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To participate in the contest, FIRST teams will submit a video answering the question: What could your team engineer that would have a positive impact on your community and our world?

Scientists at Reading Scientific Services are using a Morphologi G3 automated particle imaging system to troubleshoot particle sizing methods for pharmaceutical clients and develop fully validated procedures.

OEE is a continuous improvement program and requires a sustained commitment to produce results

The Fieldbus Foundation is developing technical specifications for integration of devices based on the Modbus communications protocol into its FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM) technology.

The consulting practice will concentrate on the development and adoption of next generation, synergistic model-based strategies and systems-driven processes to improve product innovation and new product development return on investment.

ARC says in 2012, China’s PLC and PLC-based PAC market declined significantly. But this is a natural fallout; when industrial growth is lackluster, the demand for automation reduces.

Vented LVDTs can operate in temperature extremes of -65°F to +400°F (-55°C to +200°C) and operating pressures of 35 kpsi. High temperature ratings are achieved using internal materials rated for these temperatures.

Metso will break into two companies. Metso’s Pulp, Paper and Power business will be transferred to Valmet, and Mining and Construction and Automation business will remain part of Metso.

Invensys will provide PRO/II steady-state simulation software to help KBR accurately model its process technology.

PAS named Pasquale Paolone as Sales Manager for Southern Europe.

ISA Training and Education in October: Learn, Advance, Succeed

Devices include the Class 3200, 3400, 5000, Green Class Net Meter, Din-Mon and Interval Data Recorders.

NanoSight's instrumentation and software enable the rapid and simultaneous multi-parameter analysis and characterization of many different types of nanoscale particles.

Catalog covers electro-pneumatic transducers, pressure regulators, pneumatic relays, volume boosters and accessories for process machine tool, robotic and OEM applications.

Process Safebook is a free guide to functional safety for process applications. The guide discusses how to manage safety in electrical, electronic and programmable electronic systems.

Asset Management Systems Increase Reliability and Efficiency

Composed of 20 top software vendors, the guide aims to educate end-users on the manufacturing software market and aid the selection process.

With the expansion, IDS will now be able to bring its North American sales team under one roof with administrative staff.

Endress+Hauser plans to buy more shares of German-based Analytik Jena, which is active in classical analytical instrumentation as well as in biotechnology and molecular diagnostics.

Toshiba Machine Control Systems Division will transfer all robotic and control business to TM Robotics Americas.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The new high-performance CompactRIO cRIO-9068 controller has a dual core ARM processor and FPGA on the same chip that supports LabVIEW and Real-time Linux. This looks like a great platform for industrial automation applications because it incorporates control, optimization, analytics, and business enterprise interfaces.

Find a way to test any communication network prior to installation. About a week before every major DCS start-up, consider performing a “network startup.”

This fifth workshop will be held 14-15 November 2013 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, USA.

Beijer Electronics moved into a research and development/manufacturing facility totaling over 44,000 square feet located at located at 1865 West 2100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119.

Products that completed testing and became BTL Listed products in the first and second quarter of 2013 can be found on the website.

Hartech Engineering and GPL Machinery built a plastic bag machine based on ABB's Ethernet Powerlink compatible motion control and an all-servomotor architecture.

White has more than 18 years of experience in the machine vision market, working exclusively for market-leading industrial camera manufacturers.

The choice reflects the fair’s continued focus on integration as a challenge of pivotal importance for the future of industry and maps out the next steps to tomorrow’s intelligent, self-organizing factories.

By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock Manufacturers are finding that their markets have changed, caused by both business and consumer-altered demands. For those who have undergone significant business change, what was used as criteria to select the legacy ERP system of the past is no longer relevant.

Virgo will operate within Emerson Process Management’s final controls business, serving customers in the energy and process-related industries.