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After Emerson Process Management replaced existing valve positioners with Fisher digital valve controllers, the plant gained $40,000 in annual maintenance savings.

Auto-tuning of cascade control systems

Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, requested that the AF provide technical guidance in enhancing its automation and controls course for students in grades 10-12

Davide Bocciardo from the University of Edinburgh won with his entry “Customising UniSim Design: membrane separation and its application to carbon capture.”

Schneider Electric will be using ConneXium Tofino Security technology to protect its industrial automation systems.

NEC Display Solutions will supply LCD monitors and touchscreen solutions.

ODVA appointed director Cyril Perducat chairman of the board, director Frank Kulaszewicz as treasurer, and Richard Harwell as chief technology officer (CTO).

Gateways from Yokogawa, Honeywell and Nivis successfully demonstrated interoperability with a WCI test client.

September 2012 U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $667.47 million, up 40.7% from August and up 13.4% from September 2011.

Uponor is using the Catalyst Historian to improve performance characteristics of its assets and identify areas of potential improvement in each OEE area. During the past six months, scrap has been reduced by 6 percent, saving more than $100,000.

The program offers end users, EPCs, and OEMs the ability to reduce operational costs and improve engineering effectiveness.

By Ingenia Field Oriented torque Control of a brushless motor is possible using one shunt sensing circuitry, obtaining an ultra-low cost but high performances device.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Homeland Security's Lisa Kaiser gave a sobering presentation on cyber security issues and attacks. Kaiser emphasized that we are playing catch-up, noting that Foreign Cyber Espionage in the USA has been more intense in the last few years with a large black market for buying and selling information.

An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.

Industrial Automation (8-12 April 2013) focuses on the efficient use of energy and resources, including smart production systems and processes.

ABB will design, engineer and supply an integrated automation and electrification system for Anglo American’s new Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland on the east coast of Australia.

Rotork is supplying an all-electric valve actuation package for the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

All production and warehousing will be relocated to the Eagle Creek Industrial Park in Savage, Minn.

By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An OPC toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of OPC applications for programmers by providing standard functions for reading and writing OPC items, browsing and managing the OPC address space, and much more.

ISA and NAMUR have identified five common working groups that offer immediate collaborative opportunities.