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Softing Industrial at Hannover Messe 2025

Enabling Seamless Data Integration and Industrial IoT Connectivity

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Industrial Ethernet Week 4 provides exciting insights

Ethernet: Success factor for the energy transition in the All Electric Society

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Artificial intelligence in smart manufacturing

AI technology is helping to empower automation and control engineers by automating routine tasks, improving system efficiency, and …

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State Of Industrial Networking In Manufacturing 2024

AI in manufacturing: 2024 Industrial Networking Report

The Cisco 2024 State of Industrial Networking Report for Manufacturing reveals how manufacturing firms worldwide are designing and …

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Defense-in-depth strategies apply countermeasures in layers from physical security, to policies and procedures, zones and conduits, malware prevention, access controls, monitoring and detection, plus network patches.

To harness the power of AI, tackle the first mile

Out of the box solutions move data easily and securely from operations to IT. IT specialists don’t always …

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Convolutional neural networks: machine learning—Part 1

The main application areas for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are pattern recognition and classification of objects contained in …

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Convolutional neural networks: the training process—Part 2

This three part series of articles explains convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their significance in machine learning within …

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Convolutional neural networks: hardware conversion—Part 3

Previously, AI applications required massive energy consumption. Now, microcontrollers with a dedicated CNN accelerator make it possible to …

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Industrial Wireless in the Smart Factory

Industrial Wireless Technology Update

5G and Wi-Fi6/6E wireless technologies are now enabling standard, real-time communication in control processes, which was previously reserved exclusively for wired communication or proprietary wireless solutions.

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“With comprehensive visibility, you can restrict communications between assets by using software solutions creating security policies to segment the industrial network into smaller zones of trust as recommended by the ISA/IEC62443 security standard,” -- Andrew McPhee, Solution Architect - Industrial security, Cisco.

Industrial Cybersecurity Progress Report

Industrial cybersecurity has become an overarching, top priority for manufacturing as the move to the Industrial Internet of Things and cloud computing has created an environment where the traditional air-gap approach to security is not sufficient.

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“Industrial Ethernet is evolving at a fast pace. Not only is there a greater need to conform to the requirements of the IT network environment, but things are always changing and the industrial network has more and more requirements,” Mike Willett, Network Engineer, Red Lion.

Looking at the future of Industrial Ethernet technology

Join us in celebrating 50 years since Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet technology, but "industrialized" Ethernet is also celebrating its own milestone after passing the quarter century mark.

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