Power and Water Webinars On-Demand

The demands of population growth and socioeconomics on global water resources have required communities and industries around the world to focus on the future of water availability. Some states, municipalities and industries are meeting water challenges through new technology, data gathering, infrastructure design, water conservation and resource management. Industry experts discuss the big picture and how new control solutions can address tomorrow's challenges.

This briefing provides a "no hype" view of the industrial control system cyber threat landscape to assist your ability to understand and assess how much you should care about cyber security in Electric Utility.

FireEye recently disclosed details on a new family of malware dubbed “IRONGATE” crafted to manipulate a specific industrial process. We have their top intelligence strategist to provide details in addition to relevant threat trends.

ABB’s security partner ODI walks through a targeted attack scenario against an isolated plant environment. A policy and process for use of removable media for secure file transfer will be reviewed.

There are several hundred peaking power plants in the US equipped with OEM gas turbines. Facility owners have long been interested in a more-open system that would enable them to view live system data and quickly respond to process issues. Owners and operators of OEM gas turbines are now facing the decision of how best to upgrade their turbine control systems, and should realize they have new options in the form of third party, open systems.

Water and wastewater treatment are key applications in the water cycle and play an important role in filling the gap between supply and demand for this precious resource. This webinar discusses some key technologies and solutions to support you in identifying and implementing measures that improve and optimize operations, creating measurable performance improvements.

Many auxiliary control installations in power generation plants have reached the end of their useful life. In this webinar we will discuss building a plan for those aging systems to expand the functionality of your current control system to efficiently manage these critical functions in your power plant.

Hear from the experts what are the top 10 considerations you should think about when doing a DCS retrofit. ABB's global presence and over 30 years in the DCS industry have provided a wealth of information on best practices in various industries, ranging in project scale, on a variety of applications, and resulting in specific protocols and procedures catered to the business needs of our customers.

DHS ICS-CERT Cyber Security Briefing "7 Cyber Security Strategies for Industrial Control Systems"

Mark Bristow of the Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team shares lessons learned from 295 incidents and the most effective measures for risk mitigation. Customers will learn what information is required from them by the incident response team and which best practices would have prevented 98% of the incidents.

Designed for improved operator effectiveness, S+ Operations provides an intuitive, easy-to-use environment to facilitate process monitoring and control, fault mitigation and optimization. In addition to providing an overview of the key features of S+ Operations, this session shows what’s new in S+ Operations 2.0. S+ Operations is the HMI for supervision and operation of all Symphony Plus control systems.

ABB’s Cyber Security group provides an overview of their tiered cyber security packages, Security Workplace. This presentation provides a high level overview of the available tiers, key features available in each package, and on-going development items.

Based on the Composer platform, the S+ Engineering tool brings together many automation aspects into one environment.

The ABB Power Generation NERC CIP Special Interest Group provides an interactive, knowledge sharing forum between ABB and the user community, hosted by Mike Radigan, Senior Advisor, Cyber Risk Management, ABB Power Generation.

Issues, scope, and design considerations for upgrading the front end controls, boiler controls, and turbine controls to satisfy NERC’s desired generator governor frequency responses

New generation proved to be uneconomical so APS made the decision to upgrade the outdated control system with a new Symphony Plus system.

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This webinar discusses the purpose and value of different plant audit assessments and how making a few changes can have a positive impact on your plant's operational performance

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