all industries. However, sometimes it may feel like it’s cloaked in mystery. There’s often a question of why collecting process data is important. You then start to go down the rabbit hole trying to answer: How do you get data out of your equipment? How do you decide what to collect? After assessing the previous questions, how do you test, and if necessary, validate that all of that data is being collected as expected? Understanding a holistic approach to data collection and validation from an AVEVA PI Historian System can help provide a high-level, big-picture understanding of the importance of process data. With more than 10 years’ experience as a group engineering manager, Matt Martin has a depth of experience with integrating AVEVA PI Systems within sites of various sizes – here’s what I’ve learned: Why is the Importance of Data Increasing? The “why” question is the easiest one to answer. Everyone can agree that in the era of modern manufacturing, extracting data from your manufacturing processes is critical to a business’s success and ability to grow. This includes every level of production and management: Having large representative data sets is becoming even more important with the advent of AI and, more specifically, machine learning. Allowing these technologies access to your system’s data helps identify patterns, overall system behavior, and correlations that were previously near impossible for the human eye to uncover. How to Collect Data from PI Historian Systems Now that we’ve discussed the “easy” part that everyone can agree on, we can begin to examine “How do you get data out of your equipment?” At a high level, you will need a process historian system. E Tech Group currently recommends the AVEVA PI System for its robust and rich feature set … Continued
E Tech Group upgraded a decades’ old, primitive control system in an irrigation water district treatment plant to allow for remote monitoring and control of some of their systems, more reliability, and less maintenance.
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