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Simionato is a manufacturer of integrated flexible packaging systems based in Mestrino, Italy.

Process Control Dynamics is a Semaphore authorized distributor for customers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

WESCO will distribute T+H Industrial Communication Solutions and Services for Fieldbus and Ethernet networks in Virginia.

Darwin-based Powercorp employs around 30 people and offers automation and intelligent control solutions to manage renewable energy generation.

Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, will install PAS PlantState Suite alarm management software across all their units.

Program partners get an expedited test and evaluation process that gets safety products for a given application into the design engineer’s hands for evaluation.

Robust PID Tuning Strategy for Uncertain Plants Based on the Kharitonov Theorem

Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?

September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, up 22.9% from August and up 51.9% when compared with the total of $399.32 million reported for September 2010.

The distinction between PLCs and distributed control systems is narrowing, but their combined market in Europe will hit €6.45 billion in 2017.

The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) organization has renewed EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet as standards in its sensor bus network communications activities.

HPS will supply the main and backup power generators, wellhead control panel and chemical injection skid for HLJOC's H-04 wellhead platform in the Te Giac Trang (TGT) Field.

Emerson’s DeltaV process automation system will control the coal gasification process at a new chemical plant in Henan province, China.

The catalog covers Roller Pinion System (RPS) products, designed to provide high-accuracy linear positioning with no backlash, as well as expanded gear offerings.

Rockwell will replace the DCS at Nyrstar Hobart’s zinc smelting operation in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, with a PlantPAx process automation system.

New Enterprise-Control System Integration Standard Issued for Review/Voting

Security is high on the agenda and Russia has somewhat different priorities from the rest in its extensive use of RFID for public transport.

Mel Henry, the Managing Director at VEGA Controls, is stepping down from his role after 29 years.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Roy Kok In the terms of Automation, a crisis can be characterized as a loss of production (downtime), possibly of a simple piece of equipment, or it can be extensive, affecting major portions of the plant. Are we giving enough focus to the right areas, not focusing on the level of a "worst case scenario" type of crisis?