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More answers on bridging the gap from edge to cloud MES to make automation more effective

Control Engineering

Harrison : The MES should be secure to protect sensitive data. We have a lot of information in these systems. This is how we build our products, this is the steps that each product takes, this is, if in a process manufacturing environment, we have our recipes. Edited by Mark T.

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7 ways SCADA software can advance IIoT implementations, if you do it right

Control Engineering

Northbound integration: Modern SCADA systems are vast repositories of data and layered analytics. SCADA solutions are now equipped with modules that can package data into contextualized transactions, as appropriate for the information systems these are feeding. smart manufacturing and digital transformation.