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Understanding the different needs of ICS and IT system security leads to cooperation and collaboration between historically disconnected camps

The facility for Transelec unifies all of the company’s regional control centers throughout the country, allowing 24 hour surveillance of operations, efficiently and safely.

The configuration software reduces the risk of errors when designing and ordering system modules.

The office is located in Leuven near Brussels.

Ripon Cogeneration replacied its obsolete distributed control system (DCS) with the PlantPAx process automation system from Rockwell Automation.

Acromag’s FPGA programmed boards will be used in support of AN/SPS-73(V) surface-search shipboard radar.

ABB will deliver electrical propulsion, power, safety and automation systems for a 5000T heavy-lift pipelay construction vessel being built by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry.

With a year-to-date total of $4,150.41 million, 2014 is up 3.8% compared with 2013.

eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) is now compatible with AdaCore’s GNAT Pro Ada development environment.

KXTX in Wuhan, China, will become the first Chinese company in the industry with an automated in-floor chain conveyor system.

This is the company’s sixth office in Canada and its ninth branch office in North America.

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By Bill Lydon, Editor According to a recent survey, automation users want and deserve more from an automation controller. Albert Rooyakkers, CTO of Bedrock Automation, explains why they went back to the drawing board to design and develop this new, innovative automation controller.

To control the concentration of key components, relatively inexpensive inline measurements can be used under the right conditions to provide concentration measurements

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research A trend that is causing waves and innovative ways of doing things today with Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software is mobile technology. So what are the current attitudes on mobile capabilities? Here are four ways mobile capabilities are helping manufacturers transform their operations and IT landscapes today.

The Fountain Inn, SC, plant is home to the company’s largest hydraulics manufacturing facility in the Americas.

Molex plant floors consist of hundreds of different machines from a variety of vendors, with each speaking its own language or “protocol.” An OPC server connected them all.

This paper deals with the problem of forbidden states in discrete event systems based on Petri net models. So, a method is presented to prevent the system from entering these states by constructing a

Komatsulite is a manufacturer of precision-molded components for the electronics industry and mini-breaker devices that are used as safety devices.

Created by PMMI, the Industrial Maintenance Training Center of North America and the Employment and Training Administration of the DOL, the guidelines will be listed under the occupation of “mechatronics technician.”

By Heinz-Günther Spreen, Harting White paper describes the Han HMC connector for devices, machines and systems that require connections for more than 10,000 mating cycles.

Industrial Internet Consortium is a group of more than 100 companies, organizations and universities working to accelerate growth of the Industrial Internet.

By Bill Lewins, Rockwell Automation Designing and implementing a network that addresses all process control concerns can be a difficult for any application, but brownfield projects are especially challenging. Fortunately, there are ways to ease this transition.

By Rainer Schmidt, Harting PROFINET is an independent, proprietary system, which is primarily used for communication between PROFINET components. If PROFINET wants to seamlessly communicate right into the SAP level, it runs into the structured cabling which the IT infrastructure of the company uses.

Version 1.1 of the Network Configuration Management software can now be used as a simple monitoring and diagnostics tool for industrial routers, switches and Ethernet line extenders..

The ERP covers key functions including quality assurance, customer relationship management, maintenance management, business process management, reporting for data analysis and KPI monitoring for Ensival Moret in China..

In fiscal 2014, Siemens filed 4,300 patent applications. Twelve Siemens researchers and developers account for more than 900 inventions and 842 granted individual patents.

By Georgia Whalen, Patti Engineering Patti used Phoenix Contact PCs to automate high speed inline checkweighers on a parcel sortation system for Fives Intralogistics.

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announces system integration companies who have recently joined the association.

The Aptean Discrete Manufacturing suite connects Aptean's ERP and CRM solutions to CMC Rescue's manufacturing process, customer data, real-time operations and financial data throughout the company.

Following the death of co-founder Brian Merriman in September, aeSolutions announced a reorganization.

Local development centers will help customers get customized solutions for industrial network connectivity, machine communication, wireless solutions, integrated safety and remote management.

Eplan Engineering Center is now Eplan Engineering Configuration.

EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) is a set of open-source, distributed software tools used for scientific instruments, such as particle accelerators, telescopes and other large-scale experimental installations.

Enterprise asset management is a way of thinking, a discipline, and ultimately a culture that increases equipment life and production uptime.

Cytonome produces cell purification systems and needed to achieve bi-directional seamless communications among engineering, manufacturing and purchasing. PLM software helped.

Produced by the ISA Student Section at Francis Tuttle Technology Center, this video demonstrates how easy it is to spread a virus throughout a production control system using a USB drive.

By Shiva Bissessar How secure is our Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Security risks? Dr. Sanjay Bahadoorsingh updates the challenges and opportunities in the Smart Grid.

The symposium, dedicated to the in-depth exploration of all critical issues in air compliance and leak detection and repair, will be held 19-21 May 2015 at the Astor Crowne Plaza hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The Manufacturing Technology Centre is an organisation created to prove and showcase innovative manufacturing processes and technologies.

WAYJUN two wires 4-20mA temperature transmitters are widely used in Pt100/PT1000/PT10/Cu50/Cu100 temperature sensor isolated and transmit

VRED provides the ability to leverage real-time clusters for animation rendering.

FACTORY I/O is a real time automation sandbox where users can build and simulate industrial systems and use them with the most common automation technologies.

Testing tool verifies the correct implementation of the Sercos Internet Protocol Services (S-IPS).

This specification describes the mapping of the Sercos information model to OPC UA so that functions and data of Sercos devices are made available and accessible via OPC UA.

Egemin Automation will update controls or install completely new PLC-based control systems for pumping stations along Belgian rivers and canals.

The tool helps engineers more easily specify, design and validate complete motion control systems.

After the acquisition of the wireless gateways from u-blox/connectBlue in September, HMS Industrial Networks can now present an expanded suite of Anybus Wireless Bridge products for connecting industrial devices wirelessly.

See who was honored by ISA in 2014.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A company called Tempered Networks has developed an interesting, alternative approach to cyber-protection architecture for industrial control systems. The architecture goes beyond a software only solution and includes both hardware and firmware components to create a secure industrial automation network.