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MCRI is adding a 4000 square foot addition to make room for new employees and continue developing and servicing robotic systems for customers.

Aurelio Banda will oversee all operations at the headquarters of Beckhoff Automation in Savage, Minn. The current president, Graham Harris, will assume a regional management role.

Understanding the different needs of ICS and IT system security leads to cooperation and collaboration between historically disconnected camps

The facility for Transelec unifies all of the company’s regional control centers throughout the country, allowing 24 hour surveillance of operations, efficiently and safely.

The configuration software reduces the risk of errors when designing and ordering system modules.

The office is located in Leuven near Brussels.

Ripon Cogeneration replacied its obsolete distributed control system (DCS) with the PlantPAx process automation system from Rockwell Automation.

Acromag’s FPGA programmed boards will be used in support of AN/SPS-73(V) surface-search shipboard radar.

ABB will deliver electrical propulsion, power, safety and automation systems for a 5000T heavy-lift pipelay construction vessel being built by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry.

With a year-to-date total of $4,150.41 million, 2014 is up 3.8% compared with 2013.

eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) is now compatible with AdaCore’s GNAT Pro Ada development environment.

KXTX in Wuhan, China, will become the first Chinese company in the industry with an automated in-floor chain conveyor system.

This is the company’s sixth office in Canada and its ninth branch office in North America.

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By Bill Lydon, Editor According to a recent survey, automation users want and deserve more from an automation controller. Albert Rooyakkers, CTO of Bedrock Automation, explains why they went back to the drawing board to design and develop this new, innovative automation controller.

To control the concentration of key components, relatively inexpensive inline measurements can be used under the right conditions to provide concentration measurements

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research A trend that is causing waves and innovative ways of doing things today with Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software is mobile technology. So what are the current attitudes on mobile capabilities? Here are four ways mobile capabilities are helping manufacturers transform their operations and IT landscapes today.

The Fountain Inn, SC, plant is home to the company’s largest hydraulics manufacturing facility in the Americas.

Molex plant floors consist of hundreds of different machines from a variety of vendors, with each speaking its own language or “protocol.” An OPC server connected them all.

This paper deals with the problem of forbidden states in discrete event systems based on Petri net models. So, a method is presented to prevent the system from entering these states by constructing a