Robert Glass is the global food and beverage communications manager at ABB (abb.com). ABB is a provider of electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation, and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure globally. Continuing more than a 125-year history of innovation, ABB is writing the future of industrial digitalization and driving the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB operates in more than 100 countries with about 132,000 employees.
As food manufacturing plants become more connected through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the threat of cyberattacks and how much damage they can do has increased.