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Distribution Automation Needs Highly Accurate Analog Data Converters
By David Andeen, Director of Applications, Maxim Integrated “Distribution automation” is an old industry, finding new and vibrant life with the smart grid. -
Global Automation and Control System Market Analysis and Forecast to 2020
Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd is released new forthcoming report on title "Automation and Control System Market in Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast to 2020." -
Temperature Communication for Best Accuracy and Reliability, and Least Noise
How the advent of smart transmitters and wireless communication has opened the door to better temperature communication & process performance improvements. -
ASCO Introduces Mobile App to Calculate Flow for a Valve
ASCO Flow Calculator enables customers to quickly calculate flow for a valve or determine the Cv needed to properly size a valve. -
ContiTech exhibits at Hannover Messe
Products on display in Hall 25 will include drive belts, hoses, hose lines, and air spring systems from ContiTech. -
The Revolution starts in Hannover
At the upcoming HANNOVER MESSE, the German government and key German industry associations (VDMA, ZVEI and BITKOM) will jointly outline their strategy for achieving integrated production. -
Rotork promotes two executives
Pamela Bingham is now the Managing Director of Rotork’s Gears division and Dave Littlejohns is Divisional Managing Director of Rotork Fluid Systems. -
MB Connect Line opens subsidiary in the United States
The US subsidiary operates under the name "MB connect line Inc." and is located in Warrenville, Illinois. The determining factor for the location is the excellent infrastructure in the Chicago metropolitan area. From here the entire North American region is very easily reachable. -
Harting to cover Integrated Industry at Hanover Fair
HARTING will be presenting – live on the fair stand – a production line demonstrating solutions for Integrated Industry. -
The Gradual Market Expansion of China’s CNC Metal-Cutting Machine Industry
By Elmer Chen, GCiS China Strategic Research Rather than insulating domestic suppliers, the Chinese government has opted to loosen import regulations for many forms of technologically advanced products in the interim, and domestic companies will struggle to catch up and surpass foreign suppliers occupying the high end market. -
Security and Safety Becoming Big Business
Frost & Sullivan predicts big changes are ahead in how to manage the global cyber threat, including the growing concern of state sponsored involvement and complexity of attacks on private business. -
Safe production in Industry 4.0
Researchers from IOSB will be demonstrating which attack scenarios could happen to networked production facilities at the Fraunhofer joint exhibition booth at this year’s Hannover Messe. -
The Proper Implementation and Common Mistakes of Sequential Function Charts
A brief overview of sequential function charts, describing proper implementation and common mistakes. -
Automation & Control Trends in 2015
By Bill Lydon, Editor This is an update to previous automation and control trends articles and expresses my thoughts for 2015 and beyond. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending more than 20 industry forums, conferences and trade shows last year. -
Güdel publishes 2015 linear motion catalog
Catalog covers configurations for standard modules of TrackMotion, gantry and linear motion units in virtually any size and for all robots. -
Low Power Conversion for Energy Harvesting
By Tony Armstrong, Linear Technology Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be powered via energy harvesting. Here’s how to design a nanopower device that works with very low levels of power and current. -
CERN and NI Collaborate on Linux
Their objective is to push the standardization of all CERN control systems to Linux 64-bit operating systems. -
Festo to demonstrate OPAK Industry 4.0 research
At Hannover Fair, Festo will demonstrate developments in the OPAK Industry 4.0 research project subsidized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy -
Experimental Verification of SMC with Moving Switching Lines Applied to Hoisting Crane Vertical Motion Control
An ISA technical paper proposes a sliding mode control strategies for the point-to-point motion control of a hoisting crane. -
Photonic Sensors Market Expected to Reach $15.2 Billion by 2020
The need for enhanced safety and security solutions, better alternatives for conventional technology and rise in wireless sensing technology are the major factors responsible for driving the photonic sensor market. -
FCI Demonstrates 56Gb/s Transmission
The data rate of 56Gb/s was achieved using duobinary encoding over a channel including the ExaMAX High Speed Backplane Connector. -
Rockwell announces New Encompass Product Partners
Rockwell Automation welcomed nine new Encompass Product Partners and two global expansions within its PartnerNetwork program. -
Egemin to supply AGVs to IVC
Egemin will supply an integrated warehousing system with AGVs to handle the intermediate transport flows of slabs and rolls and storage of slabs. -
China to use more robots than anybody
By 2017, more industrial robots will be operating in China's production plants than in the European Union or North America. -
FCI flow switch receives FM Div 1/Zone 1 Approval
FCI has received FM Div 1/Zone 1 Approval on all remote probe configurations for the FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor. -
Industrial Big Data Analytics: Present and Future
Big data storage and fast processing capabilities need to become one hybrid system. -
Cliff from Cheers joins AME
TV legend John Ratzenberger will serve as honorary chair of AME’s 2015 conference in Cincinnati. -
Microchip releases free Code Configuration Plug-In
The MPLAB Code Configurator enables firmware developers to quickly initialise the device and implement peripheral drivers for faster time to market -
Onset adds Android to HOBOmobile data logger app
The free app enables users to graph and analyze environmental data collected with Onset HOBO MX Series data loggers. -
Skkynet Expands Registration for Secure Cloud Service
Immediate access to secure, end-to-end networking service now widely available.