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  • Emerson signs Control Southern as distributor

    Control Southern became a sales channel for Emerson's Net Safety Monitoring products in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Tennessee.
    13 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Moxa to supply communications equipment to Terra Ferma

    Terra Ferma will use Moxa hardened communications equipment for a remote SCADA monitoring and IP surveillance system which Terra Ferma will market to the oil and gas industry.
    13 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • How to Optimize Batch End Points and Cycle Times

    Use a feed analysis of predicted yield to create a production rate controller & use a batch profile slope for optimization of batch end point & cycle time.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    13 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption up 13.1% in October

    October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $176 million, up 13.1 percent from September’s total but down 5.8 percent from October 2012.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Fossil Fuels Lose Steam in Power Generator Markets

    The share of new generator sales that use fossil fuels is forecast to decline as growth in the renewables and nuclear sectors ramps up.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation to optimize US Army

    Rockwell Automation will optimize manufacturing assets at a U.S. Army-owned, contractor-operated, metal-parts manufacturing plant in Scranton, Pa.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Carlo Gavazzi releases App

    App gives users the ability to view or email brochures, data sheets or manuals from their Apple and Android mobile devices.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Paradox to supply smart lighting to Bellinzona, Switzerland

    More than 600 CREE LED street lights will be remotely managed and controlled by the PE.AMI platform.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia

    Yokogawa will supply the control system for the SWRO-4 Desalination Plant, which is being built in Jubail, Saudi Arabia by the Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq).
    12 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • PAS Celebrates 20th Anniversary

    PAS was initially founded as a systems integration company, and throughout its 20 years of existence it evolved into a software solutions provider for improving operational safety and profitability.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB earns UL listing for EV fast chargers

    The charger was awarded the UL rating for compliance with North American safety directives, including the requirements of UL 2202, Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging System Equipment.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA

    Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA

    Reflections on the Progress and Future of ISA
    By: ISA Past-Presidents
    12 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • ISA to develop Mission-Critical Professional certification program

    ISA will begin developing a certification program as part of a $23 million federal grant to fund two-year degree programs in “Mission Critical Operations” at five North Carolina colleges.
    11 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • FANUC merges it all together

    FANUC merged all of its operations in the Americas into a single company named FANUC America , headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
    11 December, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Sercos International SPS IPC Drives show report

    At the SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremberg, Sercos International displayed twelve demo points from different manufacturing companies as well as exhibits from more than twenty companies.
    11 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • American Midstream installs FLOWCAL software

    American Midstream is using the software to handle both their regulated and non-regulated pipeline data in the same database by creating multiple secure environments with independent configuration.
    11 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • PROFI Network Updates from the General Assembly Meeting

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Four North American members presented why they support PI standards and are members of the board. User presentations further highlighted that existing plants have many types of networks that can benefit from efficient gateways and proxies to further enhance automation with new controls and instruments.
    11 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Eplan adds products to Rockwell Automation Encompass program

    Eplan added the Fluid and Harness proD products to the Encompass Program.
    11 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • October manufacturing technology orders up 10.2%

    October U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $435.02 million, up 10.2% from September but down 3.2% when compared with the total of $449.44 million reported for October 2012.
    10 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Medium Voltage Drive sales still up

    MV drive sales are predicted to increase by 8% in 2013, with widely diverging growth rates by region.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ASM publishes 2nd Edition of HMI Design Guidelines

    The ASM Consortium revised the display design guidelines after 5 years, following its first ‘Effective Operator Display Design Guidelines’ published in 2008.
    10 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Strothmann to automate tandem press line in China

    Strothmann will supply complete parts handling consisting of a blank loader with fully automated tooling change, High Speed Transfer (HST), and parts unloading at the end of a new tandem press line being built by Shanghai Superior Die Technology Co.
    10 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • AVEVA supplies Everything3D design software to EMS-CHEMIE

    EMS-CHEMIE moved to the Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) software for design of its chemical facilities right in the middle of an ongoing project.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Fieldbus Foundation updates Foundation Fieldbus Technical Specifications

    The updated specification includes additional support for fieldbus device replacement and backwards compatibility, Device Description (DD) templates, field diagnostics and alarm/alert integration.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Hannover Messe to host Investment Lounge

    The Global Business & Markets platform in Hall 13 at next year’s Hannover Messe will host an Investment Lounge to help SMEs develop international markets.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Franklin Control Systems signs Lynxspring as distributor

    Lynxspring will distribute Franklin Control System’s VFDs, Building Automation and Energy Management Starter products.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • RENEX South America report

    RENEX South America, November 27–29, 2013 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, will lead to $44 million of new business in the South American renewable energy market during the next 12 months.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • FMC Technologies uses metrology system to check CNC machines

    FMC Technologies in Scotland uses Renishaw machine tool probes and calibration products to check and verify the dimensional accuracy of its CNC machine tools.
    10 December, 2013 | 6 minutes
  • ABB creates SMART robot education package

    SMART certifies teachers and professors to teach robotics courses, provides curriculum and course outlines and materials, and provides a complete robotic training cell to schools at a reduced cost.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens Introduces Managed Security Service

    Service includes assessment of security posture, implementation of recommended security measures and transitions into ongoing defense against cyber security threats in Industrial Control System environments.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
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