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FAB yield enhancement system
A semiconductor fabrication systems, identifying the sources of wafer defects and using this information to control the processes in a fabrication plant....
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Icron President & CEO Speaks at Connections Conference
[Industry] [control systems] [analysis] [software] [materially] [control]
With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Mr. ... CONNECTIONS(TM) sessions provide high-level research, knowledge, and analysis to over 1,000 executives from the converging industries developing products and services for consumers. ...
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Maple 12 Sets the Stage for Analytical Productivity
[engineering] [analysis] [industry] [control systems] [software] [signal]
The new Dynamic Systems package offers a large selection of analytic and graphing tools for linear time-invariant systems, which are essential in control systems development. ... When Maplesoft of Waterloo, Canada, a provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, released Maple 12 for solving complex mathematical problems and creating rich technical documents, it said it broke new ground in engineering software with ?an extensive new feature set.? Maple is offering seamless connectivity to the engineering design toolchain through direct connectivity bet...
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Critical Vulnerability Exposes Utilities to Web Attack
[industrial] [industries] [SCADA] [control] [software]
Security firm Core Security Technologies issued an advisory indicating that thousands of companies using Citect?s SCADA systems could unknowingly be exposing critical industrial processes and assets if they do not immediately move to apply the vendor-provided patch. ... The flaw, a common buffer overflow error, could allow a remote un-authenticated attacker to force an abnormal termination of the vulnerable software (Denial of Service) or to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems to gain complete control of the software. ...
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Rising Diesel Prices Renew Interest in Fuel Saving Technologies
[control system] [industry] [controls] [system] [prototype] [stability]
Beyond the trucking industry, that would help consumers who see the effects of fuel costs in everything they buy. ... Diesel fuel prices approaching $5 a gallon and the resulting economic impact on products transported by truck have created renewed interest in fuel-saving technologies developed during the past decade at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)....
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Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable to Hack Attack
[system] [control] [software] [supervisory control and data acquisition] [CitectSCADA] [ SCADA] [SCADA] [data acquisition]
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, CitectSCADA, was discovered five months ago by ... A system-management software program used in Western nuclear, oil and gas, and water sectors is vulnerable to attacks in which hackers could shut down or hijack entire plants and utility networks,the Associated Press...
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scada
[SCADA] [control] [Software] [Engineering] [system] [control system]
SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and... ... Researchers at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory have shown that it's possible to remotely hack into a control system for an electrical generator and cause it to fail--not just stop, but actually fly apart. ...
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How's Your SCADA reliability?
[SCADA] [industries] [Control] [Data Acquisition] [analysis] [systems]
How's Your SCADA reliability? ... SCADA has been around for years in various industries, but the concept is primed for much wider application...
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Utilities vulnerable to hackers, experts say
[systems] [control] [Control systems] [industry] [SCADA] [supervisory control and data acquisition] [software] [data acquisition]
But the vulnerability could have counterparts in other so-called supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems. ... -- Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday....
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Rising diesel prices renew interest in fuel-saving technologies for heavy trucks
[industry] [control system] [stability] [control"] [system] [prototype] [Engineering]
Beyond the trucking industry, that would help consumers who see the effects of fuel costs in everything they buy." ... For additional comparisons, the test truck was also run without the experimental blowing equipment....
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Customers run top supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
[industries] [control system] [software] [engineering] [hardware] [system]
Leveraging the economics of open source software and low cost hardware, Novell, together with its partners, is bringing the same high performance computing capabilities utilized in supercomputers to enterprises and mid-market customers in a range of industries, including manufacturing, research and academic organizations. ... These computers are used to evaluate next-generation technology to meet NASA's engineering and science requirements, control system operation and launch programs, and support NASA's aeronautics, science and space operations initiatives. ...
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SymPowerco Provides Details of Fuel Cell Hybrid Power System Prototype
[SCADA] [Prototype] [ SCADA] [Control] [System] [Engineering]
The SCADA system has sufficient capability for allanticipated phases of the program and will serve as the basis of thecompany's commercial SCADA designs. ... SymPowerco Provides Details of Fuel Cell Hybrid Power System Prototype...
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Critical Flaw Left Utilities Vulnerable to Attack for 5 Months
[systems] [software] [supervisory control and data acquisition] [data acquisition] [analysis] [controls] [manufacturer]
Core Security Technologies identified a flaw that allows a buffer overflow attack in Citect's supervisory control and data acquisition software and notified the company. ... A flaw in a software application that remotely controls utility systems has raised concerns about their security. ...
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Peril in the pipeline
[SCADA] [control] [controllers] [system] [software]
Investigations reveal unresponsive SCADA system could have caused disaster. ... At the time of the accident, most of Olympic?s field units also had local controllers embedded in their hardware designed to protect the station equipment and downstream piping if they lost contact with the main SCADA computer....
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Ricoh Corporation Recognizes Ringdale, Inc. as Official Member of Technology Alliance Program
[industry] [control systems] [Program] [hardware] [Software] [equipment]
, today announced that FollowMe(R) Embedded for Ricoh, a completely integrated version of FollowMe Printing, the industry standard secure document output management solution from Ringdale(R), Inc., recently passed Compatibility Testing offered by the Ricoh Developer Program. ... office equipment...
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Security hole exposes utilities to Internet attack
[systems] [control] [SCADA] [industrial] [control systems] [supervisory control and data acquisition] [software] [data acquisition]
SAN FRANCISCO — Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday....
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