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Monarch Cement chose Pavilion's Pyroprocessing Control Solution to optimize two kiln lines at its Humboldt, Kansas plant. Monarch will deploy the Model-Predictive Control (MPC)-based application to improve operating stability, enhance product quality, reduce specific energy costs and minimize NOx emissions.

Featuring a full day of education, information and technical updates on AS-Interface, ASi-tech 2007 will be held at the Old Trafford Football Club Stadium, Manchester, UK.

Halliburton Company will open its corporate headquarters office in the United Arab Emirates. Chairman, President and CEO Dave Lesar will move to Dubai. The headquarters in Dubai is the next step in a strategic plan announced in 2006 to focus on expanding its customer relations with national oil companies while concentrating more of the company’s investments and resources in growing its business in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Matrox will demonstrate the Extio1400 multi-display remote graphics unit (RGU) and PPX board-level display wall controller product.

Independent tests prove that the TRUNKGUARD device coupler works seamlessly with a DeltaV control system during repeated short-circuit testing and extreme temperatures. According to Evaluation International, TRUNKGUARD continued to operate and maintain communications with DeltaV after multiple short circuits on spurs, temperatures from -40 to 70°C, and operation at upper and lower voltage limits.

Bennet Levine, R&D Manager, will present a talk on how Managed Ethernet switches add up to big benefits in building automation systems (BAS) at the Building Automation Conference 2007 in Baltimore, MD, March 21st & 22nd.

Emerson will engineer, project manage, install, commission, and provide long term support on automation solutions for the company's oil, gas and petrochemical facilities in Qatar.

Honeywell recently conducted a series of roadshows in six cities across Saudi Arabia to showcase process and control technology. The roadshows took place in Dhahran, Ras Tanura, Tanajib, Khafji, Jubail and Yanbu.

The new subsidiary will be headed by Ramon Diaz. Diaz has gained extensive experience in automation and drive technology in Germany and Spain.

Includes products and half-day 'hands-on' training tutorials on plug & play servo and stepper motion control, robotics and software programming.

Electromate Industrial Sales will be hosting a Toronto & Montreal Automation Fair & Expo on Tuesday April 17th at the Holiday Inn Select Toronto Airport and on April 19th at the Dorval Airport Hilton. The Automation Fair/Technology Expo is a tabletop Automation/Motion show format complete with concurrently running free Classroom Technical Seminars.

Ethernet Direct added sales and service locations in Kowloon (Hong Kong), Shenzhen (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China), Xi’an (China) and Cheng Du (China).

The Division will work closely with both existing and potential customers in order to create turnkey custom solutions to address their specific spectroscopy application requirements. John Beauchaine, former VP of Sales, will head up the new Professional Services Division.

Telvent is participating in a collaborative exercise with the U.S. Department of Energy's National SCADA Test Bed (NSTB) on a joint security assessment project. NSTB researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) assess and mitigate the threats posed by cyber attacks on critical infrastructure control systems.

Aleier and MACTEC Engineering will offer integrated enterprise asset management (EAM) and engineered management systems (EMS) solutions to the facilities management market.

Invensys will supply Foxboro distributed control systems (DCS), Triconex safety systems and fire & gas systems, and Foxboro instrumentation to Aker Kvaerner, Inc. for a new LNG receipt terminal being built near the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.

Ian will lead a team dedicated to exploring how specific client’s manufacturing needs can be achieved. He moves from a project management role at Invetech’s Australian office to take up the new position.

Nick will work with all vice presidents, corporate officers, directors and department heads to ensure that operations are in line with Moore Industries’ corporate goals and initiatives. Moore Industries is a leader in the design and manufacture of interface instruments and fieldbus equipment.

HANNOVER MESSE (Hannover Fair), scheduled for 16-20 April 2007 at the Hannover Fairgrounds, will host 12 leading international trade fairs on various industrial automation areas, including Interkama for process control, the digital factory, building automation, and motion control. 200,000 attendees are expected.

For students interested in working in the automation field,.ISA will offer a CAP Associate exam. Students who pass the exam will receive one year of "work experience" credit toward ISA's Certified Automation Professional (CAP) certification program requirements.