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Track & Trace Becomes a Critical Operations Tool for Manufacturing
 Originally deployed for incident mitigation or avoidance, track-and-trace applications are now essential tools for achieving operational excellence.
Companies operating in industries regulated by governments look to track–and-trace systems comprised of software and various sensor inputs help them stay compliant. Consumer-facing companies have also adopted these systems in order to mitigate the extent of product recalls through being able to track from raw material to the store shelf just which lots have been affected by a defect or problem. Companies are now discovering that track-and-trace can be critical for control and operational excellence...
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Under Watchful Eyes
Under the leadership of Ted Angevaare, Dutch-based Shell is pursuing an aggressive, multimillion-dollar initiative to keep computer worms, viruses and cyber intruders out of its process control systems.
If you discovered that a computer worm or virus had infiltrated your distributed control system (DCS), what would you do?
When Shell, the major, Dutch-based petroleum company, asked its operators this question several years ago, their answers came quickly. They would call the corporate information technology (IT) help desk...
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Security and Safety Follow Parallel Paths
By picking the brains of functional safety experts, industrial cyber-security standards makers hope to make gains. Meanwhile, some companies are launching new business plans based on a tighter alignment between safety and cyber security.
The German word “sicherheit” means both safety and security, points out John Cusimano, director of security services at exida, a Sellersville, Pa.-based industrial safety services firm that recently added cyber-security services to its bag of capabilities...
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