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On June 23, 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany, the PLCopen Fluid Power Task Force had its first technical meeting to define function blocks for fluid power and hydraulic applications. Founding members of the task group include Bosch Rexroth, Eaton and Parker Hannifin bringing broad fluid power and controls experience; B&R, Eckelmann, ISG, Siemens representing control and integration expertise; 3S CoDeSys with a commitment of tightly integrated control software tools.

Sansteel chose Proficy Process Systems for its furnace revamp project in Shanghai. The solution, valued at $300,000, will provide critical control for both the metal furnace and the plant utility system.

Vendors include Custom Control Manufacturing, E-Technologies, Grantek, JNE Automation, Melfi Technologies, Power Engineers and The Stellar Group.

Lime Energy sold its eMAC and uMAC products to Elutions.

B&B Electronics will sell and stock N-TRON products and provide global technical and commercial support.

Gardner Denver builds large pumps, compressors and blowers for industrial use. It upgraded its distribution center to a picking system by Remstar.

The worldwide market for control valves will decline over the next two years but is expected to rebound in 2011.

The ISA Standards & Practices Board (S&P) has voted to approve the ISA-100.11a wireless standard "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation."

Cisco Systems has selected Softing’s PROFINET stack to enhance the IE 3000 Series Switch family with PROFINET I/O capabilities.

Proficy iFIX HMI/SCADA and iFIX WebSpace are now available in Chinese, German, French, Polish, Japanese and Russian.

Latest Selection Guide for Encoders is designed to help users quickly select the appropriate incremental, absolute, wire draw or linear encoder for their application.

Snap Track aluminum cable tray system uses TURCK instrumentation tray cable (ITC), cordsets and quick disconnect junction boxes.

Yokogawa will supply an operator training system (OTS) for a natural gas liquefaction plant that is being built in Tananger, Norway.

MESA invites producers and manufacturers to respond to a new industry survey: Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance.

Webcasts deal with the fundamentals of the LXI standard, LXI Class B instrument capabilities, and the most recent changes incorporated into Version 1.3 of the standard.

Manager of China business to take on new role as Head of Marketing and Customer Solutions.

The city purchased Proficy Workflow to computerize paper Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents including State-mandated Emergency Response Plan (ERP), Low Chlorine Residual, and other SOPs.

OASIS (Omron Authorized Systems Integrator Solution) introduces Omron-certified systems integrator partners who can design and deliver an automation system using Omron controls.

A federal strategy and support is critical if American manufacturers are to thrive in the post-recession global economy, leading U.S. manufacturing experts said Wednesday.

Founded in 1975, JBM has specialized in protocol conversion technologies, serving legacy environments such as SNA, Bisync, and async dial amongst others.