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Rotalec has been a distributor of high technology industrial machine automation products, product identification systems, and mill products for over 30 years.

The Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Rory Cooper and Dr. Vijay Kumar.

General’s CEO and senior management team remain in charge.

Open Systems International will replace the existing SCADA/EMS system at Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority in the United Arab Emirates with a new SCADA/EMS system based on OSI’s monarch platform.

Blakeway also is Omron Corporation Executive Officer, and Chairman, President and CEO of Omron Management Center Of America.

As U.S. manufacturing recorded the greatest monthly increase so far in 2014, a survey involving members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) also points to an upswing in the automation industry.

Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.

The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.

Anglia will distribute and market the full Bel portfolio of circuit protection, magnetics and interconnect devices to OEMs throughout the UK and Ireland.

Epicor-sponsored research reveals that manufacturers with the right software tools to track and manage performance metrics come out on top -- outperforming competitors by up to 10% in areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, net profit margin increases, and on-time delivery.

Total machine components grew 29% in the first quarter, while total machine vision systems grew six percent, according to statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group.

By Thomas Waggershauser, HMS Industrial Networks The growing demands in the number of nodes, transfer rates, and cycle times lead to bottlenecks that the limitations of classic CAN (8 data bytes and 1 Mbit/s data rate) cannot fulfil: CAN FD significantly extends the usable data rate and usable data length.

Various wireless topologies can be employed to meet the demands of industrial wireless applications, including star, tree, mesh, and cluster.

Shipments of primary plastics equipment for reporting companies totaled an estimated $300.5 million in Q1, up 11 percent when compared with the same quarter of 2013.

One function of the new E3-research project will be to see where humans fit into an automated factory.

Bestobell Marine will supply globe and check valves in sizes DN25 up to DN350, for the cargo containment system onboard the vessel, as well as supplying a FLIV (float level isolation valve) for the secondary float measurement system.

AVEVA will supply its Enterprise Resource Management suite and Everything3D design software to AMEC’s worldwide offices. AMEC employs around 27,000 people in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Tritec Systems is an established UK systems integrator, with over twenty years of experience providing industrial automation and control systems, software, support and training.

Prior to this appointment, he was vice president/general manager of the Advanced Solutions line of business for HPS.

Metso will supply a Pulp Expert automatic pulp laboratory with consistency, freeness, tensile, dirt, brightness and High-Definition fiber and shive measurements to Zellstoff Celgar, a supplier of market kraft pulp, located in Castlegar, British Columbia.

The mine hoists will help Boliden raise production from 1.4 to 2.5 million tons per year.

Westec makes more than 6,000 products, including a wide range of junction boxes, multi-pole connectors, and connector assemblies for automation, robotics and other harsh-duty industrial applications.

4-20mA/0-5V to RS485/232 signal isolated converters

Industrial researchers model an accumulator used in industrial elastic web processing plant to allow changing the material roll while the rest of the line remains at a constant web velocity.

This certification allows Midwest Engineering Systems to custom build industrial control panels and display the UL Mark on the panels.

Yokogawa's Newnan, GA, Calibration Laboratory has been awarded ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA).

The end of service for this pervasive OS leaves many computers and devices vulnerable to security issues – whether accidental or deliberate – which could bring operations to a halt.

When interviewing for a position, interview your perspective boss as hard as he (or she) is interviewing you.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Exxon is improving the execution of automation projects. They are challenging automation suppliers to develop products that make installation, operations, and maintenance more efficient. Here's a summary of Exxon's initiative.

The integration of wireless technology into products that were previously wired has caused a steady shift in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test services.

Wolf Robotics achieved recertification as part of the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) Certified Robot Integrator program.

WAYJUN IAP series Optical Isolated Amplifier SIP12 package of 4-20mA/0-20mA/0-1V/0-100mV signal isolated converters

Eight analog signal acquisition, isolated converter RS-485/232 output

The IVC Video solution for hydrocarbon leak detection is being used by a major oil company monitoring a 120-mile crude oil pipeline in the western United States.

The guide offers impartial advice on available dimensioning, weighing and scanning technology, system configurations, and what needs to be planned for when implementing new DWS equipment.

Guangdong Peng Zun Energy Development selected Honeywell's UOP C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene, a valuable petrochemical used in plastics production.

700 IQ3 non-intrusive intelligent electric valve actuators with Pakscan P3 two-wire digital control systems will be installed at the Pengerang oil and gas Terminal on the south east coast of Malaysia.

Bel will pay approximately $98 million in cash to acquire the ECS business, which had 2013 revenue of approximately $83 million.

Designer Schematic Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software is available from Digi-Key for $300.

After two days of electrifying competition, “Final Cut” from North High School in North St. Paul, MN, was crowned NRL Grand Champion.

June Training and Education Programs Offered by ISA

Clockworks performance management platform is installed on 60 buildings at MIT, monitoring and providing analytics on over 7,000 pieces of equipment using over 14,000,000 data points per day.

The RDC allows TMEIC engineers to establish reliable remote sessions. Once connected, TMEIC engineers can directly control systems and drives, or monitor and assist the customer in troubleshooting, adjusting, or collecting fault data.

The northern Louisiana plant, which will process 200 MMSCFD of natural gas, will be in production in the first quarter of 2015.

PAS Integrity Software Suite and Tripwire NERC Solution Suite are now integrated, reducing the time and resources required to collect audit evidence.

In addition, Tetsuya Hibi was promoted to Senior Vice President and CFO of Daifuku Webb Holding Company.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A pharmaceutical company describes how they invested in multivariate tools and were able to gain better process understanding and improve batch outcomes. In effect, they were able to transform data to actionable information.

With aging substations, a risk of blackouts and increasingly higher maintenance costs, GSE installed a remote monitoring systems based on wireless sensor networks.

Swiss based u-blox acquired Swedish connectBlue, a provider of industrial-grade short range radio modules.

By Brian Roth, Antaira Technologies Wireless networks are typically setup as an access point, bridge or client combination. The major difference is the access point allows multiple individual wireless devices to connect to the access point. A wireless bridge is used to link a smaller network of devices to the main network through a single wireless connection.