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An unnamed manufacturer needed to gather comprehensive temperature and humidity data across facilities where vacuum furnaces operate to harden materials. An OPC server connected 10 sensors to the control system.

By Rohit Bhargava, Microsoft With more than 10,000 OPC products available in the marketplace today, and deployments estimated to be in the tens of millions of instances, OPC UA enables companies to get started on business transformation today.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The latest technologies are expanding automation options at an incredibly fast rate. Significant changes within manufacturing companies will be driven by technology. Automation professionals need to take the lead in guiding management to adopt new technology or there will be turmoil.

RedFox achieved ATEX/IECEx certification by BASEEFA enabling these Layer 3 switches to be installed in potentially explosive atmospheres.

The project called for between 1,000 and 1,500 well sites to come online in 2014, and beyond 6,000 by 2030, over an area of more than 4,500 km2.

The City of Enid, Oklahoma, uses Iconics software and OPC to manage its water production, distribution and reclamation system.

In recognizing Manufacturing Day, ISA and the Automation Federation draw attention to the growing need for skilled manufacturing workers

The team is racing in an endurance challenge consisting of a 3,000 km (1,864 miles) journey across the Australian outback with a solar-powered race car.

Graphite HMI operator panels have been tested to meet ABS (American Bureau of Shipping) standards.

The EPL series consists of a variety of configurations to meet the requirements of many applications.

Technical discussion on how to improve industrial automation operations by understanding integrating and runaway process dynamics

By Kevin Schiller, IHS Sales were once growing by 12% annually. For the past six years, sales are only up 2%. What happened?

By C.Sailaja and A.Gugharaja, TATA Consulting Engineers Ltd, Chennai Valves commonly used in process Industry are either pneumatically operated or electrically operated depending on the availability of Instrument air / power at that location and its application. With the advancement in technology, valve operation on Digital communication system has been introduced.

Older versions of VxWorks are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Icon Labs has a solution.

It's often necessary to perform a similar operation with thousands of your devices, regardless of whether they are online and functioning properly at the moment.

HART Protocol permits two-way communications, so instrument parameters for smart devices can be interrogated and adjusted from anywhere on the 4-20 mA loop.

Elipse Software controls cooling and power distribution systems at Petrobras’s Cenpes, one of the largest oil research centers in the world.

Winners are recognized for their editorial contributions to ISA publications, including books, InTech and ISA Transactions.

Exida certified the Honeywell Experion C300 Controller R410 to the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

NTK is installing a control system based on safety PLCs from ABB that continuously monitors load torque as well as working and collision areas in real time.

Wind farms in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica will use Bachmann’s Condition Monitoring (CMS) hardware and Remote Service.

Adept is a U.S. based manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, industrial robots, configurable linear modules, machine controllers, machine vision systems and software.

Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) require a low profile design with the capabilities of operating reliably in water and occasionally oil.

OmniDuct specializes in fabricating and shipping quality round, rectangular and oval HVAC ductwork directly to large commercial job sites.

ISA and Ultra Electronics 3eTI will conduct the webinar at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 30 September.

QComp Technologies, founded in 1990, is an automation systems integrator specializing in material handling automation solutions.

ISA delivers industry-leading content via multiple platforms in an engaging, easy-to-use, and interactive way -- ISA's commitment to "coolest delivery."

By Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx Here’s a look at the various sources of free electrical energy, from energy harvesting to wind turbines, wave power and triboelectrics.

July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $318.33 million, down 11.8% from June’s $361.03 million and down 11.1% when compared with the total of $358.11 million reported for July 2014.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Pharmaceutical automation professionals participated in an Automation Engineering Survey that focused on career, training, development, work tasks, use of contractors and more. This article summarizes the results of that survey. While the results are particular to the pharmaceutical industry, they are indicative of challenges faced by all industry segments.