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ABB won an order worth $270 million from Statoil to supply an electric drive system for two new pre-compression units on the world’s largest natural gas platform in the North Sea.

O V-Cone Flow Meter Produto Brochura, Petróleo e Gás Natural Brochura, V-Cone Manual e um óleo/gás Subsea Medição do fluxo Livro Branco são agora todos disponível em Português.

Seven suppliers have joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass third-party product referencing program in the Americas region.

Automation.com, October 2011 By Jay Becker, Dunkermotor OEMs will benefit from not specifying and purchasing more control features and functionality than their applications require. This White Paper discusses seven distinct integral control topologies to enable OEM design engineers to choose what suits their application without over-specifying.

To manufacture near perfect flatness (0.001 in) and parallelism (0.0004 in) in its vises, Kurt uses its own gaging and workholoding systems. Both control the variables that occur in the machining, heat treating and grinding operations

Automation.com, October 2011 By David Collier, Pilz Why machine builders should resist the temptation to save money in the short term by using Category 2 architecture on machine guard safety circuits that require Performance Level d.

The DCS (distributed control system) market in 2010 rebounded from 2009, increasing by 3.3 percent.

One hundred years ago, inventor Viggo Torbensen and entrepreneur Joseph Eaton founded the company that would become Eaton Corporation.

Rotork supplied electric actuators for valves, digital control systems, valve gearboxes, valve adaptation, workshop motorisation, on-site retrofitting and commissioning.

Founded exactly 90 years ago in Germany, Balluff now has worldwide subsidiaries in 54 countries on all continents.

The gas flow market is larger than anticipated, and appears to be growing faster than either the liquid or steam flow markets.

The Tokyo office provides users and Foundation member companies with application assistance, information and technical support on the HART Communication Protocol.

Emerson says it's accumulated 580 million total hours of wireless operation across 6,100 networks.

Nearly all companies now use social media to recruit employees and most either “always” or “sometimes” check the online profiles of potential candidates.

Automation.com, October 2011 By Jim McMahon Harlequin Distribution Center uses advanced conveying technology from Shuttleworth to minimize product damage and finishing downtime, and maximize throughput.

The worldwide market for Flowmeters declined in 2010 but is expected to strongly rebound in 2011, according to ARC, but they make no predictions--except that Asia is the biggest market.

Motion control suppliers who endured as much as 50 percent declines in business during the downturn reported a tremendous rebound in shipments. Asia leads, of course.

McLean was previously at Phoenix Contact where he served as the Group Leader of its Electronic Development, Global Products Department.

Heilind Electronics currently has 22 branches and five warehouses throughout North America.

ARC says ABB is the #1 EAM supplier in power generation, transmission and mining sectors.