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Not enough is being done globally to implement basic industrial cybersecurity measures.

By Intertec Glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) composite material for protective enclosures is electromagnetically transparent, making it easier to deploy wireless instrumentation.

Steinbichler Optotechnik is a provider of systems for digitization with optical 3D sensors and in surface inspection on car body and sheet metal parts.

Italian company is also relocating its headquarters to Silicon Valley in California.

A major migration project offers what is arguably the best opportunity to train the next generation of automation engineers and plant operators in a way that can yield benefits for many years to come.

VDMA says worries about a future where robots snatch people’s jobs away are unfounded, and it refutes studies that say otherwise.

Emerson will provide automation technologies and expertise for two new 800-megawatt supercritical generating units at the Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station in the Sundergarh District, Odisha, India.

What is the process of grinding the plug and seat of a valve called?

LOGIIC report studies the possible use of remote connectivity to systems in the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) environment for the purposes of monitoring and diagnostics.

April U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $183.5 million, down 7.9% from March’s total and down 4.6% from April 2014.

Salvagnini is using distributed servo amplifiers for positioning, instead of keeping drives installed centrally in the control cabinet.

Stora Enso Oyj is implementing Honeywell’s technologies as part of a modernization and optimization effort at their paper mill in Varkaus, Finland.

Anderson spent 14 years as president of Rosemount Flow business unit and a two years as president responsible for establishing the Lifecycle Services organization for Emerson Process, Flow Measurement group.

CIMdata projects that in 2015 growth in manufacturing will continue and end-user payments for NC software will increase by 6.7% to $1.88 billion.

NEMA ICS 4-2015 updates technical references to IEC 60947-7 series and ANSI/UL standards.

The program has a sensors element library, which allows non-RF and non-software savvy customers to develop wirelessly connected products.

3,400 mile ride will take 44 days and raise money for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

FN110, a Field Wireless Communication Module; FN310, a Field Wireless Multi-Protocol Module; and FN510, a Field Wireless Multi-Function Module have achieved ISA100 Wireless certification.

An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

Bitherm SL offers a variety of products including steam traps, a monitoring system, compact steam trap stations, manifolds and portable detection equipment.

Red says balance contents are not yet in an acceptable tolerance range, and green tells an operator to move onto the next weigh.

The Special Publication 800-82 references ISA/IEC-62443 on 39 separate occasions.

The service helps customers easily maintain spare parts, by offering free return shipping and testing of qualified automation parts

Courses cover PLCs, electrical controls and instrument maintenance.

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

Fenion is Business Development Manager for motion control products.

By: Jeremiah Stone, GE Not too long ago, diagnosing a problem with a critical asset was a cumbersome process for the automation industry. The Industrial Internet is making the diagnostic process much more straightforward and manageable, particularly with the advent of powerful Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic (RM&D) capabilities. The Oil and Gas industry in particular has been quick to recognize the benefits of RM&D.

Industrial automation & manufacturing has been slow to adopt modern digital marketing practices, they have not embraced social media & mobile computing.