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Bifold is a manufacturer of hydraulic and pneumatic stainless steel directional control valves and accessories for hazardous, corrosive and subsea environments.

By Jim Reichert, Vice President of Sales at Rittal Corporation Building the largest fully automated parking garage in California would seem quite an accomplishment for any developer, but AutoParkit wanted its contribution to easing parking congestion to last longer than the headlines about its “adaptive reuse” technology.

Siemens will become a strategic partner of GSK in manufacturing automation and thus the preferred automation supplier for GSK production and R&D sites worldwide.

The plant will assemble Variable Speed Drive Custom Panels, Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS), and Auxiliary Power Systems (APS).

The three types of processes in the automation industry are self-regulating, integrating, and runaway.

PTC ASIA, CeMAT ASIA, ComVac ASIA, and Industrial Supply ASIA will be held October 27–30 in Shanghai.

Governing Board officers serve two-year terms and ensure adherence to annual plans and budgets.

Distributed control systems (DCS) held the highest market share accounting for $22.26 billion in 2015 and is expected to maintain a stable growth during the forecast period.

A documenting process calibrator can be used for configuring and calibrating field devices, measuring field inputs and automating calibration procedures.

Rapid growth in automation demands, coupled with reduction of duties on refurbished goods in Asia Pacific region has fueled the growth of this market.

North American sales of machine vision systems and components grew 16% to $1.2 billion in the first half of 2015, the market’s highest first half total in history

The FUTEK USB520 answers today’s challenge in industrial test and measurement environments for an all-in-one USB data-acquisition component for encoder, switchable profiles, multiple input options and added application compatibilities.

The 133,0000 sq. ft. facility will consolidate warehouse and office space to strengthen product development and testing and provide a central hub for North American operations.

Interactive, online configurator for signal conditioners and measuring transducers makes it easy to find suitable products for a wide range of applications.

Once installed, the updated DCS will manage the processing plant’s production of 90 million cubic meters of rich gas a day. It also includes two test systems and three process simulators.

On October 29, 2015, Tibbo will participate in "Conference. Expo. Meetup", Russia's most important event devoted entirely to the Internet of Everything technologies and the Internet of Things market.

Non-Volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module (NVDIMM) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – 2020

The photonic sensors and detectors technology has now been renowned as a technology that impacts and strengthens a whole host of industrial sectors, from security to healthcare, from telecommunications to manufacturing, from the environment to the energy, and from biotechnology to the aerospace

Standells shocked! Harpoon Brewery and Desalitech will treat and brew 300 gallons of water from the dirty Charles River to create a limited edition beer — Charles River Pale Ale.

Progea's upcoming webcast titled The Benefits of OPC – UA for Automation will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:00 am Central Time. Take this opportunity to hear from guest speakers Thomas J. Burke of the OPC Foundation and Costantino Pipero of Beeond.

Progea takes pride in being a collaborative partner that creates cost-effective automation solutions based on customer needs. System integrators and end users can be assured professional support during the development process, as well as after deployment.

New version of EDSA and SSA certification requirements to become effective 1 February 2016.

Power and automation expert Husain, currently ABB’s managing director in India, to become CTO by start of 2016

For control loop tuning, the first settings that must be right are the controller and valve actions. If these actions are not right, nothing else matters.

By Stahlin All enclosure materials ---- stainless steel, polycarbonate and FRP --- will provide protection in a variety of applications. It is critical to evaluate the environmental factors of the application where the enclosure will be used.

By Thomas R. Cutler A successful roll out of automated equipment does not remove or reduce audit requirements for the associated processes. Whether the audit requirement is sourced from industrial standards, or government regulatory compliance, or contractual obligations to an OEM or required by internally mandated safety or quality initiatives, running multiple audit and inspection programs is unavoidable.

Wesupply provides a fully managed and outsourced electronic business-to-business integration service, using an approach that maximizes supply chain collaboration between independent organizations.

Schneider Electric Software installed Avantis PRiSM predictive asset analytics software at EDF Group’s Norte Fluminense power generation plant.

North America is the largest market for membrane bioreactor system followed by Europe and Asia Pacific. The U.S. is the largest market for membrane bioreactor in North America mainly attributed to the high share of sludge treatment plant and manufacturing industries of this region.

The market for air compressor controllers globally is forecast to reach US$ 5.44 Bn by 2022.The global air compressor controller market was valued at US$ 3.45 Bn in 2014 and the market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.8% from 2015 to 2022

Sealed Air increased the production speed of the Jiffy-Lite paper-sleeve, laminated bubble wrap mailers by using Siemens Sinamics V20, Sinamics S120 AC drives and Simotion motion controllers.

Richart was ESE Director of Business Operations. Tom Walther, who was president, will be Chief Innovation Officer.

ATS Global in Haarlem, The Netherlands becomes first business to meet program's recognition standards

Eastern Controls is now the E+H rep for the Mid-Atlantic area – Metropolitan New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

By John Rinaldi, Real Time Automation Because of the discontinuity between the factory floor and the Enterprise, opportunities to mine the factory floor for quality data, interrogate and build databases of maintenance data, feed dashboard reporting systems, gather historical data and feed enterprise analytic systems are lost. But there is a reliable, highly secure and reliable solution.

Automation Fair runs November 18-19, 2015 at McCormick Place West, Chicago, IL USA

By John Rinaldi Investing in new control and automation systems is an expensive and disruptive activity, particularly when the majority of the data is already instrumented and sitting in controllers, drives, sensors and other devices in the plant. There is a far more cost effective and non-disruptive way to acquire and use the data trapped on the plant floor.

The small-footprint DB SQL storage engine is well-matched for applications built on the Freescale Kinetis processor portfolio.

All existing and new products for Ethernet applications from Harting conform with the requirements for the use of PROFINET.

The global circuit breakers and fuses market will stand at US$31.11 billion by the end of 2021. This translates to a 6% CAGR between 2015 and 2021.

Most LinkedIn groups struggle to grow because they fail to generate member engagement. Here's how to make your group a great success.

Automation Supply will cover Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Nevada and the Country of Mexico.

SignalFire designs and manufactures specialized wireless mesh networking systems for uses in challenging and hazardous locations.

On September 1, 1945, Wilhelm and Marie Harting launched the company “Wilhelm Harting Mechanische Werkstätten“ in a 100 square meter hall of a repair workshop in Minden.

The Hydraulic Thermoplastic Hose and Couplings Market was valued at US$ 504.5 Mn in 2012, and is expected to reach US$ 747.2 Mn by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 4.5% from 2014 to 2022.

In practice, engineers rarely wire devices in a series as any failure could fail loop and/or loop resistance would be too high.

Emerson's Ovation control system will manage six diesel generators, 23 microturbines and a battery storage system, as well as the island's LPG plant and water treatment and desalination facilities.

Immense opportunities in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and increasing demand for customized robotic solutions have made welding robotics market lucrative in recent years.

Spot On switches are UL 1203 certified, which means they are explosion proof, dust ignition proof, and certified for all hazardous locations.

Netbiter gateways connected to Rockwell PLCs control the different systems in the EF International Language Centre in Oxford, UK.