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Given the growing need among companies to better integrate their manufacturing processes with their overall business strategies and operations ISA announces the formation of an enterprise-focused educational track at ISA Automation Week 2013.

Everyone else predicts Asia is booming, but ARC says it's suffering. Who's right?

The company’s executives, sales leadership, marketing and product management staff are relocating to the new location in Schaumburg, IL.

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser Process Training Unit (PTU) or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

The two are Robin McKee, formerly from Par Nuclear, and Matt Besser who previously worked at Aspect Automation.

Through automated, frequent measurements of zeta potential, the on-line system enables continuous monitoring of the coagulation processes used in the treatment of the water.

Readback control of valve position compensates for a host of unknowns in connection with valve response but a positioner, like a controller, must be tuned.

Compliance with ever tightening safety and environmental regulations will play a positive role in the growth of the radar level transmitter market.

The global market for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) grew by 8 percent in 2012, thanks to e-commerce.

The Atlas Copco cell has an ABB IRB 6640 robot, three Okuma lathes, SVIA’s PickVision Smart Camera vision system and a Renishaw equator. The IRB 6640 will load and unload the three lathes.

This workshop trains automation professionals on the ”must know” topics that will allow them to properly design and implement secure control networks and OPC architectures.

Those who oversee production facilities are increasingly turning to control system integrators for help with asset lifecycle management (ALM).

The Tamar conveyor system had to handle "green totes" - something the existing conveyor system couldn't do.

ISA-62443-3-3-2013, Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems Part 3-3: System Security Requirements and Security Levels, addresses risks arising from the growing use of business information technology (IT) cyber security solutions.

RLE has more than 7 million feet of Northwire manufactured leak detection sensing cable installed in a wide variety of systems around the globe.

exida issued a functional safety certification per IEC 61508 for the Neo-Dyn Pressure Switch Series, Temperature Switches Series, Differential Pressure Switches Series, and Low Pressure / Vacuum Switches Series.

Emerson replaced aging turbine and balance-of-plant controls with its Ovation expert control system at Westport 5 Generating Station in Baltimore, Maryland.

What kind of MES do you need?

The Latin American market for low-voltage AC & DC motor drives is forecast to expand to $595 million in 2017, rising at a rate of 7.1 percent from $420 million in 2012.

Softing's Linking Device and Gateway FG-110-FF has been integrated with Emerson's AMS Suite predictive maintenance software application to connect to any FOUNDATION fieldbus network.

LaRue Coffee Roasterie of Omaha, Nebraska, has gone live with the Epicor Tropos enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.

The valves will be used in an MDI integration project (diphenymethane disocyanate) and a new PO/AE integration project under construction in China (epoxy propane and acrylic ester).

The three-year Global Qualification Certificate is for the Rotork BGS1 subsea gearbox, a specialised product designed for torque inputs of up to 3500 Nm at operating depths of 3000 metres.

Lockheed Martin chose Perle Fiber Media Converters to provide copper to fiber conversion in a harsh Data Imagery application. It's all very hush-hush, though.

BgB Supply, an online distributor of electrical control panel components based out of Omaha, Neb., is launching its new website and branding.

Honeywell will supply an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to control plant processes and general refinery facilities as part of the third stage of construction of the Antipinsky Refinery in Tyumen, Russia.

Barrdega Sistemas is a full-service consulting and systems integration firm that designs, deploys and integrates end-to-end supply chain solutions in Panama.

Forsblad has been named the Project Director of Industrial Automation, one of the 11 trade fairs under the unifying umbrella of HANNOVER MESSE.

The role of technology in warehouses has shifted from purely reducing costs and has increasingly expanded into adjacent benefits that can drive differentiation and profitable growth for businesses.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Doug McCuistion described the challenge that the Mars Exploration Program presented and how they took a “project-by-project” approach to achieve one of the most monumental space exploration feats of the century. This article highlights some engineering lessons that I extracted from his discussion about overcoming their obstacles.