How do manufacturers reduce costs and cycle times while increasing productivity, yields and market share? Through digitization. Digitization means greater connectivity and data. As more and more devices are connected to networks, silos are removed and data from each device can be transformed into a treasure chest of valuable information.

Our industrial customers—many of them producers and manufacturers—tend to deal with workflows that are highly concrete and tangible. Whether they are manufacturing tires, brewing beer, building automobiles, blending salad dressings, processing chemicals, formulating pharmaceuticals, refining crude oil or cleaning wastewater, the inputs of raw materials and the outputs of finished goods are fairly visible. Theoretically, you could hold them in your hands—although, clearly, you’d rather hold some in your hands more than others.

To help provide a flavor of the insights and experience that Tripwire makes available, we’re interviewing several Tripwire in-house experts. You’ll learn more about how they have been working with Belden industrial customers to help bolster their network security and optimize their uptime in today’s challenging environment.

Wireless technology has become reliable enough to handle nearly any kind of network traffic. Even mission-critical production operations and vital safety systems information can transmit wirelessly with little concern for any deficit between wired and wireless performance. As a leader in wireless Wi-Fi connectivity products—such as the Hirschmann BAT industrial wireless Ethernet radio LAN client line—Belden is proud of its role in the industry, giving operations technology (OT) professionals greater flexibility in their network design options.

Beginning January 1, 2020 there will be a new login process for managed devices to better prevent the creation of botnets.