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By Bill Lydon, Editor In February 2013, Schneider Electric announced the PlantStruxure PES (Process Expert System) as, “The innovative Process Automation System that brings together the best from the PLC/SCADA and DCS worlds and combines this with integrated energy management features…” To gain a better understanding, I had the opportunity to ask their Product Marketing Manager some questions about this new offering.

To combat the highly corrosive effects of seawater, Metso will provide valves constructed of SMO254tm austenitic stainless steel, which is highly resistant to the effects of chlorides.

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser Process Training Unit (PTU), a full-scale, working process skid with on-line instrumentation and controls, or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

World Metrology Day appreciated the scientists in national laboratories throughout the world who dedicate their lives to improving everyone's measurements.

ISA Houston Section Sponsors June Technical Training Camp

Microchip delivered the 12 billionth MCU approximately 10 months after delivering its 11 billionth.

The AMT Sao Paulo Technology Center in Brazil lets AMT members establish operations within Brazil, build relationships and explore the market’s potential.

The Metso DNA automation system lets the Tampere plant operate unmanned with remote monitoring from the main control room of the Lielahti power plant.

Wireless transmitters can rapidly prototype, demonstrate, analyze and justify installations of online diagnostics, metrics and improvements.

There are currently 2172 LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) compliant instruments, in 231 different product families, developed by LXI Consortium member companies.

As end users increasingly focus on energy-efficient production, pump manufacturers for the food and beverage industry will need to design cost-effective offerings that support energy optimisation.

This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system.

By: Pat Garrehy, Rootstock While analysts project that the adoption rate for Cloud HR is over 60 percent and for Cloud CRM over 75 percent, the present adoption rate of Cloud ERP for manufacturers is less than ten percent. One major obstacle is that the larger ERP vendors are On Premise providers.

Having a hard time finding someone to service your older PLC? Turbocraft can help! We gladly service many types of older PLC's, which many Systems Integrators no longer have software or equipment for.

With TuneWizard, plant facilities in the power and process automation industries can tune their control loops to ensure they are performing as they should without any cost.

EnerG2, a company developing nanostructured carbons for energy storage, is using a Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments to measure and characterize its high performance products.

The market for industrial gearboxes and geared motors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is expected to decline by 4.2 percent this year as economic troubles continue to take their toll.

Advanced Industrial Cybersecurity (TS13) course covers the latest developments in cybersecurity, including practical guides to the design, implementation and testing of industrial networks and applications to ensure their security and reliability.

102-page catalog covers gear reducers, servo couplings, and linear mounting products.

Monsanto engineers used the full capabilities of HART Communication to “get connected” and integrate the intelligent information from more than 600 HART-enabled devices into their control systems.