Why Technology Alone Will Not Solve Industrial Cyber Security Threats

Know your adversary – this is surely one of the essential steps in any program to improve security? If you don’t understand the nature of the threat, whether it is a human threat such as warfare or, more topically, a natural threat such as the novel coronavirus, then you are not going to understand how to protect yourself adequately.

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Profit Driven Operation

KPI – Key Performance Indicator: very often we hear this word whenever we join management level meetings, technical meetings, during discussions with operation managers and operators, etc. Each of them has a different set of KPIs, but the goal for everyone is to provide maximum benefit to their manufacturing plant.

In 2019, after visiting more than 50 manufacturing plants, Yokogawa came up with the solution, PDO: Profit Driven Operation. Yokogawa designed this new concept by creating a metrics that connects Business KPIs with Operations KPIs. Not only was this metrics created, but also created was a Dashboard that easily depicts the pain points that need immediate attention.

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