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There are several ways in which you can get additional use or even make money from automation parts that are no longer needed. In this article leading automation supplier Northern Industrial talk about the different ways you can benefit from obsolete automation.

September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $647.63 million, up 77.3% from August and up 61.4% when compared with the total of $401.18 million reported for September 2013.

The influx of wireless technologies and intelligent devices has resulted in the rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), a disruptive cross industry force.

According to ARC, the global DCS market grew about 4 percent in 2013.

The tool allows users to generate and customize catalogs from a pre-existing list of pages about the company’s industrial automation software package.

Do you know how much money you could be saving annually with a variable frequency drive?

How to avoid the pitfalls of implementing a calibration process change.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Some industrial automation vendors and computer technology providers are offering cloud services that include historians, analytics, and complete MES (Manufacturing Execution System). These services offer a new way to improve operations by applying more computing power. Another important trend is leveraging new, more powerful controllers within the secure automation system environment. Should you be using one or the other, or both?

By Robert Reid, Panduit, on behalf of Industrial IP Advantage Given that greater than 60% of Ethernet link failures are related to physical infrastructure, it is important from the outset to design and build a resilient network that is architected to recover quickly from a failure condition.

By Paul Brooks, Rockwell Automation, on behalf of Industrial IP Advantage Without standard, unmodified Ethernet on the plant floor, many industrial automation companies can’t easily take advantage of higher-level protocols and the immense functionality they support. EtherNet/IP enables organizations to save money by moving away from expensive, closed, plant floor dedicated networks.

The most common cause of failure or malfunctioning for inverters is an improper installation, often a combination of not following the user manual recommendation and selecting inappropriate cable type, gauges or in line fuses. But there are more.

Enhancements in MTConnect standard version 1.3.0 include inter-device connectivity to enable machine-to-machine communication, and additional data items for equipment and devices.

CyTime Sequence of Events Recorders (SER) and GPS time synchronization products are now suitable for use in European and Australian mission critical facilities.

FDI Cooperation, FieldComm Group and Profibus & Profinet International gave FDI to the FieldComm Group.

The specification makes it possible for automation suppliers to develop products and host systems compatible with FDI.

Payara technical support service delivers software updates, bug fixes and 24/7 support for Oracle’s GlassFish application server, which Oracle stopped supporting.

Three models in the QUINT POWER family of DIN rail DC/DC power converters are listed for IECEx, ATEX, and Class I, Division 2 applications.

Automation Project and Startup Humor – How to Laugh Rather Than Fret

The US chemicals market is expected to make investments of nearly $80 billion by 2020, creating strong opportunities for automation solution providers.

KnowledgeNet collects plant data from an OSIsoft PI historian and then uses computing, rules, fault propagation and workflow engines to reason over the data to identify the cause of performance gaps at Saudi Aramco Abqaiq Plants.