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Epicor's own survey reveals several enterprise resource planning (ERP) deficiencies causing organizational drag. Half the respondents surveyed characterized the performance of their current ERP system as merely "adequate" or "basic."

How to Select the Optimal Temperature Sensor for Industrial Applications

Recognizing that the ventilation rate procedure in its indoor air quality standard may be difficult to apply in existing buildings, ASHRAE is proposing an alternate compliance path.

Members of both the HART Communication Foundation and Fieldbus Foundation approved the merger proposed by their respective boards through a voting process that concluded on August 30.

Enhancements in Gocator 4.0 include a built-in capability to remove noise around the perimeter and interior of scanned surfaces or parts.

CQS Innovation is a Michigan-based systems integrator specializing in control and information systems for life sciences, chemical and metals industries.

Robust Fault Detection for Switched Positive Linear Systems with Time-Varying Delays

By Bill Lydon, Editor Should the control room operator be responsible for making business decisions? Focusing solely on improving operator interaction may be a mistake. Your competitors may be focusing on increased automation and integration to gain a competitive business advantage.

Zaber's ASCII LabVIEW drivers are now certified by National Instruments, and they are listed on their Instrument Driver Network (IDNet).

OSI installed an Outage Management System (OMS) for Powerco of New Zealand, based on OSI's Spectra OMS software platform.

The current 470,000 part data, including schematic macros, geometric dimensions and documents, can now be imported to engineering automatically.

At InnoTrans 2014: Proven Safety for the Rail Sector

By Bill Lydon, Editor The OPC Foundation Information Revolution 2014 Conference was held at Microsoft's Redmond Campus on August 4-7, 2014. The conference featured industry experts who both presented and learned more about OPC Unified Architecture. This article summarizes the highlights from the conference.

ISA now enables its members to purchase comprehensive professional/errors and omissions and general liability insurance through Lloyds of London at significant discounts to regular market rates.

The wireless network at Pfalzwerke Netz integrates remote substations, secondary substations, renewable energy systems, and switching points into a network control system while providing protection from unauthorised access and tampering.

With 34 cameras installed along the perimeter of the photovoltaic field, Solesa can detect animals, people, objects, acts of vandalism or attempted theft in complete darkness and difficult conditions, such as dust, fog and rain.

Mission Critical Operations programs are designed to develop a career pathway to address demand for a workforce able to anticipate, prevent, mitigate, and respond to mission-critical breaches.

By Tom Gurd, City Technology There is a lot of focus on flue gas analyzers, but it’s also important to remember that an analyzer is only as effective as the sensors it uses. Because of the risks associated with combustion emissions, sensor safety and reliability are critical.

By Andrea Sorri, Axis Communications With the arrival of network video, plant operators can integrate security, safety and production control in one single system. With HDTV image quality, network cameras can provide detailed and clear images - allowing remote operators to virtually place themselves at any location of the plant or process and see what is happening at any given time.

The increase in oil exploration activities, investments in new refineries, and modernisation of existing facilities will spur the uptake of valves and actuators, particularly in emerging markets such as Africa and Latin America.

Electronic Systems Technology developed the wireless modem and received United States and Canadian patents for this technology.

App is a file sharing and collaboration solution for enterprise content, and it’s specifically designed to facilitate interaction with content via mobile devices.

M+W Process Automation is a provider of engineering-based automation services and solutions

Founded in 1889 in Helsinki by entrepreneur and inventor Gottfrid Strömberg, ABB Finland has more than 5,000 employees in 30 locations, with sales of 2.3 billion euros in 2013.

Dematic provides a comprehensive range of intelligent warehouse logistics and materials handling solutions.

$1.04 billion is the best first half performance by the North American machine vision market since AIA began tracking quarterly statistics in 2009.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Every time you contract a third-party service provider, you are putting your company’s intellectual property (IP) at risk. With the current cyber security landscape and the new range of services offered by vendors and system integrators, manufacturers are increasingly challenged to protect their IP.

Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Backstepping Control for the Prescribed Output Tracking Performance of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems

By Robert Harrison, COPA-DATA It takes an average of twelve years and over £200m to get a new drug from the laboratory onto the shelf. As a result, the pharmaceutical industry is well known for its prudence, especially regarding the uptake of new technologies. Here’s how appropriate technologies can help, rather than hinder, essential regulatory compliance including ISO 50001 and FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

According to a recently released report by IHS, the Americas are projected to be the fastest growing regional market for operator terminal revenues.