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Element Analytics offers customers an API integration with Amazon Web Services AWS IoT SiteWise to help centralize and manage industrial plant data. Element Analytics Inc. is an industrial analytics software company that helps organizations to transform their data.   Element Bridges IT/OT Gap The company focuses on aligning IT and OT (operational technology) around contextualized metadata to help create smarter digitally-enabled operations.  Recently, Element announced a new API (application programming interface) integration between its flagship solution, Element Unify, and a managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS IoT SiteWise.    Element Unify Element Unify promises to align and scale OT/IT operational data to...

The b maXX PLC, Baumüller's new breakthrough in hybrid PLC and PC technology, will be unveiled on April 12th at the Hannover Messe Digital Edition.The Baumüller Group, headquartered in Nuremberg, is a German company that specializes in designing and producing industrial electric drive and automation systems.The company, which was established in 1930, now employs over 1,900 people in over 40 locations around the world. Baumüller is a top ten supplier of drive and automation engineering solutions and is ISO 9001:2015 certified. Baumüller provides dive and power engineering, shaft maintenance, servo motors, AC/DC motors, generators, and transformers, among other services.Installation, troubleshooting,...

Ransomware attacks and other malicious attempts continue to target the industrial manufacturing sector.Molson Coors, a global brewing firm, disclosed a cybersecurity incident to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week (SEC).WestRock, a packaging firm, revealed last month that it had been the target of a ransomware attack. The attacks follow a year of threats and malicious attempts to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic's consequences. Molson Coors and WestRock have also been victims of cyber-attacks.Molson Coors filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 11 detailing the attacks that interrupted routine operations.To put things in perspective, the...

Learn about the functions and types of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), as well as why they are critical in control systems. The first continuous power supply designs were developed in the early twentieth century, with the first UPS system patent issued in 1934.Several decades later, during the PC era, when hard drives were less resistant than they are today, the modern UPS emerged. Physical damage and corrupted directories in the hard disk were more likely to result from a sudden loss of power in a server rack. What exactly is a UPS?A UPS (uninterruptible power supply) is a system that...