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Automating a Donut Packaging and Labeling Line
By John Armstrong, Mel-O-Cream Donuts Mel-O-Cream used a PLC, VFD, HMI and Ethernet communications equipment from AutomationDirect to automate a donut packaging and labeling line that processes more than 40 different products. -
MCAA joins Automation Federation
MCAA is a trade association whose North American-based members include manufacturers, channel firms, consultants and others in the process control and factory automation industry. -
Control Techniques signs Northern Industrial as Systems Integrator
Northern Industrial is authorised to provide technical support for all Control Techniques products, as well as on-site support and retrofit services. -
MIT announces Manufacturing Technology Advisory Board
The board will bring MIT academia and research together with major technology providers and industry leaders to collaborate on key issues in the U.S. manufacturing industry. -
PI Ceramic publishes Piezo Actuator Catalog
Catalog covers standard actuators, custom capabilities and explains the piezo manufacturing process and background information in a detailed tutorial. -
Hexagon Metrology signs JLM as distributor
JLM Industrial Supply is an authorized distributor of Hexagon Metrology’s dimensional measurement products across northern Nevada. -
ABB to build gas condensate plant in Oman
ABB will build the plant and supply power equipment, the electrical control system, as well as continuous emission monitoring systems and other analytical instrumentation. -
OSI Deploys Generation Management System at Direct Energy
Direct Energy previously used a third-party service provider to communicate with ERCOT and monitor/report/control real-time operation of their generation assets. -
Watlow publishes Sensors and Controllers Catalog
Catalog includes product descriptions, specifications, features and benefits of the company’s temperature sensors, wire, cable, temperature controllers, power controllers and supporting software. -
Savigent Software Achieves Microsoft Silver Competency
To earn a Microsoft silver competency, partners must successfully demonstrate expertise through rigorous exams. -
Automation Week: Wireless Technology Track
Automation Week: Wireless Technology Track -
Engineering Design Tools market growing
The worldwide market for Engineering Design Tools for Industry and Infrastructure is presently quite strong in almost all sectors, says ARC. -
Photoelectric Sensors market increasing
The market for photoelectric sensors experienced a collapse and a dramatic rebound in the last three years and ARC expects a positive development for the coming years. -
Endress+Hauser buys part of CompuCal Calibration Solutions
E+H acquired a minority share in Irish company CompuCal Calibration Solutions (CCS). -
Mitsubishi Power Systems uses TopView in monitoring center
Mitsubishi Power Systems offers real-time monitoring and advanced prediction of potential problems through a 24-hour Remote Monitoring Center (RMC) located in Orlando, FL. -
Rotork supplies valve actuators to Chinese Nuclear Power Station
Rotork supplied more than one hundred IQ electric valve actuators for wedge gate and parallel slide valves for the Taishan Nuclear Power Station in China. -
Get Some Training Under Your Belt at Automation Week 2012
Get Some Training Under Your Belt at Automation Week 2012 -
Coming Out of the Control Cabinet
Automation.com, July 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor In the past, Phoenix Contact's products were typically hidden in control cabinets. Their new vertical market initiative puts them in the mainstream of automation and control solutions, including further expansion in the United States. -
How to Determine the Reliability of an Actuator
Several different on/off actuator designs are available today. Some employ a scotch yoke mechanism, others use a rack and pinion, Plant experience suggests that the diminutive piston o-ring design can -
Marathon achieves Invensys certified partnership
HardwarePT, a division of SolutionPT, a distributor for Marathon in the UK, says Marathon is a certified partner of Invensys. -
ISA names 2012 Fellows and Awards Honorees
Award presentations will be made at the 50th Annual ISA Honors & Awards Gala, Monday, 24 September 2012, at the Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. -
ABB acquires Amarcon marine software
Amarcon is a Dutch company that develops and markets software solutions for the shipping industry. -
MatrikonOPC signs distributor in Turkey
EST Enerji, a control system integrator in Turkey, is now a MatrikonOPC Authorized Distributor. -
LXI Consortium AdoptS IPv6 Extended Function
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Extended Function ensures that LXI vendors approach IPv6 in a consistent way before its widespread use in test systems occurs. -
Maverick Technologies introduces PlantFloor24 support solution
PlantFloor24 is a platform-independent, hardware, software and process support solution, and a 24/7 support center. -
Moore STA Safety Trip Certified to IEC 61508
STA is approved for single use in Safety Instrumented Systems up to SIL 2 and in redundant architecture such as 1oo2 and 2oo3 up to SIL 3. -
CIMdata says NC Market is up
CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide NC software and related services market grew by 10% in calendar year 2011. -
Frost & Sullivan says demand up for Servo and Stepper Systems
Frost & Sullivan says the European market wants integrated Servo and Stepper Systems. -
RFID Market grows in 2012
IDTechEx finds that in 2012 the value of the entire RFID market will be $7.46 billion, up from $6.37 billion in 2011.

