For decades, manufacturing and supply chain-based businesses have operated with two types of technology, each operating in its separate lane. Operational technology (OT) ran the plant or warehouse, ...

Real-time data integration and other IT/OT convergence practices will become increasingly important to Tucson Electric Power as it continues to expand its renewable energy portfolio. TEP is working to ...

A decade-old relationship between Rockwell Automation and Cisco Systems has grown up around the insight that the plant floor would need to work more closely with enterprise IT. If you were one of the ...

Design and implementation of an industrial shop-floor service. Global enterprise manufacturing brands have finally started an industry 4.0 journey to uncover the power of data from their IT, supply ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Not all that long ago, the cybersecurity ...

Co-developed with AVEVA, industrial edge reference designs enable system integrators to simplify IT deployments and facilitate their customers' digital transformations Schneider Electric Exchange ...

End-to-end security between converging information technology and operational technology worlds is imperative, but technical and cultural differences separate them. Here’s how to close the gap.

A fireside chat-style panel during Hannover Messe 2021 discussed ways in which companies are implementing data-driven technologies in their factories. Executives from Bosch and Estee Lauder provided ...

Due to the expected increased demand on industrial production and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), industry is starting to recognize the value of converging the plant floor with the higher ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

As the boundaries between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) dissolve, identity is becoming the connective tissue and the point of greatest vulnerability. Industrial and ...