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Orders were steady to higher in all regions and divisions despite a challenging market environment.

Sumer is a French manufacturer of high-performance planetary gearboxes

By David Andeen, Director of Applications, Maxim Integrated “Distribution automation” is an old industry, finding new and vibrant life with the smart grid.

Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd is released new forthcoming report on title "Automation and Control System Market in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast to 2020."

How the advent of smart transmitters and wireless communication has opened the door to better temperature communication & process performance improvements.

ASCO Flow Calculator enables customers to quickly calculate flow for a valve or determine the Cv needed to properly size a valve.

Products on display in Hall 25 will include drive belts, hoses, hose lines, and air spring systems from ContiTech.

At the upcoming HANNOVER MESSE, the German government and key German industry associations (VDMA, ZVEI and BITKOM) will jointly outline their strategy for achieving integrated production.

Pamela Bingham is now the Managing Director of Rotork’s Gears division and Dave Littlejohns is Divisional Managing Director of Rotork Fluid Systems.

The US subsidiary operates under the name "MB connect line Inc." and is located in Warrenville, Illinois. The determining factor for the location is the excellent infrastructure in the Chicago metropolitan area. From here the entire North American region is very easily reachable.

HARTING will be presenting – live on the fair stand – a production line demonstrating solutions for Integrated Industry.

By Elmer Chen, GCiS China Strategic Research Rather than insulating domestic suppliers, the Chinese government has opted to loosen import regulations for many forms of technologically advanced products in the interim, and domestic companies will struggle to catch up and surpass foreign suppliers occupying the high end market.

Frost & Sullivan predicts big changes are ahead in how to manage the global cyber threat, including the growing concern of state sponsored involvement and complexity of attacks on private business.

Researchers from IOSB will be demonstrating which attack scenarios could happen to networked production facilities at the Fraunhofer joint exhibition booth at this year’s Hannover Messe.

A brief overview of sequential function charts, describing proper implementation and common mistakes.

By Bill Lydon, Editor This is an update to previous automation and control trends articles and expresses my thoughts for 2015 and beyond. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending more than 20 industry forums, conferences and trade shows last year.

Catalog covers configurations for standard modules of TrackMotion, gantry and linear motion units in virtually any size and for all robots.

By Tony Armstrong, Linear Technology Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be powered via energy harvesting. Here’s how to design a nanopower device that works with very low levels of power and current.

Their objective is to push the standardization of all CERN control systems to Linux 64-bit operating systems.

At Hannover Fair, Festo will demonstrate developments in the OPAK Industry 4.0 research project subsidized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

An ISA technical paper proposes a sliding mode control strategies for the point-to-point motion control of a hoisting crane.

The need for enhanced safety and security solutions, better alternatives for conventional technology and rise in wireless sensing technology are the major factors responsible for driving the photonic sensor market.

The data rate of 56Gb/s was achieved using duobinary encoding over a channel including the ExaMAX High Speed Backplane Connector.

Rockwell Automation welcomed nine new Encompass Product Partners and two global expansions within its PartnerNetwork program.

Egemin will supply an integrated warehousing system with AGVs to handle the intermediate transport flows of slabs and rolls and storage of slabs.

By 2017, more industrial robots will be operating in China's production plants than in the European Union or North America.

FCI has received FM Div 1/Zone 1 Approval on all remote probe configurations for the FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor.

Big data storage and fast processing capabilities need to become one hybrid system.

TV legend John Ratzenberger will serve as honorary chair of AME’s 2015 conference in Cincinnati.

The MPLAB Code Configurator enables firmware developers to quickly initialise the device and implement peripheral drivers for faster time to market

The free app enables users to graph and analyze environmental data collected with Onset HOBO MX Series data loggers.

Immediate access to secure, end-to-end networking service now widely available.

Catalog covers miniature pneumatic products including specifications, technical drawings, and application highlights.

Videos demonstrate basic CNC control procedures.

Fifth edition has been extensively updated to reflect the latest advances in automation technologies and incorporate valuable new self-study exercises and challenge-solution examples.

Customers are able to access the Endress+Hauser YouTube channel 24/7 to watch short “how to” videos on a variety of topics, from “How to change 4 to 20 mA current output” to “Commissioning a pH probe on the CM44 transmitter.”

The two packaging companies will form an unnamed company that will have combined net sales of $15.7 billion.

By Bob Douglas, Westfalia Technologies Although an AS/RS can generate ROI in about five years, proper service and maintenance further maximize this investment and can lead to a system lifespan of 25+ years, thus lowering the total cost of ownership and providing long-term operational efficiencies.

Datalogic Automation will use B&R Automation PC 910 systems in its UX series of vision processors.

Remote management is now recognized as a best practice to creating strategic advantages by lowing cost and improving efficiency.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Cyber-attacks are on the rise. Do manufacturing companies need to experience major disasters before they take cyber security seriously? We have talked and written much about cyber security, but little action has been taken. The good news is there is an ever expanding range of cyber security protection solutions for those motivated to protect themselves.

The free web seminar, the second in a two-part series on pressure measurement calibration, will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m.

The products included are eight different series of belt-driven spindles, Mech-Tronix integrally motorized spindles, and standard spindle accessories.

Center checks, maintains and rebuilds metal detection, material handling and magnetic equipment.

German detergent manufacturer Henkel replaced its old data recorders with 10 Delphin measurement data acquisition systems.

Roop is a financial management executive, an instrument and electrical engineer, and a power plant manager.

Comprehensive catalog completely covers current measurement

ISA President Rick Roop discusses how ISA will work toward achieving its five strategic goals in big data, content, coolest delivery, cybersecurity and career advocacy.

The PLC market dropped in 2012, but it’s coming back strong.

By Christopher Little, Trihedral Replacing an existing system can present opportunities that are unavailable when building a SCADA system from scratch. This article outlines four concepts, or pillars, to support your search for new SCADA software that will help you build on the value of your existing system and grow with your changing needs well into the future.

The program will be held at the ARC Industry Forum, 9-12 February in Orlando, Florida

B+B created Connected Intelligence Global Partner Ecosystem to combine complementary partners under a virtual roof to facilitate IoT applications

B+B SmartWorx provides intelligent M2M and IoT connectivity solutions for wireless and wired networks.

PROFIBUS is number one but PROFINET and EtherNet/IP are catching up.

Exida, an ISASecure accredited test lab, certified the Schneider Electric Field Control Processor 280 to the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

Zenon Analyzer, Supervisor, Operator and Logic certification was carried out by TÜV Süd.

Klippstein holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and previously worked as a supervisor of CNC control and electrical design engineering.

Using ProfiTrace 2 diagnostics found a corroded cable at the Rijnland waste water purification plant.

FDI technology is a device integration technology that plays a key role in addressing device management in an operating plant.

Boulting to supply motor control centers and automation and system integration services.

ICONICS announces that it is one of the first in its industry to achieve OPC UA Client Lab Certification from the OPC Foundation for its GENESIS64 V10.85 Platform Services.

Guill supplies advanced extrusion tooling technology to the medical, rubber and plastic industries worldwide, as well as nuclear specialty alloy products to the defense industry.

The Connected Intelligence Global Partner Ecosystem wants to create intelligent networks that can collect, manage, and analyze the data generated by billions of sensors.

HIS says while the world transitions to higher efficiency IE2, IE3 and NEMA Premium low-voltage (LV) motors, IE4 motors marketed as “Super Premium Efficiency” motors have rapidly carved out a space in the high efficiency motor market.

This is partly because SCADA products are mostly used in large investments in the energy business—such as in oil and gas and power facilities—an area that is performing better than other sectors.

ABB controls the Solar Impulse plane on its flight around the world powered only by energy from the sun.

By John Senese for Industrial IP Advantage Virtualization is highly beneficial in an industrial IT scenario where there are lots of software applications that perform functions for a small number of machines or manufacturing processes.

Interview with Christopher Di Biase, Principal Consultant, Rockwell Automation.

Jonah Energy, a startup exploration and production company, is using Flow-Cal’s FLOWCLOUD hosting solution to obtain data in a cloud environment.

Rockwell Automation PowerFlex 700L drives and CompactLogix PACS convert DC power to AC power within the fuel cell and connect it to the grid.

Netilities graphical software tool is useful for engineering, monitoring and troubleshooting PROFINET installations.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Internet of Things (IoT) definition as promoted by major industrial automation suppliers and computer industry suppliers is “IP to the edge.” IP to the edge means using Internet Protocol over wired or wireless Ethernet to communicate with end devices. This concept may not be common sense engineering and sound design for industrial automation systems.

A look at the differences between pure batch versus fed-batch versus continuous reactors.

Halma succeeds Brian Butler, who is leaving the KION Group at his own request in order to pursue new opportunities outside the company.

Jim Foust and Tim Ellis have more than 70 years of direct experience with Giddings & Lewis machine tools.

An ISA technical paper proposes an adaptive second order sliding mode controller with a nonlinear sliding surface.

The 18.9% decrease is in part due to the record breaking sales in October.

AMT shuffles execs in Asia, Latin America and marketing.

Koke will be based out of Synerlink’s new U.S. office in Duncan, SC, sharing a facility with Synerlink’s sister company, Hayssen Packaging Systems

HyperionRSI Simulation, jointly owned by Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd and RSI, will offer simulation solutions based on the IndissPlus simulation technology.

Wireless Control Foundation: Continuous and Discrete Control for the Process Industry, aims to improve wireless control planning, commissioning and troubleshooting.

People and Processes is a consulting and education services firm focused on helping people and organizations succeed in the Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices.

Biodiesel garners the largest market share; however, the latest and the most commercially viable Cellulosic ethanol would surpass Biodiesel and eventually lead the market by 2020.

PD pumps will prove indispensable in various applications such as hydraulic fracturing, the mixing and injecting of chemicals, and the mixing of solid proppants with water.

ISA's training and educational program from February 2015.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Wurldtech launched a new firewall product for industrial control (ICS) and SCADA equipment that is designed protect from corruption and damage caused by cyber-attacks. I recently spoke with Wurldtech’s Peter Lunk and Tom Kenneth about their new Achilles Industrial Next Gen Firewall and their full portfolio of cyber security products and services.

If you do not leverage new knowledge, you can be blindsided by others who apply it, especially your competitors.

Lenze is a manufacturer of electrical and mechanical drives, motion control and automation technology.

The division will feature offerings that pertain to gas detection equipment, maintenance and monitoring and compliance.

The tabbing and framing cell takes the Sportbrake body floor out of the assembly line to have the side body panels, roof and other components put in place, tabbed and then welded by robots.

Dataforth published two revised and updated MAQ20 Industrial Data Acquisition & Control documents: a 4-page brochure and the 32-page 2015 Product Catalog.

Written from a practical perspective, Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control book explains how to improve batch and continuous reactor and control system performance

A shutdown of Petrogal’s alkylation unit at Sines Refinery was the perfect opportunity for engineering and consulting company Optieng to install a new HIQuad safety system.

By Ryan Hildebrandt How do you identify and reduce risk in an automation project? At each stage of the project lifecycle, and for every party involved, risk can be introduced (and subsequently identified, assessed, and mitigated). Let's look at how these uncertainties come into play and how to reduce the effects on your overall schedule and budget.

November U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $378.06 million, down 15.5% from October and down 14.5% when compared with the total of $442.01 million reported for November 2013.

Endress+Hauser, ABB, JUMO and other big-name exhibitors will show solutions that turn Industry 4.0 into reality for process automation users at Hannover Messe in April.

A look at how many of the loops can be the same and how all reactors benefit from a more extensive application of feedback control.

People and Processes, Inc. is a consulting and education services firm focused on helping people and organizations succeed in the Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices.

Prior to joining the company he was President of TacTouch and previous employers include Acuity Brands Lighting, Automated Logic Corporation and TRIATEK.

The conference is 28-31 January 2015 at the Marriott Newport Beach Hotel and Spa in Newport Beach, California

Most of Zaber's devices can now be connected directly to a computer via USB port with the release of our T-USBDC cable, making set-up quicker and easier than with a separate USB to serial converter.

Weiss provided a turnkey solution for Alpha‘s 6’ tall automotive parts assembly machine that allowed ease-of-loading for its 12 load stations

The free program simplifies fuse inventory and reduces costs. Eaton first conducts a full audit of a customer’s fuse inventory. does a thorough analysis, and generates an inventory and consolidation summary report.

Low cost single sensor/single actuator approach to static feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems. Issue is present in many engineering applications.

His predecessor, Paul Warndorf, will assume the role of Vice President of Strategic Planning and remain active in supporting the Manufacturing Technology department.

Using Barix Barionet IP solutions, Village Worker builds end-to-end control and automation architectures that trigger actions based on data readings from a variety of connected devices.

OpTek Systems has installed non-contact confocal chromatic sensors from Micro-Epsilon on a number of its laser processing machines to measure the surface finish and groove depth of difficult materials, ranging from highly reflective, mirrored surfaces to dark, diffuse surfaces.

IHS says the global I/O market grew a little in 2013, compared to the decline in 2012. The PLC market did not perform well in 2013, which affected PLC I/O.

Tachometer catalog includes detailed specifications of all Servo-Tek high performance DC tachometers for precision speed control applications.

Abstract submissions are due 15 January 2015 for the POWID symposium, being held 7-11 June 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

This 2-day course gives students the ability to read and understand P&IDs for the analysis of emergency situations; and for safety, environmental and regulatory compliance issues such as Process Hazards Analysis and HAZOP studies.

MEDUSA development platform for battery-free wireless sensors and actuators allows developers to design components driven by RF energy harvesting

Calgary and Burlington offices can now implement TÜV certified Functional Safety Management System for design, engineering and delivery of Safety Instrumented Systems

The accreditation period extends for five years, and includes all programs offered or created by ISA during this time.

Approximately 3,000 teams are projected to compete for the chance to gain top honors at the FIRST Championship, which will take place 22-25 April 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

More than $65,000 in scholarships funds are expected to be distributed in 2015. The application deadline is 15 February 2015.

Creating a standardized, enterprise-wide benchmarking system helps manage the complexity among various manufacturing processes, while reducing competitive risk.

AGV Solutions has a complete line of forklift AGVs, unit-load AGVs and specialty AGVs to handle loads ranging from light-duty logistics to heavy loads in the steel industry.

TriMet will handle ROMER portable arm coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in Southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Catalog contains detailed specifications of high performance gearheads for servo and stepper motors.

This is the company’s fourth office in the United States and its tenth branch office in North America.

By Bill Lydon, Editor New technology is enabling remote monitoring capabilities to improve operational effectiveness. This presents users with opportunities and challenges to be evaluated for practical applications. The latest remote monitoring tools allow experts to analyze problems and abnormal situations, and determine ways to improve and optimize operations, without traveling to the site.

Fully interactive, role-based NERC CIP V5 Online Training Courses cover cyber security and access controls in the power industry.

OPNsense combines the best of open source and closed source firewalls.

8over8 is a supplier of ProCon, a risk management software platform that connects Owner Operators (OOs) and Engineering Procurement Construction companies (EPCs) throughout the project life cycle.

IMI CCI control valves and pneumatic actuators have been qualified to the requirements of ASME QME-1 2007 for use in nuclear power plants.

Wireless technology for process instrumentation has the potential to bridge key gaps in a variety of industrial applications, including asset management solutions, monitoring, and noncritical alarming

A new Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming model is presented to analyze the availability optimization of a system with a given structure.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the PLC market in the oil and Gas Industry in the Americas to grow at a CAGR of 7.20 percent over the period 2014-2019.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Process Safety System market in the oil and Gas industry to grow at a CAGR of 7.03 percent over the period 2015-2019.

Isolated silos in industry may create barriers to growth, but they also offer opportunities for those willing to take the initiative.

Version 5 is now is available to elementary and middle school students and teams.

The Baumer Competence Center for EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects has locations in France and India.

Up to 2014, there was only limited interest in thermoelectric energy harvesting in general and its use in automotive applications in particular. IDTech predicts thermoelectric energy harvesting will be on production hybrid electric on-road vehicles from 2018.

Free course helps teams get started with the NI roboRIO controller, the required controller for all FRC teams in the 2015 season.

PLC I/O replaced with DCS I/O while keeping existing PLC sequence logic.

App makes it easier for customers to access system data from remote locations.

Starting from January 1, 2015 PERCo provides 5 year warranty for all products supplied at the international market.

A fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with double closed loops is proposed for spacecraft attitude control.

Check out some of the educational opportunities provided by ISA in January 2015.

Three managing directors of companies from the Endress+Hauser Group will be retiring at the end of 2014. Executives from within the company’s own ranks will be taking over.

Cascade Technologies is a manufacturer of gas analyzers and monitoring systems using Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) technology.

The University of Kentucky team designed a project that conducted live testing of performance parameters on a solar car.

The effect of reactor type on dynamic response, allowable measurement lags and delays, controller tuning, and control strategies is significant.

The Control Systems Security Corporation Chartered Lab (CSSC-CL) certified a process controller from Azbil—the Harmonas-DEO DOPC IV—to the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

Kaminski has been with Egemin Automation for over a decade, most recently as Vice President of Engineering.

The FactoryLogix software will encompass the entire production area, which currently comprises of three high technology SMT lines, conventional through-hole facility, conformal coating area and final assembly logistics.

MEN/ME family of end suction water pumps has been updated to meet the new ecodesign regulations set by the European Commission.

IEC 61511 requires the preservation of all layers of protection wherever possible. Independence, diversity and physical separation are demanded for each of these layers of protection.

Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems

POSITAL has become a member of the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA), a not-for-profit trade association aimed at advancing the practice of systems integration in the area of industrial control systems.

FLOWCAL Enterprise Liquids software automates Lyondell Chemical 's measurement data collection by replacing their manual spreadsheets and manage all data electronically through one centralized system.

The bill is designed to strengthen and protect the nation’s economic and national security through public-private partnerships to improve cybersecurity and a greater reliance on cybersecurity standards.

Sogerma Composites Aquitaine uses Robotmaster software to program a rail-mounted 6-axis robot. Applications include tooling thermal protection parts made of glass fiber for the Airbus A330 airliner and honeycomb for the Airbus Super-Puma MK II helicopter.

Turbo Power Systems will be replacing its existing manufacturing resource planning (MRP), finance and other discrete systems, to improve efficiency and simplify decision making.

Wagner-Meinert specializes in the design and construction of ammonia refrigeration systems, HVAC, as well as steam and compressed air systems.

By Chris Favre, Automation Integrated The danger of this rush to smart devices is that some “manufacturers” are taking hobby grade equipment and developing it as a viable commercial solution.

Global shipments for motion control products grew by nine percent to $2.3 billion in the first nine months of 2014, according to new statistics released by the Motion Control Association.

After declining for two straight years, revenues from the sales of motion-control products are forecast to grow over 6 percent in 2014 to $12.2 billion according to IHS.

Inadequate training and a culture of complacency among many owners and operators of critical infrastructure are significantly raising the risks of highly damaging cyberattack throughout the world.

Mas Ingenieros selected Status Enterprise as a facility management solution for a 5-star luxury hotel in Algeria.

OSI has been awarded seven contracts by a Joint Utility Procurement (JUP) project to deliver seven SCADA/EMS systems.

ETT operates approximately 69,000 miles of pipelines. It installed a new control system based on the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture platform, CompactLogix controllers and medium voltage Allen-Bradley SMC Flex soft starters, running on a ControlNet network.

Advances in digital integrated circuits are now paving the way for the proliferation of vision into diverse mainstream automated manufacturing platforms. Cost-effective vision processors with depth-di

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2014 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium has been extended to 31 January 2015.

Jim Yastic was hired to run U.S. operations.

ABB and Hitachi will form a joint venture for high voltage direct current (HVDC) system solutions in Japan.

ML210G-10-TR is certified as ThinManager-Ready by thin client management software provider ACP.

The mobile application features the same look, feel and navigation as the standard catalog of of liquid level, flow and pressure sensors, indicators, transmitters, receivers, etc.

By Bill Lydon, Editor I see the technology progress in other industries, and I am coming to the realization that the industrial automation industry is way behind. The automation market lacks the essential elements, thought leadership, and desire to take advantage of IoT (Internet of Things) architectures and technology.

ISA President Peggie Koon recognizes the people who make ISA's accomplishments possible: the staff.

MCAA’s chairman Todd Lucey of Endress + Hauser told OSHA that it should adopt a plan to use private sector accreditors to perform application reviews and on-site assessments.

Bob Carrell was elected Chairman and Joe Incontri will serve as Vice-Chairman. Peter G. Martin and Stan Ronna were elected to Director-at-Large positions on the MCAA Board.

The guide lists 130 providers of nearly 300 Sercos-enabled products and serves as a guide for all mechanical engineers, systems integrators and control unit manufacturers who use the high-performance Sercos automation bus.

ThreadX RTOS has been recognized by UL for compliance with UL 60730-1 Annex H, CSA E60730-1 Annex H, IEC 60730-1 Annex H, UL 60335-1 Annex R, IEC 60335-1 Annex R, and UL 1998 safety standards for software in programmable components.

A.T. Kearney says reshoring is down 20%. Outsourcing is outpacing reshoring. Un-outstanding news!

With fee-based High Value Support, Eplan offers full support worldwide.

New HMI solutions offer multitouch functionality so users can scroll, zoom, expand & rotate items via familiar smartphone gestures, such as swipe and pinch.

By Norman and Amelia Lobsenz A look back at robot predictions in 1950.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The dramatic cost reductions and increased computing power of mobile devices are creating opportunities to operate plants more efficiently and increase the productivity of personnel. Mobile devices can include smart phones, tablets, netbooks and notebook computers.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to massively instrument the world with intelligent sensors and actuators (analog/digital) that communicate over both wired and wireless networks and leverage the Internet Protocol (IP). .

By Kepware Technologies Repete implemented Kepware’s KEPServerEX communications platform to address the diverse protocol environments of its growing international customer base.

By Rockwell Automation King's Hawaiian had reached capacity at its California factory and bakery. Bachelor Controls created an architecture that got new equipment up and running in 10 months, while laying the groundwork for information gathering and sharing throughout the enterprise.

India’s role as the Partner Country at HANNOVER MESSE underscores the new Indian Prime Minister’s ambitious economic course.

Qualification makes HIMA eligible to compete for PDVSA projects

The problem of global output feedback control for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems

Halonen previously was CEO of Oulu ICT Oy and CEO of Kuusakoski Oy.

By Peter Bilello, CIMdata PLM is approaching and in some cases already achieving the status of a business platform. Now PLM-as-a-platform, or the “platformization” of PLM, is morphing into new ways of going about the business of innovation.

October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $193.6 million, up 9.7% from September’s total and up 3.3% from October 2013.

Cressall’s test facility provides it with the means to carry out impulse tests of up to 400,000 Volts in order to prove designs and test resistor prototypes.

The ability to provide higher energy efficiency and precise motion control are fuelling the uptake of electric drives in European discrete industries.

Enhancements include GMDbeat for online troubleshooting and GMDfit, which provides online condition monitoring, predictive analytics and periodic health checks on gearless mill drives.

This is the best nine month start by the North American machine vision market since AIA began tracking quarterly statistics in 2009.

Using an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) and Savanna.NET warehousing software, the facility stores 24,750 pallets and is equipped for pallet storage up to 10 pallets deep.

Bosch Rexroth uses Anybus modules mainly to connect welding and tightening controllers to the various control systems used in automation technology.

By Stephen Las Marias. PULS president Bernhard Erdl talks to CE Asia about the company’s latest product launches; the PIANO series and CPS10 DIN-Rail mount power supplies.

The asset visualisation and information management software will be used for Total’s Martin Linge fixed-platform asset on the Norwegian continental shelf.

David Westley will manage the North American branch of Cincoze, a supplier of industrial computers.

Winners are recognized for their editorial contributions to a wide range of ISA publications, including ISA books, InTech, and ISA Transactions.

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