Manufactured Disruption: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems February 10, 2023 Manufacturers need to adopt proactive threat modeling for their cyber-physical systems to map the connections between IT and OT.
CMMC 2.0 Update; 5 Basic Steps for Cybersecurity August 1, 2022 The structure of CMMC 2.0 has been streamlined to be slightly less stringent and easier to implement, especially for shops in the lower tiers of the supply chain.
Safe & Secure? July 27, 2022 Black hats, script kiddies, phishers, and hostile nation-states. Bad actors are out there, fervently working to sabotage your factory and steal your stuff. What are you doing about it?
First-Time Automation With RaaS At Polar Manufacturing January 28, 2022 Polar has successfully “hired” a robot with Formic, realizing a return on investment from the second the robot turned on.
Traceability tech proving its value October 5, 2021 After a few years of mostly hype, blockchain is starting to deliver and prove its value in manufacturing, particularly in aerospace and defense and within additive manufacturing.
CMMC: Experts parse DoD’s new cybersecurity rules January 19, 2021 Current and prospective member companies of the defense industrial base (DIB) have watched with interest as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) developed its all-encompassing Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
Manufacturers Say Cybersecurity Threats Starting to Overwhelm Resources November 17, 2020 Most manufacturing executives participating in a survey said cybersecurity threats are beginning to overwhelm their resources.
Supply Chains Present Cybersecurity Risks, Report Says September 23, 2020 Supply chains are creating cybersecurity risks for companies, according to a security services firm report.
Reducing Complexity in Assembly Equipment May 25, 2022 In this podcast, John Derry, senior application engineer at Promess, talks to SME Media contributing editor Michael Anderson about reducing complexity in assembly equipment. Derry discusses how assembly systems may become unnecessarily complex--and how that complexity can reduce quality and increase costs. Derry goes on to describe effective ways of addressing these issues and to reduce and even eliminate unnecessary complexity.