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CyTime Sequence of Events Recorders (SER) and GPS time synchronization products are now suitable for use in European and Australian mission critical facilities.

FDI Cooperation, FieldComm Group and Profibus & Profinet International gave FDI to the FieldComm Group.

The specification makes it possible for automation suppliers to develop products and host systems compatible with FDI.

Payara technical support service delivers software updates, bug fixes and 24/7 support for Oracle’s GlassFish application server, which Oracle stopped supporting.

Three models in the QUINT POWER family of DIN rail DC/DC power converters are listed for IECEx, ATEX, and Class I, Division 2 applications.

Automation Project and Startup Humor – How to Laugh Rather Than Fret

The US chemicals market is expected to make investments of nearly $80 billion by 2020, creating strong opportunities for automation solution providers.

KnowledgeNet collects plant data from an OSIsoft PI historian and then uses computing, rules, fault propagation and workflow engines to reason over the data to identify the cause of performance gaps at Saudi Aramco Abqaiq Plants.

exida has certified RPC Radiy’s FPGA-Based Safety Controller (FSC) RadICS for functional safety, ensuring that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems.

PLCopen and OPC Foundation created an open standards ecosystem that simplifies the communications of packaging machines with other plant systems and the business enterprise.

By Mike Granby, Red Lion Controls Bringing a factory into the 21st century involves more than just connecting devices to Ethernet and wireless networks. The fundamentals of a successful Connected Factory must be prepared to ensure information can be accessed, monitored and controlled from anywhere.

POSITAL products featured in the Encompass program include LINARIX linear displacement transducers, TILTIX inclinometers, IXARC explosion-proof rotary sensors and IXARC potentiometers

The myths about why there is a lack of qualified, experienced automation professionals in the industrial automation profession.

RFID was invented seven decades ago--however, 23% of all the RFID tags ever sold were sold in 2013. In 2014, a further 1.12 billion RFID tags will be sold.

These events cover a range of topics including Production, Drilling, Completions, Water Management, Facilities Engineering, Oil Sands, Crude By Rail Safety, Pipeline Asset Integrity, NGL Markets, Wellsite Automation, Gas Capture And Flaring, Offshore Flow Assurance and Crude Takeaway.

The machine vision industry in Germany will grow in 2014 by ten percent minimum, exceeding the sales forecast of about 1.8 billion euros by the end of this year.

With these capabilities, the encoders’ performance characteristics can be extensively modified through software changes, without requiring any changes to physical components.

Paine Electronics is a manufacturer of pressure transducers.

The Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance) is an industry organization created for collaboration among vendors of products and solutions based on network intelligence.

The interface includes bi-directional catalog part synchronization of the E-CAD and PLM part libraries. Synchronizations can be scheduled either regularly or created on demand.

Linux has long been on the “wishlist" for control systems. Until now, most systems have been locked-in to the Windows operating system due to reliance on classic OPC—a ubiquitous communication standard based on Microsoft’s Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). The name of the game is changing, however, with the arrival of the next-generation OPC standard, the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA). The new standard was designed for cross-platform compatibility, which makes room for Linux to gain popularity in the automated control industry.

U.S. packaging machinery shipments increased by 6 percent, to $7.9 billion, in 2013.

Muratec and Cimcorp are both companies in the material handling system business.

The show attracted 73,000 visitors to see 1,900 exhibitors.

The next HANNOVER MESSE will run from 13 to 17 April 2015.

B&R Japan is headquartered in Yokohama and led by Masashi Ono.

The online solution replaces traditional CO2 reporting based on fuel data at the Martinlaakso 1 power plant run by Vantaan Energia in Vantaa, Finland.

Products include process controllers, digital indicators, chart and strip recorders and paperless videographic recorders.

A highly skilled workforce is the lifeblood of any successful company, industry, or national economy.