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ABB will supply switchgear, DC power supply, uninterrupted power supply, transformers, 400 V motor control centers, variable-speed drives, variable-speed drives and a power management system based on the System 800xA

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) recently held their annual conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. This article provides a brief recap of the conference and outlines why, as a systems integrator, you can’t afford to miss next year’s conference. And while you're reading, I provide five reasons why you should think about joining CSIA.

CSIA announced companies that have recently joined the association, become certified, or become recertified.

By Reid Schook Rockwell Automation is controlling the HVAC system at an unnamed oil company in the Athabasca Oil Sands region in Canada.

E-direct web site simplifies ordering of instrumentation products for measurement and control.

Preactor International in Chippenham, UK, provides production planning and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses.

ISA Training and Education in June: Learn, Advance, Succeed

The HART Communication Foundation will host a free one-day event for end users on June 27 (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.) at the Marriott Westchase hotel in Houston, Texas.

Even though machine tool demand has had a weak start in the first quarter of 2013, experts look to the second half of the year to provide growth in orders.

BDI will distribute Siemens products in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky.

Highlighted by a workshop on passive wireless sensor technologies, the symposium provided an opportunity to explore—and provide sought-after perspective on—new trends, equipment, software and protocols involved with transmitting, reporting and processing real-time data.

By using math and Trio Motion’s MC series servo motion and machine controls, LMS ServoTechnics was able to significantly simplify the size, complexity and costs of the mechanical design in two of its recent applications.

ProcessVue ensures that data from safety-critical plant is always logged, enabling engineers to identify the cause of a plant upset, including the sequence of events (SOEs) leading up to this.

Around 1,000 attendees – representing major oil and gas, refining, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining companies, among others – will participate in the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas symposium June 16-22 in Phoenix. .

The Model FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor meets the requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 compliant service.

Information needed to take advantage of the best industrial technology and address all of the considerations of an application is often difficult to find.

The CHIMP humanoid robot uses Kollmorgen frameless motor technology in each of its drive joints, providing multi-limb manipulation and human-like grasping capabilities not found in today’s industrial robots.

By MTConnect Institute White paper demonstrates the tangible benefits of monitoring a manufacturing plant using MTConnect, the open and royalty-free standard, as the way to collect data and information from the shop floor.

From 2011 to 2017, Asia-Pacific is also forecast to be the fastest-expanding region for flowmeter sales with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.5 percent.

Suburban Manufacturing installed two Okuma MB-4000H horizontal machining centers and a larger PALLETACE flexible manufacturing system in its Northeast Ohio machine shop.