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The Quality Management app collects and exchanges data quickly, so nonconformance issues are identified before product leaves the plant.

All training courses are approved for Continuation Education Credits by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

What are the risks of republishing content and what can you do to protect your site from concerns about a duplicate content search engine penalty?

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Ignition Community Conference 2015 introduced Ignition version 7.8, while highlighting some major MES features. Ignition MES modules seamlessly integrate with Ignition HMI/SCADA - all leveraging cross-platform compatibility, unlimited free clients, robust out-of-the-box SQL database support, and fast installation.

The OPC Foundation and the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The OPC Foundation and the M2M Alliance signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The OPC Foundation and Profibus & Profinet International (PI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

Software provides setup and programming of Nanotec’s motor controllers.

Kienzle served for many years as the Chairman of the Power Transmission Association within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA).

AUMA supplied actuators for 28 lift plug valves to the JSC TANECO Oil Refining and Petrochemical complex located in Nizhnekamsk, Russia.

By Tony Paine, Kepware Technologies In order to seamlessly integrate industrial data into the Industrial Internet of Things, a new communications platform is needed.

Siemens is supplying control, measuring, analytical and power distribution systems, as well as the low-voltage and medium-voltage switchgear.

The scientific and engineering community widely accepts the Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI). Its base units are length, mass, moles, time, temperature, electric current, and light intensity.

Since its installation, the robotic loading arm has increased output from its assigned CNC milling machine by at least 150 leaf chain anchor bolts per day.

The simulator will be installed at the Training Center of Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), in Saudi Arabia.

By Tom Craven, RRAMAC Connected Systems Downtime is expensive to both equipment manufacturers and end-users, and amounts to losses greater than the costs of repair. Thanks to connected machines, manufacturers are beginning to leverage the power of “big data” to avoid failures and gather intimate knowledge about what causes failures in order to prevent breakdown and hemorrhaging costs.

Calculators determine how much force and acceleration are necessary to achieve the desired motion profile, and even in selecting which is the best motion profile.

By Gregory Wilcox, Rockwell Automation Hackers and malicious individuals are also targeting manufacturers and industrial operators. These industrial network breaches may not be making the evening news, but they certainly should serve as convincing evidence for organizations to make industrial security a top priority as they move toward a model of enterprise-wide connectivity and increased information-sharing.

Detection and identification of induction machine faults through the stator current signal.

Franklin is an expert project manager and facilitator whose work with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton included process improvement and communication projects for clients at a federal R&D facility.

Free toolkit contains a collection of application examples, videos, documentation and ISA-88 compliant sample code to provide technical guidance when designing and automating a batch system.

By Robert Golightly, AspenTech The inside story of operational intelligence lies in rich visualization and analytics capabilities that improve production execution by enabling process manufacturers to quickly identify and resolve operational issues.

Greek oil company installs six HIMA safety systems to protect the refinery’s FCC complex, LPG spheres and circulation network, diesel hydrodesulphurization unit, naphtha hydrodesulphurization unit and two crude distillation units.

The program includes AUMA, HIMA Paul Hildebrandt, Honeywell Process Solutions, Mitsubishi Electric, Pepperl+Fuchs, Rockwell Automation, R. STAHL and Schneider Electric.

Production of hydrogen and electricity at zero emissions, thanks to aluminum combustion.

Creator Ci40 includes all the optimized hardware and open source software required for next-generation connected projects.

The portfolio includes an Allen-Bradley controller, graphic terminal, servo drive and distributed I/O system, as well as the latest release of the Rockwell Software Studio 5000 and FactoryTalk software offerings.

More than 18,000 people attended the 2015 Automation Fair in Chicago, IL.

The Project Stanton toolkit enables Rockwell Automation offerings with a consistent Web-based user interface for a specific device; tablet, smartphone or desktop.

In recent years, more and more companies are creating policies that allow employees to use their personal devices at work (commonly known as BYOD). With the increase of automation in manufacturing, the ability for employees to monitor and respond via their personal mobile device is an added convenience which can increase productivity and response time.