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Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions participated in Pwn2Own Miami 2022, where ethical hackers tested the security of industrial software platforms—including GENESIS64. This blog shares what we learned from the Pwn2Own Challenge, what vulnerabilities were discovered, and how we’re addressing them. It also outlines key takeaways for customers looking to strengthen the security of their deployed systems.

Conversations about efficiency gains with customers typically center around the customer hoping for manufacturing gains/efficiency. They're not quite sure what it is they need, but they do know they need to improve efficiency, quality, performance, and uptime. These gains can be realized through Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to provide a clear understanding of the difference between the quantity of sellable product an asset could make versus the actual amount of product that asset made. OEE is a top-level measurement of efficiency, and it breaks down into three separate buckets: availability, performance, and quality. An additional bucket to be considered in determining OEE is loss deployment. At the end the right team and approach can provide the manufacturing gains companies are looking for. 

As SCADA technology continues to evolve, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by new features and updates. But with the right guidance, users can quickly become confident power users. In this blog, we highlight key takeaways from the “Learn from the SCADA Experts & Become a Power User” webcast—covering high-performance HMI design principles, responsive UI strategies, and practical rules of thumb. Whether you're designing your first interface or optimizing an existing system, this post breaks down what it takes to create user-friendly, effective SCADA applications that enhance performance, not hinder it.

Discover how to protect your industrial systems from modern cyber threats using advanced cybersecurity practices, secure remote connectivity, and Moving Target Defense—especially vital as operations embrace digitalization.

Explore the latest updates in version 10.97.1 of our automation software platform, including new alarm logging, MQTT Sparkplug support, BACnet Secure Connect, and HTML5 3D capabilities—all designed to enhance performance, integration, and security.

This blog explores how the rise of micro cloud apps is reshaping the industrial software landscape—especially for small and mid-sized companies—by comparing it to the evolution of mobile gaming. It contrasts traditional SCADA platforms with emerging single-use cloud apps, highlighting trends in time-to-value, cloud adoption, and accessibility, and shares how Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions is adapting to serve this expanding market segment.

Industrial organizations can achieve a connectivity solution that gives them the ability for all their disparate devices, for all their disparate hardware from all the different vendors to talk, thus establishing interoperability and reliable communication. This connectivity is achievable with one leading solution, the Takebishi DeviceXPlorer OPC Server. This software is a OPC server software suite that provides connectivity with control devices in discrete manufacturing, process building automation, and control and operations environments and provides both the import of tag definitions and the related expressions in an ISA-95 hierarchical format and also combines this technology with another breakthrough in the market, the standardization of industrial names for data, thus making it a futureproofed technology. The Takebishi DeviceXPlorer OPC Server is integrated into the Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64 software suite and IoTWorX environment and is also available separately. Additionally, it allows direct communication between GENESIS software, and other applications, with the actual physical equipment and machinery on your production floor, providing you with the ability to monitor and control your facilities, factories, and processes.

Keeping up with and understanding the technology and related terminology of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 (the fourth Industrial Revolution) might be daunting. However, if you're in industrial manufacturing or industrial processing, it’s important to know the basics and benefits of these. What follows is an explanation about the technical innovations that enable digital transformation in the context of Industry 4.0 and how all of these relate to industrial manufacturing and industrial processes.