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The actuator--2.4 m tall and 1.64 m in diameter--will be used to isolate gas being supplied from Trinidad’s northern offshore gas fields in the event of an emergency situation.

The expansion will accommodate 450 associates and is scheduled for completion in October 2012.

Rotork IQTPro actuators are controlling the operation of butterfly valves in the cooling system for the power conversion plant and the fuel systems for emergency generators.

Enclosures are manufactured in Pentair’s 30,000 square meter facility in Reynosa, Mexico.

Scientific Devices Australia markets and supports test equipment for manufacturers of Electronic Test & Measurement Instrumentation.

Automation.com, January 2012 By Thomas R. Cutler 2012 augurs a need for immediate solutions as part of lean best-practices. A kaizen event for distribution must start with the hand truck in the delivery cycle; it represents the obvious place for continuous process improvement, yet consistently overlooked last year.

Automation.com, January 2012 By Matthew Littlefield, LNS Research There are a whole slew of new technologies and system architectures being adopted in the automation industry at a very rapid pace. Companies today face the very real possibility that if they don’t effectively understand, adopt, and leverage these new technologies to their advantage; they will be left in an increasingly uncompetitive position.

Excellent temperature control is the key to both distillation and reactor performance.

ABB will manage all maintenance operations at the Rosslyn Paper Mill in Pretoria, South Africa.

Pawlowicz has been in the industrial automation industry for 35 years and has spent 13 of those years at Webb.

Through the HMS Netbiter Argos web interface, Eaton and its customers have web-based access to all UPS parameters.

Website outlines the capabilities of the DEACOM ERP software package offerings and explains the philosophies behind its development.

Exida certified the Eclipse Model 705 Guided Wave Radar Transmitter as Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.

Catalog contains more than 87,000 components such as timing belts, pulleys, timing belt clamps, clamp kits, foot mounts, bearings, gearheads, couplings and vibration mounts.

The environmentally-friendly cruise ferry will use liquefied natural gas as its fuel, which will be a first for a passenger vessel of this size.

Andrew Vogl succeeds Bill Allai of National Instruments, who remains on the MCA Board as Past Chairman.

Vacuum cups catalog covers more than 2,100 different vacuum suction cups arranged clearly according to industry, applications and series.

Coolidge will continue as President of Encompass Parts Distribution for which he has been responsible for sales, vendor relations and IT management and development.

NuvoSun is a manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules based on flexible Copper Indium/Gallium di-Selenide (CIGS) technology.

iLaunch software provides CAD/BOM import with error corrections, rapid conversion to intelligent data, and revision control for documentation and programming.

ABB supplied gearless mill drives, process and electrical control systems, power quality systems, a substation and a System 800xA integrated operations center.

The 9-page Product Guide offers a comprehensive summary of all USB and Ethernet (LXI) data acquisition hardware and software solutions offered by the company.

Belden acquired GarrettCom, a provider of industrial networking solutions for specialty and stressed applications, in December 2010.

This is a Q&A with the ISA Boston Section.

Automation.com, January 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The next major frontier in the evolution of open architecture is the development of application standards built around Use Cases to increase automation productivity and efficiency. Packaging machine standards from OMAC's Packaging Workgroup is a good example.

Automation.com, January 2012 By Roy Freeland, Perpetuum Energy Harvesters are now readily available to power most low power wireless installations.

Perpetuum designs and manufactures vibration energy harvesters delivering life-long power for wireless technology.

Video demonstrates how a Flow Switch can be configured to detect the interface of air, oil and water in oil/gas production operations, refining plants and storage facilities.

Vega level sensors are being used in the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant in north Scotland.

The show will cover Permanent Electrical Safety Devices.