Dedham MA; May 2 2005: The worldwide market for Industrial Ethernet Devices is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 51.4% over the next five years The market totaled 840,000 units in 2004 and is forecasted to total just Learn more

IEN Have strides been made in Risk management? Integrated systems design? Emergency response? Hazard controls? Computer security? Crisis management? Please explain.Dustin Administrators of control systems have begun to realize that security Learn more

NetOp Desktop FirewallAddressing the security needs that corporations encounter when employees take corporate laptops outside the protection of the perimeter firewall the NetOp Desktop Firewall developed by Danware Data A/S offers sophisticated Learn more

IEN How can collaborative manufacturing management strategies address problems related to integrating design with the industrial enterprise?Black The life of a product begins in design But the rest of the organization still must manage the Learn more

IEN How can collaborative manufacturing management strategies address problems related to integrating design with the industrial enterprise?Clambaneva There are many strategies that can be applied to integrating design with the industrial Learn more

IEN What are the major concerns facing the materials sector and how can they be addressed?Hausserman One of the major concerns facing our business today is raw material/resin pricing Most engineered resins have gone up as much as 40% just in the Learn more

IEN What are the major concerns facing the materials sector and how can they be addressed?Reitz Within niche markets like the rapid prototyping materials arena a key challenge is balancing investment in the development of new materials technology Learn more

IEN Will HMI/MMI shift from client-server to device-based architectures? Where does Thin Client fit in?Sielinski Advances in technology have resulted in a much broader distribution of intelligent devices in the manufacturing environment which is Learn more

Rosslyn VA February 4 2004 -- The Joint NEMA/COCIR/JIRA Security and Privacy Committee (SPC) has issued a white paper "Defending Medical Information Systems Against Malicious Software," which provides a guide for vendors and users on how to Learn more

IEN How much progress do you see toward integrating the different segments of product development -- design engineering manufacturing supply chain? What major hurdles remain and how can they be addressed?Lowenstein This is an area which many Learn more