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Endress+Hauser plans to buy more shares of German-based Analytik Jena, which is active in classical analytical instrumentation as well as in biotechnology and molecular diagnostics.

Toshiba Machine Control Systems Division will transfer all robotic and control business to TM Robotics Americas.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The new high-performance CompactRIO cRIO-9068 controller has a dual core ARM processor and FPGA on the same chip that supports LabVIEW and Real-time Linux. This looks like a great platform for industrial automation applications because it incorporates control, optimization, analytics, and business enterprise interfaces.

Find a way to test any communication network prior to installation. About a week before every major DCS start-up, consider performing a “network startup.”

This fifth workshop will be held 14-15 November 2013 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, USA.

Beijer Electronics moved into a research and development/manufacturing facility totaling over 44,000 square feet located at located at 1865 West 2100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119.

Products that completed testing and became BTL Listed products in the first and second quarter of 2013 can be found on the website.

Hartech Engineering and GPL Machinery built a plastic bag machine based on ABB's Ethernet Powerlink compatible motion control and an all-servomotor architecture.

White has more than 18 years of experience in the machine vision market, working exclusively for market-leading industrial camera manufacturers.

The choice reflects the fair’s continued focus on integration as a challenge of pivotal importance for the future of industry and maps out the next steps to tomorrow’s intelligent, self-organizing factories.

By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock Manufacturers are finding that their markets have changed, caused by both business and consumer-altered demands. For those who have undergone significant business change, what was used as criteria to select the legacy ERP system of the past is no longer relevant.

Virgo will operate within Emerson Process Management’s final controls business, serving customers in the energy and process-related industries.

The central pillar of the cooperation is integration of KUKA robots and Siemens CNC solutions for loading machine tools.

The machine, manufactured by Stourbridge based rollforming and coil processing specialist Formit, will be installed in Cressall’s Dereham factory in December

Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation have entered into discussions for merging the two organizations into a single industry foundation.

Six packaging programs participated in this year’s competition: Cal Poly State University, Clemson University, Purdue University Calumet, Rutgers University, University of Florida and Virginia Tech.

An educational track at ISA Automation Week 2013 will provide practical guidance on how to improve cybersecurity of industrial automation and control systems.

Michael Chertoff told oil and gas industry executives gathered in Houston that it no longer takes an army to fight a war as the top threat their businesses face in the future is not from physical risks, but cyber attacks.

Predictive analytics pushes the pursuit of asset reliability from its reactive orientation to one that is fully forward-looking and better aligned with the goals and realities of today's manufacturing

Inductive Automation presented the first Ignition Firebrand Awards to eight innovative companies at the Ignition Community Conference in Folsom, Calif. on Sept. 18, 2013.