HMS Networks acquires Red Lion Controls

HMS Networks acquires Red Lion Controls

HMS Networks acquires Red Lion ControlsHMS Networks acquires Red Lion Controls and significantly expands its presence in North America HMS Networks (HMS) has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Red Lion Controls, a distinguished provider of industrial...

Cyber security: Fit for 2023

Cyber security: Fit for 2023

Cyber security: Fit for 2023Currently, cyberattacks are increasingly targeting industrial companies. Our columnist Siegfried Müller explains why this is the case and what companies need to do now. The new year has only just begun and already there are some sensational...

Digitalization and IT security: How to solve the paradox

Digitalization and IT security: How to solve the paradox

Digitalization and IT security: How to solve the paradoxThe higher the level of digitalization, the greater the potential attack surfaces. Our columnist Siegfried Müller explains how you can resolve the paradox. In my penultimate column, I announced that I would take...

Edge Technology: These are the advantages

Edge Technology: These are the advantages

Edge Technology: These are the advantagesData is the foundation for successful business operations, writes our columnist. What's behind Edge Technology and why the technology is important for cybersecurity. Sometimes English terms are used by companies here in Germany...

Getting fit for the future with a retrofit

Getting fit for the future with a retrofit

Getting fit for the future with a retrofitOur columnist Siegfried Müller advises you to retrofit your old machine to make it fit and safe for digitalization. In this way, existing plants can continue to be operated effectively even in times of digitalization. Was...

Successful digitalization projects – Success Story brochure

Successful digitalization projects – Success Story brochure

Successful digitalization projectsFor over 25 years now, we have been a pioneer as a medium-sized company when it comes to solutions for industrial communication via the Internet. We offer you an end-to-end digitalization solution: from development and consulting to...

Moving from knowledge and will to action

Moving from knowledge and will to action

Moving from knowledge and will to actionSure - cybersecurity is a good thing. We know that. And we want it, because who wants to open the door to malicious code? But it's crucial to finally do something about it, says our columnist Siegfried Müller. A useful idea, if...

User Conference 2022 – tradition successfully continued

User Conference 2022 – tradition successfully continued

User Conference 2022 – tradition successfully continuedOn May 5, the time had finally come again: With around 40 participants from industrial automation on site at the Landhotel Rössle as well as 20 online, the first user conference started after the Covid-related...

MB connect line becomes part of Red Lion Controls Inc.

MB connect line becomes part of Red Lion Controls Inc.

MB connect line becomes part ofRed Lion Controls Inc.Ron Salerno, Jack Lee, Siegfried Müller, Rod SmithRed Lion Controls, an operating company of UK-based Spectris plc, is pleased to announce the acquisition of MB connect line GmbH, a leading provider of secure...

Whitepaper – A Hitchhiker’s Guide to EDGE-Technology

Whitepaper – A Hitchhiker’s Guide to EDGE-Technology

Whitepaper A Hitchhiker’s Guide to EDGE-TechnologyWelcome to this new white paper „From Value Chain to Value unchained – a Hitchhikers Guide to Edge Technology“. It represents the current state of work of the Interest-Group “EDGE“ of MindSphere World e.V. where our...

Remotely monitoring the energy production in biogas plants

Remotely monitoring the energy production in biogas plants

Remotely monitoring the energy production in biogas plantsFinsterwalder Umwelttechnik uses digitalization for process optimizationAccess to the machine or plant control system during commissioning or maintenance is now standard practice - and this is also the case at...

What will be important in cybersecurity in 2022?

What will be important in cybersecurity in 2022?

What will be important in cybersecurity in 2022?In his latest column, Siegfried Müller explains what cyber insurance is all about and which IT security measures companies should implement. Two things are obligatory at the beginning of the year: First, make good...

Ho Ho Ho – Big thanks from our team

Ho Ho Ho – Big thanks from our team

Ho Ho Ho - Big thanks from our teamThe second year in a row was demanding for all of us in many ways, both in business and in private. The more we appreciate that you have put your trust in us and remain loyal to us - even if some things did not work out as usual....

#stoptalkingstartplanting – Trees instead of presents

#stoptalkingstartplanting – Trees instead of presents

 Trees instead of presents #stoptalkingstartplantingAlready in the middle of the year, as part of our annual customer survey, we donated 500 trees, as a thank you for your participation, to the organization Plant for the Planet. Also at the end of the year we decided...

Security gap Log4j – we are secure

Security gap Log4j – we are secure

Security gap Log4j – We are secure Last Friday, a zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Log4j was disclosed, which the BSI warns. It puts many servers and apps at risk (CVE-2021-44228). But we have good news for you. With us you are on the...

MB connect line is GIT Security Award 2022 finalist – Vote now!

MB connect line is GIT Security Award 2022 finalist – Vote now!

MB connect line is GIT Security Award 2022 finalist – Vote now!We are proud and very happy that our mbNET.rokey has made it to the finalists of the GIT Security Award 2022. Until the 23rd of August you can vote for our industrial router in category A “Safety, IT &...

The plant world is remote!

The plant world is remote!

The plant world is remote! Successful remote access solution in the field of plastic processing.Kiefel relies on solutions from MB connect line for secure remote access.For more than 60 years, KIEFEL GmbH has been a supplier of machines and systems for plastic...

Reisopack improves customer value with remote services

Reisopack improves customer value with remote services

Reisopack improves customer value with remote services  Established a few kilometers North of Barcelona, Reisopack offers a variety of machines for strapping & tying, pallets strapping, pallets wrapping, box handling & sealing, as well as customized solutions...