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This allows Fluke to conduct comprehensive testing for compliance to EN61010-1 (the IEC standard for safety compliance for Test and Measurement Equipment), EN61010-031 (the IEC standard for handheld probes assemblies) and EN61001-2-032 (the IEC standard for current clamps). VDE (The Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies), headquartered in Germany, was founded in 1893 and has evolved into one of the largest technical and scientific associations and well-regarded regulatory agencies in Europe.

Intelligent Instrumentation was established in 1984 as an independent subsidiary of the former Burr-Brown Corporation in Tucson. When Texas Instruments purchased Burr-Brown in 2000, III (or I-Cubed) became a subsidiary of Texas Instruments.

InduSoft has certified more than 20 hardware platforms since last year. Lab certification tests prove that InduSoft Web Studio HMI/SCADA software runs on a wide variety of Windows CE-based hardware platforms from ABB, Arista, Advantech, Beijer, Bosch-Rexroth, ESA, Pilz and Maple Systems, and ARM, MIPS, Power PC, SH and S86 processors.

Listening to the needs of Internet users, Parker Electromechanical Automation has devoted considerable energy to make using its Internet site as easy, efficient and productive as possible for OEMs, machine builders, distributors and end-users. For example, the division recently implemented the Google search engine on parkermotion.com, and Google is powering the site's frequently asked questions and part-number databases. This gives users of the Web site a dramatically enhanced search capability and makes finding product information, documents, tools and other information faster and easier.

Jonathan Knowles will share how Autodesk customers are standardizing on DWF technology and benefiting today. For example, Siemens L&A, the world’s leading supplier of logistics and factory automation solutions, switched from distributing paper-based drawings to Autodesk digital design collaboration processes. Doing so, Siemens L&A had streamlined access to design information to more than 1,700 employees including shop floor personnel, upper management, and external suppliers; drastically reduced the design approval cycles to less than an hour, rather than three days; and decreased manufacturing errors, such as parts being built to the wrong spec level.