EN62443 is designed to help all industries be more resilient to cyber attack or outside interference, and few organisations are better placed than leading machinery safety and security experts Pilz at helping machine builders and users build knowledge of both the subject itself as well as the Standard. To help machine builders and operators better understand EN62443 "Security for industrial and automation systems", two recent developments have just been announced. The first is that Pilz's Product Development guru Frank Eberle has put together a White Paper on the subject, which may be viewed here.

On Wednesday 16th September at 1000 GMT, Schaffner is running a free Webinar on best practice design for EMC compliance of Industrial Equipment and Machines. Intended for manufacturers of variable-frequency drives and machine and control cabinet builders, all EMC-specific aspects of the latest international standards, their implementation and relevant solutions will be presented. Most machine builders will be aware that EMC has steadily increased in importance with the increased use of variable-frequency drives in industrial applications and will continue to grow as applications in SMART factories, Industry 4.0, the IoT and industrial automation increase.

Atlas Copco has published a new whitepaper highlighting what it refers to as "The vast unfulfilled potential of compressed air heat recovery as means of helping UK manufacturing firms to save energy and reduce its carbon footprint". The principal message to industry is that up to 94 per cent of the energy supplied to a compressor is recoverable as heat, and up to 90 per cent of industrial compressors in the UK could be equipped with a waste heat recovery system.