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By Punya Prakash, Texas Instruments Building automation systems are striving to keep up with a renaissance in processing prowess by incorporating hierarchical and distributed architectures, low-power processing and control capabilities, advanced sensors and many other exciting new technologies. In fact, sometimes the most pressing challenge is how to make sense of it all.

The HART Communication Protocol is now a China National Standard (GB/T 29910.1-6-2013) approved by the Standardization Administration of the China Industrial Department.

Rotalec has been a distributor of high technology industrial machine automation products, product identification systems, and mill products for over 30 years.

The Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Rory Cooper and Dr. Vijay Kumar.

General’s CEO and senior management team remain in charge.

Open Systems International will replace the existing SCADA/EMS system at Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority in the United Arab Emirates with a new SCADA/EMS system based on OSI’s monarch platform.

Blakeway also is Omron Corporation Executive Officer, and Chairman, President and CEO of Omron Management Center Of America.

As U.S. manufacturing recorded the greatest monthly increase so far in 2014, a survey involving members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) also points to an upswing in the automation industry.

Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.

The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.

Anglia will distribute and market the full Bel portfolio of circuit protection, magnetics and interconnect devices to OEMs throughout the UK and Ireland.

Epicor-sponsored research reveals that manufacturers with the right software tools to track and manage performance metrics come out on top -- outperforming competitors by up to 10% in areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, net profit margin increases, and on-time delivery.

Total machine components grew 29% in the first quarter, while total machine vision systems grew six percent, according to statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group.

By Thomas Waggershauser, HMS Industrial Networks The growing demands in the number of nodes, transfer rates, and cycle times lead to bottlenecks that the limitations of classic CAN (8 data bytes and 1 Mbit/s data rate) cannot fulfil: CAN FD significantly extends the usable data rate and usable data length.

Various wireless topologies can be employed to meet the demands of industrial wireless applications, including star, tree, mesh, and cluster.

Shipments of primary plastics equipment for reporting companies totaled an estimated $300.5 million in Q1, up 11 percent when compared with the same quarter of 2013.

One function of the new E3-research project will be to see where humans fit into an automated factory.

Bestobell Marine will supply globe and check valves in sizes DN25 up to DN350, for the cargo containment system onboard the vessel, as well as supplying a FLIV (float level isolation valve) for the secondary float measurement system.

AVEVA will supply its Enterprise Resource Management suite and Everything3D design software to AMEC’s worldwide offices. AMEC employs around 27,000 people in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Tritec Systems is an established UK systems integrator, with over twenty years of experience providing industrial automation and control systems, software, support and training.