Category: Best Practices

Success for cybersecurity in the manufacturing space requires listening to your employees, from their local expertise to their concerns. To not overcomplicate the day-to-day of your operators, it is crucial to form a holistic security strategy that focuses on OT protection as much as it does on IT solutions. Without this conscious approach, security can […]

The Challenge Manufacturers that distribute products and manage inventory at many geographically dispersed sites struggle to predict replenishment timing and quantity accurately. For example, chemical manufacturers bound to vendor-managed inventory agreements make truck rolls to thousands of remote tank sites either when the tank is already empty (too late) or when the tank level is […]

Adopting smart factory concepts and components can bring great value to your business but understanding how to approach the technology upgrades, and what integration looks like for your facilities, can be a challenging endeavor. In this podcast, we’ll highlight how smart factories, also known as smart manufacturing, smart refining, or digital operations, leverage rapidly advancing […]

Today, health organizations are using AWS to build cloud workloads that can help improve patient care and drive healthcare innovation forward. These innovative methods are increasing operational efficiency, and creating new, data-driven care plans—all designed to help improve people’s health. Cloud workloads can unlock information contained within a health dataset through comprehensive analytics, or can […]

Introduction The Semiconductor Industry is working to establish Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) standards with the help of science-based targets. As a result, there is an increasing demand to collect and understand operational and product related data for accounting, reporting and optimization. Businesses are now looking to assume responsibility for their products across their […]

Introduction Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads have traditionally run on-premises on a combination of latest and older generation compute servers. The performance penalty of running Electronic Design Automation (EDA) on older generation hardware is often neglected in discussions and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models. With EDA license costs greatly exceeding IT spend in silicon […]

In our final episode during cybersecurity awareness month, we turn our discussion with Robert to examine the myths and misunderstandings surrounding industrial IoT systems that persist throughout the manufacturing industry. Robert tells us “A lot of the myths that are out there with regards to industrial IoT systems, unfortunately, misdirect us. They make us think […]

Overview We hope you are ready for SPS 2022 (Smart Production Solutions), because we want to see you there! This year’s show theme focuses on bringing automation to life, and that all starts with smart manufacturing—achieved through cloud-based technologies that simplify digital transformation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technology can enable the innovation and agility […]

It’s no question that your security needs in the future are likely to change from what they are today. In this episode, we explore how you can stay ahead of your security needs by creating a security strategy that evolves with your business. Join us as we continue our cybersecurity awareness conversation with Robert from […]

Tips for Managing Your Vendors Securely, While Maintaining Control Today’s episode is a continuation of our conversation with Robert Albach, a leader in product management for secure firewall / industrial security at Cisco Systems. We’ll dive into the complex world of securely managing vendor integration and the importance of doing it while maintaining control within […]