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Call for Papers invites authors to submit abstracts for presentation consideration at the conference, which will be held 5-7 March 2014 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

Add comments through the software during programming. People will be very glad that you did.

Flea3 USB3 Vision cameras interface to NI Vision Acquisition Software, Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) and LabVIEW Vision Development Module.

LXI Consortium approved Rigol Technologies as a LXI test house in China capable of testing the core LXI Standard as well as all of the LXI Extended Functions.

LLC GSE-Giprokauchuk is a Russian company that does design and research for the chemical, petrochemical and synthetic rubber industries.

NEMA TS2 is a standard for traffic control assemblies, such as traffic lights, emergency road condition signs and walk/don't walk signs.

The actuators have been supplied to valvemakers in India for installation on Phase 2 of the Kochi-Koottanad Bangalore-Mangalore Pipeline project.

SPEC (System Plast Engineering Calculator) evaluates applications for steel or plastic chain and modular belt conveyors.

Pringle, who has been serving as President of Fluke Industrial, is now responsible for all Fluke global businesses. Pringle succeeds Barbara Hulit, Fluke President since 2005.

Moxa received Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification of its VPort 36-1MP-IVA-T surveillance camera for Class 1, Div. 2 hazardous locations.

Emerson will automate equipment and processes for two environmental projects at DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington, D.C.

Raveon will support existing RF Neulink customers with a continuing supply of RF Neulink products, technical support, spare parts, and product enhancements.

By Mike Roberts, LNS Research With mobile-enabled quality management at our doorstep, it’s important to know what’s coming and what’s already available at some levels. There are three key functionalities you can expect to see in the not too distant future.

Belden previously was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Rockford site as well as heading the PCI operations in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in the United Kingdom.

No numbers reported, but increased regulations on food and drug safety are fueling the growth in the batch management software (BMS) market.

The vendor-neutral seminar includes presentations by technology experts, live demonstrations of WirelessHART technology (IEC 62591; EN 62591), and firsthand experience of the technology’s interoperability, reliability, applications and ease of use.

Peggy Smedley, Editorial Director of Connected World magazine will be the keynote speaker at ISA’s 8th Marketing and Sales Summit, which will be held 11-13 September 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Catalog covers descriptions, specifications and technical drawings of DENSO four-axis SCARA and five- and six-axis articulated robots, as well as controllers, teach pendants and programming software.

Exida certified the Detcon DM-700 Toxic Gas Sensor for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

Model predictive control (MPC) offers several advantages for control of chemical processes. However, the standard MPC may do a poor job in suppressing the effects of certain disturbances.

Regulatory exemptions that allow motors of lesser efficiency to be produced beyond dates stated in legislation have slowed both annual sales and the global installed base of motors.

Mohd Shariq Khan, a student from Yeungnam University in South Korea, won the annual Asia Pacific student competition.

The Netherlands have been named the “Partner Country” for HANNOVER MESSE 2014.

Gene Haas Foundation Machining Championship Award certificates were presented at an awards ceremony in Kansas City, Missouri.

TÜV Süd confirmed that the B&R X20 safety I/O modules and controllers satisfies all of the requirements of EN 50156 "Electrical equipment for furnaces and ancillary equipment."

Version 3.0 gives users better access to products from the company’s focused delivery program.

By Jon Irvine, Valin The rule of thumb in a heating application like heat trace is to place the sensor in the most extreme location-- the lowest expected location for minimum temperature control and the highest expected location for maximum temperature control. The temperature sensor can only process the information supplied to it and placement is everything.

Advantages of using Foundation Fieldbus on floating production storage & offloading project, analyzing results as if implemented using Foundation Fieldbus.

IHS says the Southeast Asian general motion controls market is forecast to grow to more $90 million by 2017, and the computer numerical control (CNC) motion controls market to more than $70 million.