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A major US forest-products company recently built a new sawmill in Western Oregon. The flexibility and economy of IP video systems enabled the creation of a large, complex operation that can be operated with a small staff.

Considerations for Selecting A Controller- or Server-Based Batch Sequencer

By Bill Lydon, Editor The inaugural Haystack Connect event introduced a movement that has the potential to be the next big wave in building automation by fostering an entirely new open system in the industry that goes beyond open protocols to encompass system software.

GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network.

The increased cost of using individual fuses will be quickly recovered by the reduced time to troubleshoot and resolve field wiring problems. One or two instances of bringing production back on line w

Honda of America has committed $75,000 to support the SME Education Foundation’s PRIME program over the next three years.

More than 200 plant and refinery professionals responsible for maintaining leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs attended ISA’s 13th annual Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium held 21-23 May 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products.

MCS is a Brazilian-based manufacturer and system integrator of standard and customized high performance motion controllers and complementary motion control components.

Eight-page full-color leaflet describes CoriolisMaster FCB330/350 mass flowmeters for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry.

The first course covers Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Process Control.

The Council is comprised of leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM and others working in partnership with advising experts from the world of research, academia and advocacy.

Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market.

PosiShop lists electrical D-sub fittings, density energy fittings, square fittings and circular fittings.

Implementing cybersecurity programs for industrial automation & control systems requires identification of areas to be protected & assessment of threats.

Rootstock will be installing a cloud-based ERP system at IPC's Austin, Texas, facility to replace legacy supply chain software.

Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.

PAS University offers training solution courses in alarm management, control loop optimization, high performance HMI, cyber security and change management.

Metso will rebuild the gas turbine control system at the Martinlaakso power plant in Vantaa, Finland, and control it with a DNA automation system.

ABB will supply switchgear, DC power supply, uninterrupted power supply, transformers, 400 V motor control centers, variable-speed drives, variable-speed drives and a power management system based on the System 800xA

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) recently held their annual conference in St. Petersburg, Florida. This article provides a brief recap of the conference and outlines why, as a systems integrator, you can’t afford to miss next year’s conference. And while you're reading, I provide five reasons why you should think about joining CSIA.

CSIA announced companies that have recently joined the association, become certified, or become recertified.

By Reid Schook Rockwell Automation is controlling the HVAC system at an unnamed oil company in the Athabasca Oil Sands region in Canada.

E-direct web site simplifies ordering of instrumentation products for measurement and control.

Preactor International in Chippenham, UK, provides production planning and scheduling software used by a wide range of businesses.

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

The HART Communication Foundation will host a free one-day event for end users on June 27 (8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.) at the Marriott Westchase hotel in Houston, Texas.

Even though machine tool demand has had a weak start in the first quarter of 2013, experts look to the second half of the year to provide growth in orders.

BDI will distribute Siemens products in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky.

Highlighted by a workshop on passive wireless sensor technologies, the symposium provided an opportunity to explore—and provide sought-after perspective on—new trends, equipment, software and protocols involved with transmitting, reporting and processing real-time data.