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  • Second Annual Global Day of the Engineer Set For Wednesday April 5

    Second Annual Global Day of the Engineer Set For Wednesday April 5

    The second annual Global Day of the Engineer, presented by DiscoverE, is a one-day event that unites individuals, engineering employers, educational institutions, governmental bodies and engineering associations, all of whom pledge to join in celebrating engineers and engineering.
    30 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Festo announces in-town relocation of Hauppauge headquarters

    Festo announces in-town relocation of Hauppauge headquarters

    This location will serve as center of operations for the Festo North American executive management team, as well as marketing, finance, technology, human resources, and other corporate functions. All employees from the current Moreland Road location will relocate to its new location on Motor Parkway.
    30 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • CMR Group announces Alvin Sim as CEO for CMR Far East

    CMR Group announces Alvin Sim as CEO for CMR Far East

    Based at the Singapore office, he will oversee all areas of a business that is seeing demand for precision engineering services from industrial and manufacturing sectors, and recently opened a new Thailand office in Bangkok.
    30 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Association for Advancing Automation releases Automate 2017 preview

    Association for Advancing Automation releases Automate 2017 preview

    Automation technologies will be at the forefront at Automate 2017, including the fast-growing segment of collaborative robots that are designed for safe, collaborative use alongside human workers.
    30 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation to focus on digital transformation and Industrial IoT at Hannover Messe 2017

    Rockwell Automation to focus on digital transformation and Industrial IoT at Hannover Messe 2017

    Rockwell Automation will be showcasing the technologies, solutions and services that can help companies successfully and securely take advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) at Hannover Messe 2017, April 24-28 in Hannover, Germany.
    29 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • ISA to hold pharmaceutical-focused meeting on industrial cyberattack protection

    ISA to hold pharmaceutical-focused meeting on industrial cyberattack protection

    The meeting event, “Pharmaceutical Cybersecurity Convocation: A Critical Executive Dialogue,” will be held at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Convention Center in Framingham (Boston area), Massachusetts, in conjunction with ISA’s Food & Pharmaceutical Industries Division (FPID) Symposium.
    29 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • The Cost of Functional Safety for Food Processing

    The Cost of Functional Safety for Food Processing

    By Jorgen Saxeryd, ABB In 2014 in the UK, a large food manufacturer had to pay a £800,000 fine after a serious industrial accident. This article explains how safety procedures must be developed in food processing plants.
    29 March, 2017 | 3 minutes
  • Okuma announces case study video for CNC process simplification

    Okuma announces case study video for CNC process simplification

    The video shows how Okuma distributor Gosiger went into the control and created a GUI interface so the Moser operators don’t even see the OSP controls, or have to call up any programs at all. The app also provides safeguards so the operators can’t crash the machine tool.
    29 March, 2017 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By Okuma America Corporation
  • Festo partners with AWC to reach customers in Southern US

    Festo partners with AWC to reach customers in Southern US

    Festo named AWC to distribute process automation products in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
    29 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Yokogawa of America announces Shuji Mori as CEO

    Yokogawa of America announces Shuji Mori as CEO

    In the role of CEO, Mr. Mori will be responsible for all day-to-day business operations in North America. Mr. Mori began his career as an engineer, helping implement systems projects for Yokogawa customers all over the world.
    29 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • igus to showcase robotics solutions at Automate 2017

    igus to showcase robotics solutions at Automate 2017

    Product experts will be on hand, and product demonstrations, inducing a Fanuc 6 axis robotic arm featuring the igus triflex RSE cable retraction system, featuring lightweight triflex R multi-axis cable carrier.
    29 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Webinar Recording: Model-Predictive Controllers for Cost Optimization

    Webinar Recording: Model-Predictive Controllers for Cost Optimization

    How to develop a proper control system for separation of multiple batch components by vacuum stripping.
    By: Contributing Authors
    29 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • FieldComm Group seeks nominees for 2017 Plant of the Year Award

    FieldComm Group seeks nominees for 2017 Plant of the Year Award

    The FieldComm Group Plant of the Year is an international award presented to end user companies in the process automation industry to recognize the exceptional and valuable application of FOUNDATION Fieldbus, FDI and / or HART Communication technologies.
    29 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Konrad and three NI Alliance partners join to develop autonomous vehicle test solutions

    Konrad and three NI Alliance partners join to develop autonomous vehicle test solutions

    The companies are leveraging their expertise in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), sensor fusion, Hardware in the Loop (HiL), V2X communication, GNSS simulation and data management to provide a one stop solution for fully autonomous vehicles.
    28 March, 2017 | 1 minutes
  • ABB chooses Omnify PLM software to enhance design processes

    ABB chooses Omnify PLM software to enhance design processes

    ABB Drives and Controls was lacking a component information management system with a centralized database for their Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) components and the mechanical parts that included PCBAs. They selected Omnify Empower PLM
    28 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell Process Solutions introduces UniSim eLearn connected-learning solution

    Honeywell Process Solutions introduces UniSim eLearn connected-learning solution

    Part of the Honeywell Connected Plant intiative, UniSim eLearn is hosted in the cloud and revolutionizes access to operator training simulation (OTS). It’s a key tool in delivering effective operator competency management.
    28 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • Advanticsys wireless sensors help to reduce UK traffic pollution

    Advanticsys wireless sensors help to reduce UK traffic pollution

    The project aimed to test the feasibility of developing an integrated data platform for Chester city centre. The focus was on linking a novel air quality network of low cost wireless sensors with the traffic management within the city centre to alleviate air pollution ‘hot spots’ caused by queuing traffic.
    28 March, 2017 | 1 minutes
  • Productive Robotics announces acquisition of Cobots Guide

    Productive Robotics announces acquisition of Cobots Guide

    Operating independently from Productive Robotics, Inc, Cobots Guide will advocate for the collaborative robot industry to encourage broad knowledge and acceptance of collaborative robots in manufacturing and non-manufacturing practice, education and public policy.
    28 March, 2017 | 1 minute
  • Bedrock Automation boosts industrial control for Arkansas town's water and sewer system

    Bedrock Automation boosts industrial control for Arkansas town's water and sewer system

    The Bedrock controller is part of an integrated plantwide SCADA system. Users connect to that system via Ignition software from Inductive Automation. Ignition is an industrial applications platform that coordinates control and data acquisition for all plant PLCs and remote transfer units (RTUs).
    28 March, 2017 | 2 minutes
  • Adams Group chooses Inductive Automation's Ignition for SCADA in vegetable oil plant

    Adams Group chooses Inductive Automation's Ignition for SCADA in vegetable oil plant

    For supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) in its vegetable oil and grain plants, Adams uses Ignition by Inductive Automation. Ignition is an industrial applications platform with fully integrated tools for building SCADA, manufacturing execution system (MES), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions.
    27 March, 2017 | 3 minutes
    Sponsored By Inductive Automation
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