Monitoring, maintenance, redundancy, failure, recovery and lifecycle operations.
Cybersecurity
Rockwell SD1794 lists four denial-of-service vulnerabilities in RSLinx Classic V4.50 and earlier, fixed in V4.60. The crash is a known event; the blast radius at any site is a question only that site's own inventory can answer.
Agriculture
South African agriculture grows at about 3 percent a year against an economy growing under one, yet the digital layer underneath it, the connectivity, energy, water data and export-traceability systems, is only beginning to be built and, in places, only beginning to be measured.
Agriculture
Machine vision in a fresh-produce packhouse is a whole integrated line, not a camera, and it pays for itself through throughput and claims avoidance, not through labour savings alone. This is what a South African packhouse manager should weigh before buying.
Agriculture
Farm SCADA is not one magic box. It is a chain of local controllers, valve actuators, telemetry and phone alerts, and it earns its keep only where control points, night labour and the cost of a missed event justify it.