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Invensys has won a contract to supply four Triconex centrifugal pump steam turbine speed and overspeed control systems for use on the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.

Martin presented the Siemens Customer Excellence Award to Air Products and Chemicals, Astec Industries, CoilPro Machinery, E&I Sales and Prism Systems at an evening management reception held during the Siemens 2006 Automation Summit.

“Siemens' superior domain expertise and application knowledge helps it to solve real-world problems and deliver innovative solutions to customers in the food and beverage industry,” says Frost & Sullivan industry manager Sath Rao. “Siemens offers a broad range of products under its 'Totally Integrated Automation’ solution that can be applied to several different applications.”

As part of the expanded global program, more than 30 Solutions Partner system integrators are gathering in the Summit’s Partner Pavilion to share their extensive technical knowledge and process engineering expertise with Siemens customers from across the U.S. Each partner has expertise in one or more industry segments, including food and beverage, automotive, chemical, cement, glass and pharmaceutical.

Our innovative product lines for industrial process and engineering include items for test, measurement and process control, fluid handling, electrochemistry, and preventive maintenance.

Multi-variable pressure sensing devices combine a pressure output with one or more other types of sensing output (most typically temperature) in one unit. These accounted for a small share of worldwide pressure transducer and pressure transmitter shipments in 2005, at $217.8 million of a $3,850 million market, or 5.7% of the total.

A market study by Venture Development Corporation finds that the Asia-Pacific industrial electronic temperature controller market is not only the largest of the major regions, but is also the fastest growing.

As an Agilent Channel Partner, G Systems will provide value-added engineering systems integration services featuring Agilent’s electronic instrumentation. Key markets for both Agilent and G Systems include aerospace/defense, telecom, manufacturing, semiconductor, oil exploration, and medical.

ESA elettronica S.p.A., a leading European and international supplier of industrial computers and HMI devices, will now offer InduSoft's Windows-based HMI/SCADA software bundled with their Windows CE-based line of Operator Terminals. CEView enables users to create HMI and SCADA applications tailored to their specific industry and applications.

The program is aimed to rapidly grow our partners' business by offering NetBiter products and solutions. An NSP will be able to get discounted products, selling tools, technical and marketing support, special training and more.

The acquired business primarily serves automotive and industrial manufacturers of rubber molded and extruded components and includes the trade names Chemosil, Flocksil, Cuvertin and Sipiol.

In addition, the Square D We Care program is in effect in FEMA-declared disaster areas in New England, including the hard-hit areas of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to address public safety issues and support electrical professionals as they repair damaged electrical structures and systems. The company will donate a percentage of revenues from related equipment sales to the American Red Cross to help bring relief and assistance to those in need.

The system will use the KUKA KR 180 PA 4-axis robot and a proprietary end-of-arm tool designed by Mecano that utilizes KUKA servo motors to depalletize layers of bottles reducing customer costs, increasing cycle times and improving overall quality.

Advanced Control Systems (ACS) recently completed successful factory acceptance tests of new SCADA systems for Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation of Forest City, North Carolina, and Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. of Lenoir, NC. These successful tests are significant milestones in a plan to have four NC co-op systems fully operational by mid-2006.

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Tec Industries, LLC, a contract manufacturer of advanced carbon fiber composite products, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications™ business software. The company will deploy the IFS system at its headquarters and manufacturing and distribution facility in Orange City, Iowa, and Quatro engineering and development facility in Poway, California.

The German electric drives market is seeing growth in a variety of new, intelligent, multi-functional products, as end-users seem to be showing a preference for these units for space, cost saving and ease of installation reasons. Technology advancements reflect trends such as decentralisation of drives, higher safety and security and integration of Ethernet in the communication process.

Customers tell us that Product Quality Management software is available from a variety of vendors. The goal of this class is to show you how to implement such a system with the software you may already own.

A new release of GAGEpack EZ, with enhanced email capabilities and a visual catalogue system for gages, offers improved capabilities for meeting customers’ measurement systems requirements and conforming to standards. The program can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial from PQ Systems’ web site.

In addition to the higher output voltage, the IEEE802.3at committee agreed on a motion to increase the number of classification levels for the PD to up to 10 classes for 2-pair systems, including existing IEEE802.3af classes.

To qualify for critical nuclear valve applications, the Fisher FIELDVUE valve controllers achieved commercially-dedicated status through a testing and dedication process, conducted in accordance with the industry-sponsored Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) guidelines. This process validates the use of commercial grade digital equipment for safety-related applications. The EPRI digital component evaluation process is defined in the publication, "Guideline on Evaluation and Acceptance of Commercial Grade Digital Equipment for Nuclear Safety Applications, TR-106439."