Fast and secure access to processes

Secu­ri­ty and access con­trol are giv­en top pri­or­i­ty in the pro­duc­tion process, as unau­tho­rised users and oper­at­ing errors can cause great dam­age. R. Stahl is the only man­u­fac­tur­er in the mar­ket offer­ing its explo­sion-pro­tect­ed Thin Clients with RFID authen­ti­ca­tion for secure iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of staff with access author­i­ty for process con­trol and data com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the field. On the basis of three tech­nol­o­gy plat­forms, the Thin Clients have been designed to meet the dif­fer­ent require­ments of the chem­i­cal and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries, the food indus­try as well as oil and gas production.

Addi­tion­al logins in the automa­tion sys­tem are no longer required due to the faster, direct RFID access con­trol, which meets the cur­rent secu­ri­ty require­ments accord­ing to FDA and Gamp. It sup­ports transpon­ders with Mifare, Des­fire, EV1 or Legic Advant read­er tech­nolo­gies. Unlike bio­met­ric process­es, the con­tact­less RFID tech­nol­o­gy is also suit­able for hygien­i­cal­ly sen­si­tive areas where oblig­a­tory pro­tec­tive cloth­ing makes autho­ri­sa­tion via fin­ger­print or face recog­ni­tion impos­si­ble. R. Stahl’s explo­sion-pro­tect­ed RFID read­ers have been cer­ti­fied for Zones 1/21 and 2/22. They are either avail­able as sep­a­rate units with a USB inter­face for pan­el mount­ing, or they are inte­grat­ed direct­ly into the oper­a­tor enclo­sures or key­boards by the manufacturer.

The Thin Clients designed for the oil and gas indus­try with the Shark tech­nol­o­gy device plat­form and 21.5″ touch­screens are also avail­able with a RFID read­er installed behind the front plate. User autho­ri­sa­tion via RFID requires the instal­la­tion of a suit­able device dri­ver in the con­trol sys­tem soft­ware. On request, the com­pa­ny will pro­vide cards and key fobs equipped with test­ed transpon­ders for use in haz­ardous areas.