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ICONICS announces that it is one of the first in its industry to achieve OPC UA Client Lab Certification from the OPC Foundation for its GENESIS64 V10.85 Platform Services.

Guill supplies advanced extrusion tooling technology to the medical, rubber and plastic industries worldwide, as well as nuclear specialty alloy products to the defense industry.

The Connected Intelligence Global Partner Ecosystem wants to create intelligent networks that can collect, manage, and analyze the data generated by billions of sensors.

HIS says while the world transitions to higher efficiency IE2, IE3 and NEMA Premium low-voltage (LV) motors, IE4 motors marketed as “Super Premium Efficiency” motors have rapidly carved out a space in the high efficiency motor market.

This is partly because SCADA products are mostly used in large investments in the energy business—such as in oil and gas and power facilities—an area that is performing better than other sectors.

ABB controls the Solar Impulse plane on its flight around the world powered only by energy from the sun.

By John Senese for Industrial IP Advantage Virtualization is highly beneficial in an industrial IT scenario where there are lots of software applications that perform functions for a small number of machines or manufacturing processes.

Interview with Christopher Di Biase, Principal Consultant, Rockwell Automation.

Jonah Energy, a startup exploration and production company, is using Flow-Cal’s FLOWCLOUD hosting solution to obtain data in a cloud environment.

Rockwell Automation PowerFlex 700L drives and CompactLogix PACS convert DC power to AC power within the fuel cell and connect it to the grid.

Netilities graphical software tool is useful for engineering, monitoring and troubleshooting PROFINET installations.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Internet of Things (IoT) definition as promoted by major industrial automation suppliers and computer industry suppliers is “IP to the edge.” IP to the edge means using Internet Protocol over wired or wireless Ethernet to communicate with end devices. This concept may not be common sense engineering and sound design for industrial automation systems.

A look at the differences between pure batch versus fed-batch versus continuous reactors.

Halma succeeds Brian Butler, who is leaving the KION Group at his own request in order to pursue new opportunities outside the company.

Jim Foust and Tim Ellis have more than 70 years of direct experience with Giddings & Lewis machine tools.

An ISA technical paper proposes an adaptive second order sliding mode controller with a nonlinear sliding surface.

The 18.9% decrease is in part due to the record breaking sales in October.

AMT shuffles execs in Asia, Latin America and marketing.

Koke will be based out of Synerlink’s new U.S. office in Duncan, SC, sharing a facility with Synerlink’s sister company, Hayssen Packaging Systems

HyperionRSI Simulation, jointly owned by Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd and RSI, will offer simulation solutions based on the IndissPlus simulation technology.