Automation technology suppliers are integrating robot kinematics directly into PLCs, simplifying programming, reducing costs, ...

Low-code and modular programming environments are transforming PLC programming, with vendors providing pre-packaged libraries and objects that eliminate traditional IEC-61131-3 style coding, allowing ...

An HVAC company in search of modern machine-control advantages finds an Arduino-compatible open PLC controller is the solution. Like many modern-day makers and hobbyists, I have always been inspired ...

Back in 1982, the CIA uncovered a plot by the Soviet Union to steal industrial software for controlling its rapidly expanding network of natural-gas pipelines. In response, the agency modified the ...

Update (July 17th): The authors of the Industroyer research, Anton Cherepanov and Robert Lipovsky, will present their findings at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas on July 26th, 2017. More information can be ...

Only a few times in the history of hacking has a piece of malicious code been spotted attempting to meddle directly with industrial control systems, the computers that bridge the gap between digital ...