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Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, requested that the AF provide technical guidance in enhancing its automation and controls course for students in grades 10-12

Davide Bocciardo from the University of Edinburgh won with his entry “Customising UniSim Design: membrane separation and its application to carbon capture.”

Schneider Electric will be using ConneXium Tofino Security technology to protect its industrial automation systems.

NEC Display Solutions will supply LCD monitors and touchscreen solutions.

ODVA appointed director Cyril Perducat chairman of the board, director Frank Kulaszewicz as treasurer, and Richard Harwell as chief technology officer (CTO).

Gateways from Yokogawa, Honeywell and Nivis successfully demonstrated interoperability with a WCI test client.

September 2012 U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $667.47 million, up 40.7% from August and up 13.4% from September 2011.

Uponor is using the Catalyst Historian to improve performance characteristics of its assets and identify areas of potential improvement in each OEE area. During the past six months, scrap has been reduced by 6 percent, saving more than $100,000.

The program offers end users, EPCs, and OEMs the ability to reduce operational costs and improve engineering effectiveness.

By Ingenia Field Oriented torque Control of a brushless motor is possible using one shunt sensing circuitry, obtaining an ultra-low cost but high performances device.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Homeland Security's Lisa Kaiser gave a sobering presentation on cyber security issues and attacks. Kaiser emphasized that we are playing catch-up, noting that Foreign Cyber Espionage in the USA has been more intense in the last few years with a large black market for buying and selling information.

An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.

Industrial Automation (8-12 April 2013) focuses on the efficient use of energy and resources, including smart production systems and processes.

ABB will design, engineer and supply an integrated automation and electrification system for Anglo American’s new Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland on the east coast of Australia.

Rotork is supplying an all-electric valve actuation package for the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

All production and warehousing will be relocated to the Eagle Creek Industrial Park in Savage, Minn.

By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An OPC toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of OPC applications for programmers by providing standard functions for reading and writing OPC items, browsing and managing the OPC address space, and much more.

ISA and NAMUR have identified five common working groups that offer immediate collaborative opportunities.

CABA and AEE will establish forums about energy and intelligent buildings for regulatory organizations, energy service providers, and building automation vendors.

Prior to joining the Leicester based company, Moore spent about 20 years implementing lean manufacturing tools for an electrical products manufacturer.

Designing and/or improving a control system is practically impossible if the team does not understand the process.

Visitors to ComVac from April 8 to 12, 2013 can look forward to a complete overview of the state of the art in compressed air and vacuum technology.

Liberty Property Trust owns 79 million square feet of office and industrial space throughout the US and the UK. eSight manages them all.

Industrial Defender's Automation Systems Manager (ASM) Monitor has been tested and verified for use with the ABB 800xA control system.

SLM uses 17 ABB robots to apply metal and ceramic coatings to a wide variety of OEM and repair parts and machine components to minimize corrosion and extend part life.

Mobile Access app enables field operators to view and respond to live information from Experion PKS while they are on rounds or inspecting the plant.

The two companies will provide street lighting management solutions, which will be based on wireless mesh devices and Central Management Software.

In addition, Omron will match employee donations in support of local relief efforts.

You're an automation professional, but what do you want to be when you grow up?

Technical Spec Writing and Modbus Protocol Training

ARC clients can now make use of ARC’s supplier selection process for Advanced Process Control (APC), Analytics, Batch Control, CPM/MES and Distributed Control Systems (DCS).

Five online condition monitoring systems were installed on wind turbines at the Crystal Rig wind farm in Scotland. 20 more are expected to be installed later this year.

With a total screen surface of 40 m by 8.4 m, Airtel’s LED video wall is probably the world’s largest suspended LED video wall.

The Hybrid HVDC breaker will be capable of ‘interrupting’ power flows equivalent to the output of a large power station within 5 milliseconds.

White paper provides a detailed comparison between RFID and vision identification technologies to assist manufacturers in selecting the ideal track and trace technology to meet their application demands.

Q&A from CCST Review: Time Constant in a Transmission System

The Apple iPhone or iPad app allows mobile access to important and time-critical work tasks assigned by the company’s Wonderware ArchestrA Workflow Software.

With this app, customers can determine spot size measurement conditions for the company's infrared sensors on their smartphone.

PT-400 Pressure Transducers are ATEX and IECEx certified EX II 1G Ex ia IIB T4 Ga, for use in hazardous locations.

A true as-built model of the facility was not available, so laser scanning was used to generate an intelligent PDMS model.

The POSITAL Programmable Potentiometer has been added to the list of products referenced by the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork.

Wind 2013 will be held from 8 to 12 April at the Hannover Exhibition Center.

Sunapsys uses TopVew in its SCADA systems for municipalities using voice callout of alarms over standard dialout telephone technology.

InduSoft ha añadido asistencia en español a las posibilidades de ayuda existentes para clientes y usuarios de InduSoft Web Studio.

The CTAs recognize the heroes and superstars of the HVAC, Controls and Building Automation Industry.

IFS says traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is not meeting all of the needs of project-driven companies.

CarePlans now cover temperature and pressure calibration instruments.

The Aegis suite is being used for process management including route control, quality data collection and alarming, material validation and internal and external reporting.

The demo will show various Sercos III and EtherNet/IP devices connected to controller prototypes from Bosch Rexroth and Schneider Electric using a common Ethernet infrastructure on a single cable.

On-off valves should not be used as control valves (for throttling) and control valves should not be used as on-off valves (for isolation).