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  • ABB reports $41.5 billion in sales

    Orders were steady to higher in all regions and divisions despite a challenging market environment.
    05 February, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Güdel Acquires Sumer

    Sumer is a French manufacturer of high-performance planetary gearboxes
    04 February, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Distribution Automation Needs Highly Accurate Analog Data Converters

    By David Andeen, Director of Applications, Maxim Integrated “Distribution automation” is an old industry, finding new and vibrant life with the smart grid.
    04 February, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • Global Automation and Control System Market Analysis and Forecast to 2020

    Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd is released new forthcoming report on title "Automation and Control System Market in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast to 2020."
    04 February, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • Temperature Communication for Best Accuracy and Reliability, and Least Noise

    Temperature Communication for Best Accuracy and Reliability, and Least Noise

    How the advent of smart transmitters and wireless communication has opened the door to better temperature communication & process performance improvements.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    04 February, 2015 | 7 minutes
  • ASCO Introduces Mobile App to Calculate Flow for a Valve

    ASCO Flow Calculator enables customers to quickly calculate flow for a valve or determine the Cv needed to properly size a valve.
    03 February, 2015 | 1 minute
  • ContiTech exhibits at Hannover Messe

    Products on display in Hall 25 will include drive belts, hoses, hose lines, and air spring systems from ContiTech.
    03 February, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • The Revolution starts in Hannover

    At the upcoming HANNOVER MESSE, the German government and key German industry associations (VDMA, ZVEI and BITKOM) will jointly outline their strategy for achieving integrated production.
    03 February, 2015 | 4 minutes
  • Rotork promotes two executives

    Pamela Bingham is now the Managing Director of Rotork’s Gears division and Dave Littlejohns is Divisional Managing Director of Rotork Fluid Systems.
    03 February, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • MB Connect Line opens subsidiary in the United States

    The US subsidiary operates under the name "MB connect line Inc." and is located in Warrenville, Illinois. The determining factor for the location is the excellent infrastructure in the Chicago metropolitan area. From here the entire North American region is very easily reachable.
    03 February, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Harting to cover Integrated Industry at Hanover Fair

    HARTING will be presenting – live on the fair stand – a production line demonstrating solutions for Integrated Industry.
    03 February, 2015 | 1 minute
  • The Gradual Market Expansion of China’s CNC Metal-Cutting Machine Industry

    By Elmer Chen, GCiS China Strategic Research Rather than insulating domestic suppliers, the Chinese government has opted to loosen import regulations for many forms of technologically advanced products in the interim, and domestic companies will struggle to catch up and surpass foreign suppliers occupying the high end market.
    02 February, 2015 | 4 minutes
  • Security and Safety Becoming Big Business

    Frost & Sullivan predicts big changes are ahead in how to manage the global cyber threat, including the growing concern of state sponsored involvement and complexity of attacks on private business.
    02 February, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • Safe production in Industry 4.0

    Researchers from IOSB will be demonstrating which attack scenarios could happen to networked production facilities at the Fraunhofer joint exhibition booth at this year’s Hannover Messe.
    02 February, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • The Proper Implementation and Common Mistakes of Sequential Function Charts

    The Proper Implementation and Common Mistakes of Sequential Function Charts

    A brief overview of sequential function charts, describing proper implementation and common mistakes.
    By: Contributing Authors
    02 February, 2015 | 9 minutes
  • Automation & Control Trends in 2015

    By Bill Lydon, Editor This is an update to previous automation and control trends articles and expresses my thoughts for 2015 and beyond. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending more than 20 industry forums, conferences and trade shows last year.
    01 February, 2015 | 8 minutes
  • Güdel publishes 2015 linear motion catalog

    Catalog covers configurations for standard modules of TrackMotion, gantry and linear motion units in virtually any size and for all robots.
    30 January, 2015 | 1 minute
  • Low Power Conversion for Energy Harvesting

    By Tony Armstrong, Linear Technology Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be powered via energy harvesting. Here’s how to design a nanopower device that works with very low levels of power and current.
    30 January, 2015 | 5 minutes
  • CERN and NI Collaborate on Linux

    Their objective is to push the standardization of all CERN control systems to Linux 64-bit operating systems.
    30 January, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Festo to demonstrate OPAK Industry 4.0 research

    At Hannover Fair, Festo will demonstrate developments in the OPAK Industry 4.0 research project subsidized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
    30 January, 2015 | 2 minutes
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