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By Bill Lydon, Editor The fall of 2016 presents a great opportunity for manufacturing teams to learn about the latest automation and related manufacturing technologies. Here, Bill discusses September's giant manufacturing technology event in Chicago

Thirty-five engineers from thirteen companies brought six controllers and thirty I/O devices to the plugfest. Participating companies included Balluff, Cisco, Hilscher, Innovasic, Molex, Mynah, Phoenix Contact, ProSoft, Siemens, Teledyne DALSA, TR Electronic, Turck, Yaskawa, and Lapp USA.

SOMFY joins Comcast Cable, Itron Inc., The Kroger Co., Landis+Gyr, Legrand Group, Midea Group, NXP Semiconductors, Philips, Schneider Electric, Silicon Labs, SmartThings, Texas Instruments and Wulian on the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors.

The global industrial Ethernet cables market to grow at a CAGR of 17.31% during the period 2016-2020.

Technical focus on the control design problem of event-triggered networked systems with both state and control input quantizations.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Siemens’ MindSphere, a cloud offering that links physical products and production facilities with digital data, and which leverages OPC UA, was a major feature at the 2016 Siemens Automation Summit.

Mr. Litjens has more than 30 years of experience in Information and Communication Technology, Product and Plant Lifecycle Management, and other business-enabling solutions for research, engineering, and manufacturing organizations

The 61,000 square foot facility houses administration, customer service, and sale functions and will create around 80 area jobs.

Gas Sensors Market Size By Technology By Product By End-Use Industry Analysis Report, Regional Outlook, Application Potential, Price Trend, Competitive Market Share & Forecast, 2015 – 2022

By Bill Lydon, Editor As a follow-on to ExxonMobil’s Industry Day, and their push to create specifications and standards for an, open, secure, and interoperable process control architecture, the Open Group hosted a webinar so that those interested companies, who could not attend the June 27 event in Houston, could join the conversation.