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Honeywell rewarded its top Authorized Control Integrators (ACIs) with a trip to New York City.

Program4 Engineering is a regional solution provider of manufacturing automation and plant process information systems solutions.

The system uses GE Fanuc controllers, HMI/SCADA software and operator interface equipment to monitor the engines and gas scrubbing systems.

Sick, Phoenix Contact, Turck, Bosch Rexroth, Wago, Festo, Pepperl+Fuchs and Heidenhain jointly placed an order to M&M Software for the development of a generic IODD-Interpreter and DTM.

OYO Geospace manufactures instruments and equipment used by the oil and gas industry. dcLink provides real-time visibility of its inventory of materials and finished goods.

TGCS specializes in repairs, modifications, control systems, and evaluations of turbines.

Parker will provide power conversion systems and generators to Green Energy Technologies for WindCube, a 60kW rooftop wind turbine designed for on-site power generation.

ABB pledged its full support for efforts led by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Catalog has an easy-to-use quick reference guide, application examples from a wide range of industries, and details on the latest Chainflex cables.

Website highlights solutions for the Smart Grid and provides information on smart grid technologies.

Achilles testing will be integrated throughout Emerson’s product development lifecycle, as well as product upgrades and patches.

Seven of Fluke's industrial Ethernet solutions are now included as part of Rockwell Automation’s Encompass program.

RMG specializes in the design and manufacture of natural gas control, measurement and analysis equipment including flow metering technology, regulating products and safety devices for oil and gas companies.

Web site covers machine vision, machine vision lighting, barcodes, and verification.

The OPC Technical Advisory Council (TAC) has approved a charter for a new joint working group with PLCopen to create an OPC UA information model corresponding to the IEC-61131 standard.

PLCopen launched the Fluid Power Control Function Blocks technical group at a kickoff meeting June 23, 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany. The initiative will extend PLCopen specifications to include fluid power.

PLCopen member Beckhoff is applying PLCopen standards to wind power applications. Beckhoff controls are being used in the new 2 MW converter from DeWind AG, Germany, also known as the D8. The wind power converters use Beckhoff Industrial PCs, TwinCAT automation software, and Bus Terminal technologies. Dewind wind power experts used the Beckhoff TwinCAT software to develop applications in the IEC 61131-3 open standard software.

PLCopen North America has created a Control Applications Support Group on LinkedIn to help engineers with applications.

Northwest Regional Manager Michelo Santiago's territory now includes the Southwest region.

ABB won orders worth $52 million to provide power products and solutions for a super-critical coal-fired power plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.