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The Russellville, Arkansas Water and Sewer System replaced a legacy PLC with a secure Bedrock industrial control system.

Forming Technology (FTI) is a provider of manufacturing software solutions designed to reduce the development time and material costs of sheet metal components.

Hannover Messe 2016 is staging Europe’s leading platform for foreign trade: Global Business & Markets in Hall 3.

Siemens upgraded the production line for a confections manufacturer to increase efficiency, production and speed.

Pigler Automation upgraded a Siemens Simatic PCS 7 used to produce electricity and steam for a paper company at one of its mills in Western Europe.

HEMAQ is the exclusive distributor for Central America, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

At Meccancotecnica Umbra in Italy, a Cognex vision system takes 24 snapshots of a rotating part in two seconds to verify the external profile in a complete 360° inspection.

Hänggi inspects sealing rings for automotive injection pumps with VisionPro at two parts per second.

Most common technologies available for continuous level measurement are ultrasonic, free space radar, guided wave radar, capacitance, gamma, and pressure

By Bill Lydon, Editor Many industry experts believe OPC UA is an enabling technology for the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. OPC UA enables multivendor multiplatform secure reliable interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise.

The market increasingly demands individualized products. Product life cycles are getting shorter and average lot sizes are getting smaller. Considering this, cost efficient production in a globalized and resource limited environment requires a highly flexible (IT-) infrastructure that also works well in cross-enterprise networks. It requires a reshaped automation data pyramid.

Besides the existing Request/Response mechanism, which requires a “standing” connection between an OPC Client (data consumer) and an OPC Server (data provider), OPC UA will be enhanced with an additional communication schema following the principles of Publish-Subscribe.

Process design kit (PDK) enables customers to design complex ICs with multiple EDA vendor tools.

TAQA’s UK operations include five platforms that produce from 13 fields spread across the Northern North Sea and the Central North Sea.

FLIR Intelligent Transportation Systems develops a wide variety of hardware and software solutions for vehicular/pedestrian traffic video detection and monitoring. Many of these systems rely on the open standard OPC UA to obtain information from the different subsystems.

Our website now has short YouTube videos demonstrating Eisele connector products and how to use them.

H2M Technologies, a French company that builds packaging machines for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, uses Keyence's XG-7000 vision system for on-line inspection of statutory markings and data matrix codes.

Recent analysis indicates that oil prices may in fact be on the rebound

This year's event—first time held outside of North America—draws nearly twice as many attendees as previous year.

Our Turkish partners Besttech Bilişim Company has presented AggreGate at the Win Automation Fair.

In Hall 7, Booth C40 COPA-DATA will present scalable software solutions with zenon for vertical data integration for the Smart Factory at the Microsoft booth.

Demand for improved productivity & competitiveness will force companies to invest in new, innovative & connected ways to optimize plants & supply networks.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The industrial Ethernet protocols for automation were designed long before serious discussions about the IoT and IIoT. Existing industrial networks will need to transform before users can fully experience the benefits of IIoT implementations. This article highlights my observations related to this transformation.

The U.S. food industry is forecast to grow at a steady rate of 2.9 percent CAGR through 2022, according to PMMI

Siemens’ software solutions are replacing the legacy system of German automotive supplier Bosch in its Electrical Drives division.

AutomationML is a data exchange standard for engineering data standardized in IEC 62814.

The plant in Chennai, India, now has a full-fledged service center which includes on-site service capabilities.

The 17,000 sq. ft. building will more than double capacity, enabling more robotic systems to be built and powered concurrently. “

AutoQuiz: error readings in pressure instrument calibration

CP replaced a 40-year-old DC motor that used an obsolete control system, was not very accurate and often caused bottlenecks in the production process.