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The custom Moving Magnet Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) is going on the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) spacecraft.

Pick your team members wisely, lead by example, and always convey the highest expectations of performance. Your team will deliver.

The interface allows equipment created in AVEVA Electrical or ETAP to be viewed and edited within each system.

ABB reported higher revenues, earnings and cash flows in the third quarter of 2013, on improved performance across all divisions.

IDTechEx Research says the RFID market will increase from $6.98 billion in 2012 to $7.88 billion, and will reach $23.4 billion in 2020.

Prior to joining Tech Soft 3D, Opsahl spent six years as the CEO of Actify, a leader in 3D product data intelligence.

Companies and institutions who will be exhibiting their product innovations at HANNOVER MESSE 2014 are invited to apply for the HERMES AWARD.

The process industry’s use of Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controller continues to grow as aggregate sales jumped to over 1.5-million shipped worldwide.

Elma will offer a wide range of custom chassis designs and embedded system platforms based on ADLINK’s small form factor boards.

Honeywell will provide an Integrated Control and Safety System for the floating LNG liquefaction, regasification and storage unit for the Exmar-Pacific Rubialis Energy project offshore Colombia.

The 13-page guide has helpful information about how to maximize the use of precision dispensing equipment for adhesives, sealants, oils, and coatings.

By Paul Hodge & Joe Bastone, Honeywell The advantages of optimized project workflow can be realized at both ends of the project schedule. The benefits are essential to ensuring control systems pose the least risk to project schedule and allow for safe, efficient and reliable plant startup and operation.

Michigan Custom Machines uses Cimquest INGEAR PLC drivers to build custom HMIs for their customers while reducing the per-machine cost of their equipment.

Even businesses with complex, energy-intensive production processes can control electricity use without compromising production. An advanced demand management system enables key strategies.

Yokogawa will supply a CENTUM VP control system to control plant facilities such as reaction tanks and distillation units, and field instrumentation and equipment including FOUNDATION fieldbus flowmeters, pressure transmitters and control valves.

Scheu joined ABB in 2001 and has 29 years of experience in the power and automation industry, with a strong focus on North America. He previously worked for Rockwell Automation and Westinghouse Electric.

Siemens developed the controller of the storage and retrieval machines and the conveyor system for the body buffer on the basis of its Simatic S7 controllers.

The PROFI Interface Center (PIC) built a display wall of PROFINET devices they have tested and certified.

Catalog covers tandem (heavy duty) actuators, clamping actuators, compact (miniature) actuators and telescopic actuators, as well as linear tables, drives and controls, and linear accessories.

Optical Metrology Services provides pipe measurement services and precision measurement systems to the oil and gas industry.

Crack Semiconductor, a Canadian-based leader in Public Key or Asymmetric Cryptography Solutions, joined the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute.

ISA will conduct an Industrial Automation and Control educational track at its upcoming 2013 ISA Automation Week Technology and Solutions Event.

Eight product suppliers in the Americas and two companies in the EMEA region joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass program.

By Bill Lydon, Editor PAS has developed a new product to sync "as built" documentation with the current installed system, eliminating wasted man-hours, decreasing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), and aiding with cyber security requirements and regulations.

By Rick Zabel, as originally published in InTech Here are the results from our 2013 salary survey of automation professionals. With an average annual salary of $106,772 in the U.S., job satisfaction has reached an all-time high of 85%. At the end of the article, the author provides a recipe for achieving the highest possible salary.

Your industrial plant or facility must have a proper defensive design so that the network, control devices & systems are cybersecurity hardened.

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announces twelve control system integration companies have joined the association.

The symposium will be held 19-21 May 2014 at the Astor Crowne Plaza hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Targeted at manufacturing executives, IT and plant managers , the survey focuses on the trends in operational metric improvements, the use of Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and other manufacturing software applications.

The engineers include Jeffrey Anderson, Calvin Anderson, Cameron Johnson, Martin Tato and Tristan McCormick.

PcVue will make Canary Labs’ Historian software available as part of its HMI/SCADA software.

The IRIS standard is formulated by Union of the European Railway Industries (UNIFE) and combines the general quality requirements of ISO 9001 with stringent process and railway-specific requirements.

Use a sliding stem valve with diaphragm actuator and digital positioner whenever size and process conditions permit.

Pereira began as Applications Engineer for the Rose Forgrove product line at HayssenSandiacre. Pereira will oversee the technical aspects of New Product Development.

The expansion will not only add 200 new jobs it will more than double the robotics tool manufacturing operations to 129,000 square feet.

ARC says economic instability and exchange rate fluctuations caused some uncertainty in 2012 but the market for control valves, actuators, and positioners is still growing. No numbers given.

The Robotics, Automation & Vision Application Park at Hannover Messe will run from 7 to 11 April 2014.

“Electrical Solutions for Commercial and Institutional Facilities” provides product solutions for challenges typically encountered in commercial and institutional buildings.

The symposium will be held 5-7 August 2014 and covers how instrumentation, SCADA and automatic control are vital to the treatment and distribution of water and wastewater.

Raffaele Cefalo, 48, has 25 years of progressive experience in the field of automation and has held several managerial positions in major companies in the industrial software industry.

Rockwell Automation enhanced Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit (CCAT) and Connected Components Workbench software tools.

UCSD installed wireless pneumatic thermostats in McGill-Mandler Hall to allow for centralized control of temperature set points through the existing building automation system. This project will reduce electricity use in the building by an estimated 27% annually and reduce natural gas use by approximately 51% annually.

ARC says the European debt crisis and slowdown in China’s and India’s growth slowed the market, but it will rebound. No market numbers are listed.

The outdoor broadband network transports telemetry data from mining and process equipment to the White Springs Agricultural Chemicals' operations center.

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The easy-to-install software enables the simultaneous use of several match, area and/or blemish sensors across various regions of interest in a single inspection.

The 80-page guide lists 125 providers of Sercos-enabled products and serves as a guide for all who use the high-performance Sercos automation bus or intend to do so.

Rockwell Automation has added EPLAN´s Fluid and Harness proD to their approved Encompass products.

Yokogawa will supply the control system that will renovate the first of four 20 MW power generation units at the Lahendong geothermal power plant, which is located in the Lahendong district on Sulawesi Island.

NEC Europe will resell Paradox Engineering’s PE.AMI Smart City solution. The two Companies will work together on joint promotion activities, trade shows, end user and customers’ seminars.

The certification ensures that the valves meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.

Use of SCARA robots in industrial assembly processes can help enhance the efficiency and productivity of manufacturing operations.

The transportation and water and waste water industry sectors have both experienced large increases in the number of reported cybersecurity incidents in recent years, up 160% and 60% respectively.

Metso will supply standard, intrinsically safe, and explosion-proof valve controllers to Sino-Venezuela Guangdong Petrochemical Company for its heavy crude processing project in Guangdong, China.

Orders were up 4.9% from July but down 18.1% when compared with the total of $454.19 million reported for August 2012. 2013 is down 8.0% compared with 2012.

Automation offers a key competitive advantage in the dairy industry. It is time to upgrade or replace aging PLCs, drum timers and selector switches. Invest in technologies that will squeeze out 1 or 2

By Bill Lydon, Editor As Industrial Ethernet protocols have proliferated on the factory floor, IP devices have become vulnerable to cyber threats. Ironically, while the importance of cyber security protection is being emphasized, the industrial Ethernet protocol associations have no firm plans to migrate to new Ethernet standards that offer higher cyber security protection.

This article provides an overview of both protocols and discusses their key strengths and applications. It also discusses which one works best in which applications – although there is some overlap in what each can do. What’s more, they can complement each other in joint applications.

SIC Marking created a mechanical system of loading plates on the marking machine for laser marking of the product name, customer's number, serial number and barcode.

An RHI Normag plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, has reduced maintenance costs, minimized plant downtime and improved the accuracy of energy-use measurement by using Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters from Emerson Process Management.

A good paycheck is nice, but if you find yourself dreading the return to work each morning it may be time to consider job options elsewhere.

Brochure describes Portable and Process Thermal Imaging Cameras, IR pyrometers, Portable Single Point Non-Contact Thermometers, Two-Wire Loop Powered Pyrometers, and precision Blackbody Calibration Sources.

"Control System Migrations: A Practical Project Management Handbook," by Daniel Roessler, is a clear and practical application guide to effectively managing control system migrations.

Dr. Reddy's successfully rolled out Werum's PAS-X Manufacturing IT Business Platform at their Indian greenfield site in Visakhapatnam, India.

The PLC market for Southeast Asia will enjoy yearly growth in the range of 5 percent, with revenue amounting to $178.5 million by 2017.

August U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $161.7 million, up 1.3 percent from July’s total but down 13.2 percent from August 2012.

Renfro Associates provides valve automation packages encompassing actuators, gearboxes, instrumentation and fabricated adaptation for flow control applications.

By downloading the Catalog App from the iTunes and Google Play Stores, one can search, peruse, and gather all of the information they may need about a product instantaneously

After several weeks of using the new vibration analyzer, the plant reported faster completion of their normal maintenance routes, easier and quicker data analysis, and an overall more comfortable experience working with the unit in the field.

VuWall2 Mobile is an Android application designed to manage and control video walls powered by Matrox Mura MPX Series video wall controller boards.

In addition to sponsoring the annual Georgia Robotics Invitational Tournament and Showcase (GRITS) competition, AutomationDirect also provided the trophies awarded to the winners.

Great things to come: ISA’s new website

The symposium will be held 1-6 June 2014 at the Hilton Scottsdale Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

For $125, Mitsubishi Electric Automation offers its customers remote access to a backup of their CNC machine tool information.

An Experion PKS will be installed in all of the mill’s major process areas including wood preparation, pulping and drying, as well as the chemical recovery and combined heat and power plant.

Yokogawa will supply a SCADA monitoring system for a large water distribution pipeline that the Saline Water Conversion Corporation is building in Saudi Arabia between the cities of Yanbu and Medina.

Enterprise batch records expand the idea of electronic batch records to the entire manufacturing operation.

Centroprojekt, an engineering company, uses AVEVA PDMS software for basic engineering and detailed design on major projects including a large pulp & paper plant, and a thermal power station.

This eBook provides insight into how to use reporting, statistical analysis, visual summaries and Manufacturing Intelligence to attain more value from operational data.

SHL in Germany uses Weiss heavy duty rotary indexing tables for its automated grinding, polishing, and deburring systems for the automotive, medical, and processing industries.

This year’s competition is underway, with regional semi-finals due to begin in November and December. BEST’s 2013 “Gatekeeper” theme is aimed around students creating a new CPU for the original BEST Robot, Squeaky.

The SDK enables developers and integrators to develop sensing applications by easily and rapidly integrating Leddar technology into their systems.

Volga NIPITEK experienced positive benefits within only three months by delivering its first project, a 3D model of a short-cycle hydrogen adsorption unit.

Rand-Whitney Containerboard had two goals when it decided to replace the distributed control system at its Connecticut mill - system reliability and a good relationship with the new vendor.

Honeywell will develop a recommendation, called a "bankable feasibility study," for the modernization of Pertamina's five largest refineries.

GTA Group includes GT Attuatori Srl, GT Attuatori Europe and Max Process, manufacturers of rack and pinion pneumatic valve actuators.

ARC says ABB retained its leading worldwide market position in this core automation market based on revenues.

Cowan, who brings extensive executive management experience in software and technology to Epicor, succeeds Pervez Qureshi, who is stepping down to pursue new opportunities.

Process industries can leverage big data to realize value through compelling manufacturing use cases. Get familiar with big data terminology, technologies, and techniques.

Most recently, Crone served in the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Valin Corporation, a provider of process control and automation solutions.

Prior to joining QA Graphics, Ben worked as a test and balance engineer for Precision Test and Balance for over two years, responsible for ensuring new HVAC systems were working as designed.

The building in Sandton, Johannesburg, has offices, training facilities and an auditorium.

Enardo offers safety and environmental control equipment for the oil and gas, petrochemical, wastewater, refining and other industries.

By Bill Lydon, Editor To learn more about the Belden's Certified Industrial Network Program, I talked with Brian Oulton, Director of Initiative and Vertical Marketing at Belden. Here is a transcript of that interview.

Process Automation provider uses KEPServerEX to instantly gather, view, and access data associated with industrial machinery on iPads and iPhones, turning any plant floor into a data-rich environment.

Pipeline and inline control loops have no back mixing and hence no process time constant in the response of the outlet to changes in the inlet.

Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced that Midwest Engineering Systems received their Certified Robot Integrator designation.

How much radiation exposure do workers at nuclear plants get? Fiatech released the final report from a joint project with the EPRI.

Vaskiluodon Voima is replacing an automation system installed in 1989 with modern technology that further improves plant availability and safety.

OSI delivered a SCADA/GMS system to Basin Electric, one of the largest electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives in the United States.

At packaging plants in Europe, robot arms from Universal Robots use advanced force control to handle even the most fragile and delicate items, and operate with no safety guarding.

ISA announces keynote presenters, presentations, executive panels and technical sessions at its ISA Automation Week Technology and Solutions Event, 5-7 November 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

To participate in the contest, FIRST teams will submit a video answering the question: What could your team engineer that would have a positive impact on your community and our world?

Scientists at Reading Scientific Services are using a Morphologi G3 automated particle imaging system to troubleshoot particle sizing methods for pharmaceutical clients and develop fully validated procedures.

OEE is a continuous improvement program and requires a sustained commitment to produce results

The Fieldbus Foundation is developing technical specifications for integration of devices based on the Modbus communications protocol into its FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM) technology.

The consulting practice will concentrate on the development and adoption of next generation, synergistic model-based strategies and systems-driven processes to improve product innovation and new product development return on investment.

ARC says in 2012, China’s PLC and PLC-based PAC market declined significantly. But this is a natural fallout; when industrial growth is lackluster, the demand for automation reduces.

Vented LVDTs can operate in temperature extremes of -65°F to +400°F (-55°C to +200°C) and operating pressures of 35 kpsi. High temperature ratings are achieved using internal materials rated for these temperatures.

Metso will break into two companies. Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power business will be transferred to Valmet, and Mining and Construction and Automation business will remain part of Metso.

Invensys will provide PRO/II steady-state simulation software to help KBR accurately model its process technology.

PAS named Pasquale Paolone as Sales Manager for Southern Europe.

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Devices include the Class 3200, 3400, 5000, Green Class Net Meter, Din-Mon and Interval Data Recorders.

NanoSight's instrumentation and software enable the rapid and simultaneous multi-parameter analysis and characterization of many different types of nanoscale particles.

Catalog covers electro-pneumatic transducers, pressure regulators, pneumatic relays, volume boosters and accessories for process machine tool, robotic and OEM applications.

Process Safebook is a free guide to functional safety for process applications. The guide discusses how to manage safety in electrical, electronic and programmable electronic systems.

Asset Management Systems Increase Reliability and Efficiency

Composed of 20 top software vendors, the guide aims to educate end-users on the manufacturing software market and aid the selection process.

With the expansion, IDS will now be able to bring its North American sales team under one roof with administrative staff.

Endress+Hauser plans to buy more shares of German-based Analytik Jena, which is active in classical analytical instrumentation as well as in biotechnology and molecular diagnostics.

Toshiba Machine Control Systems Division will transfer all robotic and control business to TM Robotics Americas.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The new high-performance CompactRIO cRIO-9068 controller has a dual core ARM processor and FPGA on the same chip that supports LabVIEW and Real-time Linux. This looks like a great platform for industrial automation applications because it incorporates control, optimization, analytics, and business enterprise interfaces.

Find a way to test any communication network prior to installation. About a week before every major DCS start-up, consider performing a “network startup.”

This fifth workshop will be held 14-15 November 2013 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, USA.

Beijer Electronics moved into a research and development/manufacturing facility totaling over 44,000 square feet located at located at 1865 West 2100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119.

Products that completed testing and became BTL Listed products in the first and second quarter of 2013 can be found on the website.

Hartech Engineering and GPL Machinery built a plastic bag machine based on ABB's Ethernet Powerlink compatible motion control and an all-servomotor architecture.

White has more than 18 years of experience in the machine vision market, working exclusively for market-leading industrial camera manufacturers.

The choice reflects the fair’s continued focus on integration as a challenge of pivotal importance for the future of industry and maps out the next steps to tomorrow’s intelligent, self-organizing factories.

By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock Manufacturers are finding that their markets have changed, caused by both business and consumer-altered demands. For those who have undergone significant business change, what was used as criteria to select the legacy ERP system of the past is no longer relevant.

Virgo will operate within Emerson Process Management’s final controls business, serving customers in the energy and process-related industries.

The central pillar of the cooperation is integration of KUKA robots and Siemens CNC solutions for loading machine tools.

The machine, manufactured by Stourbridge based rollforming and coil processing specialist Formit, will be installed in Cressall’s Dereham factory in December

Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation have entered into discussions for merging the two organizations into a single industry foundation.

Six packaging programs participated in this year’s competition: Cal Poly State University, Clemson University, Purdue University Calumet, Rutgers University, University of Florida and Virginia Tech.

An educational track at ISA Automation Week 2013 will provide practical guidance on how to improve cybersecurity of industrial automation and control systems.

Michael Chertoff told oil and gas industry executives gathered in Houston that it no longer takes an army to fight a war as the top threat their businesses face in the future is not from physical risks, but cyber attacks.

Predictive analytics pushes the pursuit of asset reliability from its reactive orientation to one that is fully forward-looking and better aligned with the goals and realities of today's manufacturing

Inductive Automation presented the first Ignition Firebrand Awards to eight innovative companies at the Ignition Community Conference in Folsom, Calif. on Sept. 18, 2013.

More than 2,100 exhibitors from 43 different countries showed their products to 145,000 visitors at the EMO Hannover machine tool show.

Three factors are hindering the sales of full-conversion products in the converter market: high rare earth material prices, lagging offshore wind development and China’s high demand for doubly-fed converters.

GENESIS64 HMI/SCADA software has achieved certified compliance for OPC UA, OPC, BACnet, Modbus IP and SNMP.

The three projects – Queensland Curtis LNG, Santos GLNG and Australia Pacific LNG - are developing coal seam gas in Queensland’s Surat and Bowen Basins.

ABB has been awarded a $2.765 million Department of Energy (DOE) Grant to develop technology to help the energy sector enhance its cybersecurity.

InduSoft has delivered more than 250,000 HMI software licenses to more than 700 customers worldwide, primarily industrial computer manufacturers and machine and system builders, who embed InduSoft’s software into their products.

Deutsche Messe and its U.S. subsidiary, Hannover Fairs USA, are opening a new office in Washington, D.C., to promote awareness in the U.S. of HANNOVER MESSE.

Metso will supply a complete control system retrofit for steam turbine and generator line 1 at Varme's Fana combined heating and power plant on the western coast of Norway.

By James Floyd and Cole Downing, Logic Supply, Inc. Should you accept a higher-priced, bundled automation PC with your system or select one on your own? Here are 6 things you need to ask your vendor to (a) assess whether independent PC selection makes sense and (b) to configure a unit that will meet your needs.

The company is looking for top talent among graduating engineering students and highly experienced engineers for its Michigan and Texas offices.

Metso will supply a complete power plant, including BioGrate combustion technology, installation, training and commissioning.

A novel sliding-mode control of induction motor using space vector modulation technique

By Bill Lydon, Editor As government agencies and the pharmaceutical & life sciences industry take measures to reduce drug counterfeiting, product diversion, and increase patient safety, drug manufacturers are faced with the challenge of implementing serialization and tracking systems.

The Fieldbus Foundation issued a preliminary specification for transducer blocks supporting ISA100.11a wireless devices.

The summit outlined proven strategies and tactics that marketing and sales professionals could immediately employ to strengthen their connections with their automation prospects and customers.

The EtherCAT Test Center (ETC) in China issued its first official Chinese conformance certificate to Tsino Dynatron Electrical Technology.

From October 15th to 24th, 2013, no-charge full-day seminars on the subject of EtherCAT technology will be held across the U.S. and Canada. The seminars are educational events delivered by the foremost EtherCAT experts from the ETG and the sponsoring companies.

Interactive catalog has an online mirror edition for researching/selecting components, loading a shopping cart, developing a bill of materials, and finding distributors.

Main identification of steel ball quality.

Temperature loops on mixed volumes, gas pressure loops, and level loops need much larger than expected controller gains and reset times.

The worldwide market for oilfield multiphase flow metering solutions (MPFM) will grow robustly this year, says ARC, but provides no numbers.

Rotork will supply two WGS Series subsea gearboxes fitted to a double block and bleed valve for a natural gas pipeline in the Bohai Sea.

The seals minimize the risk of field installation failure, protect the equipment, and improve the robot life cycle.

CSIA announced nine new members.

ARC says that Control valve shipments enjoyed another year of strong growth, but supplies no numbers.

Growth of robot sales is expected in North America, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, China, in most of all other South East Asian markets as well as in most of the Central and Eastern European markets, and in Turkey.

To meet Gelita's unique process manufacturing needs, Epicor ERP was extended to deliver a Blending Workbench.

Revenue for the integrated-motors market is projected to reach $553 million by 2017, up from less than $400 million in 2012.

The August 2013 edition includes Delta’s new product series, the PMH and PMF Panel Mount Power Supply series. More models are also added in their DIN Rail and Panel Mount power supplies.

Ulrich Spiesshofer has succeeded Joe Hogan as chief executive officer of ABB.

Through their partnership, Paradox Engineering and P3GM will seek to design, implement and finance specific smart city solutions cities desire.

The pulp and paper industry has experienced considerable change in recent decades, including advancements in digital technologies, rising energy costs, and international demand for tissue and fluff pu

AVEVA Laser Modeller enabled the rapid conversion of nearly 1,000 laser scans into intelligent, as-built 3D plant models at an unnamed North Sea oil & gas facility.

Bluetooth Access Point and Bluetooth / Wireless LAN Ethernet Port Adapters can now be used in applications in hazardous environments such as in the oil & gas and chemical industries.

PMMI study says 80 percent of the processors interviewed are evaluating their machine needs, and out of that group, 75 percent plan to purchase automated equipment in the next 12 to 24 months.

Fuses Made Simple program makes it easier for users to select and specify the right fuse.

The workshop, held at the University of Texas at Dallas and involving leading cybersecurity experts across America and the world, moves NIST one step closer to finalizing the draft and preparing it for official release in October.

New versions of OPC UA For Devices (DI) and OPC UA For Analyzer Devices (ADI) have been released by the OPC Foundation.

CHARMS marshalling technology was developed initially for offshore platforms, which have space and weight limitations and where last-minute automation design changes routinely result in high costs and expensive delays.

The competition challenges students to design and build a working control system using the company’s Nanoline controller.

AutomationDirect's “PLCs and PACs Simplify Data Acquisition” explains how businesses benefit from the in-depth information that PLCs and PACs can provide on processes, machines and manufacturing operations.

The key to supplier relationship management is selecting the most quantifiable metrics in your specific case. Also take into account how repeatable the results will be, even with changing personnel in

By Daniel L. Fenton, Phoenix Contact It is the author’s opinion that integration of the controls network and the IT network became inevitable when the industry chose to use Ethernet as the medium with which to communicate data. The controls industry may choose to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern communications era, or it can gracefully embrace the change.

Yokogawa will execute the front end engineering design (FEED) for a project to consolidate the control rooms and systems at its Mizushima-A oil refinery.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The ability to improve manufacturing operations is growing with the application of software that can leverage lower cost computing. More than 30 years ago, ULTRAMAX Corporation commercialized an interesting software product to optimize the operating performance of industrial processes. I recently caught up with the Founder and CEO to learn more about the product and their philosophy and perspective of industrial process optimization.

If a piece of code is to be replicated many times, always have two different people independently test it whenever possible.

Reference book outlines how to establish and manage industrial control groups, and how to initiate and execute industrial control projects.

ISA signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOM) with the China Instrument & Control Society (CIS), the leading academic organization in instrumentation, measurement, control and automation in China.

With the Genetec Security Center, operators can manage common operational pictures on the Barco CMS-powered displays to achieve visual collaboration and boost situational awareness.

Team Viewer allows Cincinnati technicians to view a machine’s PC-based control as though they are right in front of it.

Site covers wire and cable, retractile cords, cable assemblies, connectors, harnesses and contract manufacturing.

Endress+Hauser invests 40 million dollars in new plants in expanding its plants for flow, level and pressure measurement engineering in Greenwood, Indiana.

BEI Sensors’ UL-certified nonincendive Division 2 encoders are now compliant to CENELEC/ATEX and IECEx non-sparking Zone 2 hazardous area standards.

Shane Duffy and David Zaveski earned certification in the rigorous MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (MEF-CECP) Program.

Emerson supplied a DeltaV system to manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis meters, Fisher control valves and regulators, and wireless HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus communications.

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Flowserve will supply a multiphase pump package to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, for its HZ platform (Mumbai High) located off the coast of Mumbai, India.

July U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $159.5 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology.

Solutions Direct will distribute Pfannenberg’s line of audible signaling devices include sounders, horns, sirens, buzzers, and bells.

ABB will provide four dual pinion high-speed ring-geared mill drive systems for the Swakop Uranium Husab mine, in the Erongo region in western-central Namibia.