On factory floors and in production facilities across America, manufacturing leaders face relentless pressure to increase output while reducing costs. When quality issues, equipment failures, or ...

Proactive small-business owners don't wait for success to come to them. Instead, they deal with expected difficulties in advance. They devise business strategies that aim at lofty goals while taking ...

The autonomy and sophistication of assets continue to evolve as technology advances. That, and stiff competition, leaves no room for error in asset management ...

As colder climates test the resilience of renewable infrastructure, hydropower operators are refining ways to manage and monitor facilities in the winter.

Every business should look at how security procedures can protect its assets, employees and customer data. These procedures can range from physical locks and electronic security systems to firewall ...

Additions to Cisco's Data Center Network Assurance and Insights suite of software can detect problems in network switch fabric before they affect network services. Proactively fixing a network problem ...

Plants are taking two approaches to proactive security. For one, they’re creating a wall, or demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the company’s business system and the plant system (see chart at right).