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OSI will supply a SCADA and Generation Management system to Snowy Hydro to replace their present legacy ABB Network Manager Energy Management System.

Rockwell Automation is now identifying JMP as a “Process PlantPAx Recognized System Integrator.”

A comprehensive system design which includes both MES and plant-floor automation details will yield the most complete rewards.

The structured cabling market was valued at US$7.11 bn in 2014 and is expected to reach US$11.45 bn by 2021, at a CAGR of 7.1% from 2015 to 2021.

Specialized 5 axis mill doubles production capacity for company’s robot track product lines.

Paul Isaac is now Regional Director, Asia Pacific and Managing Director, India Operations.

The Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, installed HOBO MX1101 Bluetooth Temperature and Humidity loggers in their galleries.

Global industrial control for process manufacturing market was valued at $61.23 billion in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 5.2% from 2015 to 2021.

We’ve just released a new AggreGate device driver that enables to monitor any ASCII data coming via a Serial port or a TCP/UDP connection.

What is the Difference Between a Digital Transmitter and an Analog Transmitter?

The negative impact from the decline of oil and gas prices will continue to perpetuate the global centrifugal pump market’s low growth and even contraction.

The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute certified the STAPS ISA100 Wireless Steam Trap Monitor from Spirax Sarco.

The Ichthys LNG project in Australia ranks among the largest and most significant energy projects in the world. HIMA was selected to be the supplier for the safety integrated system (SIS) and the fire and gas system (FGS).

By Wim Pessemier, KU Leuven Information modeling, or the ability to express not only data but also the meaning of data, is a key concept in the quest to make systems more intelligent, more autonomous and more evolvable.

By John Mitchell, CP Automation Common symptoms of high harmonics levels include motor vibration, voltage notching, electromagnetic interference and overheating, all of which are harmful for equipment and result in heat loss and increased maintenance and energy costs.

By Bob Jones, Integrated Systems Design One of the principal challenges any organization encounters is how to know when it may be strategically beneficial to push the envelope on an internal logistics system automation project. First you need to ask yourself and your organization some tough questions. Here we will focus on the top five questions to ask.

ZigBee and EnOcean will combine EnOcean energy harvesting wireless solutions with ZigBee 3.0.

Patrick Gouhin delivered a keynote address entitled, “Utilizing an Operational Technologies Approach to Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk” at the Cybersecurity Conference in Raleigh, NC.

Nyrstar will initially implement Honeywell’s Production Accounting and Reconciliation (PAR) at its site in Balen, Belgium, before rolling out to its other sites around the world.

Global relays market was valued at US$9.41 bn in 2014, which is expected to reach US$16.24 bn by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 7.7% from 2015 to 2021

One of the largest water reclamation facilities in northern Virginia needed to expand the facility from 18 to 24 mgd to support future growth.

The Executive Board of the IFR has elected Joseph Gemma (KUKA Robotics Corporation US) as its new President.

The Kuala Lumpur office will supply specialty automation consulting, control and instrument modernizations, greenfield main automation contractor projects, and electrical upgrades to the Asia Pacific market.

“Applying FOUNDATION Fieldbus” examines the theory of the operations and basic concepts of the FOUNDATION Fieldbus standards.

ABB will deliver the control system, telecommunications, pipeline monitoring, security systems including fiber-optic cables to transmit data along the pipelines.

By John Renaldi, Real Time Automation OPC UA Discovery has a very flexible and sophisticated mechanism for Client devices to find and identify Server devices. This article is the second of two articles that explain that how OPC UA Device Discovery works.

ISA has made significant strides in achieving its five long-term strategic goals of content, data, coolest delivery, cybersecurity and advocacy.

This specification describes the mapping of the Sercos information model to OPC UA so that functions and data of Sercos devices are made available and accessible via OPC UA.

Orders for manufacturing technology in October 2015 were down 0.3% from September and down 17.4% compared to the same point in 2014.

The AIM ST6700 has successfully achieved ISA100 Wireless certification.