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Selected in the sensor category, the United Electric Safety Transmitter (ST) incorporates a logic solver and high capacity safety relay output (SRO) in addition to an industry standard transmitter and an explosion-proof enclosure.

CeMAT and HANNOVER MESSE are being staged as standalone events, but their common ground will be prominently highlighted for the benefit of potential crossover visitors.

Vertique is located in Arden, North Carolina, and over the past 15 plus years, has grown to be one of the most important key players in the food & beverage market providing solutions for intra-logistics.

The hyper-focus on IoT is creating an unfocused urgency monitor everything, which could lead to over instrumenting automation systems & creating data noise.

Prizes up to 5,000 euros will be awarded for the most innovative uses of iglide plain plastic bearings and will be presented at April’s Hanover Trade Show in Germany

Each has the potential to significantly impact or even disrupt processes, and may poise the need for investment by manufacturers who face the risk of being late to adopt.

This is an open field network using general-purpose 100Mbps Ethernet communication and is a new network mode in the CC-Link IE Ethernet-based integrated network lineup.

The KASTOapp displays the status of all KASTO sawing machines in the network that are equipped with the EasyControl or ExpertControl systems.

The motor vehicle, aerospace and job shop sectors showed increased order activity in the last few months of the year, indicating capital investment in anticipation of a need for additional capacity.

The investment includes 38,000 intelligent heat meters and a fully automatic remote reading system from Kamstrup. This large project begins in March 2017.

The agreement has been signed for three years and includes the field trial of new Smart Grid and Smart City solutions based on the Internet of Things, with the common goal of improving efficiency of existing infrastructures, promote sustainable growth and boost local economy.

The Fluke Motor and Drive Troubleshooting Course delivers critical knowledge so maintenance professionals can gain the practical diagnostic skills needed to better understand motor/drive system health.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Keeping consistent with Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 concepts and architectures, Turck has embedded PLC control into their traditional products, thereby extending capabilities to be a control company.

The collaboration will deliver both production benefits, in terms of reduced project execution risk, higher quality manufacturing and customer benefits in the form of integrated technologies, expertise and support.

Three Schneider Electric software customers won awards based on their implementation of mobility solutions across their production environment

Learn about four signal classes that are leading and lagging indicators of competency gaps in operators working in process industries.

In this position, Pflantz will work with Society leaders and staff to increase awareness of the value and relevance of the ISA brand and build on ISA’s range of capabilities and resources for automation professionals.

By Rick Delgado, Freelance Automation Writer According to a study by market intelligence firm Tractica, the number of medical robots entering practice is expected to triple in the next five years, exceeding 10,000 and culminating in over 38,000 industry wide.

The symposium will focus on how automation is used to address the impact of increased regulation, manufacturing costs, and security threats related to the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries.

Peter Martin, Vice President Strategic Ventures for Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. of Foxboro, MA will serve as Chairman. Bharat Naik, President of Reotemp Instruments of San Diego, CA, was elected Vice-­‐ Chairman.

As Regional Director, Mo will work closely with FieldComm Group corporate marketing and members in the region to develop a regional strategic marketing plan.

In this hands-on course, you'll learn the basic terminology and building blocks of process control, as well as advanced process control techniques, using our control solutions. Learn how to evaluate and tune PID control loops and how to recognize when tuning is not the root cause of an issue. Working through real-time simulations, you’ll learn by doing and start thinking like an expert.

Rugged Controls will continue to manufacture MTNW’s previous product portfolio including running line tensiometers, smart deck machinery and LCI flagship displays, which are used in extreme, marine & outdoor environments where rugged, high visibility electronics are required for operation.

dotdot is the universal language for the IoT, designed to make it possible for smart objects to work together on any network

The event—to be held on the Santa Clara campus of the Intel Corporation on 25-28 April—will feature experts and organizations involved in the integration of intelligent building systems and connected home technologies.

The first step in improving energy efficiency for machines, process skids & plants is measurement. HMI software measures, manages & optimizes energy use.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Focused on developing a standards-based, open, secure, interoperable process control architecture, the Open Process Automation saw an impressive turnout for this initial meeting with 57 individuals from 30 different organizations attending.

Thinfilm and Prime Vision will leverage Thinfilm’s NFC tags in helping address key postal- and logistics-related needs. Applications will initially target increased mail/parcel security, enhanced e-commerce functionality, and improved consumer communication.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Wonderware/Schneider Electric's Prometheus is configuration and management software for defining HMI and multiple vendor PLC and control code

After considerable research and review, Enable made the decision to consolidate its assets (more than 14,000 gas meters) into a single measurement system and selected FLOWCAL Enterprise as their measurement system of record.

There are suitable programs for different groups of users, from an entry-level course introducing in the work with basic functions of CODESYS V3 ranging to expert workshops covering “CODESYS Soft Motion CNC+Robotics” or “Library development and documentation”.

Information and communication technology (ICT) have become the vital part of social infrastructure. Hence, such system that permits society for better and efficient functioning is needed.

Many temperature applications in the oil and gas industry require specialized instrumentation to make required measurements.

An analog-to-digital converter is a function that converts an analog signal (current, voltage, or electric charge) into digital data (usually binary)

CMPRO was developed by PSA in the 1990s to provide a solution for managing compliance requirements within the aerospace and defense industries.

Preferred Utilities is a source for products and services in the area boiler instrumentation and controls, burners and fuel management systems across North America.

An "Advanced Acoustics" webinar is scheduled for January 12th and will be followed by additional monthly webinars covering a variety of sound and vibration topics.

The survey’s measure of the intensity of change in electroindustry business conditions moved further into positive territory, as the mean rating ticked up an additional one-tenth of a point to +0.4 this month from its previous reading of +0.3 in November.

With facilities located in Wisconsin, Oregon, and Mexico, Milwaukee Electronics designs and manufactures custom circuit board assemblies for the medical, transportation, military, and HVAC industries.

By Anthony Borges, Pinpoint Information Systems The power of an MES System or configurable process control system is now well beyond that of what can be accomplished with PLCs alone.

By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation While autonomous vehicles are making most of the headlines, some argue collaboration is more vital to industry success than automation. This article looks at some of the most exciting automotive engineering clusters around the world.

To achieve success with the IIoT, industrial businesses and manufacturers must create a long-term vision with an associated value proposition,

Daugherty was instrumental in the establishment of efficiency standards for energy-efficient induction motors, including the passing of the landmark Energy Policy Act of 1992.

In the past year Cypress Ridge sought Exele's help to convert their hardwired TAPI-based telephone alarm notification system to use Voice-Over-IP (VOIP).

Installing a direct mass device in the process control loop offers a number of advantages. It allows the operator to achieve a direct ratio of control between the natural gas, the air and waste gas fuels without any corrections for pressure, temperature or density, which requires extra components and possibly extra offsets and failures.

The agreement will co-locate Industrial Automation, Motion, Drive & Automation, ComVac, parts2clean, and CeMAT trade shows with the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show (CMTS). The co-located trade shows will take place next year at CMTS from September 25-28, 2017 in Ontario.

Thermowell and temperature processes have multiple interacting thermal lags.

As part of Honeywell's INspire program, the two companies will work to achieve a simple-to-use infrastructure that gives customers secure methods to capture and aggregate data so that it can be leveraged by using analytics

This “design-to-order” tool is intended to simplify the design and assembly of the end-to-end HDC connection.

Caster Concepts relocated production of all Mitchell Golf products from Dayton, Ohio, to its headquarters in Albion. Three of Mitchell's five employees have relocated to Michigan.