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OMAC and ei3 release report on EU Cybersecurity Compliance

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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New York, NY, March 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OMAC, the leading industry association for machine automation and control, has collaborated with ei3 to publish a report titled "Guidance for Business Leadership On EU Cybersecurity Regulations & Directives."

Key Points: 
  • New York, NY, March 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OMAC, the leading industry association for machine automation and control, has collaborated with ei3 to publish a report titled "Guidance for Business Leadership On EU Cybersecurity Regulations & Directives."
  • The document provides practical guidance and best practices for complying with the European Commission's new Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which mandates stringent cybersecurity measures for all digital products sold in EU markets.
  • The report comprehensively covers topics outlined in the CRA, including the legislative progress, affected industries and entities, guidelines for product design, compliance responsibilities throughout the product lifecycle, best practices for product development, and providing evidence of CRA compliance.
  • OMAC anticipates cybersecurity regulations will continue to impact automation around the globe, and we must prepare our members and the industries we serve for that impact.”
    Visit https://ei3.com/ei3-and-omac-publish-report-on-eu-cra-guideline-compliance/ to download the report and ensure your business achieves CRA compliance.

OMAC and ei3 Drive Manufacturing Advancement with New Ethernet Deployment Guide

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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The guide is set to be unveiled at the prestigious 28th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum.

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  • The guide is set to be unveiled at the prestigious 28th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum.
  • It tackles the intricacies of Ethernet usage, distinguishing between IT and OT operations, and addresses common concerns that hinder manufacturing’s transition to Ethernet networks.
  • Spencer Cramer, Chairman of OMAC and the Founder and CEO of ei3, emphasized the guide’s significance, stating, “This guide will serve as a valuable resource for organizations striving to implement efficient and secure Ethernet networks.
  • The guide not only provides industry insights but also serves as a tool for professionals at all levels to understand and apply Ethernet effectively in the manufacturing context.

Lightelligence Introduces Optical Interconnect for Composable Data Center Architectures, Unlocking Infrastructure Scalability, Disaggregation

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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Photowave, an Optical Networking (oNET) transceiver leveraging the significant latency and energy efficiency of photonics technology, empowers data center managers to scale resources within or across server racks.

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  • Photowave, an Optical Networking (oNET) transceiver leveraging the significant latency and energy efficiency of photonics technology, empowers data center managers to scale resources within or across server racks.
  • “We are more than excited to unveil the next piece of our product portfolio,” comments Yichen Shen, CEO of Lightelligence.
  • The current Ethernet-based infrastructure carries too much latency overhead to enable this disaggregation.
  • This facilitates scalable CXL fabrics in the composable data center.

OMAC and ei3 Release New Manufacturing Data Governance Guide

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Thursday, July 27, 2023
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New York, NY, July 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OMAC, the leading industry association for machine automation and control, in collaboration with ei3, releases a new guide on industrial data sharing titled " Practical Considerations for Data Governance ".

Key Points: 
  • New York, NY, July 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OMAC, the leading industry association for machine automation and control, in collaboration with ei3, releases a new guide on industrial data sharing titled " Practical Considerations for Data Governance ".
  • The guide unveiled at the 27th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum provides expert insights and actionable recommendations to help organizations establish effective data governance and sharing practices.
  • The document covers several critical topics, including the importance of data governance, the need for a common language to facilitate data exchange across systems, and the various applications that use plant floor data.
  • It examines the key components for plant floor data, the significance of data governance standards and organizations in manufacturing, and establishes a structure for data access and integration from multiple sources.

ei3 to Lead OMAC’s Cyber Resilience Act Task Force

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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NEW YORK, May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ei3, a renowned leader in industrial-grade secure remote access solutions, is leading the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Task Force, established by the Organization of Machine Automation and Control (OMAC).

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  • NEW YORK, May 02, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ei3, a renowned leader in industrial-grade secure remote access solutions, is leading the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Task Force, established by the Organization of Machine Automation and Control (OMAC).
  • The task force hopes to publish its initial guidance document by September 2023.
  • "I am thrilled that ei3 is taking the lead in OMAC's Cyber Resilience Act Task Force.
  • Adam Griffen , ei3’s Product Manager for secure remote access, will lead the task force of OMAC members.

Optical Compute: How the New Age of Computation Seems So Close, and Yet Still So Far Away, Reports IDTechEx

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Friday, April 14, 2023
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This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.

Key Points: 
  • This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.
  • An end to Moore's law is not inherently a bad thing or, at least, it wouldn't be if it existed in a vacuum.
  • While this area of silicon photonics is now well-developed, optical compute has been a trickier riddle to solve.
  • IDTechEx's latest report, " Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits 2023-2033 ", answers the major questions, challenges and opportunities faced by photonic integrated circuit technologies.

Optical Compute: How the New Age of Computation Seems So Close, and Yet Still So Far Away, Reports IDTechEx

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Friday, April 14, 2023
Television, Heart, Electron, Vacuum, Mzi Mahola, OMAC, Graphics processing unit, Modulation, Life, WDM, Electricity, Light, MRR, Photonics, Research, 2D, Silicon, Laser, HPC, CMOS, Workload, Artificial intelligence, Architecture, PIC, Programmable interrupt controller, Mach–Zehnder interferometer, Silicon photonics, Consumer electronics, Information technology, Video game, Printed circuit board, Intel

This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.

Key Points: 
  • This law is named after the co-founder of Intel (and recently deceased) Gordon Moore, who posited this doubling in 1965.
  • An end to Moore's law is not inherently a bad thing or, at least, it wouldn't be if it existed in a vacuum.
  • While this area of silicon photonics is now well-developed, optical compute has been a trickier riddle to solve.
  • IDTechEx's latest report, " Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits 2023-2033 ", answers the major questions, challenges and opportunities faced by photonic integrated circuit technologies.

OMAC launches data governance initiative to create guidelines for segmenting, sharing, and securing industrial data

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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OMAC's latest initiative, led by ei3's Mark Fondl, aims to establish a framework and guidelines to protect precious proprietary information while enabling secure data sharing for efficiently solving problems, mining insights, and capturing the highest value from data-supported capabilities.

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  • OMAC's latest initiative, led by ei3's Mark Fondl, aims to establish a framework and guidelines to protect precious proprietary information while enabling secure data sharing for efficiently solving problems, mining insights, and capturing the highest value from data-supported capabilities.
  • The workgroup will elaborate on the following topics to help organizations boost employee collaboration and productivity and support continuous innovation through practical data-sharing approaches.
  • The workgroup will meet virtually, with the kick-off meeting being planned for May 18, 2022.
  • OMAC brings together leading End-User Manufacturers, OEM Machine Builders, System Integrators, Technology Providers, and Non-Profit/Government Agency organizations to address issues that confront global manufacturing today.

OMAC Addresses Security Issues Caused by Remote Access to Industrial Equipment

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Monday, February 21, 2022
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These efforts have placed a spotlight onto some industrial Remote Access solutions.

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  • These efforts have placed a spotlight onto some industrial Remote Access solutions.
  • Protecting automation endpoints from attacks that take advantage of remote connectivity is a vital concern that requires input and close collaboration of information technologists (IT), operational technologists (OT), and security professionals.
  • The OMAC workgroup, led by ei3, reviewed issues created by actors or processes that cause intentional or unintentional security incidents.
  • Subject-matter experts from the industry are invited to assist this group in creating OMAC standards on defining data types and level of access.