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Web software has been expanded to include air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans and blowers in a single user-friendly program.

Reflecting the EPA’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, the symposium, to be held 19 May through 21 May in New Orleans, will outline the direction and recommendations needed to follow best practices

La Pierrette produces synthetic sapphires and rubies for luxury watch movements. A Keyence IM Series system watches over the process.

Universal Robots is a supplier of collaborative robots that work side by side with production workers.

The highest power-rated medium voltage (MV) drives ever used in a reversing roughing mill were commissioned by ABB at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot hot strip mill in South Wales.

Parker Hannifin is sponsoring Victory Motorcycles as they compete in the 2015 Isle of Man TT Zero Challenge on June 10.

PID controllers for front-end production rate, slurry concentration & average fermentation time can decrease costs and increase production rates for ethanol plants.

The sensors provide curve detection and derailment protection for trains traveling 186 mph.

Enhancements in WeConfig 1.2 enable time consuming and complex configuration of large networks to be implemented reliably in just minutes.

The Tuning Akademie racing team uses the sensors to measure the distance between the vehicle and the road surface to determine the aerodynamic balance and respective downforce at the from the rear axles.

AutomationDirect now carries the Eaton FAZ series breaker family.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014.

Canonaco most recently worked at Omron as General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Canada.

This SITO technology offers a sensitive, accurate and fast touch response. It can be easily customized to work with a device’s unique bezel and electronic requirements.

A Cognex DataMan 300 is able to read IDs on process-free printing plates at NELA, replacing other scanners that could not see the virtually invisible IDs.

Matrox Extio F2408 KVM extenders were installed at New Zealand’s National Control Centres, which operate the National Grid power system.

Enhancements in Version 5.2 include PowerMap, Rail Inspector and RailScope features to simplify design of densely populated power systems

An ISA technical paper presents an improved reinforcement learning method to minimize electricity costs on the premise of satisfying the power balance and generation limit of units in a microgrid with

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the 2015 ARC Forum in February Bedrock Automation demonstrated additional features to the company’s automation controller product. These features exemplify their technology leadership and reflect their commitment to delivering integrated, easy to use, scalable, and secure products. I reviewed the following new new features with Albert Rooyakkers, Bedrock Founder, CTO, and VP Engineering.

Watzke will be based in Chicago and is responsible for all Lenze operations outside of Europe including the USA, China and India.

Micrel is a manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide analog, Ethernet and high-bandwidth markets.

TRW Automotive in Germany uses 80 WIN wireless transmitter units to monitor machine status.

By Lance Doherty, et al, Linear Technology One of the visions of the Internet of Things is to be able to measure and instrument things that have never before been measured. Applications call for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to deliver wire-like performance and yet be practical to deploy.

“Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide” by Gregory K. McMillan has been updated to deliver more precise and optimal tuning for nearly all types of applications in the process industries.

Since July of 2014, Duncan has been chief operating officer (COO)

Donations to Purdue University included process measurement instrumentation, a control system, control panels, servers, hardware, piping, large industrial water tanks, pumps, valves, cabling, and engineering guidance.

Which type of flowmeter measures flow by measuring volume directly?

KION will purchase the Handling Automation division for an enterprise value of approximately € 72 million.

ANSI C12.19-2012 defines a table structure for utility application data to be passed between an end device and any other device.

Association plans to recognize those it sees taking active steps to raise the understanding of the role and business value of Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions.