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  • How to Achieve Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Communications

    How to Achieve Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Communications

    The commissioning and configuration of digital communications of a field-level network at an industrial operation, such as Foundation Fieldbus, is fundamental to obtaining certification of the digital
    By: Contributing Authors
    10 April, 2013 | 8 minutes
  • API Receives Avaya Services Certification

    The ION SA5600-SAL is a security appliance with an embedded Avaya Secure Access Link (SAL) Gateway that provides IP and secure dial-up connectivity to Avaya and heritage Nortel systems.
    09 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • FDT to support CIP networks in FDT2

    The FDT Group will develop an annex to the FDT2 specification for users of EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ODVA announces “initiative for process automation”

    Based on ODVA’s industrial EtherNet/IP, the results of this initiative will provide end users with more choices to deploy a complete Ethernet solution for process automation starting with connectivity down to the field level.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ODVA forms special interest group for machinery information

    The SIG will develop standards for the exchange of information between machines, and between machines and supervisory systems using EtherNet/IP and CIP, sercos III and/or OPC UA, whenever possible.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • February U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Up

    Orders totaled $385.89 million, up 5.7% from January but down 10.6% when compared with the total of $431.63 million reported for February 2012.
    09 April, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • MDIS Selects OPC UA for MCS-DCS Protocol Standard

    MDIS selected OPC UA as the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) protocol standard for offshore oil and gas production.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • CSIA announces new members

    The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announces that seven control system integration firms recently joined the association.
    09 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • HELUKABEL Cables Receive UL and CSA Approvals

    NANOFLEX hygienic control, power and data cables can be used in U.S. and Canadian industries that require machinery and their component parts to resist the growth of micro-organisms.
    09 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell to control water distribution project in Kuwait

    Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) will be deployed throughout the Azzour Water Distribution Scheme so that operators at a central location can control a network of six different treatment plants.
    09 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Bosch Rexroth wins 2013 HERMES AWARD

    Bosch Rexroth won the award for its Open Core Engineering project, which unites the previously separate worlds of programmable logic controllers (PLC) and information technology (IT).
    08 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EEMBC to use CodeSonar for processor benchmarks

    The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) adopted GrammaTech’s static analysis tool, CodeSonar, to analyze, review and test the robustness of code-based benchmark suites.
    08 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • EPSON Robots Signs Burns Controls as distributor

    Burns Controls is now an Authorized Epson Distributor for the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
    08 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • A simple method to find a robust output feedback controller by random search approach

    A simple method to find a robust output feedback controller by random search approach

    A simple method to find a robust output feedback controller by random search approach
    By: ISA Transactions
    08 April, 2013 | 1 minute
  • PLCopen publishes Safety Part 4 Application for Presses

    PLCopen and its members published PLCopen Safety Part 4 safety specification, specific to the application of presses.
    05 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Automation Federation works with NIST Cybersecurity

    At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), representatives from the Automation Federation participated in the first NIST meeting for developing a national cybersecurity program called for by President Barack Obama.
    05 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA100 WCI exhibits at Hannover Messe 2013

    The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) will display a live demonstration at the upcoming Hannover Messe Industrial Fair 2013, (8-12 April), Hannover, Germany.
    05 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ShopFloorConnect updates Website

    Website helps to explain Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and how to automate OEE reporting.
    05 April, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Flowserve to supply Pumps for Desalination Plant

    Flowserve will provide a pump package and energy recovery devices (ERDs) to be used at Larnaca, a 15.9 million gallons/day seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located in the Republic of Cyprus.
    05 April, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Use Field Analyzers to Measure Key Component Concentrations

    Use Field Analyzers to Measure Key Component Concentrations

    Field analyzers enable a higher level of control, such as model predictive control, to improve product quality and process efficiency and capacity.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    05 April, 2013 | 5 minutes
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