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  • Flexible-Structure Control: A Strategy for Releasing Input Constraints

    Flexible-Structure Control: A Strategy for Releasing Input Constraints

    Process output can be brought back to the set point only by activating an auxiliary manipulated variable
    By: ISA Transactions
    15 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Low Power AC Drives Market in Asia to grow 9%

    The Asian region is the largest market for low power AC drives, representing around 42 percent of the global low power AC drives market.
    14 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Industrial Ethernet – Too much of a good thing?

    Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial Ethernet networks and protocols have become a workhorse of automation systems. But how extensively should it be used? Ethernet is not ideal in all applications. Consider the good, the bad and the ugly.
    14 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium

    The 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium will take place 6-8 August 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Orlando-Universal Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.
    14 January, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Parker Hannifin updates inPHorm hydraulic sizing software

    Sizing software streamlines the process of specifying hydraulic accumulators by increasing efficiency and minimizing the engineering time required to design accumulators.
    14 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • PC VUE monitors U.S. wind farms

    Iberdrola Renewables, the second-largest energy provider in North America, uses PC VUE SCADA system to monitor PLCs and 2,479 turbines at its U.S. wind farms.
    14 January, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Eaton names Nitin Chalke Managing Director of India

    Chalke joined Eaton in 2009 and most recently served as managing director, India and South East Asia – Hydraulics.
    14 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Quick Disconnect vs. Hard-Wiring

    TURCK announces its latest white paper, Quick Disconnect vs. Hard-Wiring: Selecting a Connectivity System For Your Industrial Application. Providing a detailed comparison between quick disconnect and hard-wiring systems, the white paper assists readers in selecting the ideal connectivity system for their industrial applications.
    14 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Guide to Effectively Executing Compressor Control Retrofits

    Guide to Effectively Executing Compressor Control Retrofits

    Improving existing compressor control systems improves operations and energy efficiency
    By: Contributing Authors
    14 January, 2013 | 10 minutes
  • PLC and PAC Market in Asia growing

    ARC says the total PLC and PLC-based PACs market in Asia will exceed $6.4 billion in 2016.
    11 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Automation & Control Trends in 2013

    Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor This article is an update to my 2012 Trends Article and expresses my thoughts on major automation and control trends for 2013 and beyond. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending numerous events.
    11 January, 2013 | 8 minutes
  • IFR to host Robotics Automation Round Table at AUTOMATE

    The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) will host an exclusive press event for editors - CEO Round Table Discussion - at AUTOMATE in Chicago on 22 January 2013.
    11 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • How Equipment and Operating Conditions Affect Process Dynamics

    How Equipment and Operating Conditions Affect Process Dynamics

    Simple material and energy balances can be developed to understand the effects of equipment design and operating conditions on process dynamics.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    11 January, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • China makes Global Motion Control Market drop

    Sales of motion control products have decreased in 2012 in China as a result of overcapacity, and the global motion control market is forecast to decline by 1.9 percent compared to 2011.
    10 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Global Training Solutions Inc. announces electrical maintenance online training

    The e-Learning series uses real-world video, interactive learning techniques and comprehensive tracking to ensure active employee participation and retention.
    10 January, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerging Economies boost Machine Safety Market

    Manufacturers worldwide recognize that machine safety can give them a competitive advantage and a good public image, and therefore, opt for machine safety systems despite the economic downturn.
    10 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ARC announces keynoter for World Industry Forum

    Doug McCuistion, Director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA, will provide the keynote presentation on the challenges faced and overcome in getting to Mars. The forum will be held Feb. 11.
    10 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Advantech "cycles through" 30 years

    To celebrate the their 30th year, Advantech will launch biking events around the world throughout the year; the program will be titled, "Cycling with Advantech @ 30."
    10 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EPLAN speeds up coiling and winding projects by 30%

    Advanced Machine & Tool switched from AutoCAD Electrical to EPLAN because a major automotive customer wanted it.
    10 January, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • igus releases 2013 bearings catalog

    The catalog covers new product lines, such as knife-edge rollers offering oil-free deflection for conveyor belts, and zero-backlash leadscrew nuts.
    10 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • My Year as the 2013 ISA President Has Gotten off to a Truly Inspiring Start

    My Year as the 2013 ISA President Has Gotten off to a Truly Inspiring Start
    By: ISA Past-Presidents
    10 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Beijer HMI controls winches on Russian Icebreaker

    Adria Winch is using the QTERM-A7 HMI with iX software by Beijer Electronics to control five oceanographic winches located on an open deck of a Russian research icebreaker ship.
    09 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Edmund Optics promotes Samuel Sadoulet to COO

    Sadoulet will assume responsibility for the company's corporate technology, global engineering, and manufacturing operations.
    09 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Robots booming in China

    IMS says the production of industrial robots in Asia Pacific (mostly China) is forecast to grow at a rate of 9.6%, more than any other region in the world.
    09 January, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson to automate European biotech plant

    Emerson Process Management will provide integrated process automation and operations management systems for a new biopharmaceutical production center in Bulle, Switzerland.
    09 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • SEMEA replaces pumps, gets ROI in 14 months

    Water treatment and distribution company SEMEA achieved a return on its investment over 14 months by replacing a pumping installation with a solution developed by Leroy-Somer and Flowserve.
    08 January, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Avid Solutions-Raleigh earns CSIA certification

    The Raleigh, N.C., U.S., branch of Avid Solutions Inc. recently became Certified by the The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA).
    08 January, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Honeywell to upgrade printing at Nordic newspaper

    Honeywell will provide new input/output modules, bring the safety system in line with current standards, and increase redundancy in the drive system.
    08 January, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • McCrometer publishes Brochure on CONNECT Wireless Systems

    Brochure covers wireless remote monitoring and control systems designed to cover the needs of growers and irrigators.
    08 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 2013 Water/Wastewater Symposium Focuses on “Smart Water” Technology

    2013 Water/Wastewater Symposium Focuses on “Smart Water” Technology

    2013 Water/Wastewater Symposium Focuses on “Smart Water” Technology
    By: Contributing Authors
    08 January, 2013 | 2 minutes
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