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Procurement notes and technical articles grouped under News for industrial automation buyers.
Jul 15, 2026
Remote telemetry failures are often treated as communication problems until a water station, tank farm, pump house, pipeline valve site, or substation disappears from the control room. At that point the question becomes practical: does the maintenance team have the gateway, modem, antenna, power supply, cables, and configuration evidence needed to restore visibility? DriveKNMS readers…
Jul 14, 2026
A historian server can fail quietly for months before anyone treats it as a spare-parts problem. Operators still see live values. Production continues. Then an audit, incident review, power event, or server fault exposes the truth: trend history, alarm context, batch evidence, and maintenance diagnostics were depending on one under-documented machine. DriveKNMS readers should treat…
Jul 7, 2026
Advisory reviews often focus on patching, isolation, or device replacement. For monitoring teams, the final question is more practical: after the spare is installed, do operators actually have alarms, visibility, trends, and confidence? HMI alarm acceptance should be part of the recovery plan, not an afterthought. DriveKNMS readers know that monitoring failures are rarely judged…
Jul 5, 2026
The latest CISA ICS advisory list is a useful reminder that monitoring recovery depends on more than application updates. A plant may own spare hardware, yet still lose alarm visibility, trends, reports, or remote diagnostics if the backup cannot be restored. Backup validation is the quiet spare check that prevents blind recovery. DriveKNMS readers often…
Jul 3, 2026
The July 2, 2026 CISA advisory for ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals is a monitoring-system recovery story. A remote site may have a healthy controller and a clean local HMI, yet the control room can still lose visibility if the satellite terminal, router, power supply, or antenna path fails. For reliability teams, that is not…
Jul 1, 2026
CISA advisory ICSA-26-181-02 for Frangoteam FUXA SCADA/HMI, released on June 30, 2026, should make plants look closely at lightweight monitoring systems. These systems are often installed for utility skids, packaging cells, pilot lines, remote assets, energy dashboards, or small OEM packages. They may not carry the same governance as a major DCS, but they can…
Jun 30, 2026
The June 25, 2026 CISA advisory for Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS and Collaborative Information Server is not only a Yokogawa issue for maintenance teams. It is a reminder that SCADA and monitoring servers are now part of the plant recovery chain. When an advisory asks the site to review exposure, update software, or restrict access, the practical…
Jun 28, 2026
The June 25, 2026 CISA advisory for Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS and Collaborative Information Server should be read as a monitoring-system recovery prompt. The advisory describes sensitive information exposure in affected versions and recommends updates or version changes. For DriveKNMS readers, the most useful operational question is not only whether the software can be updated. It is…
Jun 26, 2026
CISA’s June 25, 2026 advisory for Delta Electronics DTM Soft is a useful reminder that engineering software belongs inside the spare-parts conversation. The advisory describes a deserialization of untrusted data issue that may allow arbitrary code execution. Delta is working on a fix and recommends workarounds such as avoiding unsolicited project files and untrusted links….
Jun 25, 2026
On June 23, 2026, CISA published advisory ICSA-26-174-07 for the Hubbell Aclara Metrum Cellular Web Interface. The advisory describes missing authentication for critical functions, with potential impact on configuration and communications. For a maintenance team, the practical lesson reaches beyond one device name. Remote telemetry equipment can sit far from the control room, but it…
