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Automation.com, April 2012 By Sasan Montaseri, ITTIA What are the important characteristics for selecting an embedded database for an industrial automation system? What can a database offer beyond recovery from power failure, preventing data loss, or reducing flash media wear? What are the hidden costs when selecting an embedded database?

P&IDs should generally follow ISA symbols for the basic instruments. If you follow that symbology, most anyone can read and understand the P&IDs quickly.

Polytron is a systems integrstor based in Duluth, Georgia

The Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control (SAIMC) joined the Automation Federation.

35% of industrial control system security incidents were initiated through remote access, and 65% of facilities allow remote access to their control systems.

The valve supply center is located in Vadodara, 400 km north of Mumbai in the state of Gujarat, where Metso’s service center has been in operation for more than two years.

Finding the interface between two liquids in a tank is critical for some processes. Modern level instrumentation can solve many level interface problems.

Most recently, he was EMEA Director Embedded Processing Marketing and Applications at Texas Instruments.

Catalog contains robot grippers, linear components with guide blocks and short-stroke cylinders.

Automation.com, April, 2012 By Jan Pingel, Rockwell Automation Machine-level historians are capable of capturing every event on a machine, at high-speed and at full resolution.

OSI was awarded a follow-up contract for a full-scale SCADA/EMS system at Suncor's oil sands plant in Alberta, Canada.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding will use Honeywell’s Integrated Automation Systems (IAS) in five vessels.

Automation.com, April 2012 By Josef Schindler, Siemens Industry Describes how the Simatic Maintenance Station offers support for condition-based maintenance through plant-wide diagnostics in both continuous and discrete automated production processes.

Automation.com, April 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The fundamental principal of root cause analysis is to use symptoms as clues to find the real source of a problem. This method requires analysis and/or testing to determine if something is a symptom or problem, but it can ultimately decrease the time to resolution.

Centroprojekt provides designs for major capital plant projects in the Pulp and Paper, Petrochemical and Chemical industries.

February U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $444.06 million according to AMT, up 9.3% from January and up 35.2% from February 2011.

The ADAM website features photo galleries and videos demonstrating the features and benefits of the ADAM AMR solution.

SYLVANIA is now authorized to design, install, commission and support Daintree’s ControlScope wireless lighting controls solution.

KLEENLine builds stainless steel material handling equipment that handle foods, pharmaceuticals, and other clean-room dependent products.

exida certified the STA logic solver to meet functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.