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This expanded and improved version provides hundreds of essential equations and tables to help select, operate and maintain measurement devices. It will enable engineers and technicians designing and controlling industrial processes to find answers needed to solve day-to-day problems. It is also a useful reference tool for engineering students.

The OmniPod System integrates insulin infusion and blood glucose monitoring in a safe, easy to use, two part system. Insulet's medical device production will use Adept Cobra SCARA robots and Adept Viper 6-Axis articulated robots under coordinated Smart SERVO control.

In the year 2005, the program has prevented equipment failures which would have resulted in a potential production loss of over $1.8M USD. Emerson’s Machinery Health technologies, including the AMS™ Suite: Machinery Health Manager predictive maintenance software application, are a key element of the PlantWeb® digital plant architecture.

Users will be able to more accurately design processes involving electrolytes, as well as predict corrosion that results from those processes. Through its UniSim™ Design simulation system, Honeywell will offer OLI’s Corrosion Analyzer, as well as OLI’s Mixed Solvent Electrolyte (MSE) frameworks and databases. The new features will be made available with the next commercial release of UniSim Design later this month.

Created in 2005 at the request of President Jacques Chirac, the AII supports highly innovative research and development programs with great market potential, in order to reinforce industry’s competitiveness. The AII selected the HOMES project as it was particularly in line with the defined criteria: high technology products aiming for a wide market, a very high level of innovation, an extremely positive impact on European industry and the capacity of a leading industrial group to lead the project.

Verano, Inc., the leading provider of security and SCADA solutions for mission-critical industries, today announced that FIMA, Lithuania’s leading systems integrator specializing in power, transportation and security, has selected Verano’s Real-Time Application Platform (RTAP) as its SCADA platform of choice.

Before joining Northwire, Brown was general manager of Intercon 1, a premier producer of camera cable and assemblies in the United States. Intercon 1 is a division of Nortech Systems, Inc., specializing in machine vision technology. Prior to that, Brown was a sales manager with Zercom Corporation, now also part of Nortech Systems, Inc. and a vice president with Ji-Haw Industrial Co., Ltd., a leading supplier of information technology and communication cords and connectivity in Taiwan, China and Thailand.

OMRON Corporation (TSE: 6645, ADR: OMRNY) and Scientific Technologies Incorporated ('STI'; NASDAQ: STIZ) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which OMRON will acquire STI for $94 million plus net cash and working-capital adjustments. The transaction, which does not include the purchase of STI's Automation Products Group ('APG'), was approved by both companies' boards of directors.

NIWeek, the world’s leading virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition, opens Aug. 8 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, for three days of interactive summits, exhibitions, technical sessions and hands-on workshops on the latest technologies for test, control and design applications.

Two of the generating units are located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Brandon Shores Unit 2 is a coal-fired 650-megawatt facility, and H.A. Wagner Unit 3 is a coal fired 324-megawatt facility. C.P. Crane Unit 1, in Baltimore County, is a coal-fired facility with capacity of 190 megawatts.

The addition of KUKA Robotics’ newest partner continues the company’s expansion in Wisconsin and in the food and beverage packaging industry. Zepnick Solutions, Inc. is a leading engineering consulting firm specializing in industrial automation.

The facility will serve as a new showroom testing and validation center for robotic concepts. Scheduled for a fall opening, the new center further demonstrates KUKA Robotics’ commitment to develop new robotic technologies in the United States.

The Process Control Systems Forum (PCSF), established to improve efficiencies and accelerate the development of best practices crucial to securing control systems worldwide, today released the full conference agenda for its 2nd Annual 2006 Spring Meeting to be held in La Jolla, Ca. on June 6-7. This two-day event builds upon the past year’s efforts by the PCSF to raise awareness for control system security issues, and will feature several keynote sessions, workshops and panel discussions to engage attendees and accelerate the critical work that is being done currently to address these threats.

The Wireless Users Summit attracted about 40 key end users from a range of industries including petrochemical and power generation to help define the needs of the user community and guide the standards development activity.

From 24 to 28 April 2006 a grand total of 5,175 exhibitors from 66 countries will be presenting the latest products and services for industry at the Hannover Exhibition Center. This year's HANNOVER MESSE line-up brings together ten international flagship trade fairs with a total 154,796 m² of stand bookings.

This agreement allows Innovation Matrix to sell and support Precise’s products in Asian markets through their branch offices and alliance partners in Taiwan, China, Korea and Japan. These products include PrecisePlace robots, Guidance motion controllers and PreciseVision software.

This contract covers 15 refineries in Europe and Asia and 10 Chemical plants worldwide. The work supports a global Shell program aimed at improving their asset management and ensuring safe production.

FKI Logistex, a premier provider of automated, self-service sorting and conveying systems, and 3M, a trusted supplier of library solutions, will leverage their strengths to offer efficiency improvements to libraries. This alliance makes it possible for libraries to design a complete collection management system that fully meets their individual needs.

The company decided to invest over US$17 million in Greenwood, Indiana within the next two years. With this, a substantial amount of new jobs will be created. Groundbreaking for the new facility will take place in the first half of April 2006. The Endress+Hauser Flowtec company based in Reinach, Switzerland is responsible for flow measurement technology within the Endress+Hauser Group. The new expansion of its U.S. division will consist of 74,000 square feet for manufacturing, including a new state of the art calibration laboratory, and 16,000 square feet offices and training facilities.