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The indoor AXIS Q1602 and the outdoor-ready AXIS Q1602-E can deliver multiple, individually configurable H.264 and Motion JPEG video streams simultaneously.

By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry.

Escalating energy prices across Europe are underlining the need to implement electric drives to minimise energy bills and achieve better efficiency.

ARC says the highest percentage of all industry Ethernet nodes shipped worldwide is for EtherNet/IP devices.

ABB will design, supply and commission all the electrical and mechanical equipment for a new ground-mounted mine ore hoist system.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Hongyu Pei Breivold, et al, ABB Here’s how ABB's System 800xA helps improve operator effectiveness through improved situational awareness and better handling of abnormal conditions.

App lets users compare conventional methods, such as valves for pump control and dampers for fan control, to variable frequency drives, to see estimated cost savings.

telligrated will add 200 new technical and engineering positions in research and development, system design and customer service.

The expansion more than doubles ATI's current manufacturing and inventory capacity while allowing 50 new employees to be hired.

Updates in Version 6.2.0 of the motion system sizing and selection software include the company’s AKM, AKM8, and VLM servomotors.

Blog helps network professionals stay up-to-date on the latest advances, global standards updates, market intelligence and strategies in network infrastructure.

Fairchild is a manufacturer of high-precision pneumatic controls and power transmission products based in North Carolina, USA.

ISA is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 academic year for students who demonstrate potential in the fields of automation, instrumentation and control.

Roche holds a B. Sc from Trinity College, a Dip. Eng. from Dublin Institute of Technology, an MBA from Rutgers and Executive Education' Certificate from Harvard Business School.

Updates to EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet specs include an energy object that will be used to report energy for all energy and resource types.

Bosch Rexroth AG is doubling the production area at the Fountain Inn plant in South Carolina, USA.

National Instruments has helped many physicists streamline project development and simplify advanced control solutions that otherwise would be cost-prohibitive.

Korsnäs Gävle is using Emerson’s wireless conductivity and temperature transmitters to collect leak-detection data at its board and paper production unit at Gävlebukten, Sweden.

Joyner’s Mechanical has offices in both Richmond and Chesapeake, Virginia.

Paralan will distribute ACS industrial and process control instrumentation in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Site offers image sensors, frame grabbers, cameras, lenses, industrial computers, cables and enclosures.

Simionato is a manufacturer of integrated flexible packaging systems based in Mestrino, Italy.

Process Control Dynamics is a Semaphore authorized distributor for customers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

WESCO will distribute T+H Industrial Communication Solutions and Services for Fieldbus and Ethernet networks in Virginia.

Darwin-based Powercorp employs around 30 people and offers automation and intelligent control solutions to manage renewable energy generation.

Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, will install PAS PlantState Suite alarm management software across all their units.

Program partners get an expedited test and evaluation process that gets safety products for a given application into the design engineer’s hands for evaluation.

Robust PID Tuning Strategy for Uncertain Plants Based on the Kharitonov Theorem

Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?

September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, up 22.9% from August and up 51.9% when compared with the total of $399.32 million reported for September 2010.