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Ensure a Smooth IIoT Implementation By Avoiding These Pitfalls
An IIoT adoption strategy changes how every company works. ICA Engineering will help your organization adapt to embrace all of your new IIoT capacities.
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The Cost-Saving Benefits of IIoT for Your Control System
ICA Engineering gives its clients the wireless tools to modernize their operations and systems using cutting-edge IIoT devices and programming.
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February 8, 2023
IT, OT, and IIoT: Where These Technology Types Diverge & Intersect
IIoT systems unify today's technologies into an industrial automation architecture to improve production processes, enhance safety, and save money.
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January 19, 2023
See IIoT in Action With Critical Use Case Examples
The automated systems and smart machines that comprise the Industrial Internet of Things promise to revolutionize how industries function. Read about these examples.
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January 17, 2023
What is the IIoT? Streamline Your Control System Communications
Cloud computing, automation, and smart devices combine to give every organization distinct advantages over their competition. Industrial automation systems provide system-wide control over these Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) constellations, enhancing enterprise competitiveness even more.
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January 9, 2023
Avoid Common System Pitfalls with MES
Learn how MES can help your manufacturing operation avoid common systems pitfalls, such as inconsistent quality controls or internal communications lapses.
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December 20, 2022
How to Leverage MES Data to Benefit Your Industrial Operations
How do you create actionable and readable MES reports? Find out the importance of live environments, manual review, and cause codes for leveraging MES data.
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November 30, 2022
MES: A Preventative Measure for Your Industrial System
How can you use an MES to build preventative plans for your industrial operation? Find out how your team should approach data entry and model testing.
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October 28, 2022
How an MES Optimizes Industrial Processes
Discover how an MES offers insights into a manufacturer's operational efficiency and generates improvements that can radically improve bottom lines.
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October 14, 2022
What is a Management Execution System?
Management Execution Systems are the next phase for manufacturing software, building on the control of industrial computers offered by SCADAs. MES can dramatically improve productivity by leveraging real-time data collection and emergent technologies like machine learning.
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Best Practices for Intrinsic Safety in Multi-Designation Sites
In multi-designation sites, should you be running a range of safety protocols? ICA explores how a holistic approach and intrinsic safety can efficiently and cost-effectively make facilities safer places to work.
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July 1, 2022
Intrinsic Safety vs. Containment Methods: What Are the Pros and Cons for Your Industrial Setting?
Industrial hazards vary from site to site, but there is always the risk of fire and explosion – ICA takes a look at various industrial safety methods, including containment, purging, and intrinsic safety.
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May 26, 2022
Evaluating Risks and Planning Remediation: Getting the Most for Your Industrial Organization from a System Lifecycle Analysis
System lifecycle management means understanding every part of your system and having contingencies in place to deal with all kinds of business-halting situations.
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May 10, 2022
Taking Stock: Implementing the Critical First Steps of System Lifecycle Analysis for Industrial Organizations
System lifecycle management is a way to ensure industrial systems meet current regulations and are recoverable to maintain business continuity. In this article, we take a deeper dive into the first two steps in this process: Inventory Evaluation and Gap Analysis.
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April 26, 2022
An Executive’s Guide to Navigating the Pros and Cons of Investing in an Asset Management Solution for Industrial Organizations
Welcome to the third article in our series on industrial asset management and business continuity, exploring the pros and cons of system lifecycle management for industrial automation and complex industrial systems.
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April 12, 2022
Knowing Your Vulnerabilities: System Lifecycle Analysis as a Key Component to Industrial Security
As you create mitigation strategies to stop future attacks, hackers are always looking for new ways to bypass these strategies, and industrial operations must employ carefully plotted contingency plans and careful system lifecycle management.
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