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The dry dock operation has been automated using supervisory and data acquisition systems (SCADA) from PcVue, which control a network of Limitorque actuators.

The 25,000th DrivePak installation took place at Toys“R”Us/Babies“R”Us in Iselin, NJ.

Floodgate embedded software solution integrates with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) platform, a key component of McAfee’s security management offerings.

The 2014 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium drew more than 170 attendees, 30 expert speakers and 27 exhibitors to Orlando, Florida, USA in early August.

The new revision of the standard extends the scope from lubricating oils to include distillates (e.g., base oils, formulated oils, fuels, and biodiesel) and adds a new precision at 40°C and 100°C, established through an interlaboratory study.

During the inaugural Motion, Drive & Automation North America (MDA North America 2014) trade show and conference, exhibitors will showcase motion control solutions, such as servo motors, drives and other advanced devices for speed controlled applications.

Catalog covers pneumatic control products for use within both hazardous and safe area environments, including valves and solenoids.

By Roger Yue, Antaira Having a redundant Ethernet network is important to W&WW management, because many plants are still legacy, meaning they were either built with a stand-alone station or have a traditional star topology Ethernet network.

Beckhoff can market and sell the XTS System worldwide with the exception of the United States. However, Beckhoff customers outside the U.S. who purchase and integrate an XTS into their machines can sell those systems into the U.S.

Written by Dr Steven Fawkes, ‘Energy Efficiency: The Definitive Guide to the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Source of Energy’ provides managers, policy makers and governments with answers to the burning questions about energy efficiency and the world’s response to it.

Turkey’s machinery exports, which were USD 3.0 billion in 2003, reached USD 14 billion in 2013. Turkey is now poised to enter the US market and is looking for partners.

With governments still being undecided on whether hydraulic fracturing can be conducted, the sensors and instrumentation market in the shale gas industry has remained small.

Customers will now have the option of using Binder connectors with custom cable designed and manufactured by Northwire.

Revenues for IE3 Premium Efficiency (and the equivalent NEMA Premium) are on course to almost double by 2018 to over $8,000 million globally.

By T. Lee Wylie The recent news regarding a lawsuit filed by Kentwool against NetSuite demonstrates that all ERP solutions are not manufacturing ERP solutions. It also cautions ERP vendors that knowing what you don’t know is a very valuable asset.

Balluff says that by 2016, production hours for building linear transducers and encoders in the Kentucky facility will increase 140%.

The FDT Group will exhibit a technology demonstration that focuses on smart device integration solutions that are both protocol and supplier independent.

The ABB Full Service business provides fully outsourced industrial maintenance services. ABB is divesting this business because of limited synergies with ABB’s core portfolio.

Management has to be part of the asset management team in order for the operation to get the real value from their installed assets.

Worldwide robotics markets are increasingly diversified, poised to achieve significant growth as every industry segment adopts mobile automated processes. Robots are taking over.

Geissler wanted to accelerate cycle times for a test bench that performed the final inspection of precision turned parts. They replaced a pneumatic rotary indexing table with a directly driven TO series rotary indexing table from Weiss.

The company, previously known as Motoman Inc., was formally incorporated on July 18, 1989 as a 50/50 joint venture between Hobart Brothers Company and Yaskawa Electric America.

K3 Syspro provides solutions in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Warehouse Management, Human Resources (HR) and e-business.

In 2014, machinery production in China is forecast to expand 7.4 percent, a slowdown from 7.9 percent growth in 2013.

DFI will be assisting customers in migrating to other XP-based operating systems without changing applications, and help those who would like to adopt the latest OS and technologies to stay secure.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Iron Bridge plant was originally built in the 1980s to treat about 5 million gallons of wastewater per day. After several modifications and upgrades, it can now treat and reclaim up to 40 million gallons in that same 24-hour period. The facilities standardized on Siemens controls, drives, power distribution, and Profibus and PROFINET communications network.

In pH control systems reagent piping and injection must minimize transportation delays, volumes must have proper geometry and agitation to maximize the process time constant that filters pH oscillatio

Servi produces custom hydraulic systems, cylinders and valves for the offshore oil & gas industry.

BsAutomatisierung in Rosenfeld,Germany, uses Ensenso 3D vision cameras in its robotic bin-picking cells to pick individual, randomly aligned parts out of a container and pass them on to downstream production processes.

For the first time in the history of space travel, a lander will touch down on the surface of a comet. DC motors manufactured by maxon are part of this pioneering feat.