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Emerson and Meridium developed AMS Suite: Asset Portal v4.0 powered by Meridium.

Kepware will supply its IT and Infrastructure Suite for use with the full line of Moxa Managed and Unmanaged Ethernet products.

InterTech's Applications Engineering Department expanded to handle leak test solutions for hybrid vehicle components.

Wurldtech's Cyber Security Research Institute announced a research project designed to help improve cyber security education and awareness amongst IT and automation professionals.

Invensys will supply DYNSIM modeling and simulation software to help improve the design, start-up and operation of new coal gasification plants.

Acu-Cast Technologies is a provider of rapid prototyping and manufacturing services.

ISA announced they have awarded Eric Byres, the Chief Technology Officer at Byres Security, the rare honour of ISA Fellow.

Dr. Ravi Gopinath and Teemu Tunkelo joined Invensys as regional presidents for Asia Pacific (APAC) and Europe/Russia/Africa (EURA), respectively.

Grand opening ceremonies will feature machining and productivity seminars. Both centers will have Okuma CNC lathes and machining centers on display.

Schneider Electric NEMA control products have been added to the Allied Electronics catalog.

Siemens Energy & Automation, Siemens Transportation Systems, Siemens Building Technologies, and Siemens VAI Services merged into a new company, Siemens Industry.

By Red Lion Panel meter development has remained relatively static the last few years. Today, new, cost-efficient devices with more advanced capabilities are available in a smaller package to accompany today's miniaturization trend.

OPTOCODE rotary encoders with PROFINET I/O interfaces are now certified for IRT (isochronous real-time) data transfer protocols.

website offers up-to-date technical information, lists resources and contacts, and describes education, integration support, and certification lab services.

Honeywell will install its Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and PMD Controllers at Hellefoss and Vafos mills in southern Norway.

Judges selected CalPortland’s rotating cement kiln monitoring as "Most Innovative" and CHS Inc. and Severstal Wheeling as co-winners for "Best Business Results."

Toolkit contains 1,415 rigorously tested numerical routines for MATLAB.

His most recent position was VP of Sales for Europe and Latin-America for NextPoint Networks.

The Quattro s650HS robot is USDA accepted for for high speed food handling, including meat and poultry processing.

The goal of the Human Centered Design Institute is to ensure that user work practices and improved task completion are at the heart of every new product that Emerson introduces.

Universal Gateway Appliance communications module for Allen-Bradley ControlLogix has more than 100 protocols.

Arden replaces Len Metcalfe, a founder of LMI Technologies and former CEO.

HARTING provided connections for the world's first transformable 360° LED screen used on the latest concert tour for the rock band U2.

QComp designed and installed a plastic optical lens pick and place automation cell using an ABB FlexPicker robot and a Cognex In-Sight vision system.

Website covers actuators, ball screws and lead screws, clutches and brakes, linear bearings and guides, linear motion systems, precision balls and planetary gearheads.

The main reason you wish your product releases to be published on an online site like Automation.com is to generate sales leads and send traffic to your web site. Therefore, it's important to write your headline and first paragraph so that (a) web site editors know what it is and will want to publish it and (b) once published, it can easily be found by search engines.

Software Toolbox products listed in the Siemens catalog include TOP Server and TOP Server UCON for Siemens Simatic WinCC and WinCC flexible products.

Rockwell Automation expects to host more than 8,000 attendees in Anaheim, CA, Nov. 11 and 12 at its 18th annual Automation Fair event.

Sierra mass flow controllers help conduct experiments to discover how rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are affecting the enormous variety of marine animals in our seas.

Equipment includes 29 ABB robots and related work cells, software and controllers for VU’s new $9 million industrial training facility.

By Tridium Whitepaper discusses the state of device networks and how IP and Web technologies can become enablers to tap the huge potential of smart devices.

Opto 22 will sell N-TRON's line of industrial Ethernet network switches and wireless access points.

White papers have become a popular online marketing tool of the times as they introduce a company's innovative products and demonstrate a company's strengths. Whether a paper is used for lead generation, education, customer retention or to close sales, the first step is making it attractive to your target audience.

Once global economic stability is restored, the use of high power AC drives will increase at a faster rate across all industrial segments.

PBC Linear’s Redi-Rail linear guide was installed as a replacement positioning system for Manchac Technologies’ fully automated pharmaceutical robot.

Greg Garcia, former Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Communications with the US Department of Homeland Security, joined Wurldtech's advisory board.

Website covers data acquisition, analysis, recording and archiving products and services.

ESK-COM and ESK-ETX StarterKits contain COM express or ETX CPU modules with one Micro-ATX or ATX carrier board for quick test and evaluation.

Program is aimed at accelerating the use of IP in embedded smart objects such as sensors and actuators in smart grid and energy management, building automation, and industrial and process automation.

The PI System stores, in a single database, electricity usage meter data for households, substation performance and status data for all four Boulder substations.

Established in 1979 in a small suburban Milwaukee office by one employee, WAGO operates out of a 75,000 sq. ft manufacturing complex in Germantown, WI.

PAS will provide Invensys clients with a comprehensive suite of system documentation and configuration management tools and services.

Deadline for conformity with EN ISO 13849-1 or EN/IEC 62061 remains 29 Dec 2009. Extension of EN 954 1 to be considered at December meeting.

Deflagration Flame Arresters are safety devices designed to keep the temperature of flammable vapor passing through the arrestor’s tube bank below its flash point, thereby preventing combustion.

DVD provides principle of operation animations, product cross references, and product literature. Multiple language versions are available in English, French and Italian.

The Solutions Center is staffed by a team of engineering veterans dedicated to advancing network protocol technology, industry protocol collaboration, and network security.

Industrial IT System 800xA and 11 operator workplaces will be installed to control and improve the output of the mill’s new fine paper machine PM23, supplied by Metso.

Analyzer provides real-time readings of steam silica content during warm start-ups of a combined cycle power plant, delivering savings of thousands of dollars per day at PPL Generation’s gas-fired plant in eastern Pennsylvania.

Umicore Precious Metals Refining (UPMR) uses Rosemount Analytical PERpH-X 3400HTVP pH sensors to monitor waste water at its Hoboken plant near Antwerp, Belgium.

Catalog has new products plus an extensive array of actuators, specifications and technical information to aid in the selection process.