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McMillan, Stan Weiner and illustrator Ted Williams co-wrote "The Funnier Side of Retirement." Readers will have a chance to see what retirement offers for "geeks."

By Lonmark International Floor controls are linked via a LonWorks network, using Siemens LMEC gateways onto a BACnet system which handles the interaction with the central AHU, boilers and chillers.

ABB will supply the complete hardware, engineering and commissioning of the control system, as well as drives, analyzers, instruments and Profibus field devices.

With ProTeus, MI reduced its production downtime from 20% to 3.5%, saving nearly $1.5 million per year.

Three webcasts in the Plant2Enterprise Transformation series cover digitizing work processes, BPM, and SOA.

Veugen Integrated Technologies (VIT) will handle sales, installation, and service for the Honeywell Wintriss product line for Ontario and all Canadian provinces west of Ontario.

Peter Lawrence has been appointed chief technology officer (CTO), and Jay Funnell has been appointed chief software architect (CSA).

AII will integrate locations in the US, Europe and Asia, for improved communication, reduced transactions and consolidated visibility of critical business information.

Jasper Wireless has signed operator partnership agreements in over 45 European, American and African countries.

Cooper Controls Limited acquired more than 98 percent of the outstanding shares of The MTL Instruments Group.

Global Partner Program has nine initial partners in the United States, Australia and Europe.

One of the most important benefits OMAC Corporate Members receive is a seat on the OMAC Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

To ensure openness, verify that you will not be locked in on any level of the system. Encourage multi-subsystem integration for maximum efficiency. Start from a good open specification framework and learn the technologies, options, and market directions. After all, freedom of open information exchange is empowering.

ABB will supply System 800xA control system, motors, drive system, switchgear, and measuring and unloading equipment for the new mine hoist.

The Illinois Manufacturers' Association (IMA) named Ron Bullock its Chairman until 2010. Bullock is the owner and Chairman of Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. of St. Charles, Illinois.

National Instruments acquired all of the outstanding shares of microLEX Systems A/S, a provider of virtual instrumentation-based video, audio and mixed-signal test solutions.

Pressure switches monitor vacuum points and trigger emergency stops on steam turbines in China.

by Chip McDaniel, AutomationDirect CorrTech, a systems integrator, replaced the controls in a 1970-vintage box-making machine for Smurfit Stone Enterprises in Ravenna, Ohio. Corr-Tech removed all the control relays and wiring and reconfigured the system using AutomationDirect's DL06 PLCs. And they did it all over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Applied Analytics announced its new headquarters in Concord, Massachusetts, twenty miles northwest of Boston.

ABB won orders worth around $71 million to supply automation and a range of power products for substations in India.