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The knowledge of individuals can be openly shared environment at an industrial plant or facility is inquisitive and friendly and egos take a back seat.

200 professionals in the power-generation industry attended the International Society of Automation’s (ISA’s) 56th Power Industry Division (POWID) Symposium held in Orlando, Florida, June 2-7.

RefreshEng converts any of Cincinnati's 2-OM family of centerless grinder machines to the same precision machining available on new grinders - but for an outlay that is some 60% lower than a new machine.

SmartFactoryKL demonstration plant, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, uses CodeMeter as the security component for protecting the transport algorithms.

The Houston office will focus principally on ETAP Real-Time power management system solutions for the energy sector.

Rhino produces metallurgical and steam coal in a variety of basins throughout the United States, leases coal through its Elk Horn subsidiary, and owns oil and gas acreage in the Utica and Cana Woodford areas.

Efficient technology design is now the name of the game, and centrifugal pump suppliers now face a flood of new competition says IMS.

The Instrumentation Testing Association (ITA) and the International Society of Automation (ISA) are teaming up to co-promote the 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium.

Metso will supply a DNA control system and a pulp cooking process optimization solution for the Cellulose du Pin mill in Biganos, France.

SmartGlance provides connectors for accessing data from different manufacturing sources, including both Invensys and non-Invensys systems.

ISA technical symposia successes and spreading the word about ISA Automation Week 2013

Optima Group Consumer, a German manufacturer of coffee capsule filling stations, is using an IDS camera to check the quality of coffee packets.

By Mark Davidson, LNS Research Largely due to the misalignment of goals and objectives, a considerable number of organizations struggle to realize the full business value that manufacturing can generate. There are several steps all organizations that utilize manufacturing can take to properly and optimally align goals.

By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems.

For the past several decades, most industries within the US market have been dominated by the use of PVC jacketed metallic conduits. In Europe, they use polyamide conduits and fittings. What's the difference?

AIT's GOIT (Graphical Operator Interface Terminal) series now runs Movicon 11 SCADA/HMI software.

Exele Alarm Management & Notification Software has been integrated with the Canary Labs Enterprise Historian product.

Application of management, operational & technical controls will reduce risks to industrial automation & control systems and will mitigate vulnerabilities.

In the test at NIST, MTConnect enabled a robot conversant in ROS-Industrial to load and unload parts into an MTConnect-conversant lathe for cutting, precisely when the machine tool was ready to perform the task.

Frost & Sullivan says the Global Machine Tools and Cutting Tools Market earned revenues of $15.72 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $21.18 billion in 2017.

After two years of double-digit growth, the world market for electro-mechanical and solid-state relays contracted by $125 million, or 3.6 percent, to approximately $3.35 billion in 2012.

By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock There is a general consensus that, by 2023, most of the installed MFG ERP systems will be Cloud-based. But, will they be multi-tenant or hosted? There are arguments for both.

The market for process I/O modules is mainly driven by two forces: an increasing need for intrinsically safe I/O modules and the increasing demand from the Middle East and the BRIC countries.

Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention.

Emerson will supply control valves and valve actuators to help ensure the efficient and safe flow of natural gas at the Gorgon Project, one of the world’s largest natural gas projects.

Metso will supply 30 continuously-operating water-quality measuring stations to Vapo, a power complany in Finland.

DB SQL was embedded in Cow Master, a robotics system that feeds cows and manages animal healthcare, including automatic matching of cow feeding patterns and continuous management of feed concentration to stimulate the appetite of cows.

$372.50 million in orders were down 26.6% from March and down 12.6% when compared with the total of $426.44 million reported for April 2012.

By Thomas R. Cutler Curtiss Wright Controls in Shelby, NC used vimana to improve equipment utilization on a production cell with 4 high-end CNC-based Horizontal Milling machine tools by over 20% in just ten weeks.

The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products.

Construction company Urbanas will use the ERP to integrate all of its financial and project information, customer relationship management (CRM) tools and business analytics.

Dynamotive designs, commissions and upgrades systems of drives, controls and motors for industrial and marine applications and automotive test rigs.

IVC Video Systems are used in mining applications ranging from small quarries to one of the largest copper mines in the world.

1,000+ page resource guide covers proximity, photoelectric, and ultrasonic sensors, rotary encoders, positioning systems, inclination and acceleration sensors, AS-Interface products, identification system RFIDs, and logic control units.

IVC video systems are being used by Dupont Chemicals at their nylon plant in Bridge City, Texas to monitor a hazardous material incineration facility.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the last two years, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) UK Petrochemicals has empowered users to create custom dashboards based on Excel spreadsheet data and calculations using software from Sabisu. The software enables people to organize their data around "Communities" related to areas of interest.

IVC video systems are used by several large natural gas producers to monitor a variety of facilities in their pipeline operations including pump stations, compressor stations, delivery terminals, and receiving terminals for an array of pre-refined crude and refined hydrocarbon products.

A water agency in Northern California purchased a number of IVC 25x pan-tilt-zoom cameras for primarily monitoring activity on or near the perimeter fence of a water treatment facility that was being constructed.

IVC’s software and cameras are helping a Nissan Motors Plant monitor and troubleshoot problems that develop in the assembly of their cars.

A three-way consortium comprising ABB Venezuela, ABB Canada and ABB Switzerland was awarded a contract to design, supply and install the unit control, protection and instrumentation systems for the largest dam in South America. ABB chose Industrial Video & Control for the CCTV component for the project.

In the competitive worldwide car market, manufacturers are always looking for ways to improve product quality and gain an edge on the competition. Even the robots in today’s highly automated assembly lines can make a mistake. That is why a major manufacturer decided to put some “eyes” on one of its body assembly lines. Using IVC IP video systems, this was done at a fraction of the cost of traditional machine vision systems.

A major US forest-products company recently built a new sawmill in Western Oregon. The flexibility and economy of IP video systems enabled the creation of a large, complex operation that can be operated with a small staff.

Considerations for Selecting A Controller- or Server-Based Batch Sequencer

By Bill Lydon, Editor The inaugural Haystack Connect event introduced a movement that has the potential to be the next big wave in building automation by fostering an entirely new open system in the industry that goes beyond open protocols to encompass system software.

GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network.

The increased cost of using individual fuses will be quickly recovered by the reduced time to troubleshoot and resolve field wiring problems. One or two instances of bringing production back on line w

Honda of America has committed $75,000 to support the SME Education Foundation’s PRIME program over the next three years.

More than 200 plant and refinery professionals responsible for maintaining leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs attended ISA’s 13th annual Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium held 21-23 May 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products.

MCS is a Brazilian-based manufacturer and system integrator of standard and customized high performance motion controllers and complementary motion control components.

Eight-page full-color leaflet describes CoriolisMaster FCB330/350 mass flowmeters for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry.

The first course covers Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Process Control.

The Council is comprised of leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others working in partnership with advising experts from the world of research, academia and advocacy.

Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market.

PosiShop lists electrical D-sub fittings, density energy fittings, square fittings and circular fittings.

Implementing cybersecurity programs for industrial automation & control systems requires identification of areas to be protected & assessment of threats.

Rootstock will be installing a cloud-based ERP system at IPC's Austin, Texas, facility to replace legacy supply chain software.

Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.

PAS University offers training solution courses in alarm management, control loop optimization, high performance HMI, cyber security and change management.

Metso will rebuild the gas turbine control system at the Martinlaakso power plant in Vantaa, Finland, and control it with a DNA automation system.

ABB will supply switchgear, DC power supply, uninterrupted power supply, transformers, 400 V motor control centers, variable-speed drives, variable-speed drives and a power management system based on the System 800xA

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) recently held their annual conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. This article provides a brief recap of the conference and outlines why, as a systems integrator, you can’t afford to miss next year’s conference. And while you're reading, I provide five reasons why you should think about joining CSIA.

CSIA announced companies that have recently joined the association, become certified, or become recertified.

By Reid Schook Rockwell Automation is controlling the HVAC system at an unnamed oil company in the Athabasca Oil Sands region in Canada.

E-direct web site simplifies ordering of instrumentation products for measurement and control.

Preactor International in Chippenham, UK, provides production planning and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses.

ISA Training and Education in June: Learn, Advance, Succeed

The HART Communication Foundation will host a free one-day event for end users on June 27 (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.) at the Marriott Westchase hotel in Houston, Texas.

Even though machine tool demand has had a weak start in the first quarter of 2013, experts look to the second half of the year to provide growth in orders.

BDI will distribute Siemens products in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky.

Highlighted by a workshop on passive wireless sensor technologies, the symposium provided an opportunity to explore—and provide sought-after perspective on—new trends, equipment, software and protocols involved with transmitting, reporting and processing real-time data.

By using math and Trio Motion’s MC series servo motion and machine controls, LMS ServoTechnics was able to significantly simplify the size, complexity and costs of the mechanical design in two of its recent applications.

ProcessVue ensures that data from safety-critical plant is always logged, enabling engineers to identify the cause of a plant upset, including the sequence of events (SOEs) leading up to this.

Around 1,000 attendees – representing major oil and gas, refining, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining companies, among others – will participate in the 2013 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas symposium June 16-22 in Phoenix. .

The Model FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor meets the requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 compliant service.

Information needed to take advantage of the best industrial technology and address all of the considerations of an application is often difficult to find.

The CHIMP humanoid robot uses Kollmorgen frameless motor technology in each of its drive joints, providing multi-limb manipulation and human-like grasping capabilities not found in today’s industrial robots.

By MTConnect Institute White paper demonstrates the tangible benefits of monitoring a manufacturing plant using MTConnect, the open and royalty-free standard, as the way to collect data and information from the shop floor.

From 2011 to 2017, Asia-Pacific is also forecast to be the fastest-expanding region for flowmeter sales with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.5 percent.

Suburban Manufacturing installed two Okuma MB-4000H horizontal machining centers and a larger PALLETACE flexible manufacturing system in its Northeast Ohio machine shop.

Prosoft lets each PLC on SkySurfer communicate with the Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1100 master PLC on the flight deck. The master PLC has an HMI connected to it so an operator can start a cart and monitor data.

The 112-page catalog details information about markets and applications that use and benefit from dispensing systems, the fluids dispensed and dispensing applications for each industry, and customer comments.

By Lion Precision The basic problem stems from the fact that there are myriad methods and tools to measure vibration, and each of these may have different measurement units and confounding factors so the results may differ greatly.

The 2013 CSIA Annual Executive Conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., saw a record number of CSIA members gathered to examine how to improve their industry of automation and control system integration.

The high standard of living in Europe has popularised packaged goods, including packaged food, beverages, toiletries and cosmetics, thereby spurring demand for packaging machinery in the region.

32-page Solenoid Valve Catalog details five separate series of 2- and 3-way direct acting solenoid valves ranging from the miniature .65 watt Wattmizer to the 17 watt 2-Series solenoid valves.

App allows users to access over 230,000 components in the portal and transfer the data that has been collected into their EPLAN project.

Total machine vision sales in North America grew ten percent year-over-year for the first quarter of 2013, according to statistics from AIA, the industry’s trade group.

GlobaLogix will provide a SCADA Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that is based on ABB’s SCADAvantage product.

Need Automation Workers? Who You Gonna Call?

The interactive platform has 30 online courses covering metrology fundamentals, basic and intermediate software- and hardware-specific concepts for portable arms, CMMs, vision systems, laser trackers, and more.

The two companies will provide lighting and control solutions for both existing and new build applications and for the replacement of conventional lighting by high quality LED lighting solutions.

Aegis is now being used for new product introduction (NPI) and to manage a paperless shop floor environment throughout the PCB and electro-mechanical assembly operation.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Three legendary industry veterans including Eddie Habibi - PAS Founder & CEO, Larry Evans - AspenTech Founder & former CEO, and Pat Kennedy - OSIsoft Founder & CEO, shared their industry insights on improving human reliability at the recent conference.

Sales in the Americas were strong for the third year in a row, but China sales fell.

To address the increasing interest in securing private industry and public infrastructure, ISA has developed a comprehensive resource guide to its cybersecurity resources.

CalsonicKansei manufactures climate control, electronics, engine cooling, exhaust, interior and automotive integration systems and has over 50 manufacturing sites across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

The KUKA Systems manufacturing operation in Toledo, Ohio, produced its one millionth body-in-white Jeep Wrangler JK this month with the help of 246 robots.

Invensys and Callisto will operate as a seamless services organization optimized for project design and delivery.

Hartfiel Automation will be an exclusive distributor for territories spanning ten states across the United States.

If the information is detailed & useful, an operator will be able to run a control system much more independently & resolve problems without outside help.

Project Gemstone is intended to make the digital fieldbus automation experience easier than conventional analog control systems in every conceivable way, from device setup to device replacement and daily maintenance practices.

Yokogawa will evaluate field wireless technology based on the ISA100.11a1 industrial automation wireless communications standard.

The pressure sensors are serving as components in a wireless remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations.

Videos on weighing technology for machine and instrument manufacturers show how weighing components can be integrated easily into their devices.

The PowerXpress provides power to 2 wire HART devices from the USB port on a PC.

A joint conference of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and the Machinery Failure Prevention Technology (MFPT) Society attracted more than 200 attendees to Cleveland, Ohio.

Initially developed in order to standardize connectivity among computers, printers, servers and other devices inside a local area network (LAN), IEEE 802.3 was first published as a draft in 1983 and as a standard in 1985.

The 8th Marketing and Sales Summit will be held 11-13 September 2013 at the W New Orleans hotel, just steps from the famed French Quarter.

Lighting Science uses the HandHeld laser scanner from NVision to ensure the dimensional integrity of the extremely complicated castings it purchases and uses in its roadway light emitting diode (LED) fixtures.

Pickering supplied a switching system to collect analog data at speeds involving "10’s of MHz" of bandwidth and a size of up to 104x16. The system uses LXI communications.

Flow Lifecycle Care provides an extensive range of flow service capabilities for the entire range of Emerson flow technology to better respond to global customer requirements.

Process instruments featured in the catalog range from calibration equipment to mixers to pumps.

Progea USA launches FREE SCADA HMI webinar with SCADA HMI and industrial automation software training for Movicon.

The Molecule: Why Professionals Matter Over Equipment

Almost 200 technology providers, systems integrators and end users gathered at Haystack Connect 2013 to exchange knowledge and share experiences about smart building technologies, energy management and operational efficiency solutions.

ANSI/RIA R15.06-2012 standard has been updated for the first time since 1999 and is now harmonized with the International ISO 10218:2011 standard for robot manufacturers and integrators.

Interview with Sam Harkreader, Maintenance/Reliability/Engineering Improvement Lead at the Chocolate Bayou Plant with Ascend Performance Materials

Situated in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, the facility will provide a full range of valve adaptation, retrofitting, site service and asset management activity encompassing electric and fluid power actuators.

The project named “Voie sur Berges,” along the River Seine, supports the management and control of the luminaires in the area.

By Bill Lydon, Editor In February 2013, Schneider Electric announced the PlantStruxure PES (Process Expert System) as, “The innovative Process Automation System that brings together the best from the PLC/SCADA and DCS worlds and combines this with integrated energy management features…” To gain a better understanding, I had the opportunity to ask their Product Marketing Manager some questions about this new offering.

To combat the highly corrosive effects of seawater, Metso will provide valves constructed of SMO254tm austenitic stainless steel, which is highly resistant to the effects of chlorides.

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser Process Training Unit (PTU), a full-scale, working process skid with on-line instrumentation and controls, or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

World Metrology Day appreciated the scientists in national laboratories throughout the world who dedicate their lives to improving everyone's measurements.

ISA Houston Section Sponsors June Technical Training Camp

Microchip delivered the 12 billionth MCU approximately 10 months after delivering its 11 billionth.

The AMT Sao Paulo Technology Center in Brazil lets AMT members establish operations within Brazil, build relationships and explore the market’s potential.

The Metso DNA automation system lets the Tampere plant operate unmanned with remote monitoring from the main control room of the Lielahti power plant.

Wireless transmitters can rapidly prototype, demonstrate, analyze and justify installations of online diagnostics, metrics and improvements.

There are currently 2172 LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) compliant instruments, in 231 different product families, developed by LXI Consortium member companies.

As end users increasingly focus on energy-efficient production, pump manufacturers for the food and beverage industry will need to design cost-effective offerings that support energy optimisation.

This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system.

By: Pat Garrehy, Rootstock While analysts project that the adoption rate for Cloud HR is over 60 percent and for Cloud CRM over 75 percent, the present adoption rate of Cloud ERP for manufacturers is less than ten percent. One major obstacle is that the larger ERP vendors are On Premise providers.

Having a hard time finding someone to service your older PLC? Turbocraft can help! We gladly service many types of older PLC's, which many Systems Integrators no longer have software or equipment for.

With TuneWizard, plant facilities in the power and process automation industries can tune their control loops to ensure they are performing as they should without any cost.

EnerG2, a company developing nanostructured carbons for energy storage, is using a Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments to measure and characterize its high performance products.

The market for industrial gearboxes and geared motors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is expected to decline by 4.2 percent this year as economic troubles continue to take their toll.

Advanced Industrial Cybersecurity (TS13) course covers the latest developments in cybersecurity, including practical guides to the design, implementation and testing of industrial networks and applications to ensure their security and reliability.

102-page catalog covers gear reducers, servo couplings, and linear mounting products.

Monsanto engineers used the full capabilities of HART Communication to “get connected” and integrate the intelligent information from more than 600 HART-enabled devices into their control systems.

Industry experts on alarm management share insights on alarm systems; real engineers presenting real solutions and real results.

Frese will take over responsibility for the world’s biggest IT show, CeBIT, as well as for the Hannover exhibition grounds and on-site construction plus DMAG subsidiaries.

Citect SCADA and Exele alarm software monitor three hydro generating stations, four sub stations and the distribution system for the City of Edmundston,New Brunswick.

Version 2.8 of ATS software diagnoses encoder faults and evaluates the output signals of HEIDENHAIN, EnDat, Fanuc, Mitsubishi, Siemens Drive CLIQ, Yaskawa, SSI, 1Vpp, TTL, and 11uApp encoders.

DECT ULE (Ultra Low Energy), a low power consumption radio technology, is intended for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $507.91 million according to AMT, up 30.4% from February and up 3.2% when compared with the total of $491.96 million reported for March 2012.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Downsizing has become a way to increase profits by “leaning out” operations. Most engineers are working with lean staff, which limits their scope of work to basic necessities. In most cases this means they do not have the time to work on improving the competitiveness of their companies.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Danish company, Universal Robots, has created a new breed of robots that are significantly lower in cost than traditional robots. With this new bread, even small companies can use them to improve productivity. I recently interviewed Thomas Visti, Vice President/CCO of Universal Robots, to learn more. This article highlights my interview questions along with Visti’s responses.

Bestobell Valves will be supplying LNG cryogenic valves to Wartsila for two Offshore Support Vessels– one for Siem Offshore, and the other project for RemØy Shipping.

kk-electronic will use B&R X20 control electronics to retrofit wind turbines.

Rotork Valvekits has been appointed as the UK stockist and distributor for the Centork range of valve positioners.

SimSci Suite 2013 has a DVD catalogue that provides a single source for all of its current SimSci-Esscor design, operator training, simulation and optimization software.

On the heels of Joe Hogan's departure, Chief Technology Officer, Prith Banerjee, has decided to leave ABB for family reasons.

"MTConnect: To Measure Is To Know," by Dave Edstrom, shows how machine shop owners and plant operators can apply open standards that make it easier for IT equipment to interoperate.

BCC Research says the sensor market was valued at $68 billion in 2012 and is expected to increase to $79.5 billion in 2014, reaching $116.1 billion by 2019.

Catalog covers weighing solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries with hazardous environments.

Hogan will continue to lead ABB until a successor is announced. He is committed to a smooth transition.

Alarm management is a never ending effort. Routinely review the plant’s alarm list, and try to eliminate or address points that appear too often.

Institutions that receive a grant will have access to unlimited seats of any Siemens’ PLM software bundle, free center-based training, discount online learning, free upgrades and technical support.

The brochure helps design engineers to select and specify the components necessary to design accurate pneumatic force control systems.

Global shipments for motion control products fell by 7.7% in first quarter 2013, according to the Motion Control Association (MCA). But there's hope.

Major will supply a VTC 2500, U5 XL 2500 universal portal mill with turning capabilities, and a rebuild/retrofit of a DSI mill/turn gantry machine.

Northwire earned AS9100 Rev C certification and recertified to existing ISO 9001:2008 quality standard demonstrating its ability to comply with the rigourous requirements of Aerospace, Space and Defense organizations.

exida discovered a counterfeit certificate falsely claiming that a product meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.

IM-6500 Series image dimension measurement system inspects the concentricity of every single cut wheel and automatically records the measurements.

The groov View app is suitable for OEMs and system integrators using an iOS or Android device as the operator interface to their systems or equipment.

Emerson opened its new $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies and a new, highly automated and sophisticated manufacturing facility in Houston.

FIRST Championship demonstrates young people’s passion for science and technology learning

"The Automation Legal Reference: A Guide to Legal Risk in the Automation, Robotics and Process industries" explains in simple language the essentials of legal risk management, ranging from contract development and negotiation to professional licensing and dispute resolution.

Nearly 400 attendees and more than 60 exhibitors gathered at the International Society of Automation’s (ISA) 58th Analysis Division Symposium, which was held 14-18 April, 2013 at the Galveston Island Convention Center in Galveston, Texas, USA.

In this paper, Sentrollers are defined as a new, all-encompassing term for sensors, actuators and controllers – the various devices that make up the new Internet of Things.

From September 16 to 21, 2013, international manufacturers of production technology will be spotlighting “Intelligence in Production” at the EMO Hannover 2013.

The FMC722 subsea automation interface provides integration of the FMC protocol on the controller, enabling seamless peer-to-peer communication between topside and subsea control assets.

Available for Apple iPhone and iPad, and Android mobile devices, the FuseFinder app features a comprehensive database of more than 130,000 fuse and fuse block cross reference part numbers.

Rotork supplied, installed and commissioned actuators for operational and safety-related duties on pipelines carrying products including natural gas from Asian countries through Turkey.

Free iAutomate is designed to reduce the time associated with configuring and trialing an automation setup.

The application software allows the user to configure, acquire, log, display, and analyze data from any of Data Translation’s more than 150 data acquisition modules.

Presidential Executive Order on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity draws comprehensive response from ISA and the Automation Federation.

ISA100 Wireless product demonstrations at the 2013 Hannover Messe Fair showcased peer-to-peer control, support for three different legacy protocols in a single ISA100 Wireless mesh network, and a gas sensor designed for SIL2 safety applications

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announced winners of three awards during the association’s 2013 Executive Conference in St. Pete Beach, Fla.

ISA published the third collection of its Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) methodology white papers designed to help manufacturers transform their paper-based processes into real-time operations intelligence.

Neutec Pharmaceutical expanded its 80,000 square foot facility to over 400,000 square feet, and installed BACnet.

Emerson will supply the control systems that help maintain stability and structural integrity for Dockwise’s semi-submersible heavy transport vessel, the largest of its kind in the world.

To simulate the human locomotor system, Roboy's project team of scientists and industry experts designed the robot's internal motion system using more than 100 analog sensors from Baumer.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A pharmaceutical company discussed their strategy and tips for system obsolescence planning and presented a specific case study of a DCS replacement at a specific site. Other pharmaceutical companies also shared their perspectives on the topic.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) manages the process control and monitoring of its 300 gathering stations, 5200 compressor stations and 150 gas processing facilities with PcVue SCADA software.

Piercarlo (PC) Romano was selected for a two-year term as chairman of the board of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) at the association’s annual executive conference.

Wilkinson has over 14 years’ experience in the industry having worked for some of the world’s leading control systems manufacturers including Honeywell, Siemens and Rockwell Automation.

Los Gatos Research is a producer of precise, rugged and reliable instruments for measurements of trace gases and isotopes.

Virtual Technology Center (VTC) class topics include safety, Ethernet, routing/firewall, VPNs and several levels of training on Phoenix Contact’s PC Worx software.

Locate control valves to be maintainable, provide fast injection into mixing zones, and prevent flashing and cavitation.

GAMBICA, the Trade Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology in the UK, formed an industrial network security group to counter the threats of viruses, industrial sabotage and terrorism.

Specification enhancements include updates to the sercos communication protocol and to the different sercos profiles (drive, I/O, encoder and energy).

MAVERICK, Logos Technologies and Global Velocity will develop a solution set to protect SCADA systems from potential cyber-attacks.

Rotork Valvekits is now the distributor for Pneumatrol Namur range of solenoid valves.

METTLER TOLEDO developed a microgram load cell for use in an experiment aimed at establishing a new definition of the kilogram, which is drifting by 0.5 µg/year.

Honeywell will supply building automation, process control and safety systems for a new bubble fluidized-bed (BFB) boiler site.

The Member's Choice Awards recognizes those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership.

Catalog covers transformers, autotransformers, inductors and power supplies for applications including power conversion, filtering, isolation and more.

For the foreseeable future, wind turbines and wind generators will continue to get bigger and bigger—both in terms of average physical size and in the average output power rating of these machines.