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Verano expanded the worldwide distribution network for its security event management solution, Industrial Defender, with the addition of six new resellers in EMEA and Australia. New partners include ATGS in Russia, CSE-Uniserve in Australia, Emte Sistemas in Spain, Ferranti in Belgium, Qpit in the Netherlands and Vision Automation in Italy.

Siemens will display its Totally Integrated Automation in all levels from Process Analytics and Process Instrumentation to Process Control. Siemens will also showcase the PCS 7 integrated control & safety system platform that has been selected by several major oil & gas and chemical companies for both new and modernization projects.

KUKA has been selected by Dyco Inc. as its robotics supplier for its new robotic bulk palletizer system. Dyco will use the KUKA KR 180 PA palletizing robot fitted with head tooling in its robotic bulk palletizing system which will give manufacturers the flexibility to palletize multiple empty plastic bottles and bottle configurations with minimal downtime between change over.

Wonderware achieved certification from the Support Center Practices (SCP) certification program for the fourth consecutive year. Wonderware again met the SCP compliance requirements, as well as the SCP community benchmark average.

ISA's new standards committee that is working to adopt the generic device description language specified by IEC 61804 for device integration has released its first committee draft for ballot. The Electronic Device Description Language is used to create an Electronic Device Descriptions (EDD) file for intelligent devices to integrate these with control systems and portable tools.