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Standells shocked! Harpoon Brewery and Desalitech will treat and brew 300 gallons of water from the dirty Charles River to create a limited edition beer — Charles River Pale Ale.

Progea's upcoming webcast titled The Benefits of OPC – UA for Automation will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:00 am Central Time. Take this opportunity to hear from guest speakers Thomas J. Burke of the OPC Foundation and Costantino Pipero of Beeond.

Progea takes pride in being a collaborative partner that creates cost-effective automation solutions based on customer needs. System integrators and end users can be assured professional support during the development process, as well as after deployment.

New version of EDSA and SSA certification requirements to become effective 1 February 2016.

Power and automation expert Husain, currently ABB’s managing director in India, to become CTO by start of 2016

For control loop tuning, the first settings that must be right are the controller and valve actions. If these actions are not right, nothing else matters.

By Stahlin All enclosure materials ---- stainless steel, polycarbonate and FRP --- will provide protection in a variety of applications. It is critical to evaluate the environmental factors of the application where the enclosure will be used.

By Thomas R. Cutler A successful roll out of automated equipment does not remove or reduce audit requirements for the associated processes. Whether the audit requirement is sourced from industrial standards, or government regulatory compliance, or contractual obligations to an OEM or required by internally mandated safety or quality initiatives, running multiple audit and inspection programs is unavoidable.

Wesupply provides a fully managed and outsourced electronic business-to-business integration service, using an approach that maximizes supply chain collaboration between independent organizations.

Schneider Electric Software installed Avantis PRiSM predictive asset analytics software at EDF Group’s Norte Fluminense power generation plant.

North America is the largest market for membrane bioreactor system followed by Europe and Asia Pacific. The U.S. is the largest market for membrane bioreactor in North America mainly attributed to the high share of sludge treatment plant and manufacturing industries of this region.

The market for air compressor controllers globally is forecast to reach US$ 5.44 Bn by 2022.The global air compressor controller market was valued at US$ 3.45 Bn in 2014 and the market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% from 2015 to 2022

Sealed Air increased the production speed of the Jiffy-Lite paper-sleeve, laminated bubble wrap mailers by using Siemens Sinamics V20, Sinamics S120 AC drives and Simotion motion controllers.

Richart was ESE Director of Business Operations. Tom Walther, who was president, will be Chief Innovation Officer.

ATS Global in Haarlem, The Netherlands becomes first business to meet program's recognition standards

Eastern Controls is now the E+H rep for the Mid-Atlantic area – Metropolitan New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

By John Rinaldi, Real Time Automation Because of the discontinuity between the factory floor and the Enterprise, opportunities to mine the factory floor for quality data, interrogate and build databases of maintenance data, feed dashboard reporting systems, gather historical data and feed enterprise analytic systems are lost. But there is a reliable, highly secure and reliable solution.

Automation Fair runs November 18-19, 2015 at McCormick Place West, Chicago, IL USA

By John Rinaldi Investing in new control and automation systems is an expensive and disruptive activity, particularly when the majority of the data is already instrumented and sitting in controllers, drives, sensors and other devices in the plant. There is a far more cost effective and non-disruptive way to acquire and use the data trapped on the plant floor.

The small-footprint DB SQL storage engine is well-matched for applications built on the Freescale Kinetis processor portfolio.