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Non-contact torque sensors from Sensor Technology are playing a key role in the development of commercial-scale in-stream tidal turbines produced by Irish company, OpenHydro.

AIT will be organized as a standalone company within The Thompson Group. Financial terms of the purchase were not disclosed.

The two organizations signed a formal agreement to collaborate on efforts to advance and grow the automation profession.

In 1910, David Hudson and Alexander Sharp founded the company when they took over the shop and foundry of the Sectional Roll Co. and renamed it The Hudson-Sharp Machine Co.

The Baghdad office will supply process automation equipment to Iraq’s oil and gas industry, which is in the midst of re-construction.

eWON is opening a US subsidiary under the name eWON Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. Dominique Blanc is the CEO.

By Grace Engineered Products Medium voltage indicators (2K-43KVolts) offer positive benefits because they keep workers away from voltage and provide an answer to the 'Is there voltage?' question.

Davern joined National Instruments in 1994 and has been serving as CFO and senior vice president of manufacturing and IT operations since 2002.

Subcontractors Raytheon, the University of Virginia, and Georgia Tech join effort to neutralize software vulnerabilities in security-critical applications.

N-TRON makes rugged industrial networking components and Ethernet switches.

The ABB Robotics training lab features 29 ABB robots and related work cells, software and controllers.

Robert M. Auman was Vice President of worldwide sales. Auman has been with the company since 1986.

Bow Networks is a developer of substation automation and security software.

ISA Automation Week 2011: Technology and Solutions Event will be held at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama, USA, on 17-20 October, 2011.

The three will promote the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for students in kindergarten through high school (K-12).

The 2011 Catalog showcases more than 120,000 products from over 300 suppliers.

Site Controls is a provider of enterprise-wide energy management solutions for multi-site commercial businesses.

By Don Morrison, Honeywell Process Solutions Key misconceptions are based on the common shortcomings of traditional model predictive control: complexity of configuration, speed of execution, interpretation of noise in the system, and over-active movement of the final control element. But an intelligently implemented MPC strategy can result in increased plant efficiencies over PID.

By Dr Peter Harrop, IDTechEx Energy harvesting is the conversion of ambient energy into electricity to drive small or mobile electronic and electrical devices.

Major investments in the electric utility and water and wastewater sectors will drive the European supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) market.