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Facing 21 CFR Part 11 and Data Integrity Requirements With Confidence Travis Cox Fri, 07/12/2019 - 11:53
Like all industries, companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are concerned with protecting and getting more insight from their data. Additionally, the issues of electronic-record and electronic-signature management and data integrity have become increasingly important for these industries in recent years. This has been driven by 21 CFR Part 11 and ALCOA standards, which are in place to help ensure the quality and safety of all pharmaceutical products.
Get 4 Monumental Wins by Aligning OT and IT Arnell Ignacio Tue, 08/14/2018 - 09:01
As IIoT and other data-centric concepts are realized in businesses and on factory floors all over the world, the practice of aligning operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) is becoming more and more necessary. Leading technology-research company Gartner defines OT-IT Integration as “the end state sought by organizations (most commonly, asset-intensive organizations) where instead of a separation of IT and OT as technology areas with different areas of authority and responsibility, there is an integrated process and information flow.”
12 Powerful Ways to Use PLCs with SQL Databases - Part 2 Lauren Walters Mon, 06/18/2018 - 07:51
PLC to SQL database connections allow the Ignition community to find new and unique solutions for industrial control systems with far less time and money.
12 Powerful Ways to Use PLCs with SQL Databases - Part 1 Lauren Walters Tue, 06/12/2018 - 07:41
Before he founded Inductive Automation, our CEO Steve Hechtman worked as a control system integrator and often encountered the obstacle of being unable to make operations-side data available to the IT side. This inspired Steve and his team of developers to create a tool — now known as the Ignition SQL Bridge Module — that moves data bidirectionally between PLCs and SQL databases using OPC. Since then, members of the Ignition community have used the versatile capabilities of the SQL Bridge Module to implement many creative and effective solutions in their industrial systems. Co-Director of Sales Engineering Travis Cox highlighted a dozen of the most useful SQL Bridge tips in the webinar “12 Ways to Use PLCs and SQL Databases Together.” In this two-part blog series, we’ll unpack each of these tips in some detail.