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ABB's SmartVentilation system delivers safety and savings at Boliden gold mine
The SmartVentilation on-demand solution provides fresh air for the 500 meter deep underground mine, which extracts gold, tellurium and other minerals for commercial electronics and industrial uses. -
Savigent named as Pure-Play Vendor in Gartner's MES Software Market Guide
The Market Guide, released on June 21, 2016, assesses the state of the MES market and makes recommendations for manufacturing executives pursuing the deployment of MES applications. -
SCADA AggreGate at the XXIII coal mining technologies international exhibition “Coal of Russia and Mining”
Our partner Ilma Machine-building company took part at the XXIII coal mining technologies international exhibition “Coal of Russia and Mining”, which was held from 7 to 10 June in Novokuznetsk. -
NexRev LLC announces expansion to Canada
Supported by a qualified network of Canadian resources and industry veterans, NexRev Canada ULC will introduce DrivePak and Freedom—NexRev’s two key energy management solutions—to commercial, institutional and industrial markets -
ValvTechnologies, Inc. names Bryant Holt as Industry Director of Fossil Power
Holt will have global management responsibility for ValvTechnologies’ fossil power group and sales activities worldwide as well as developing long-term strategies for business growth and customer performance in the global fossil power severe service marketplace. -
Red vs Blue Lasers: A Comparison of Triangulation Sensors
By Chris Jones, Micro-Epsilon UK Although red laser triangulation displacement sensors have been in use for more than 20 years, blue laser versions are also now available. Before selecting which colour to use, it is important to understand which type performs best on which target materials. -
Rockwell Automation expands Machinery Safety Integrator program
Three new members have joined in the first half of 2016, bringing the total number to 26. To be eligible, candidates must be current Rockwell Automation Solution Partners or Recognized System Integrators with three to five years of machine safety experience. -
Simultaneous Gains Tuning in Boiler-Turbine PID-based Controller Clusters
Multi-loop PID tuning is the procedure for the online tuning of a cluster of PID controllers operating in a closed loop with a multivariable process. -
Cimphoni announces Dr. Sania Irwin as Chief Innovation Officer
Dr Irwin has experience in creating products and solutions for the wireless market, in the space of IoT, applications, experience management, self-organizing networks and location awareness. -
Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Linear Guidance Systems
By Bob Love, Schaeffler UK Linear systems are a key part of production machinery and plant automation. If your linear systems are not providing the low friction movements they should be, you will strain your motors and drive systems, which will increase bearing loads and reduces component life. -
Bridging the Islands of Automation: Continuous Manufacturing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By Robert Holloway, EU Automation This article discusses the potential of continuous manufacturing compared to its isolated, batch manufacturing alternative, in relation to pharmaceutical manufacturing. -
How the Digital Dossier Translates to Dollars
By Manuel Terranova, Peaxy Inc. One critical business imperative of this decade is making good use of data assets. A comprehensive digital dossier, which aggregates such data, is incredibly useful for predictive maintenance initiatives, design processes and other business-critical applications. -
Epicor announces acquisition agreement with KKR
Epicor provides industry-specific solutions to customers in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sectors. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. -
IET releases technical program for its 2016 EVI-GTI and PIWG conference
Drawing on the expertise and insights of some of the world’s leading gas turbine experts and specialists, the technical program will showcase instrumentation techniques, developments and applications within gas turbines measurement and control systems. -
HARTING announces kickoff of MICA network
Numerous users, providers and developers met at the Robotation Academy in Hannover. The network aims to further develop and raise the profile of ‘Industry 4.0’ and IoT applications. -
Athader turns to Control Techniques' Unidrive M to produce coil processing solutions
Athader sought a technological partner which would allow the company to progress its development efforts more quickly. As a result, Athader chose to use drives, motors and global solutions supplied by Emerson’s Control Techniques. -
ABB's YuMi wins 2016 IERA Award for robotics and automation
YuMi, the dual-arm robot by ABB Robotics, features functionalities such as a vision system, a gripper or touch-sensitive sensor technology opening up new, flexible areas of utilisation in industrial assembly. -
How to Improve Industrial Automation Security
Current state of industrial automation system security plus the technological and organizational challenges of improving it. -
Pressure Sensors Market to Reach 12.23 Billion USD by 2021
Among all stringent safety regulations and conforming pressure sensor standard will likely to boost the industry in terms of value and volume across end verticals as all end user industry will follow the conforming standards. -
Bridging IT and Operations to Build a Modern, Robust Industrial Network
This on-demand webinar discusses best practices from Industrial IP Advantage – a coalition of Cisco, Panduit and Rockwell Automation – for how to get control engineers and IT professionals working together to deploy a more secure, holistic network architecture. -
IHS Report: Hazardous area equipment sales drop $900M in 2015
The report predicts that it will take until 2019 for world sales revenues to recover to their 2014 level. Figure 1 shows a comparison between the three major regions of the world from 2014 to 2020. -
US expenditures in water & wastewater forecasted to exceed $532 Billion by 2025
This new outlook, which draws heavily from planned utility budgets, represents an almost 28% increase over capital expenditures during the last ten years. -
Lenze introduces EASY Product Finder online search tool
The EASY Product Finder is designed for machine designers and engineers to explore and specify Lenze engineered power drive, automation and motion control solutions. -
Comark appoints Parag Shah as Chief Technology Officer
As Comark's CTO, Mr. Shah is responsible for the company's technology vision and strategy as well as the development of products and solutions to support Comark's "Smarter Automation" strategy. -
Averna announces acquisition of Nexjen Systems
Nexjen Systems, a division of Jenkins Electric Company, was created in 2005 to service Jenkins Test & Measurement customers in the southeast region. -
Honeywell announces acquisition of Intelligrated for $1.5B
Intelligrated designs, manufactures, integrates and installs complete warehouse automation solutions, software and services that result in smarter distribution and fulfillment operations. -
Change of AggreGate SCADA/HMI licensing policy
We’ve ended up with changing AggreGate SCADA/HMI licensing policy. From now on it doesn’t matter how many devices you have. AggreGate SCADA is now licensed by tags (which are sometimes called I/O channels). -
Smart Airports Market Impelled by Increasing Need to Improve Efficiency of Airport Operations
Smart Airports Market (Infrastructure - Endpoint Devices, Communication Systems, Passenger, Cargo and Baggage Ground Handling Control, Air Traffic Control, Security Systems and Others; Solutions - Terminal Side, Airside, and Land Side; Applications - Core Application; Services - Smart Transport and Parking, Smart Retail, Hospitality, and Entertainment, Smart Workplace, Smart Airport Processes, and Smart Business-to-Business Services) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2016 - 2024 -
AutoQuiz: What Information Can Be Extracted from an Electronic Database?
AutoQuiz: Information Extracted from an Electronic Database -
congatec announces support for SMARC 2.0 specification
First congatec SMARC 2.0 modules as well as carrier boards and starter kits including extensive software, driver and BIOS support will be available in August.


