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Ryle recently worked with automation and technology developments in the tobacco industry and is a former owner in an industrial automation firm.

How to make sure the cascade control system is intelligently designed to meet process requirements in terms of vessel and heat transfer surface temperatures

HPS will supply control, safety and security systems for the expansion of Freeport LNG’s terminal, located on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.

Their University of Sao Paulo project shows how to remove toxic compounds from contaminated water

With the shortage of engineering skills said to cost the UK £27bn per year, how can the UK close the skills gap and increase the number of young people going into industrial automation and engineering? Can games like Minecraft generate interest amongst today's kids?

APLEX Technology Inc. announced today that its industrial PC solutions are compatible with EtherCAT® Ethernet fieldbus technology to enable integration into real-time automation applications.

2015 Global Switched Reluctance Drive Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Switched Reluctance Drive industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).

By The OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation has further developed its standard into the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) which provides solutions to the identified drawbacks of OPC Classic while meeting the requirements for use in a modern device architecture.

The Detector Control System (DCS), part of the LHS, uses more than 5000 CANopen nodes. The link between the Scada layer and CANopen is realized by means of OPC UA.

OPC Foundation board members, technology advisor council members, and OPC technology working group members have been participating in the Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 initiatives very pro-actively.

2015 Global Explosion-proof distribution box Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Explosion-proof distribution box industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).

North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Western Europe together contributed 50% of the global gas leak detector market value in year 2014. Whilst Asia Pacific excluding Japan contributed about 35%, making it the largest geographical segment in the global gas leak detector market. The Middle East and Africa gas leak detector market is projected to grow at promising CAGR of 6.27% during the forecast period.

The PALLETACE flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is integrated with three Okuma MB-4000H horizontal machining centers

What programs are available from ISA in July 2015?

By Bill Lydon, Editor The adoption of disruptive technologies can make or break your business. The effects can be positive or negative. Adopting what appears to be a disruptive technology that does not go mainstream or adopting it too early can break or significantly hurt a business. Automation professionals are in a unique position to understand, evaluate, and make recommendations to management about the adoption of new technology.

The software from MDT manages changes to 16,000 programmable devices in remote areas across the continent and reduces safety risks to employees associated with unmanaged control system changes.

What does it mean when the percentage of flow through a valve equals the percentage of plug movement?

POWID attracts 120 attendees to examine and offer solutions to critical automation challenges

The shipments value of plastics machinery posted a moderate rise in the first quarter of 2015 when compared with the same period last year.

Free software guides specifiers through selecting the right control valve for any project.

The team will use Xylon’s X-Ray system for inspection tasks, including structural analyses of various materials, including fiber composites, damage analyses and nominal/actual comparisons to CAD data.

Motion Control Association is now Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) after merger with SMMA.

Upgrade for the Fluke 810 delivers overall vibration data, detailed diagnosis and actionable repair recommendations.

Van Rennes Industrial Automation has become an official eWON Certified System Integrator. This acknowledge our deep technical knowledge of eWON products/solutions, In the so called eWON Partner Program, in which we participate, the goal is to build an efficient ecosystem of industrial professionals sharing technical experiences and other information to fullfill end-user application requirements.

Critical aspects of the design of the jacket and coil in vessel heating and cooling.

The app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The need to improve manufacturing operations and maintenance using real-time data is creating a greater need to efficiently link larger volumes of data from controllers to the enterprise. Connecting real-time information from disparate control devices to operations, maintenance, and enterprise systems is not an easy task. Here's one solution that may help.

With 76 members in eleven countries, M2M Alliance is the globally largest machine-to-machine industry association.

The deadline for early bird registration for the ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium has been extended to 1 July 2015. The original deadline was 15 June 2015.

HTE Technologies will market and support Adept robots in Missouri, Kansas and Southern Illinois