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Why Automation Professionals Should Write and Present Technical Papers
As an engineer, your publications are as important for recognition of your expertise as publications of a supplier for recognition of a product’s capability. -
Gas Detector Market Driven by Strict Safety Regulations
Compliance with increasingly tough safety regulations will remain a major factor driving investment in safety systems and toxic gas detectors among oil & gas, refining, petrochemical and mining customers. -
WLAN and Bluetooth Dominate Wireless Automation Equipment
More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. -
ABB to power copper mine in Zambia
ABB will provide a new substation and upgrade an existing one at Africa’s biggest copper mine, being built in the northwestern province of the country. -
Endress+Hauser expands in China
Endress+Hauser is expanding its flowmeter manufacturing factory in Suzhou, China. -
B&R testing laboratory accredited by Austria
B&R's environmental testing laboratory in Eggelsberg, Austria, was given accreditation in accordance with EN ISO/IEC 17025:2007. -
Data Translation DAQ software supports TI Code Composer Studio 5.2.1
TI Code Composer Studio 5.2.1 can now be used to develop low-level DSP applications that can run stand-alone or communicate with a Windows application. -
Taking the lead on the development of the cybersecurity framework
Taking the lead on the development of the cybersecurity framework -
ISA to conduct technical training camp in Houston
ISA will conduct six of its most in-depth technical training courses over five consecutive weeks beginning Monday, 30 September 2013. -
Asia to Become Largest PLC Market Worldwide
ARC says Asia will become the largest PLC market from 2016 onwards. But what about Industry 4.0 and reshoring? Just wishful thinking? -
Konecranes offers machine control retrofit services
Konecranes provides various retrofit options including software design, integration and installation of new control packages to replace existing aged control systems. -
MIRTEC appoints Brian D’Amico President of Industrial Camera Division
D’Amico continues to serve as President of MIRTEC’s North American Sales and Service Division, MIRTEC Corp., and ISVI. -
CeMAT RUSSIA continues to grow
CeMAT Russia Is the leading intralogistics trade fair for the whole of Russia and the neighboring former states of the Soviet Union. -
Asia-Pacific spends the most on Automation
The Asia-Pacific region accounts for more capital expenditures on industrial automation products than anywhere else in the world, with 46 percent of global investments in 2012. -
AMETEK acquires Controls Southeast
Controls Southeast provides proprietary heating systems for industrial piping, valves and instruments as well as jacketed piping and specialty fabrication products. -
exida certifies Moore Industries SSX and SST for SIL 2
exida certified SSX and SST Safety Series isolator and splitter for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508:2010. -
How to Gain Automatic Control of Effluent Residual in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Important factors and specific trim controller configurations for gaining control of effluent residual in wastewater facilities. -
EMO Hannover 2013 focuses on India
India is on the way to becoming a manufacturing location of global status, and meanwhile ranks 6th among the world’s biggest markets for machine tools. EMO Hannover is taking this trend responsively with “EMO Focus on India.” -
Banner Engineering Enhances Mobile WebSite
The site has been configured to allow users to quickly access and share product data at the part detail level. -
InfinityQS installs ProFicient MES at Alpha Packaging
Alpha Packaging deployed InfinityQS ProFicient at its St. Louis and Bethlehem, Pa., plants with the remaining five plants scheduled for rollout during the 2013 calendar year. -
Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing Solves Real-World Problems
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based sensing technology originally developed by NASA represents a 20-fold improvement over existing sensing solutions and could represent a quantum leap forward for industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace, oil & gas, nuclear energy, medical devices, and wind energy. -
PAS opens additional Houston office
The new office is in west Houston. -
Fieldbus Foundation Issues Preliminary Spec For ISA100.11a
The new technical specification defines a fieldbus transducer block used within FOUNDATION for ROM devices to communicate with ISA100.11a instruments. -
CSIA announces new members
The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announces companies that have recently joined the association, become certified, or become recertified. -
Altera offers license-free EtherCAT Protocol software for FPGAs
Altera’s solutions implement both the protocol IP and software stack into an FPGA using programmable logic and a soft embedded processor. -
Emerson support helps reduce energy at MOL gas processing plant
Control loop audits, advanced process control project management, and model predictive control project support have together helped MOL achieve savings of over $9 million since 2006. -
Rockwell Automation Introduces Industrial Security Initiative
The initiative will help automation and IT professionals secure their industrial processes with a combination of control system design and best practices, contemporary technologies and professional services. -
AMETEK to supply sulfur analyzers at Al Hosn Gas project
The UV process gas analyzers will be used on Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU) and Tail Gas Treating Units (TGTU) at the Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company’s (Al Hosn Gas) Shah Gas Field project in the United Arab Emirates. -
How to Get Better Control of Effluent Residual in Wastewater Facilities
In wastewater effluent facilities not having good control of residual results in chemical waste. Gaining effluent residual control is more important than having an excellent process tuning. -
exida certifies Det-Tronics gas leak detector
The Det-Tronics FlexSonic Acoustic Gas Leak Detector meets functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capable per IEC 61508. -
Lincoln Electric Becomes Certified Robot Integrator
Lincoln Electric received Certified Robot Integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. -
Schneider Electric closing in on Invensys purchase – Benefits and Challenges
By Bill Lydon, Editor Schneider Electric is closing in on the purchase of Invensys. This is an unfolding story that looks to be on course to achieve the goals that Invensys and Schneider Electric management believe is good for their combined customer base. -
Patti to run Patti Engineering
Patti Hoff, former Vice President of Finance, has been promoted to President of Patti Engineering. -
Rexroth publishes Hydraulic Tie Rod Cylinder Catalog
Catalog covers hydraulic tie rod cylinders, with data on selection criteria and features, product specifications, mounting options, spare parts, service and repair, ordering information, and more. -
Emerson controls INA Rijeka refinery
Emerson supplied a DeltaV automation system and SIS safety instrumented systems on a new hydro cracking/hydrodesulphurization unit, hydrogen generation unit, sulphur recovery unit in Croatia. -
ABB supports wind turbine technology at SWiFT facility in Texas
ABB provided three ACS800 wind converters and three matching Baldor induction generators. -
Honeywell Process Solutions Shares Service Risk
By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Honeywell User Group (HUG) 2013 conference, Honeywell announced new services under the Assurance 360 program for owners of Honeywell systems. The overall goal of these programs is a reduction of unplanned events, faster problem resolution, and better plant performance. -
A College Degree May Not Be a Reliable Indicator of an Engineer's Level of Knowledge
You must earn respect, and show respect to others. An engineering degree (or lack thereof) is a poor indicator of an individual’s knowledge level. -
EtherCAT in mobile applications
By Dr. Guido Beckmann, EtherCAT Technology Group EtherCAT is an open, real-time capable communication system which is widely used in manufacturing automation and, due to its properties, is also ideal for mobile applications such as heavy vehicles. -
IFS to supply ERP to Butantan Institute in Brazil
The Butantan Institute is a Brazilian biomedical research center affiliated to the São Paulo State Secretary of Health. -
Smart PROFIBUS Monitoring Leads to Fast Results
Spuntech Industries’ North Carolina plant has a Profibus network that runs seven PLCs with approximately 350 nodes. To help diagnose problems, Spuntech installed Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK hardware and TH SCOPE diagnostic software. -
Plant Asset Management with FDT and PROFIBUS
The Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment in Colorado had 35 gateway access points to monitor and troubleshoot all the instruments and processes within the Profibus network. They replaced the gateways with Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK devices. -
ISA introduces ISA Cybersecurity Tech Pack
Cybersecurity Tech Pack is an assembly of technical papers, PowerPoint presentations, technical books and InTech articles developed by experts in cybersecurity and industrial automation and control systems security. -
AutomationDirect says "Be Prepared" for software programming
The Boy Scout merit badge is designed to introduce youth to various kinds of software programming. -
ISA Training and Education in August: Learn, Advance, Succeed
ISA Training and Education in August: Learn, Advance, Succeed -
PI miCos publishes catalog on Motion Control Equipment
180 page catalog covers precision motorized positioning stages and motion control equipment for vacuum and UHV environments. -
3S-Smart Software opens CODESYS Store
On-line store provides application modules and productivity tools, including device description files, utilities, tested application libraries, additional visualization elements and tool plug-ins for CODESYS users. -
Digital Redesign of Analog Smith Predictor for Systems With Input Time Delays
Research offers a new methodology for digitally redesigning an existing analog Smith predictor control system, such that the cascaded analog controller with input delay can be implemented with a digit -
Elutions obtains BACnet Certification for SCADA system
ControlMaestro has been recognized as BACnet Advanced operator WorkStation (B-AWS) according to the BACnet 09 version test procedure of the BTL/WSPCert accredited laboratory. -
Robotics Companies Set New Records for First Half of 2013
10,854 robots valued at $679.3 million were ordered from North American robotics companies in the first six months of 2013, an increase of 1.9% over the same period in 2012 and 1.3% above the previous first-half record set in 2005.