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"Protecting Mission Critical Electronics In The Industrial Environment," recommends that manufacturers safeguard critical systems in poor power environment.

Paper describes the implications of FOUNDATION SIF (FF-SIF) technology for the global plant safety system market and end users.

Mouser will distribute Tektronix oscilloscopes, arbitrary/function generators, and other essentials for engineers’ design benches.

Rockwell to supply automation technologies to help Hebei provincial government upgrade traditional industries.

JUS-MADE LP, a manufacturer of frozen beverages and juices, licensed the DEACOM Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system.

Hot tanks at the refinery are fitted with wireless temperature transmitters as a cost-effective means of keeping control room operators informed of conditions inside the tanks.

Guide helps network engineers understand how applications flow across the network and how they fail, and provides a five-step process for troubleshooting application problems when they occur.

The "Collaborative Alliance for Semiconductor Test" (CAST) will foster collaboration and standards development to improve semiconductor industry productivity.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

The new 19,000 square foot facility is roughly double the size of its previous location.

“Energy Efficiency in Pneumatics” provides three main areas of energy cost savings to lower the cost of compressed air.

Green Energy Applications Guide highlights critical factors that process and plant engineers must consider to achieve optimum flow meter performance.

Winners include Anne Muller from University of Dresden, Germany, and Mohamed Abdul Galeel Salih Mohamed and Mohamad Tamer Nader Chaklab from the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Report examines how 3D visualization technology plays a role in improving interoperability and communication between engineering and production departments.

Website covers everything from small, compact products to large operator panel interfaces and open PC-based solutions.

Japan’s AIST selected ORBexpress as the communications architecture for AIST’s new advanced robotics platform, OpenRTM-aist.

Normerica implemented a Ship2Save RFID mobile cart system at its manufacturing plants in Brantford, Ontario and Lethbridge, Alberta.

Emissions monitoring solution uses FTIR analyzer technology and an 800xA system to help Chilean cement manufacturer Polpaico meet targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Smart Wireless instruments mounted on a rotating reactor at Coogee Chemical Company, Kwinana, Australia, prevent frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.

Churchill will be responsible for Fiberguide’s products and services east of the Mississippi river.

OVS-400 Industrial video server is connected with EDS-231PRO and EDS-351PRO series Industrial rated IP-66 cameras to provide real time remote monitoring.

Honeywell will supply Experion and DaVinci Quality Control systems to Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery for the first light weight coated (LWC) paper plant in Russia.

DataCELL FIELD MVC-800 FireWire Cable surpassed 11 million flex cycles in rigorous bending, rolling and torsion tests; other cables hit 20 million tick tock tests.

Opto 22 has received certification for its SNAP-PAC-EB1 and SNAP-PAC -EB2 SNAP I/O processors.

Husky is employing PROFIBUS technology in its high-tech injection molding machines.

ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

ABB will provide all maintenance operations and improve efficiency at six pulp, paper and board mills in Finland.

Beckhoff Automation hired five new regional sales and application engineers in the past few months of 2008.

Wireless transmitters monitor wellhead annular pressure at BP’s Wytch Farm onshore oilfitters field.

Students will receive a certificate with the approved CERT logo when they complete the CERT program.