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In the competitive worldwide car market, manufacturers are always looking for ways to improve product quality and gain an edge on the competition. Even the robots in today’s highly automated assembly lines can make a mistake. That is why a major manufacturer decided to put some “eyes” on one of its body assembly lines. Using IVC IP video systems, this was done at a fraction of the cost of traditional machine vision systems.

A major US forest-products company recently built a new sawmill in Western Oregon. The flexibility and economy of IP video systems enabled the creation of a large, complex operation that can be operated with a small staff.

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By Bill Lydon, Editor The inaugural Haystack Connect event introduced a movement that has the potential to be the next big wave in building automation by fostering an entirely new open system in the industry that goes beyond open protocols to encompass system software.

GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network.

The increased cost of using individual fuses will be quickly recovered by the reduced time to troubleshoot and resolve field wiring problems. One or two instances of bringing production back on line w

Honda of America has committed $75,000 to support the SME Education Foundation’s PRIME program over the next three years.

More than 200 plant and refinery professionals responsible for maintaining leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs attended ISA’s 13th annual Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium held 21-23 May 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products.

MCS is a Brazilian-based manufacturer and system integrator of standard and customized high performance motion controllers and complementary motion control components.

Eight-page full-color leaflet describes CoriolisMaster FCB330/350 mass flowmeters for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry.

The first course covers Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Process Control.

The Council is comprised of leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others working in partnership with advising experts from the world of research, academia and advocacy.

Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market.

PosiShop lists electrical D-sub fittings, density energy fittings, square fittings and circular fittings.

Implementing cybersecurity programs for industrial automation & control systems requires identification of areas to be protected & assessment of threats.

Rootstock will be installing a cloud-based ERP system at IPC's Austin, Texas, facility to replace legacy supply chain software.

Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.

PAS University offers training solution courses in alarm management, control loop optimization, high performance HMI, cyber security and change management.

Metso will rebuild the gas turbine control system at the Martinlaakso power plant in Vantaa, Finland, and control it with a DNA automation system.