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Husky Series Industrial Ethernet Switch is now compatible with Auto-IP management software. Auto-IP automatically assigns fixed IP addresses to replacement equipment, avoiding the complexities and hardware specific requirements of DHCP Option 82. Auto-IP works in cooperation with managed switches from any supplier, thus providing a truly open solution.

New customers to the NetBiter webSCADA Starter-Kit get a MP3 player for free. It is a Thomson player with 512 MB (value: 80 EUR). There are only 25 MP3 players available. The NetBiter webSCADA web Gateway is an industrial serial to Ethernet gateway.

OMRON has completed its previously announced acquisition of 100% of the shares of Scientific Technologies for a purchase price of US$94 million. STI's products include a wide range of components for safety light curtains, laser scanners, and other safety devices and services. Sales were US$52,141,000 (for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005).

Kiosk Panel computers include the PANEL1155-807 and PANEL5155-807, both equipped with high brightness 15-inch XGA TFT LCD displays. Both support SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) touch screens and high performance processors including Intel Pentium M and Intel Celeron M CPUs.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation announces the establishment of an endowed scholarship in memory of M. Eugene Merchant, ScD, past president of SME, who died on Aug. 19, 2006. The scholarship will provide funding for the education of future manufacturing engineers and will serve as a lasting tribute to Dr. Merchant's pioneering research and discovery.

The CN3 mobile computer has GPS and Bluetooth capabilities to enable onscreen and hands-free turn-by-turn voice navigation. Mobile workers can set aside the multiple devices they typically must carry and maintain - cell phone, GPS unit, pager, laptop, camera - for this single device. With 3G WAN and Cisco Compatible WiFi connectivity, users can be connected with voice and high-speed data anywhere, increasing their flexibility and productivity.

PCI Express electrical performance validation and compliance software runs on Agilent 54855A Infiniium oscilloscopes and 80000 Series oscilloscopes. It has been upgraded to PCI Express 1.1 and PCI Express 2.0 electrical specifications for add-in cards and motherboard systems. The software provides engineers with a fast and easy way to verify and debug PCI Express designs.

With more categories and larger cash prizes, this contest challenges engineers worldwide to use their imaginations to wirelessly network-enable a machine or device using Lantronix WiPort, an embedded 802.11 b/g wireless Device Server. To qualify for nearly $20,000 in prizes, contestants must register their product on the Lantronix Web site and submit a working prototype board design complete with a documented summary of the project and its operation.

e-DMZ Security Managed Services provides co-managed firewall and intrusion detection services for high-risk financial services, pharmaceutical and industrial networks. As a result of this acquisition, Verano is launching Industrial Defender Co-Managed Security, a co-managed security service for the real-time SCADA and control environment.

With annual revenue of about $30B and current market-cap of about $ 32B, Honeywell is arguably the largest US-based automation company. The company operates with four segments: Aerospace, Automation & Control Solutions, Specialty Materials, and Transportation Systems. Here’s an updated view of the corporate culture.

FlowSense has been awarded a contract from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the HVAC improvement project at the Agriculture Research Service facility in Morris, Minnesota. The contract includes general construction including all labor, supervision, materials, tools, equipment, transportation, and other work necessary for adding supplemental cooling by a computer room air conditioning unit for the soils lab.

Ishida's latest QX-1100 tray sealer employs servo motors throughout, controlled using Ethernet-compatible MicroFlex e100 drives from Baldor Electric Company (NYSE:BEZ). The speed and predictability of movement provided by the servos allows Ishida to dramatically accelerate the throughput for this form of food processing automation, allowing sealing speeds of up to 200 trays/minute - up to twice as fast as many existing solutions.

PMC-LX and PMC-SX modules support a variety of AXM plug-in I/O extension modules to interface different signal types to a user-configurable Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA. The FPGA can process user-defined algorithms and custom logic routines on RS-485 differential, CMOS, or LVDS digital I/O signals depending on the AXM I/O module inserted. The PMC base card has 32 LVDS I/O channels available via P4 for rear connection I/O and conduction cooled applications.

The new line of temperature sensor converters and isolators accepts an input of PT100 RTD or type J or K thermocouple temperature sensors with an analog output range of 0-10V, 0-20mA or 4-20mA. These DIN-ail mounted modules are as narrow as 17.5mm thereby saving space in the cabinet. The customer can easily program the unit's temperature range and output signal via rotary or dip switches.

OPCcalc allows you to easily create process calculations that use OPC tags as inputs to equations and outputs of results. Based on Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, OPCcalc handles all of the "plumbing" for your equations, letting you concentrate on your calculation logic. New version has the ability to query HTML web page data; use abbreviations for long tag names; and determine equation logic errors.

Schneider Electric UK Ltd will acquire GET Group plc, a UK publicly quoted company that offers a broad range of wiring devices and other electrical products for the Residential and Buildings markets. In 2005 GET generated revenue of £81 million. With this acquisition, Schneider Electric will attain a strong position in the UK residential market and consolidate its No. 2 worldwide position in wiring devices.

Compax3 family of industrial servo drives now comes with a DeviceNet fieldbus option. DeviceNet allows the Compax3 to be integrated into an Allen-Bradley PLC control system very easily - or with any other DeviceNet master. The DeviceNet fieldbus interface will give Compax3 users improved system integration, reduced downtime and maintenance costs, enhanced peer-to-peer capabilities, and easy access to data.

Today’s Technologies and New England Mechatronics will serve as exclusive Manufacturers Representatives for Advanced Control Systems' Machine Controls product lines. Today’s Technologies has the states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and the District of Columbia, while New England Mechatronics has Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

ELUTIONS has completed the acquisition of Supervisor Holdings Ltd, the parent company of Wizcon Systems, with offices in France, the Netherlands and the UK. ELUTIONS and Wizcon Systems have been working together since January 2006, helping companies optimize their asset management, reduce their energy costs, and improve their workforce productivity.