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Featuring more than 1,300 items, the 292-page, full-color glossy catalog covers existing and new products in categories such as Specialty Tools, Video Inspection, Electrical and many more.

The companies are officially "joining" through a "strategic alliance" agreement to provide turnkey manufacturing solutions.

The new plant will build compact power substations, motors, generators, drive systems, measurement equipment and low-voltage products.

By Okuma White paper describes Okuma's Super-NURBS programming functionality that meets high-accuracy finish requirements while speeding up cycle times.

Getting Your MES Project Right the First Time

Crestwood will use Flow-Cal’s software as their corporate measurement solution to manage their natural gas and petroleum products.

NGLTech develops solutions for the improvement and enhancement of processes in upstream oil & gas.

20 students were provided scholarships covering tuition and stationary expenses for the first year of their graduation courses in engineering, R&D or manufacturing.

The mSC free web-based service gives OEMs, machine builders and system integrators a secure, easy and cost-effective way to access machines and systems anywhere in the world over the Internet.

This article focuses on the moving magnet voice coil style of actuators and compares it with other short stroke linear motion technologies, in order to choose the best component for the specific application. The discussion includes moving coil voice coil actuators, moving magnet voice coil actuators, solenoids and piezo actuators.

The world market for miniature circuit breakers and residual current devices (MCBs and RCDs) is projected to go up, to nearly $10 billion in 2018.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The term reshoring is being used to describe the act of companies bringing back desirable jobs to the United States – those jobs that have been lost to decades of offshoring. This is all well and good, but U.S. companies should not lose sight of the fact that automation is the key to increased productivity and quality.

A comprehensive asset management system enables operations and maintenance personnel to quickly access and analyze information in response to alarms and incidents.

The calculator, based on Microsoft Excel, allows users to quickly and simply generate an estimate of potential savings on a production line as a result of OEE improvements.

The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar.

Use tieback models, modeling objects and online adaptation of dynamics and parameters to achieve the fidelity needed for simulation applications.

Each of the 120 Intertec cabinets on Shell’s ‘Prelude’ floating liquefied natural gas project incorporates a unique form of semi-passive cooling technology.

Scott Trumbull will retire as Chief Executive Officer effective May 2, 2014 and Gregg C. Sengstack will succeed him in that role.

IFR estimates that in 2013 about 168,000 industrial robots were sold, 5% more than in 2012. Asia and U.S. were up, Europe was down.

Overall, things are looking up for the manufacturing industry in the coming year with an anticipated increase in orders, production and exports.

At Embedded World 2014 in Nuremberg (hall 2, booth 110), Fujitsu will present the whole family.

Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical, a Chinese petrochemical producer, selected UOP's C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene.

Prior to selecting Epicor ERP, Taco used a legacy system for the last 17 years that could no longer support increased operations due to a combination of in-house applications and multiple code modifications.

Emerson will provide a DeltaV Operator Training Solution (OTS) for BP’s Quad 204 North Sea FPSO replacement project.

By Bill Lydon, Editor On February 11, 2014, along with dozens of other journalists from all over the world, I attended the 2014 Hannover Fair Preview Event in Berlin, Germany. The primary focus of the preview event, as well as the upcoming Hannover Messe, is the next steps for achieving the vision of integrated industry, also known as Industry 4.0 or the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Armstrong International is a manufacturer of steam, gas, and hot water systems.

Valeo will use LED-based detection technology to develop a new infrared sensor for vehicle road obstacle detection and tracking functions.

Harting's manufacturing plant in Elgin, IL, has been AS9100C accredited by UL/DQS for the manufacture of both backplanes and cable assemblies.

How Can Advanced Calibration Strategies Improve Control Performance?

Simatic S7-1518F has a 10 MB user memory and four communication interfaces: Profinet interface with a 2-port switch for communication with the field level, two Profinet interfaces, and one Profibus interface.