By Nathan Spitalny, CEO of RDE Technologies
Walk through most small and mid-sized plants and you’ll find them: the Windows box running the HMI on line two, the SCADA workstation in the control room, the engineering laptop that only comes out when a PLC program needs changing. They keep production moving, and they are often the least-watched computers in the building.
Office IT usually gets the attention. Laptops are patched, email is filtered, and someone is alerted when a server fills up. The plant-floor PCs are different. They were set up by an integrator, they “just work,” and nobody wants to touch them in case a reboot stops a line. [Read more…] about The Factory PCs Nobody Patches: Why Automation Needs Remote Monitoring