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Transparency Market Research has announced the addition of the "Motor Vehicle Sensor Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012 – 2018" report to their offering.

Metso will supply a DNA automation system, IQ quality control system, IQ Dilution Profiler for a dilution headbox, and a IQ Moisturizer system for moisture profiling to Pratt Industries in Valparaiso, Indiana.

ABB and Marbles Kids Museum are launching a play-based power grid exhibit, called Kid Grid, to generate interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in young children.

Rotork valve actuators upgrade and automate flow control equipment in many areas of Thames Water’s operations.

Spectrum Technologies supplied an enamel stripping system for the magnet wire coils used in the stators for the gear box in Volkswagen's latest range of electric engines.

Shah is responsible for R&D, new product development, and product & technology strategy by working closely with key customers.

LEAP represents a departure from the way plants are typically designed and built by using parallel workflows to keep automation systems off critical implementation paths.

Pepperl+Fuchs’ F31K2 valve position feedback sensor survives the harsh and corrosive environment found at Dutch salt-making company Frisia Zout.

Established in 1974 in Cambridge, UK, the company started off in a small building with just a few employees but now has three manufacturing locations and several offices in ten countries.

Next Frontier for the Operator-Automation Relationship

Delta’s CliQ and CliQ II DIN rail power supply and module series have more models now certified according to ATEX Directive 94/9/EC with group II, category 3G (Zone 2), nA or nA nC type of protection, IIC with T4 temperature class according to IEC/EN 60079-0 and IEC/EN 60079-15.

By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been significant automation in petrochemical processing plants. However, it is surprising how little automation has been adopted in other parts of the oil & gas industry. This has changed over the last four years because the cost of operations is growing faster than profit margins.

The first official certificate for a successfully tested EtherCAT device was issued not long after the new North American EtherCAT Test Center was accredited by the ETG.

ITTIA's research says DB SQL significantly outperforms SQLite in write throughput, boasting high insert and update performance both on flash media and hard disk.

AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel formed IIC earlier this year to support better access to data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds. Moxa is one of the first industrial automation companies to join the Consortium.

By Kevin Callahan, Alerton BAS are getting more powerful and easy to use all the time. Key features and benefits to look for this year include BAS software, control modules and wall sensors.

The identification of deadtime and ramp rate can provide tuning, rapid modeling, and future values for smart reset, feedforward, and setpoint responses.

By Punya Prakash, Texas Instruments Building automation systems are striving to keep up with a renaissance in processing prowess by incorporating hierarchical and distributed architectures, low-power processing and control capabilities, advanced sensors and many other exciting new technologies. In fact, sometimes the most pressing challenge is how to make sense of it all.

The HART Communication Protocol is now a China National Standard (GB/T 29910.1-6-2013) approved by the Standardization Administration of the China Industrial Department.

Rotalec has been a distributor of high technology industrial machine automation products, product identification systems, and mill products for over 30 years.

The Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Rory Cooper and Dr. Vijay Kumar.

General’s CEO and senior management team remain in charge.

Open Systems International will replace the existing SCADA/EMS system at Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority in the United Arab Emirates with a new SCADA/EMS system based on OSI’s monarch platform.

Blakeway also is Omron Corporation Executive Officer, and Chairman, President and CEO of Omron Management Center Of America.

As U.S. manufacturing recorded the greatest monthly increase so far in 2014, a survey involving members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) also points to an upswing in the automation industry.

Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.

The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.

Anglia will distribute and market the full Bel portfolio of circuit protection, magnetics and interconnect devices to OEMs throughout the UK and Ireland.

Epicor-sponsored research reveals that manufacturers with the right software tools to track and manage performance metrics come out on top -- outperforming competitors by up to 10% in areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, net profit margin increases, and on-time delivery.