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BISSC certifies that the conveyors conform to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) qualification for design of bakery equipment.

Electric bus manufacturing is a capital intensive market. Most large automotive companies have not forayed into the market as it is in the nascent phase. Funding from external investors is one of the key reasons for the growth of electric bus market.

AbraxSys has expanded its product line announcing new open frame monitors with industrial LCDs to provide industrial OEMs, automation control and process systems, as well as kiosk and machinery manufacturers with off-the-shelf systems.

The global carbon and energy software market, in terms of revenue, was valued at US$ 369.7 Mn in 2013 and is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 11.5% during the period 2014 to 2022.

By Andy Banathy, Panduit Internal and external factors – namely plant optimization and regulation compliance – are driving plants to bring more industrial compute resources onto the plant floor.

Courses include Using the ANSI/ISA-62443 Standards to Secure Your Industrial Control System); Cybersecurity for Automation, Control, and SCADA Systems; and Introduction to Industrial Automation Security and the ANSI/ISA-62443 Standards.

New Market Research Reports Title “Global Commercial Vehicle Axles Industry Report 2015” Has Been Added to Radiant Insights, Report database

By CamiResearch Cables in motion experience fatigue causing complete or intermittent failures whether or not that motion is constant. Fortunately, there are cable and harness test systems that can easily identify and pinpoint the source of even the most elusive intermittent failure.

By Phil Couling, Schneider Electric HMI and SCADA systems have been undergoing a series of quiet revolutions for many years now. With all their new, stronger and innovative capabilities, what is really needed to get the most out of next-gen HMI is next-gen thinking about how to apply them.

Soranno has more than 15 years of experience in the industrial safeguarding field, including designing machine safety system solutions.

Training program helps to help bridge skills gap for manufacturers in Southern Wisconsin.

The proximity and displacement sensor market was valued at USD 2.93 billion in 2013, growing at a CAGR of 2.8% from 2014 to 2020 to account for USD 3.56 billion in 2020.

What is social proof and how do you get it? More than likely, you already have it

NEXCOM will play vital roles in Productivity 4.0, helping realize man-machine coordination, extended machine uptime, flexible manufacturing planning and scheduling, shortened lead time, and zero inventory for the ultimate goal of industrial transformation and value-added industries.

Mencom’s new expandable T35 series of Din Rail modules allow you the convenience of mounting a wide variety of connectors to your DIN rail.

The Mobile Applications Market was valued at US$ 16.97 Bn in 2013 and is expected to reach US$ 54.89 Bn by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 16.2% from 2014 to 2020.

According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, Optocouplers Market was valued at USD 1.87 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach USD 3.22 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 8.2% from 2015 to 2021.

What part of a globe valve has the same purpose as the disk in a butterfly valve?

By Chuck Fuerst and Carl Marin, HighJump The warehouse should be one of the first places you turn to when improving efficiencies and productivity for your business. It’s the heart of your operations, and its ability to be nimble and efficient has a big impact on your customers’ experience and your bottom line.

Award presentations will be made at the 53rd Annual ISA Honors & Awards Gala, which will be held on Sunday evening, 11 October 2015, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

The global Industrial Controls market was valued at USD 58 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach USD 81 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 4.9% from 2015 to 2021.

Key factors driving the growth of green data center market include increasing shift of enterprises towards energy efficiency, government regulations and benefits such as reduction in operational cost.

Cimcorp will install a $33.5 million turnkey material handling solution to automate tire handling at Qingdao Sentury Tire’s new factory in Thailand.

B31.1 Power Piping design standard certification is a basic design requirement for products sold into the power industry.

North American sales of machine vision systems and components grew 22% in the first quarter of 2015.

NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America declined for a third straight month in June.

Site provides access to 53,000 products. Visitors can search by function, part number, model number, or brand

Hewitson is the third president in the company’s history and succeeds Bob Ruland who will continue to oversee the company as Chairman.

Honeywell is also offering Intel Security’s Enterprise Security Manager and Next Generation Firewall to its customers.

Ryle recently worked with automation and technology developments in the tobacco industry and is a former owner in an industrial automation firm.

How to make sure the cascade control system is intelligently designed to meet process requirements in terms of vessel and heat transfer surface temperatures

HPS will supply control, safety and security systems for the expansion of Freeport LNG’s terminal, located on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.

Their University of Sao Paulo project shows how to remove toxic compounds from contaminated water

With the shortage of engineering skills said to cost the UK £27bn per year, how can the UK close the skills gap and increase the number of young people going into industrial automation and engineering? Can games like Minecraft generate interest amongst today's kids?

APLEX Technology Inc. announced today that its industrial PC solutions are compatible with EtherCAT® Ethernet fieldbus technology to enable integration into real-time automation applications.

2015 Global Switched Reluctance Drive Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Switched Reluctance Drive industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).

By The OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation has further developed its standard into the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) which provides solutions to the identified drawbacks of OPC Classic while meeting the requirements for use in a modern device architecture.

The Detector Control System (DCS), part of the LHS, uses more than 5000 CANopen nodes. The link between the Scada layer and CANopen is realized by means of OPC UA.

OPC Foundation board members, technology advisor council members, and OPC technology working group members have been participating in the Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 initiatives very pro-actively.

2015 Global Explosion-proof distribution box Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Explosion-proof distribution box industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).

North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Western Europe together contributed 50% of the global gas leak detector market value in year 2014. Whilst Asia Pacific excluding Japan contributed about 35%, making it the largest geographical segment in the global gas leak detector market. The Middle East and Africa gas leak detector market is projected to grow at promising CAGR of 6.27% during the forecast period.

The PALLETACE flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is integrated with three Okuma MB-4000H horizontal machining centers

What programs are available from ISA in July 2015?

By Bill Lydon, Editor The adoption of disruptive technologies can make or break your business. The effects can be positive or negative. Adopting what appears to be a disruptive technology that does not go mainstream or adopting it too early can break or significantly hurt a business. Automation professionals are in a unique position to understand, evaluate, and make recommendations to management about the adoption of new technology.

The software from MDT manages changes to 16,000 programmable devices in remote areas across the continent and reduces safety risks to employees associated with unmanaged control system changes.

What does it mean when the percentage of flow through a valve equals the percentage of plug movement?

POWID attracts 120 attendees to examine and offer solutions to critical automation challenges

The shipments value of plastics machinery posted a moderate rise in the first quarter of 2015 when compared with the same period last year.

Free software guides specifiers through selecting the right control valve for any project.

The team will use Xylon’s X-Ray system for inspection tasks, including structural analyses of various materials, including fiber composites, damage analyses and nominal/actual comparisons to CAD data.

Motion Control Association is now Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) after merger with SMMA.

Upgrade for the Fluke 810 delivers overall vibration data, detailed diagnosis and actionable repair recommendations.

Van Rennes Industrial Automation has become an official eWON Certified System Integrator. This acknowledge our deep technical knowledge of eWON products/solutions, In the so called eWON Partner Program, in which we participate, the goal is to build an efficient ecosystem of industrial professionals sharing technical experiences and other information to fullfill end-user application requirements.

Critical aspects of the design of the jacket and coil in vessel heating and cooling.

The app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The need to improve manufacturing operations and maintenance using real-time data is creating a greater need to efficiently link larger volumes of data from controllers to the enterprise. Connecting real-time information from disparate control devices to operations, maintenance, and enterprise systems is not an easy task. Here's one solution that may help.

With 76 members in eleven countries, M2M Alliance is the globally largest machine-to-machine industry association.

The deadline for early bird registration for the ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium has been extended to 1 July 2015. The original deadline was 15 June 2015.

HTE Technologies will market and support Adept robots in Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois

Not enough is being done globally to implement basic industrial cybersecurity measures.

By Intertec Glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) composite material for protective enclosures is electromagnetically transparent, making it easier to deploy wireless instrumentation.

Steinbichler Optotechnik is a provider of systems for digitization with optical 3D sensors and in surface inspection on car body and sheet metal parts.

Italian company is also relocating its headquarters to Silicon Valley in California.

A major migration project offers what is arguably the best opportunity to train the next generation of automation engineers and plant operators in a way that can yield benefits for many years to come.

VDMA says worries about a future where robots snatch people’s jobs away are unfounded, and it refutes studies that say otherwise.

Emerson will provide automation technologies and expertise for two new 800-megawatt supercritical generating units at the Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station in the Sundergarh District, Odisha, India.

What is the process of grinding the plug and seat of a valve called?

LOGIIC report studies the possible use of remote connectivity to systems in the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) environment for the purposes of monitoring and diagnostics.

April U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $183.5 million, down 7.9% from March’s total and down 4.6% from April 2014.

Salvagnini is using distributed servo amplifiers for positioning, instead of keeping drives installed centrally in the control cabinet.

Stora Enso Oyj is implementing Honeywell’s technologies as part of a modernization and optimization effort at their paper mill in Varkaus, Finland.

Anderson spent 14 years as president of Rosemount Flow business unit and a two years as president responsible for establishing the Lifecycle Services organization for Emerson Process, Flow Measurement group.

CIMdata projects that in 2015 growth in manufacturing will continue and end-user payments for NC software will increase by 6.7% to $1.88 billion.

NEMA ICS 4-2015 updates technical references to IEC 60947-7 series and ANSI/UL standards.

The program has a sensors element library, which allows non-RF and non-software savvy customers to develop wirelessly connected products.

3,400 mile ride will take 44 days and raise money for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

FN110, a Field Wireless Communication Module; FN310, a Field Wireless Multi-Protocol Module; and FN510, a Field Wireless Multi-Function Module have achieved ISA100 Wireless certification.

An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

Bitherm SL offers a variety of products including steam traps, a monitoring system, compact steam trap stations, manifolds and portable detection equipment.

Red says balance contents are not yet in an acceptable tolerance range, and green tells an operator to move onto the next weigh.

The Special Publication 800-82 references ISA/IEC-62443 on 39 separate occasions.

The service helps customers easily maintain spare parts, by offering free return shipping and testing of qualified automation parts

Courses cover PLCs, electrical controls and instrument maintenance.

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

Fenion is Business Development Manager for motion control products.

By: Jeremiah Stone, GE Not too long ago, diagnosing a problem with a critical asset was a cumbersome process for the automation industry. The Industrial Internet is making the diagnostic process much more straightforward and manageable, particularly with the advent of powerful Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic (RM&D) capabilities. The Oil and Gas industry in particular has been quick to recognize the benefits of RM&D.

Industrial automation & manufacturing has been slow to adopt modern digital marketing practices, they have not embraced social media & mobile computing.

Digi-Key will distribute Lepton series thermal imaging cameras.

The facility will build fully integrated analyzer shelters for downstream oil and gas industry customers.

This listing allows the meters to be used in solar performance-based incentive (PBI) programs in California and in similar programs throughout the United States that reference the California standards.

The instrument complies with China’s post-Fukushima’s regulations (as well as those of other nuclear agencies worldwide) to install level measurement instrumentation in all spent fuel pools

Test your ability to match the name for valve symbol designations.

BJ-Gear in Denmark uses collaborative robots from Universal Robots to automate their production of gear wheels. This ushered in substantial cost savings on machinery, optimized work flows, and created a more varied and rewarding work environment.

Unlike the world market, the oil and gas sector is relatively small in China while the power and chemical sectors are especially large.

Available for download on iTunes and Google Play, this app is a compliance and training oriented approach to shared safety moments.

Early this week, an article published in ‘St. Louis Business Journal’ made it obvious that in coming few years robotic technology would be helping surgeons or carrying out surgery themselves in medical centres globally

The global laboratory information systems (LIS) market was estimated at $1,381.4 billion in 2013 and is projected to be worth $2,158.0 billion by 2019.

Flowmeters measure liquid, gas and steam and are available in flange-mount and flangeless (wafer) designs.

iglide L500 material is suitable for continuous operation in high-speed rotation applications under low loads.

Aerostat Systems Market (Class Types - Small-class, Medium-class and Large-class; Application -Military, Homeland Security, Commercial and Environmental Applications) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2014 - 2022

The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (ISA100 WCI) will exhibit at the 2015 ACHEMA tradeshow in Frankfurt Germany, 15-19 June.

Mangan Software Solutions (MSS) is a provider of SIS Lifecycle and Process Safety Management Software.

Deciding whether to calibrate instruments in the field or workshop is not a simple choice. The two methods often complement each other.

NEMA RV 3-2014 standard provides installers and inspectors with an industry perspective of best practices in the use and installation of flexible metal and liquidtight flexible metal and nonmetallic conduits.

ANSI/NEMA WC 27500 may be purchased in hard copy for $105 on the NEMA website.

Blue Ocean opened an office in West Chester, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

To meet the growing demand for mobile barcode reader apps in the US market, Progea has developed a new feature for the Movicon 11 Web Client App. This feature enables iPhone and iPad smartphones and tablets to read barcodes when they have the Movicon Web Client App installed.

Bilfinger GreyLogix uses Engineering Configuration One (EEC One) for control cabinet manufacturing.

The license for Phoenix Contact’s FL mGuard security devices can protect OPC Classic applications.

Conveyors carry tires (sorry, “tyres”) through the MIRS testing area.

FabTrol is a software business, headquartered in Eugene, Oregon with operations in North America and the United Kingdom, providing fabrication management software to steel fabricators.

The E’tow transport systemwill automatically transport Kubota tractors at creep speed through the 9 assembly stations on specially designed carriers.

ESI is a supplier of decision support software and services for the oil and gas pipeline, storage, marketing and distribution functions.

More than 160 plant and refinery professionals attended Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium held 19-21 May in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Factors such as stiff competition from upcoming substitutes, coupled with elevated raw material prices, will suppress market growth.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A single cyber security incident can lead to significant losses for any company. It is unclear to me and I am sure many readers what the insurance possibilities are for manufacturers. Insurance companies are working to ban cyber coverage under the commercial general liability (CGL) policies but are also offering separate cyber security insurance policies.

In an effort to advance control valve technology, industrial designers have developed new butterfly valve innovations.

By Nicelabel Labeling is frequently considered a background process that doesn’t get any attention until it causes a problem. As a result, bar code and RFID labeling practices and software have become dated at many enterprises failing to keep pace with changing business needs. Migrating from decentralized labeling to a modern, centralized solution generally helps

Advanced Furniture Testing developed specialised machines for tests that include chair back durability, drop impact and load ease, multi-task furniture, dual arm durability and universal cyclic testing.

To safeguard the plant’s depolymerization reactor, Dyneon selected a HIMatrix safety controller from HIMA as the emergency shutdown (ESD) system.

Curt G. Joa, Inc. designs and builds large manufacturing platforms. Using EPLAN and its Schematics to automatically create schematics and help drive its RSLogix 5000 software generator saves Joa hundreds of hours in design time and labor cost for each machine it builds.

By Larry Korak, Infor With the sluggish rate of recovery hovering around 1.8 to 2.2 percent since 2009, many US manufacturers are desperate to gain some traction toward double digit growth. But how and where will they find the turbo boost required to fully escape the impact of the Great Recession?

Nieves is now Director of Sales for the Embedded Solutions Group.

FMC Technologies uses Westermo Ethernet switches to connect equipment as deep as 3000 metres down.

Rotork IQ3 non-intrusive intelligent electric actuators have been chosen to replace unreliable actuators for the operation of radial gates on an important river management weir on the River Thames.

What are the failsafe positions for a valve?

Dougherty, who joined the staff in 2012, spearheads member engagement and recruitment efforts.

IHS says the market in the oil and gas industry is expected to be affected by the lower oil price; since oil companies have been cutting back investment.

By Doug Wylie, Rockwell Automation The stark reality in our contemporary digital, connected world is that there can be no absolute security. However, this by no means suggests the good guys can’t fight to win.

The global lithium ion battery market will reach a value of $33.11 billion by 2019 from $11.70 billion in 2012, registering a healthy CAGR of 14.4% from 2013 to 2019.

By Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation Standards are critical to realize the promise of the IoT. Without standards, digital devices won’t consistently connect, leaving room for failure. Standards help ensure technologies and methodologies are proven and interoperable.

Prior to joining Omron, Black served as Business Director for Sensing and Connectivity at Rockwell Automation.

SATO is a supplier of Auto ID solutions

AMC’s EtherCAT products consist of panel mount and plug-in servo drives to allow for quick prototyping and ease of system integration.

The Fieldbus Certified Training Program (FCTP) released its 2015 Fieldbus Certified training schedule.

App accesses gear reducers, servo couplings and linear mounting kits from a smartphone or tablet.

Business conditions in North America declined for a second straight month in May, falling to 50 from 54.8 a month ago and from 58.3 in March

In 1990 Dr. Ingo Benecke and Mathias Bode founded SensoTech, a supplier of sonic velocity devices to monitor online liquid concentrations.

At SPPF in France, a Keyence IM Series measures the dimensions of extrusions without any risk of variability.

The market is primarily driven by technologically enhanced products and increasing application of electricity in industries, agriculture, and domestic activities worldwide.

Use of key PID features, tuning objectives and feedforward control can meet the stringent requirements for biopharmaceutical production.

These approvals certify that Graphite HMIs are safe for use with industrial control equipment in potentially explosive, hazardous locations around the world.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Fluke is making significant investments in a cloud-based maintenance management software alternative for industrial users. Their intention is to close the maintenance management loop between the maintenance technicians and operations/business management.

Rockwell’s CompactLogix 5370 controller and three Kinetix 350 EtherNet/IP servo drives are used as the control platform for the new tubing spooler machine.

EPLAN moved from Farmington Hills, MI to the Woodfield Corporate Center in Schaumburg, IL.

The market for CAD, CAM, CAE, AEC, & EDA software was valued at $19.98 Bn in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 12.4% from 2015 to 2022.

An ISA technical paper presents a novel technique for analyzing the behavior of an industrial system stochastically by utilizing vague, imprecise, and uncertain data.

Aqsens QS performs on-site quantitative monitoring of polymeric scale inhibitors in oil field-produced waters.

By Bob Goossens, Acieta Robots protect workers from jobs hazardous to their health, increase capacity and enable new products that couldn’t be produced any other way. It’s hard to think of a manufacturing job that a robot can’t perform faster and with better repeatability.

$1 million worth of robots will be working in the hospitality, food and beverage industry in Southeast Asia.

The market was valued at USD 12.85 billion in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 7.0% from 2015 to 2021 to account for USD 20.57 billion in 2021.

Solenoids can be 2-way, 3-way, 4-way or 5-way?

Already in 2015 China had 85% of the global manufacture capacity of RFID tags, with over 150 RFID companies operating in the country.

KPI-ML will help manufacturing companies implement the ISO 22400 standard thereby increasing the flow of key performance indicators within a business.

The 61st Annual ISA International Instrumentation Symposium was held May 12 at the Westin Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama

Flowserve received orders totaling approximately $18 million for pumping systems for the Petroperú Talara refinery in Piura, Peru.

The 10th Annual ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium, will be held 4-6 August 2015 in Orlando, Florida.

Benefits such as greater flexibility, faster recovery, cost effective, automated and simpler to test are some key factors driving the growth of global DRaaS market.

Advocacy is one of ISA’s long-term strategic objectives and at the core of the Automation Federation’s mission.

The patent-pending inductive technique has already been used over temperature ranges of several hundred degrees Celsius with a accuracy of 1°C and could replace existing contact methods such as thermocouples and infrared.

RESOLUTE encoders provide position feedback and control accuracy in Instron’s ElectroPuls systems for fatigue testing.

The linear guidance systems form part of the assembly jigs for the Airbus A350 wings, which are currently being assembled at the Airbus site in Broughton, UK.

ABB opened a new robotics plant at its facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

New industrial automation industry standards are enablers for leveraging new technology for the process industries.

Transparent In-Line Encryption (TILE) provides security at the industrial field device level.

MCAA predicts a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 4.3 percent for the Process Instrumentation and Automation market.

By Igor Glikin, Tolomatic Most electromechanical rodless actuators commonly use one of two main drive trains to convert rotary motion of the electrical motor to linear motion of the actuator’s load-carrying device: a power screw drive or a timing belt drive. Here’s how to select drive trains for reliability, efficiency and long service life.

LCR will use ADLINK products in its line of fully integrated embedded computing systems.

By Jason Spera, Aegis By adopting a true paperless environment, and not just displaying PDFs, a factory can increase yields, quality and traceability while reducing costs and eliminating many of the risks associated with incorrect or badly controlled documentation.

By Jeff Nedwick, Infor Automotive One of the first steps needed to address the generational divide is to acknowledge the perceptions each generation has about the manufacturing industry and each other.

UC-8100 embedded computing platform is now certified to operate on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.

The global cloud security market was worth US$ 4.50 Bn in 2014 and is expected to reach US$ 11.84 Bn by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 12.8% from 2015 to 2022

By Bill Lydon, Editor In an article titled 'Is it time for a new automation architecture?' I posed a question that stemmed from a number of discussions with users who believe our industry is stagnant. Many users voiced their opinions in an open discussion forum. They are frustrated with debates about which existing, outdated architectures are better. Many believe it’s time for a NEW architecture.

June 2015 offered a number of educational and technical training offerings from ISA.

By Jonathan Wilkins, European Automation

In liquid flow, what is the collapse or implosion of bubbles called?

Over 500 people attended the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Executive Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., which was held April 29 – May 2, 2015

Web software has been expanded to include air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans and blowers in a single user-friendly program.

Reflecting the EPA’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, the symposium, to be held 19 May through 21 May in New Orleans, will outline the direction and recommendations needed to follow best practices

La Pierrette produces synthetic sapphires and rubies for luxury watch movements. A Keyence IM Series system watches over the process.

Universal Robots is a supplier of collaborative robots that work side by side with production workers.

The highest power-rated medium voltage (MV) drives ever used in a reversing roughing mill were commissioned by ABB at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot hot strip mill in South Wales.

Parker Hannifin is sponsoring Victory Motorcycles as they compete in the 2015 Isle of Man TT Zero Challenge on June 10.

PID controllers for front-end production rate, slurry concentration & average fermentation time can decrease costs and increase production rates for ethanol plants.

The sensors provide curve detection and derailment protection for trains traveling 186 mph.

Enhancements in WeConfig 1.2 enable time consuming and complex configuration of large networks to be implemented reliably in just minutes.

The Tuning Akademie racing team uses the sensors to measure the distance between the vehicle and the road surface to determine the aerodynamic balance and respective downforce at the from the rear axles.

AutomationDirect now carries the Eaton FAZ series breaker family.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014.

Canonaco most recently worked at Omron as General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Canada.

This SITO technology offers a sensitive, accurate and fast touch response. It can be easily customized to work with a device’s unique bezel and electronic requirements.

A Cognex DataMan 300 is able to read IDs on process-free printing plates at NELA, replacing other scanners that could not see the virtually invisible IDs.

Matrox Extio F2408 KVM extenders were installed at New Zealand’s National Control Centres, which operate the National Grid power system.

Enhancements in Version 5.2 include PowerMap, Rail Inspector and RailScope features to simplify design of densely populated power systems

An ISA technical paper presents an improved reinforcement learning method to minimize electricity costs on the premise of satisfying the power balance and generation limit of units in a microgrid with

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the 2015 ARC Forum in February Bedrock Automation demonstrated additional features to the company’s automation controller product. These features exemplify their technology leadership and reflect their commitment to delivering integrated, easy to use, scalable, and secure products. I reviewed the following new new features with Albert Rooyakkers, Bedrock Founder, CTO, and VP Engineering.

Watzke will be based in Chicago and is responsible for all Lenze operations outside of Europe including the USA, China and India.

Micrel is a manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide analog, Ethernet and high-bandwidth markets.