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The standard covers gas oil, diesel fuel, fuel oils, residual fuel oils, lubricating oil, and bitumen, as well as crude oil that uses microfluidics and spectrographic techniques.

Brad Fitzpatrick, Jeff Hampton and Lee Johnston join Okuma's Application Engineering Department.

Advantech completed the acquisition of B+B SmartWorx for US$99.85 million.

Fluke Electrical Measurement Safety course gives guidance reflecting the latest information on how to minimize potential hazards when performing electrical measurements.

Tibbo will participate in ‪‎IoT TechExpo‬ Europe 2016. This event will bring together key industries from across Europe for two days of top level content and discussion. Industries include Manufacturing, Transport, Health, Logistics, Government, Energy and Automotive.

Besides the Internet of Things, handling big data is a basic pillar of Industry 4.0 in the manufacturing industry. Especially in older businesses, there are multitudes of data that cannot be analysed, such as measurement data from the control system or conventional manual inputs. If these data were standardised, stored in a long-term database and built up, real-time analyses and data mining applications could be realised in order to generate knowledge and make predictions.

Seattle's new SR520 bridge replacement spans two miles, requires control of 7000 lights.

The next step towards Zero? Learn more about safety performance excellence and how to reach the magical goal of Zero accidents. HIMA will be presenting at this year’s HazardEx Conference on 24th & 25th February in Cheshire, UK.

This year’s FRC, titled FIRST STRONGHOLD , is expected to involve nearly 80,000 high school students on more than 3,100 participating teams throughout the world.

Simple and cost effective, vibration sensors measure the vibration in machinery bearings, helping to predict and forecast machine failure

ASCO will award two $5,000 scholarships to U.S. engineering students, provide $1,000 grants to their college’s engineering departments, and host the students at “The Amazing Packaging Race” at PACK EXPO International in 2016.

FIPA vacuum system helps automate inspection systems at STVision.

The SmartWatchWeb Radio Frequency (SWWRF40) Steam Trap Monitor checks for gas and steam leaks, temperature, pressure and other relevant information related to valves and the steam system.

By Alan Grau, Icon Labs Securing IoT devices is a complex task. OEMs can reduce development cost and time to market by utilizing a security framework that provides key security features. The cost, time and complexity of developing a solution from scratch, or of integrating disparate open source solutions, far outweighs the cost of using a commercial solution.

By Sheetal Borkar By 2020, technological improvements in Industrial Robotics would bring down the cost of the systems and also increase efficiency and productivity. Improvements in artificial intelligence, sensors, and material sciences are expected to open new areas of application

By Punya Prakash and David Zaucha, Texas Instruments To date, the implementations of EtherCAT slave node have largely been dominated by hardware intensive solutions used to perform on-the-fly real-time processing and synchronization. Recent advances in technology have created programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices that offer very tangible equipment costs savings, versatility and longer life cycles to industrial systems users.

Data suggests that manufacturers are increasing their use of automated equipment to add productivity and lower costs, rather than expanding their operations and capacity.

Industrial Evolution is a provider of cloud-based plant data sharing services.

Chainwheels enable hard to reach and stubborn manually operated valves to be safely operated without risk of injury.

The global torque sensor market is expected to witness significant growth over the forecast period, due to emerging applications of the torque sensor, increasing demand for precise torque measurement technology, and high demand from the automotive application segment.

Promote process equipment mechanical integrity and risk mitigation using risk-based strategies for asset performance management.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The AWS IoT is service-oriented platform that leverages a plug-n-play Internet and cloud infrastructure to monitor and control devices while using big data to optimize. Developments like this are part of the shift in technology that is likely to change industrial automation systems by adding more value at lower cost.

By Joy Weiss, Dust Networks Wireless sensor networks must meet a high bar for smart, security and reliable wire-free operation over many years. These stringent requirements can be met with existing and emerging wireless mesh networks standards.

The kit includes a controller, two optical distance sensors, one touch sensor, one program control button, two motors, two wheels with rubber tread, a caster wheel, rechargeable battery, battery charger, building components, and the tools to put it all together.

The global supercapacitor market was valued at $1.21 bn in 2014 and is expected to reach US$7.37 bn by 2023, at a CAGR of 22.3% from 2015 to 2023.

Keaveney, Northeast Regional Manager and Key Account Director at Emerson Process Management, brings a strong track record in automation technologies sales and marketing and business planning.

The PLC symbol represents a logically false condition for a discrete input. When power is present at the addressed terminal the instruction becomes logically false.

By Jonathan Wilkins, European Automation Bio fuel, Eco Obsolete Technology (EOT) and Regenerative braking are the top emerging environmental technologies to look out for.

By Martyn Williams, COPA-DATA UK IIoT is a concept that has intrigued industry for several years now, but much like the human brain, is not yet fully understood.

22mm devices include AR22-series pushbuttons, selector switches and joysticks, and DR22-series pilot lights and buzzers.