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The video shows how the system avoids costly shutdowns related to faulty FOUNDATION Fieldbus or PROFIBUS PA segments.

AST gained ATEX certification for its intrinsically safe pressure transducers in Class I Zone 0 Exia IIB and IIC, T4 rated areas.

Every motion controller will have its own command protocol, or series of rules for communication, that dictates how you interact it. Zaber's devices use two command protocols: an ASCII protocol and a 6-byte binary protocol.

Watlow added 25,000 square feet to its R&D facility in San Jose, California, adding a Class 1000 clean room.

The design, based on the aerodynamics of a seagull’s wing, is 45% efficient and uses advanced automation control technology for continuous optimization based on wind conditions.

The Bosch Community Fund awarded four grants to three central Pennsylvania educational institutions: Lehigh University, Lehigh Career & Technical Institute and Pennsylvania State University.

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Barry-Wehmiller Design Group is expanding its Northeast operations with a new office in East Brunswick, NJ.

ASHRAE and the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) will merge and IAQA headquarters will relocate from Rockville, MD, to Atlanta.

IHS projects that gradual increases in global economic activity will pick up, to 2.9% in 2014 and 3.5% in 2015.

Cosgriff, a former vice admiral in the U.S. Navy, comes to NEMA after serving as Senior Vice President of International Business and Government for Textron Systems Corporation.

Donations included Fluke-754 documenting calibrators, scopes, digital multimeters (DMMs) and other test equipment.

CENTUM VP production control system has obtained the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification from the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI).

By Mike Roberts, LNS Research Leaders understand that if you’re not moving forward, making year-over-year gains in key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, then you’re destined to face some serious challenges down the road.

ISCI Chartered Labs are now authorized to use the Raven for ICS CRT tool for use in the communication robustness test element of ISASecure product certifications.

May U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $351.93 million, down 10.0% from April and down 17.5% when compared with the total of $426.40 million reported for May 2013.

The manufacturing industry is growing, but there is still much work to be done. The sector comprises 12 percent of the overall economy and greater investments in community colleges and trade schools are necessary.

Exhibitors at Industrial Automation NA will demonstrate collaborative robotics, vision guided robotics, material handling robotics, as well as servo drives for robotics applications, robotics integration software and services.

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research The writing is on the wall: Paper is being slowly but surely phased out of our daily lives, and as goes the consumer so eventually will the enterprise.

CVA electric control valve actuators are enabling the Sydney Water Corporation in Australia to control the pressure in the city’s water supply network with greatly increased response and accuracy.

Asset Management Program (AMP) for couplings is an online tool for tracking the location, life history and latest revision drawings and installation instructions for all critical drivetrain couplings owned by customers.

How to Upgrade and Replace Systems in a Running Production Environment

By Bill Lydon, Editor Industry 4.0, Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet are all driving computing to automation edge devices. These devices include controllers, sensors, actuators, motor controls, and drives. The fact that these devices could now be on a more widely known IP network creates the opportunity for viruses and malicious control of industrial equipment.

Best candidates have taken the capabilities of HART instruments beyond configuration and calibration, or are using real-time device diagnostics and process information integrated with control, information, asset management or safety systems.

Aramco Services Company (ASC) is the US-based subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The MagnetArc welding process developed by KUKA Systems is in use for production around the globe.

Technical research fdocuses on performance of a nonlinear PD controller is tested and compared with other PD and PID tuning rules for pure integrating plus delay.

This organizational certification ensures that suppliers include cybersecurity requirements in all phases of their development and maintenance lifecycle processes for industrial automation and control systems products.

Taking place in August at the Crowne Plaza Orlando-Universal Hotel in Orlando, the 2014 ISA WWAC Symposium is a three-day event that focuses on the challenges associated with automation and instrumentation in the water and wastewater sectors.

May U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $169 million, according to the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute and AMT, down 3.5 percent from April’s total and down 4.4 percent from May 2013.