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Honeywell will upgrade the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) at Konya Sugar’s Cumra production site.

New and exchange spare parts now carry a 1-year warranty and select items carry a 5-year warranty.

ABB won orders worth over $540 million from the Abengoa Group in Brazil for the world’s longest power transmission link--2,500 kilometers.

Invensys is providing multivariable advanced process control (APC) solutions to Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer.

Turbulence in the global market effectively put the brakes on the machine safeguarding market around the third quarter in 2008.

The worldwide market for Inductive, Capacitive and Ultrasonic Proximity Sensors will decline this year but is expected to strongly rebound next year according to ARC Advisory Group study.

DTE’s boot seal testing machine employs two motorized movement axes – one vertical and one horizontal – each driven by a Baldor MotiFlex e100 3-phase servo drive and servomotor

HI 3030 Multi-Scale Weight Controller is now Canadian Weights & Measures certified.

By Integration Objects Integration Objects used OPC to integrate a point to point connection infrastructure based on VMS and Unix platforms that connected all the Distributed Control Systems and other automation islands with Aramco’s PIMS (Plant Information Management System).

ABB helped the Myllykoski Paper mill in Finland reduce heating and electricity consumption while increasing production volumes.

Husky series industrial Ethernet switches and Retriever series industrial media converters comply with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Class 1 Division 2 approvals.

The office in Brisbane will provide access to MatrikonOPC's connectivity software, OPC training, and services for both current and prospective clients.

Solution for machine builders will help mechanical, electrical and controls design engineers to work together to analyze, optimize, simulate and select machine designs in a virtual design and production environment.

Comit Systems will deliver turnkey engineering services for integration of GreenPeak's wireless technology.

Orders decreased across all divisions and regions compared to the second quarter of 2008 on a combination of lower volumes and price decreases resulting from both lower raw material costs and reduced demand.

Catalog covers Vlinx low-cost, entry-level mini Ethernet serial servers, Elinx Gigabit Ethernet media converters, plus software enhancements to the Zlinx wireless I/O line.

The gearbox shaft loads form adds new charts for axial, radial and tilting moment loads, clearly showing the maximum and nominal ratings as well as the application profiles.

The highest honor bestowed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), Honorary Member, has been given to Moore Industries’ founder and President Leonard W. Moore.

As I travel from one user conference to another, there is one clear and consistent theme coming from the major automation suppliers. Services, which include systems integration, optimization, life cycle management, asset management, and maintenance, have become a major focus for many of them. Even in this challenging economy, the services groups within these organizations continue to grow – sometimes significantly.

The ARC study reports that the explosive growth that characterized the DCS (distributed control system) market up until 2008 is gone due to the global economic crisis.