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IT meets Automation with OPC UA
By Bill Lydon, Editor The Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 visions, which includes connecting people and services, leverages open communications, like OPC UA, and embedded-to-enterprise computing. -
X-Scan Consortium revives robotic weld inspection system
X-Scan robot inspects ship welds by means of laser, ultrasound and electromagnetic methods, similar to systems developed by Babcock & Wilcox in the 1970s to check nuclear reactor welds. -
ASM Consortium Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The ASM Consortium was started in 1994 to address Process Industry concerns about the high cost of incidents, such as unplanned shutdowns, fires, explosions, emissions, etc. -
Modeling and Control Approach to a Distinctive Quadrotor Helicopter [Technical]
By comparing with a physical model-based LQR controller and an ARX model-set-based gain scheduling LQR controller, researchers achieved superior MIMO RBF-ARX model-based control. -
Midwest Engineering Systems Opens Two Facilities
A 5,000 square foot engineering office is opening in Beloit, WI and a 30,000 square foot welding & service manufacturing facility is opening in Colorado. -
How to Lower Your Integration Time and Costs
By Greg Hood, Rockwell Automation In end-user facilities that heavily rely on legacy equipment, the right line-integration system can provide real-time insights to prevent and diagnose production issues. -
IP Technology-The Future for Industrial Automation
By Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation Forecasts say that industrial automation will make up the majority of the Internet of Things by 2025, and Internet Protocol (IP)-addressable devices are the key enabling force that will get industry there. -
Rotork supplies 400 valve actuators to FPSO in Angola
Rotork supplied more than 400 heavy duty CP and GP Range pneumatic valve actuators to the CLOV FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel in Angola’s Block 17 offshore oilfield. -
OSI to supply SCADA/EMS to Dominican Republic power company
OSI will supply a SCADA/EMS system to Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica Dominicana (ETED), which has more than 4,700km of 345kV, 230kV, 138kV and 69kV transmission lines and over 140 transmission substations. -
IMPERX appoints Barry Wolt Senior Camera Design Engineer
Wolt has a BSEE degree from University of Washington Seattle with follow-on graduate coursework at Washington, and has extensive hardware design experience in the aerospace as well as commercial sectors. -
Yaskawa Acquires Solectria Renewables
Solectria manufactures high performance photovoltaic (PV) inverters for residential, commercial, and utility-scale power systems. -
HighJump Software Acquires Atlas Products
Atlas Products is a UK-based provider of Software as a Service (SaaS)-based business-to-business (B2B) EDI integration, secure data transfer, and e-invoicing solutions. -
Moore Industries Video Shows Fault-Tolerant Fieldbus System
The video shows how the system avoids costly shutdowns related to faulty FOUNDATION Fieldbus or PROFIBUS PA segments. -
AST Achieves ATEX Certification For Pressure Transducers
AST gained ATEX certification for its intrinsically safe pressure transducers in Class I Zone 0 Exia IIB and IIC, T4 rated areas. -
Simplifying Control Protocols: Binary and ASCII
Every motion controller will have its own command protocol, or series of rules for communication, that dictates how you interact it. Zaber's devices use two command protocols: an ASCII protocol and a 6-byte binary protocol. -
Watlow Expands in San Jose, CA
Watlow added 25,000 square feet to its R&D facility in San Jose, California, adding a Class 1000 clean room. -
Festo Develops Wind Powered Generator
The design, based on the aerodynamics of a seagull’s wing, is 45% efficient and uses advanced automation control technology for continuous optimization based on wind conditions. -
Bosch gives $100,000 STEM grants to Pennsylvania schools
The Bosch Community Fund awarded four grants to three central Pennsylvania educational institutions: Lehigh University, Lehigh Career & Technical Institute and Pennsylvania State University. -
Growing Future Automation Professionals
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Barry-Wehmiller opens office in New Jersey
Barry-Wehmiller Design Group is expanding its Northeast operations with a new office in East Brunswick, NJ.

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