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Five easy tips for factory and manufacturing facility owners and operators to reduce their carbon footprint and start reaping the savings.

Siemens Building Technologies supports the University of Missouri System event featuring keynote from T. Boone Pickens on April 22-23 in Columbia, Mo

ASHRAE put together resources to help its members get government stimulus money for projects.

Biden pointed to the Lost Creek wind project as a prime example of how funds from the U.S. federal stimulus package are creating green jobs while expanding the country’s renewable energy portfolio.

Second quarter revenue was $19.66 million compared to $19.44 million in Q2-08 and $19.58 million in Q1-09.

Safety services include machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation.

By Rockwell Automation White paper examines how new industry safety standards and technologies are helping protect people, equipment and the environment while reducing costs in specialty chemical applications.

Faro LS and Photon systems, capable of scanning massive objects and areas quickly, can be rented daily, weekly, and monthly.

IPS will supply Triconex safety and Avantis asset management technology to upgrade and modernize 11 Petrobras refining facilities throughout Brazil.

Beckhoff Automation closed the 2008 business year successfully with robust turnover growth of 20 percent.

Matrikon had trading in its shares halted by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada prior to market open as a result of an administrative error.

CAD models include industrial, IT, climate control and busbar power distribution solutions including enclosures, racks and accessories.

By National Instruments The use of proper lighting is often overlooked when designing a machine vision application. More robust and accurate inspections can be achieved when appropriate lighting techniques are utilized. This application note discusses considerations when selecting lighting equipment and demonstrates how to utilize the Direct Drive lighting controller feature on the NI 17xx Smart Camera with LabVIEW or Vision Builder for Automated Inspection.

By National Instruments PID control is the most commonly used control algorithm in the industry today. PID controller popularity can be attributed to the controller’s effectiveness in a wide range of operation conditions, its functional simplicity, and the ease with which engineers can implement it using current computer technology. This paper covers some of the PID drawbacks and how to resolve them while improving performance in current implementations through changes in the algorithm.

Expansion includes both additional personnel and equipment to increase NVision’s contract reverse engineering and inspection services.

ABB will supply a Static VAr Compensator (SVC) unit to support the transmission grid in north Texas. The SVC unit will be installed at the Renner substation.

Automation Systems and Control Components catalog provides details on PLCs and automation systems, while Drive System catalog covers electric drives and motor products.

Mission Controls is a provider of systems integration and programming services for the dairy, food and beverage industries.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher There is nothing better than face to face meetings. Unfortunately, face to face meetings are not always possible, especially if the participants live in different parts of the country or world. Social networking tools have become a defacto standard of communication for many people and the trend is spreading from younger generations to older generations.

Omron will use Softing’s PROFINET stack in a new line of PROFINET devices.

ABB will supply BMW with 2,100 industrial robots over five years, beginning in 2010, to support the carmaker’s operations in Germany, the UK and the United States.

Siemens Building Technologies is standardizing on MatrikonOPC’s SNMP Agent for OPC and OPC Data Manager.

Among the primary factors behind this move are significant cost savings and a favorable business climate in the Triangle, as well as closer proximity to growing customer and employee bases.

Online tool configures Coaxial, Fiber Optic and Telecom /Modular cables, allowing you to design your own cable assemblies.

The IP-based surveillance solution combines IVC’s video cameras with Actelis’ ML600 family of intelligent Ethernet Access Devices (EADs).

Nearly dry MQL machining slices seven figures from initial system cost for unneeded coolant tanks and high-pressure supply systems, reduces operating costs, and improves plant air quality

Key Instruments is a flow meter manufacturer which offers precision machined acrylic, molded plastic, glass tube, and electronic flow meters, plus flow control valves for industrial, water, chemical, and lab applications.

The Aeroquip Fluid Conveying Products School and the Weatherhead Fluid Conveying Products School will be available in French, Spanish and English.

ABB will supply two 22.5-megawatt gearless mill drives, 600 motors and variable speed drives, and System 800xA Extended Automation to Boliden’s Aitik copper mine in northern Sweden

IPS joined OPTFUEL, a European consortium researching biofuels to power automobiles, and will supply process simulation, design and optimisation technologies.