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By COPA-DATA UK To celebrate the UK’s National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) on June 23, 2016, the team at industrial automation software expert, COPA-DATA UK has put together a collation of impressive software and computing feats, all achieved by British women.

Allstate Insurance will pledge $1.5 million over three years to support scholarship, student fellowships and competitions related to cybersecurity and digital forensics.

The OSI ADMS would provide an integrated real-time solution that enables OG&E to implement the next generation of advanced smart grid capabilities.

The event, which began today and runs through Friday, will feature technology displays along with dozens of Honeywell- and customer-led sessions and technical discussions.

Industrial Control and Factory Automation Market is driven by industry players focus on achieving energy efficiency in manufacturing process, smart mechanical technology with IT technology has given spur to the industrial controls & factory automation

This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press.

By Anthony Borges, PINpoint Information Systems This document summarizes the error-proofing solution a leading heavy machinery manufacturer implemented and standardized on in order to greatly reduce product defects due to improperly fastened bolts in transmission systems.

The report projects that the world embedded computing market is likely to generate revenue of $236.5 billion by 2022, with an estimated CAGR of 6.2% from 2016 to 2022.

McAdams will continue to lead the company’s OEM efforts as well as developing strategic partnerships to deliver a global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) strategy, including edge-to-enterprise IIoT solutions.

The report focuses on the Process Instrumentation and Automation (PI&A) markets in both the United States and Canada. Twelve industry segments and product categories are examined in-­‐depth, with a forecast timeline extending to the year 2020.

Accreditation was approved May 23 for ASHRAE’s Building Energy Assessment Professional (BEAP), Building Energy Modeling Professional (BEMP) and Commissioning Process Management Professional (CPMP)

CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market grew by 2.8% in calendar year 2015. The estimated end-user payments grew from $1.76 billion in 2014 to $1.81 billion in 2015.

The fanless AEx-P526 is equipped with 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x LAN port, 1 x COM1, 1 x COM 2 and wide-ranging power input (11~32V DC) port with M12 connector cables and provide sealed & stable communications.

Manufacturers around the world are contending with a growing skills shortage resulting from the influx of new technologies. To address these challenges, Rockwell Automation has outlined a five-step approach to help organizations better prepare their operations.

The best and brightest minds will explore the critical issues and challenges in automation facing the water/wastewater industry at the event, which will be held 2-4 August 2016 at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort in Orlando, Florida.

AutoQuiz: Loss of Power in a Flow Control Mechanism

CCMOSS’ micro hotplates are MEMS structures that are used in gas sensors for volume applications in the automotive, industrial, medical, and consumer markets.

Pneumatic equipment is prevailing in modern factories. To convey adequate and clean compressed air for air-driven motors or operating tools, it is essential to have an air compressor to build air conveying systems in the working field.

Per MFGWatch 2016, both U.S. buyers and manufacturers see 2016 as a year of growth for their firms. This shared optimism is fueling investments in the workforce, technology and new manufacturing processes to increase competitive advantage

The report examines cybersecurity threats to ICS and other critical infrastructure that analyzed hundreds of cross-industry threats, breaches and vulnerabilities that have occurred over the last 18 months.

The solution for fully automated retail markets consisted of implementing central and remote SCADA servers with the ability to handle large numbers of parameters, installing new energy meters, automation panels and PLC control panels. For CarrefourSA, zenon was the best solution.

In 2015, S&A revenues grew to just over $4.8 billion, an increase of 4.0% over the $4.7 billion in 2014. Just like PLM revenues overall, currency effects dragged down the S&A results, with CIMdata estimating year-on-year growth of 10.7% in constant currencies.

By John Nesi, Rockwell Automation Just as the nature of manufacturing and industrial operations has changed, so have the security risks. More connected operations can create more potential entrance points for security threats. This article discusses how to protect against those threats

Kia Motors deployed DataMan barcode readers from Cognex and achieved 99% read rates. DataMan barcode readers are optimized with patented algorithms for decoding the toughest DPM and label-based barcodes in harsh environments.

The 59th Power Industry Division (POWID) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Symposium will be held 27-30 June 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina USA.

Atiya served Siemens for 18 years in the US and Europe, most recently since 2011 as CEO of the Mobility and Logistics division and as CEO of the Computer Tomography unit from 2008 to 2011.

Applying FOUNDATION Fieldbus is authored by professionals who have extensive experience in implementing the largest adaptation of the technology.

New President and Chairman Christian Légaré of Micrium will lead the board, alongside Vice President Pete St. Pierre of Oracle, Treasurer Nick Ashworth of Eaton and Secretary Jan Höller of Ericsson. Additionally, ARM's Hannes Tschofenig was elected to the board for the first time, and joins additional board members Fabien Castanier of STMicroelectronics and Geoff Mulligan of Proto6.

Vaccines are one of the pharmaceutical industry’s most perishable products. Any break in the “cold chain” could harm their potency and effectiveness. MedImmune selected the PlantPAx® process automation system from Rockwell Automation to control their cold chain distribution center's operations.

By Loney Crist, NexDefense Today’s ICS networks still generate our power and water, move people and make the products we demand; yet, they have become complex intra- and inter-connected systems that are no longer as simple and straightforward as their original design intended them to be.