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The company had previously been registered as an Encompass partner for the Asia/Pacific region and the Americas.

OAO VNIPIneft, the Research and Design Institute for the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry, has designed over 40 oil refineries and industrial facilities in Russia, the CIS countries, Bulgaria, Hungary, Egypt, India, Cuba, Poland, Turkey and Ethiopia.

The ASM Consortium has been working continuously together for more than 20 years to maximize safety and performance by preventing or minimizing the impact of abnormal situations.

Jellen joins Adept after more than 10 years with Danaher Corporation, where he held successive roles of increasing responsibility, including vice president and general manager for various business units.

Rotork EH electro-hydraulic actuators will be used for failsafe valve control on the Colombian Bicentennial Pipeline, which will have a capacity of up to 600,000 bbl/d of crude oil when completed in early 2016.

General Cable deployed InfinityQS ProFicient, an enterprise quality platform powered by a centralized statistical process control (SPC) analytical engine, at 14 of its manufacturing locations.

VPX3000 has been validated for incorporation into an Elma Target Application Guide (TAG), used to build a high speed data recording system.

ViPNet Common Crypto Core supports true VPN endpoint-to-endpoint security.

Competency Framework helps companies combat the increasing talent shortage and achieve stronger performance from their workforce.

Steinhauer Elektromaschinen in Germany is a producer of enclosure machining and related technologies.

The software suite enables local and remote configuration and real-time HART device monitoring in remote oil and gas applications such as wellhead automation, flow measurement, and tank overflow protection.

CD contains product pricing, applications, dimensions, specifications and tutorial videos.

The Fluke Connect Student Contest tests the skills, innovation, and business application of student teams enrolled in two and four year colleges, universities, trade/tech schools, and apprenticeship programs.

Successful level instrument design starts with an uderstanding of the application & strengths & weaknesses of the available level measurement technologies.

The IP core for Sercos III master and slave controllers (SERCON100M/S) includes all hardware functions, such as timing, synchronization and processing of cyclic and non-cyclic data on the basis of two integrated Ethernet MACs.

Requirements to further reduce energy and environmental impacts of buildings are contained in the 2014 version of the green building standard from ASHRAE, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Illuminating Engineering Society.

The short video talks about Essential Asset Monitoring and how a few number of essential assets: heat exchangers, pumps, blowers, air-cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers account for over 70% of a facility’s maintenance costs.

EPLAN Experience knowledge-driven program aims to optimize engineering efficiency.

The companies plan to deliver cellular solutions that help enable Rockwell Automation customers to securely collect, manage and take action on data from industrial equipment located in plants and remote sites around the globe.

Mettler Toledo helped Asiatic Agricultural Industries to convert its mix of EX and non-EX equipment in its plants to all EX equipment.

Managed by area sales manager Andrew Norcliffe, the UK Northern office employs 3 application engineers, including a dedicated B&R technology trainer.

WH Group, China’s market leader for meat and pork products, invested in hygienically designed bench scales to stay ahead of competition and to further enhance food safety in its production facilities.

By Gary Frank, Westfalia Technologies As technology continues to become more sophisticated every day, companies are able to run leaner and more powerful operations. However, from manufacturing assembly lines to service industries, more and more professions are being replaced by machines and devices that eclipse the capabilities of humans.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in many respects is the progression of distributed computing. The fundamental components of an automation (or other) system are sensors; they are the “eyes, ears, and fingers” of any system. If the concepts of IIoT are to succeed, we need more effective, powerful sensors.

New automation professional describes how to achieve success in the industry.

At this year's SPS IPC Drives MB Connect Line presents exciting innovations around the remote maintenance and industrial communication via Internet. It will take place in Nuremberg from 25 to 27 November 2014.

By Steve Hughes, REO Industry 4.0 will ultimately represent a significant change in manufacturing and industry. In the long run, the sophisticated software implanted in factory equipment could help machines self-regulate and make more autonomous decisions.

Catalog covers telemetry products that support long-distance wireless communications in large scale environments such as those found in oil and gas, agriculture, water systems, forestry and public infrastructures.

By Clive Jones, et al, Global Heat Transfer A properly maintained heat transfer system employing food-grade heat transfer fluids will contribute to low cost operation and efficient production.

Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Ball Screw Drives