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Rockwell Automation and Rockwell Collins to exhibit at Boy Scout Jamboree
Rockwell Automation and Rockwell Collins will present a FIRST interactive station where Scouts will have the opportunity to take part in hands-on robotics demonstrations. -
Emerson automates ethanol plant in Sweden
A pilot ethanol processing plant built by Chematur Engineering uses Emerson's DeltaV control system with WirelessHART, Wi-Fi, FOUNDATION fieldbus, AMS, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters. -
Manufacturers continue to experience high levels of supply chain risk
More than one-third of North American manufacturers say they’ve experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months. -
ABB to provide automation for new power plant in Greece
ABB will supply a complete distributed control system (DCS) solution for a new 427-megawatt, gas-fired thermal power plant. -
Traffic signs in Norway use Profibus
Scandisign, a supplier of LED-based traffic signs, used an Anybus-IC from HMS to connect to Profibus and then Ethernet/Modbus. -
Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Walsall Limited
Walsall specializes in the development and manufacture of enclosures and electromechanical equipment for use in hazardous areas. -
Bison Gear Celebrates 50th anniversary
Bison was established in 1960 by three Chicago area entrepreneurs who derived the company's name from their last initials of B-S-N. -
EnOcean and BACnet to develop spec for wireless building systems
BACnet International and the EnOcean Alliance will develop a vendor independent gateway specification for integrating wireless energy-harvesting nodes into BACnet for building automation and control. -
FDT Technical Seminar
March 9, 2010 Long Beach, CA Free seminar covers how to access diagnostics and device parameters without installing and maintaining multiple, proprietary software applications on a maintenance station or laptop. -
ISA Safety and Security Symposium to discuss threats
The symposium, 28-29 April 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana, will focus on threats—including cyber security threats—to industrial environments and the steps engineers must consider when designing and optimizing industrial processes and Safety Instrumented Systems. -
European Machinery Directive: What it Means
For the next two years, machine builders, users and integrators can use either EN 954-1:1996, EN ISO 13849-1:2006, or EN ISO 13849-1:2008 to prove presumption of conformity with the Machinery Directive. -
CoDeSys to hold User Conferences in Germany and Switzerland
CoDeSys Users’ Conference will also come to Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and Sweden and, for the first time, also tour through China. -
Dresser Masoneilan to supply valves to Athabasca Oil Sands project
Dresser Masoneilan will provide steam pressure reducing valves, desuperheaters and associated equipment required for the project’s steam conditioning and turbine bypass systems. -
Maximizing Efficiency with Automated Mixed-Case Palletizing
By Jim McMahon, Dematic Capable of building mixed-case pallets from an inventory of over 10,000 SKUs, the latest evolution in Automated Mixed-Case Palletizing represents an advance in case palletizing. -
Ethernet Direct publishes industrial catalogs
Three catalogs include Industrial Ethernet, Industrial Communications and Industrial Automation. -
Schneider Electric to acquire Cimac
Cimac implements automation, control and electrical distribution solutions, primarily for water-wastewater and oil & gas customers in the Middle East Gulf region. -
The market for industrial PCs remains fragmented says ARC
The industrial PC market structure is fragmented, with no dominant player on a regional or global level. -
HERMES AWARD 2010 - Deutsche Messe stages technology award
The award is bestowed on exceptional innovations that are showcased for the first time at HANNOVER MESSE 2010. The award presentation takes place as part of the official opening ceremony for HANNOVER MESSE on 18 April 2010. -
2010 World Energy Dialogue
The event's presentations and panel discussions will examine the vital role of renewables and energy efficiency in the integrated, sustainable energy supply models of the future. -
Italy is the partner country at Hannover Messe 2010
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will open HANNOVER MESSE 2010, underscoring Italy's status as a key player at Germany's major industrial exhibitions. -
LXI Consortium certifies 69 Instruments as LXI-Compliant
The newly compliant products bring the total number of LXI-compliant instruments to 1288, which are available from 28 different LXI vendors. -
Wonderware Names Longwatch as Certified Software Partner
Longwatch, a supplier of video monitoring hardware and software products, was named by Wonderware as a Certified Software Partner. -
B&R Industrial Automation forms Packaging Group
B&R Industrial Automation formed a team of packaging experts to work closely with the packaging industry community. -
Emerson sells one millionth Fisher digital valve controller
First introduced in 1994, the product and its digital communication and diagnostic capabilities changed the way process control manufacturers monitor control valves. -
Robotic TurnKey Solutions is ABB integration partner
Robotic TurnKey Solutions, an integrator of robotics and atomation equipment is an ABB robotics authorized integration partner. -
Siemens to control Novus biochemical production plants
Siemens will supply electrification, Simatic PCS 7 process automation and instrument measurement technologies for three new biochemical production facilities. -
Florida A&M University Going Green with Siemens
Siemens will deliver to students and faculty a more comfortable interior environment with better management of heating, ventilation and air conditioning and lighting. -
Artisan Software Tools and Aonix merge into Atego
Atego offers design and development tools and services for modeling architectures, safety-critical systems and software. -
Vibration standard developed for Wind Turbines
Wind Turbines, by reason of their design, location of installation and operation, do not abide by any international standard for vibration. -
Galland Henning Nopak appoints Steve Iram president
Iram will succeed Daniel Steele who will remain as Chairman of the Board of Directors. -
John F. Caskey named to NIST Smart Grid panel
John F. Caskey, senior director of NEMA's Power Equipment Division, has been named vice chair of the Governing Board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel. -
SERCOS III test system available
Test system ensures that SERCOS III slave implementations from different manufacturers are compatible and interoperable. -
Myths about Manufacturing’s Smallest Technologies
While they may sound like futuristic concepts, micromanufacturing and nanomanufacturing are becoming the biggest thing in our industry since the moving assembly line. -
Diamond Phoenix and System Logistics merge
The company is now operating under the name System Logistics Corporation, a member of the Italian company, System Group S.p.A.The company. -
Emerson to automate thermal power plant in India
Emerson will install PlantWeb, Ovation expert control system and AMS Suite at the six-unit (6 X 135-MW), coal-fired plant to be located in Angul, Orissa, in eastern India. -
Microscan opens Technology Center in in Nashua, NH
The 20,000 sq. ft. facility is currently dedicated to R&D for machine vision, machine vision lighting, direct part mark reading, and verification. -
PAS to improve automation at 12 Scottish power plants
PlantState Suite alarm software and services will improve safety and operability at twelve sites comprising gas-fired, coal-fired, and hydro-electric power generation stations. -
Sealevel names Landmark of China as rep
Landmark covers the growing Chinese marketplace with four offices: Beijing (North China), Wuhan (Middle China), Shanghai (East China), Chengdu (Southwest). -
Automated manufacturing system quadruples production
After a fire destroyed the manufacturing process, Research Products had two options: either rebuild using equipment comparable to what had previously been used, or investigate ways to automate the manufacturing process. -
Barry-Wehmiller names Simon Lagoe Director of U.K. Operations
Lagoe will continue his role as managing director of the Nottingham, U.K., operation of HayssenSandiacre. -
Beverage packaging industry experiencing increasing innovation
The beverage packaging industry is experiencing a period of increasing innovation in design, materials and efficiency intended to meet cost and environmental concerns. -
SME elects Barbara M. Fossum president
For the first time in its 78-year history, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has elected a woman to lead the organization. -
ABB publishes brochure on damper drives for boilers
Eight-page color brochure from ABB Instrumentation covers damper drive solutions for improved boiler control. -
ABB's Safety Execution Center receives TÜV certification
ABB's Safety Execution Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina has been certified by TÜV as having in place and applying a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS). -
Emerson to control solar power plants
SHEC Energy entered into an agreement with Emerson Process Management to help bring online new solar thermal facilities for power generation. -
MatrikonOPC supplies OPC software to OMNI Flow Computers
OMNI Flow Computers is the newest member of the MatrikonOPC Vendor Partner Program. -
ABB to control power plant in Kazakhstan
Products to be supplied include power and distribution transformers, an 800xA power-plant control system, and a micro SCADA for real-time monitoring. -
How to Select a Vertical Storage and Retrieval System
By Ed Romaine, KardexRemstar The movement and storage of tooling and dies can represent a significant portion of the cost of production. Here's how to select a vertical storage system. -
Alstom and Schneider Electric launch venture capital fund
Aster Capital fund will finance innovative start-ups based in Europe, North America and Asia in the fields of energy and the environment. -
ISA100.12 standards committee meeting
The ISA100 standards committee, Wireless Systems for Automation, will hold a series of meetings at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Florida, 9-11 February.