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By Heike Schmeding, AUMA This article provides an update on two key issues currently impacting the actuation industry: host system integration and functional safety. It is a key requirement in any plant installation that the actuators used for opening or closing valves can be smoothly integrated with the plant’s automation system.

The team showing the most innovation wins a trip to Seattle and $3,500 worth of Fluke tools.

Bridging the HMI/SCADA Gap Manufacturers are looking for standard and open software solutions that can make their industrial automation projects independent from hardware devices, whether Touch Panel, PLC or control systems. They want to be independent from the constraints of “hardware + software” HMI artchitecture and proprietary solutions, but it can be tough to find the right solution.

Automation Platform .NExT: The New Era Of Industrial Supervision Leaders in the automation world know it's not enough to just "keep up" with technology, and Progea is helping revolutionize the way partners look at supervision software with Automation Platform .NExT.

The app converts an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into a mobile portal.

How to ensure a burner management system operates safely, within compliance and highly reliable.

“Integrated Industry” is India’s model for smart manufacturing.

By Graham Nicholson, Phoenix Wrappers The addition of any element of automation is a big step for any production line. What factors into a decision? Follow this blueprint to make the decision.

By Khris Kammer and Keith McPherson, Rockwell Automation Tapping into contextualized data and sharing it across the enterprise allows manufacturers to address the age-old challenge of how to get more productivity out of existing assets.

By Ryan Lepp, Panduit Whereas it was once common for product vendors to set the network rules to support their specific products, the emergence of open-standard Ethernet has pushed that responsibility onto the systems integrators as they incorporate a wide range of networked products from multiple different vendors.

Do you know that besides monitoring any network devices and services AggreGate can manage them in a variety of ways? Check our new Network Management article to know more.

The IEC 61131-3 standard establishes guidelines for the use of ladder, function block, instruction list, structured text and sequential function chart programming for the PLC industry.

American Control Electronics designs and produces AC & DC electronic control systems and power products used in industrial, commercial, electric vehicle, medical, and home automation markets.

HANNOVER MESSE and Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) hosted a pre-Manufacturing Day press conference on September 30 in Chicago.

ABB will supply integrated process electrification, automation and optimization systems for Fibria’s new pulp mill in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

EasyTune requires no input from the user, completes in a few minutes, and provides measured verification of the servo performance when complete.

By Dr. Steffen Haack, Bosch Rexroth Anyone gaining only a superfluous familiarity with fluid technology will easily underestimate the performance and intelligence of modern hydraulics.

ISA published a fifth edition of its best-selling book, Industrial Data Communications by Lawrence (Larry) M. Thompson and William T. “Tim” Shaw.

The new catalog contains a detailed overview about inspection systems for precise measurements of : Thickness Centre thickness Edge drop Thickness profile Wedge and crown bow Width There are included many application examples, important technical data, measurement principles and the characteristic features of the different types of systems.

Five major markets represent 70 percent of the total sales volume: China, Japan, USA, South Korea and Germany.

Software simplifies development of Bluetooth low energy (BLE) applications using LSR’s SaBLE-x Bluetooth Smart module

PTC’s ThingWorx Industrial Internet of Things application enablement environment features flexible dashboards and data analytics.

Objectivity’s ThingSpan Information Fusion platform will run with Intel’s Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP).

The global failure analysis equipment market in the semiconductor industry was worth US$1.28 billion in 2013, according to Transparency Market Research.

The global market of Internet-of-things (IoT), which is worth billions, combined with the proliferation of cloud apps, sensors, and wireless networks, is expected to provide immense growth opportunities for the global printed sensors and flexible sensors market.

Skkynet's SkkyHub service provides secure, end-to-end, bidirectional connectivity between the Sixnet IndustrialPro series routers and end users.

SmartSignal predictive analytics solution will be available as part of GE Digital’s Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions on the Predix platform.

GE and Cisco developed a set of best practices for deploying GE’s Brilliant Manufacturing Suite within a modern Cisco IT environment.

With more attacks on SCADA surfacing, there is a rising concern regarding the issues that have come to the fore solely due to the convergence of IT with the operational landscape of critical infrastructures.