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  • Siemens and KUKA Announce Cooperation

    The central pillar of the cooperation is integration of KUKA robots and Siemens CNC solutions for loading machine tools.
    26 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Cressall Resistors to install Flexible manufacturing line

    The machine, manufactured by Stourbridge based rollforming and coil processing specialist Formit, will be installed in Cressall’s Dereham factory in December
    25 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • HART and Fieldbus Foundation to Merge?

    Fieldbus Foundation and HART Communication Foundation have entered into discussions for merging the two organizations into a single industry foundation.
    25 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rutgers Takes First in PACK Solutions Challenge

    Six packaging programs participated in this year’s competition: Cal Poly State University, Clemson University, Purdue University Calumet, Rutgers University, University of Florida and Virginia Tech.
    25 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ISA offers cybersecurity training at ISA Automation Week

    An educational track at ISA Automation Week 2013 will provide practical guidance on how to improve cybersecurity of industrial automation and control systems.
    25 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Former Head of US Homeland Security speaks out on Cybersecurity

    Michael Chertoff told oil and gas industry executives gathered in Houston that it no longer takes an army to fight a war as the top threat their businesses face in the future is not from physical risks, but cyber attacks.
    25 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Predictive Maintenance Embraces Analytics

    Predictive Maintenance Embraces Analytics

    Predictive analytics pushes the pursuit of asset reliability from its reactive orientation to one that is fully forward-looking and better aligned with the goals and realities of today's manufacturing
    By: Contributing Authors
    25 September, 2013 | 11 minutes
  • Inductive Automation presents Ignition Firebrand Awards

    Inductive Automation presented the first Ignition Firebrand Awards to eight innovative companies at the Ignition Community Conference in Folsom, Calif. on Sept. 18, 2013.
    24 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EMO Hannover 2013 closes

    More than 2,100 exhibitors from 43 different countries showed their products to 145,000 visitors at the EMO Hannover machine tool show.
    24 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • China stalls use of Full-Power Wind Converters

    Three factors are hindering the sales of full-conversion products in the converter market: high rare earth material prices, lagging offshore wind development and China’s high demand for doubly-fed converters.
    24 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ICONICS Achieves OPC UA Lab Certification for GENESIS64

    GENESIS64 HMI/SCADA software has achieved certified compliance for OPC UA, OPC, BACnet, Modbus IP and SNMP.
    24 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rotork to supply 5,000 valve actuators to Australian LNG projects

    The three projects – Queensland Curtis LNG, Santos GLNG and Australia Pacific LNG - are developing coal seam gas in Queensland’s Surat and Bowen Basins.
    24 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB wins DOE grant for cybersecurity

    ABB has been awarded a $2.765 million Department of Energy (DOE) Grant to develop technology to help the energy sector enhance its cybersecurity.
    24 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Invensys Acquires InduSoft

    InduSoft has delivered more than 250,000 HMI software licenses to more than 700 customers worldwide, primarily industrial computer manufacturers and machine and system builders, who embed InduSoft’s software into their products.
    24 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Deutsche Messe opens office in Washington, D.C.

    Deutsche Messe and its U.S. subsidiary, Hannover Fairs USA, are opening a new office in Washington, D.C., to promote awareness in the U.S. of HANNOVER MESSE.
    23 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Metso to upgrade control system at Varme plant in Norway

    Metso will supply a complete control system retrofit for steam turbine and generator line 1 at Varme's Fana combined heating and power plant on the western coast of Norway.
    23 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Choosing Industrial Automation Computers - 6 Questions to Ask Your Vendor

    By James Floyd and Cole Downing, Logic Supply, Inc. Should you accept a higher-priced, bundled automation PC with your system or select one on your own? Here are 6 things you need to ask your vendor to (a) assess whether independent PC selection makes sense and (b) to configure a unit that will meet your needs.
    23 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Patti Engineering Hiring 15 engineers

    The company is looking for top talent among graduating engineering students and highly experienced engineers for its Michigan and Texas offices.
    23 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to supply biomass-fired power plant in Sweden

    Metso will supply a complete power plant, including BioGrate combustion technology, installation, training and commissioning.
    23 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Sliding-Mode Control of Induction Motor Using Space Vector Modulation

    Sliding-Mode Control of Induction Motor Using Space Vector Modulation

    A novel sliding-mode control of induction motor using space vector modulation technique
    By: ISA Transactions
    23 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Track and Trace Serialization (TnT)

    By Bill Lydon, Editor As government agencies and the pharmaceutical & life sciences industry take measures to reduce drug counterfeiting, product diversion, and increase patient safety, drug manufacturers are faced with the challenge of implementing serialization and tracking systems.
    23 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Foundation Fieldbus Spec published for ISA100 Wireless Devices

    The Fieldbus Foundation issued a preliminary specification for transducer blocks supporting ISA100.11a wireless devices.
    20 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA Marketing and Sales Summit completed

    The summit outlined proven strategies and tactics that marketing and sales professionals could immediately employ to strengthen their connections with their automation prospects and customers.
    20 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EtherCAT Test Center in China issues first certificate

    The EtherCAT Test Center (ETC) in China issued its first official Chinese conformance certificate to Tsino Dynatron Electrical Technology.
    20 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • EtherCAT Roadshow tours North America

    From October 15th to 24th, 2013, no-charge full-day seminars on the subject of EtherCAT technology will be held across the U.S. and Canada. The seminars are educational events delivered by the foremost EtherCAT experts from the ETG and the sponsoring companies.
    20 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • System Plast publishes conveyor components catalog

    Interactive catalog has an online mirror edition for researching/selecting components, loading a shopping cart, developing a bill of materials, and finding distributors.
    20 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Ball Quality

    Main identification of steel ball quality.
    20 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Benefits of Increasing PID Gain and Reset Time for Vessels and Columns

    Benefits of Increasing PID Gain and Reset Time for Vessels and Columns

    Temperature loops on mixed volumes, gas pressure loops, and level loops need much larger than expected controller gains and reset times.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    20 September, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Multiphase Flow Meter market to grow

    The worldwide market for oilfield multiphase flow metering solutions (MPFM) will grow robustly this year, says ARC, but provides no numbers.
    19 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork Gears to supply subsea valve gearbox to China

    Rotork will supply two WGS Series subsea gearboxes fitted to a double block and bleed valve for a natural gas pipeline in the Bohai Sea.
    19 September, 2013 | 1 minute
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