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  • Rockwell Automation to Acquire vMonitor

    VMonitor provides monitoring and control solutions for wellhead and upstream applications that combine wireless instrumentation and communication with visualization software.
    30 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Exida certifies Rosemount 5300 radar transmitter

    Exida certified the Rosemount 5300 Series Guided Wave Radar Transmitter meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.
    30 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Matrox announces free MuraControl App

    MuraControl for iPad is an intuitive touch panel interface that replicates the video wall on the tablet so users can effortlessly switch, scale, and manage inputs to create and/or access previously saved layouts.
    30 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Consider the Big Picture When Justifying an Automation Project

    Consider the Big Picture When Justifying an Automation Project

    To achieve a successful industrial automation project implementation, it’s important for everyone to be involved with the process.
    By: Contributing Authors
    30 October, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Express Logic hires Ken Maxwell to direct GUI

    As director of engineering in charge of embedded GUI tool development, Maxwell will lead Express Logic’s efforts to offer GUI design tools and technology for real-time embedded systems.
    29 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA PMCD/Safety-Security Symposium issues Call for Papers

    The symposium, to be held 6-9 October 2014 in Houston, Texas, USA, is a collaboration between ISA’s Process Measurement and Control Division (PMCD), Safety and Security Division, and the Chemical and Petroleum Industries Division (ChemPID).
    29 October, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • AST4530 submersible pressure transducer certified by CSA

    The AST4530 submersible pressure transducer has been certified by CSA International to Class I Div 1, Groups C and D for use in intrinsically safe areas with an approved barrier.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Industrial IP Advantage online community formed

    Cisco, Panduit, Rockwell Automation and ODVA are sponsoring a new online community that extends the Industrial IP Advantage website.
    29 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Geared Products market to Expand by More than $1 Billion

    Revenue for gearboxes, geared motors and planetary axles sold for applications such as cranes, cement mixers and bulldozers is projected to reach $7.8 billion by 2017, up from $6.7 billion in 2012.
    29 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • AMETEK acquires Creaform

    Creaform is a developer and manufacturer of portable 3D measurement technologies and a provider of 3D engineering services.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation Introduces Safety Maturity Index Tool

    The SMI tool helps manufacturers see where they measure in safety culture, compliance and capital.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Intelligrated expands in Alpharetta, Ga.

    The company is relocating staff to a new 54,000-square-foot facility located at 13560 Morris Road, Alpharetta.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • HMS introduces IXXAT Safe IEC 61508-based communications solutions

    With IXXAT Safe, HMS offers a product family under the IXXAT brand for fast, cost-effective implementation of safe communications solutions for Profinet and Ethernet/IP.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • GE to supply Proficy Monitoring & Analysis Suite to TOTAL

    GE will provide TOTAL with system set-up and installation of Proficy SmartSignal, project implementation and monitoring services and support.
    29 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Balluff publishes Sensor Catalog

    1000 pp catalog contains photoelectric, inductive, capacitive and cylinder sensors, along with accessories and cables.
    28 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Understanding Safety Life Cycles

    Understanding Safety Life Cycles

    Understanding Safety Life Cycles
    By: Contributing Authors
    28 October, 2013 | 10 minutes
  • Industrial IP Advantage

    By Bill Lydon, Editor This new initiative, supported by CISCO, Rockwell Automation, Panduit and ODVA, supports IP network convergence between the enterprise and plant floor. The Industrial IP Advantage website and activities are an agnostic way to share best practices, information, and educate the industry to accelerate adoption of IP technology.
    28 October, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • The Rise of Thermoelectrics

    Thermoelectrics satisfy a need that other energy harvesters do not -where there may be no movement, RF field or other viable form of ambient energy other than a heat gradient.
    25 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • BEI Kimco's VCA goes to asteroids

    The custom Moving Magnet Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) is going on the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) spacecraft.
    25 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • How to Build a Successful Project Team in the Automation Industry

    Pick your team members wisely, lead by example, and always convey the highest expectations of performance. Your team will deliver.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    25 October, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • AVEVA Electrical interfaces with ETAP

    The interface allows equipment created in AVEVA Electrical or ETAP to be viewed and edited within each system.
    24 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • ABB Reports Q3 Earnings

    ABB reported higher revenues, earnings and cash flows in the third quarter of 2013, on improved performance across all divisions.
    24 October, 2013 | 8 minutes
  • Global RFID Market to reach $7.88 Billion in 2013

    IDTechEx Research says the RFID market will increase from $6.98 billion in 2012 to $7.88 billion, and will reach $23.4 billion in 2020.
    23 October, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Tech Soft 3D appoint Dave Opsahl VP, Corporate Development

    Prior to joining Tech Soft 3D, Opsahl spent six years as the CEO of Actify, a leader in 3D product data intelligence.
    23 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Deutsche Messe calls for submissions for HERMES AWARD

    Companies and institutions who will be exhibiting their product innovations at HANNOVER MESSE 2014 are invited to apply for the HERMES AWARD.
    23 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson's digital valve controller sales reach 1.5 million

    The process industry’s use of Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controller continues to grow as aggregate sales jumped to over 1.5-million shipped worldwide.
    23 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ADLINK Signs Elma Electronic as VAR

    Elma will offer a wide range of custom chassis designs and embedded system platforms based on ADLINK’s small form factor boards.
    23 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell to control LNG facility in Columbia

    Honeywell will provide an Integrated Control and Safety System for the floating LNG liquefaction, regasification and storage unit for the Exmar-Pacific Rubialis Energy project offshore Colombia.
    23 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Nordson publishes dispensing guide for Automotive

    The 13-page guide has helpful information about how to maximize the use of precision dispensing equipment for adhesives, sealants, oils, and coatings.
    23 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • New Approach for Shortening Schedules and Minimizing Risk on Automation Projects

    By Paul Hodge & Joe Bastone, Honeywell The advantages of optimized project workflow can be realized at both ends of the project schedule. The benefits are essential to ensuring control systems pose the least risk to project schedule and allow for safe, efficient and reliable plant startup and operation.
    23 October, 2013 | 7 minutes
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