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Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR), a family-run company in the United States, recently announced that it has shattered an existing world record for recycling the highest volume of e-waste in a week. The company said that this feat now takes them to the Guinness Book of World Records, replacing the current contender who hails from Australia.

Close collaboration between humans and robots, working as colleagues on assembly lines and in other applications, will be a large part of the future of industrial robotics. Robots will need to develop

By Bryant Bell, EMC Enterprise Content Division Virtually every company has information stored in multiple applications, here’s how to search for information across all of them simultaneously.

Georg Bretthauer retires after 13 years, and Hans Jakob Roth is the successor.

Sealevel Systems will provide computing and I/O solutions for OEMs using ADLINK's computer-on-module (COM) and Sealevel's custom carrier board technology.

2014 bookings in the process measurement and automation industry grew approximately 14.2% to $3.9 Billion.

Rockwell Automation has been named as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” for the seventh time by the Ethisphere Institute, a recognition that honors companies that continuously improve ethical leadership and corporate behavior at every level of their organizations.

AbraxSys is raising the performance level all of its 15” and 15.6” LED-backlit LCD products to include In-Plane Switching technology. This is a major initiative to increase the viewing angles of our 15” and 15.6” LCDs and continue offering the highest performing rugged LCD technology in the industry.

Lucca will host the second edition of “iT's tissue – The Italian Technology Experience.” This international biennial event is unique and offers the opportunity to get in touch with one of the jewels of Italian industry: the technology for the production of tissue paper for hygienic and household use.

To grow and evolve resources for manufacturers and processors, Rockwell Automation has welcomed nine new Encompass Product Partners and two global expansions within its PartnerNetwork program.

Nine companies have been named OEM Partners in the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork program, in recognition of their innovative solutions and industry expertise.

By ProSoft Industrial Ethernet protocols use Client, Server and I/O Messaging methods to communicate. This video explains how these methods work in several applications, and the positives and negatives of each communication method to help determine the best choice for your application.

Smart transmitter technology can affect the future maintenance costs over a plant’s lifecycle.

Weber has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Major in Microelectronics from the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.

The working groups’ goal is to add real-time capability to the OPC UA communication standard.

If an open tube manometer indicates 6.11 inches of Hg (mercury), what is the pressure measurement?

Bill Lydon: I am convinced that collaborative robots are the highest impact automation development to improve manufacturing since the assembly line. If this development follows the cost performance trends of past developments, like PCs, we at the beginning of a new revolution.

EN ISO 14119:2013 Safety standard has arrived and will replace EN 1088 as of April 30, 2015, with a one year transition period.

EDA in Dearborn, Michigan, develops electric vehicles and power conversion solutions.

By Marcellus Buchheit, Wibu-Systems USA The increasing reliance on IP-based manufacturing has opened the door to cyber attacks on critical systems designed to control, supervise and automate operations.