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By Siemens Brief description of how linear motors work, advantages in machine applications, and typical applications.

Students at Akron CNC Training Center learn machinist skills on a MAG 4020 FX vertical machining center provided by machine supplier HM Technology.

Joseph Martin, Jeff Miller and Piercarlo Romano were elected to the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Board of Directors.

Emerson developed an Adaptive Model Predictive Controller (AMPC) that is optimizing production and improving profitability at SABIC Innovative Plastics’ Bergen op Zoom facility in The Netherlands.

The total estimated value of the projects is nearly $465 billion, and will create nearly 10 million full-time employment positions.

The OEM agreement enables the two companies to jointly develop and market integrated wireless application networks for industrial enterprises.

The order includes operator consoles, AC800M Controllers, System 800xA and S800 I/O with HART.

The certification of dcLINK 4.2 for SAP ERP 6.0 was granted based on a successful integration assessment by the SAP Integration and Certification Center.

In addition to collecting data from Vestas and Siemens subsystems, the Ovation SCADA system will gather data from substation controls and switchgear.

SICK will provide Ruler E 3D cameras as part of continuing improvements to the United States Postal Service’s Automated Package Processing System (APPS).

Certifiers check LAN cabling to TIA, ISO and IEC performance standards. Complete Category 6/ISO Class E tests are performed in only 14 seconds.

The serialized book "Improving Lean Manufacturing Through 3D Data" by Dr. Hiroshi Toriyais is available free, two chapters at a time.

Erich Janoschek from TÜV Rheinland was elected chairman of the PLCopen Technical Committee for Safe Software.

Enhancements include discrete switches as well as vibration and pH transmitters.

Webb will supply five SmartCart AGC Automatic Guided Carts to Western Container’s facility in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and three to its facility in Tolleson, AZ.

Wind for Schools helps elementary and secondary schools produce their own wind power. It provides a K-12 curriculum that is linked to real-time turbine data with web-based access.

ISA99 Working Group 7 will promote greater awareness of the impact of cyber security issues on the safe operation of industrial processes.

ISaGRAF software will be used in CSE-Semaphore’s Kingfisher series of Advanced RTUs, which are now available with Secure DNP3 Authentication.

Selector tool enables users to quickly and accurately identify one or more meters that best match their criteria.

Premier Evolvics uses an Allied Vision system to measure fiber length, length uniformity, color and trash rate.

Located in Indian Trail, North Carolina, the branch services customers throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

McCarthy holds Level III certifications from the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), including visual, liquid penetrant, magnetic particle, ultrasonic, and eddy current testing methods.

Patton was Senior Vice President and head of the engineering and products function at Vestas Technology R&D.

Lowe replaces recently retired Norm O’Leary as director of the Control System Integrators Association.

Barix installed more than 1,000 Barionet IP control devices to monitor power cabinets and substations throughout Singapore.

Toshiba GE Turbine Components is buying its MAXOS non-contact measurement system to inspect and measure turbine blades.

Emerson will supply DeltaV, AMS Suite software, Fisher control valves, Rosemount transmitters, and safety systems on the Golar Freeze, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessel.

Movie magic will make 18 ABB Robots appear to be an almost endless manufacturing line of robots on the Terminator factory floor, mass producing a growing army of the Terminators.

Roxar provides subsea instrumentation and software to help operators monitor production continuously and observe and control oil and gas fields from remote locations.

The new system is helping improve operational efficiency and productivity by providing a way to reliably monitor, diagnose and maintain water equipment and processes.

Long sold in Asia, MasterLogic is now sold, delivered and supported by Honeywell’s global organization.

SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines will be supplied to the Bison I wind project, located near Center, North Dakota, and will be built in two phases.

Automation expenditures by the upstream oil and gas sector, which includes exploration, production, and pipelines, are expected to grow at an annual rate of nine percent over the next five years.

PLCopen is launching a new initiative in the Motion Control working group to extend the specifications to fluid power.

Woods brings a wealth of manufacturing experience to the Association For Manufacturing Technology, having worked at everything from small tool and die shops up to multibillion-dollar machine tool corporations.

Catalog covers signal conditioning, data acquisition, and data communication products.

“Think Outside the Chip: MEMS-Based Systems Solutions” all-day session presents information on the partitioning, integrating and creating of MEMS- based systems and their applications.

Tools cover three primary areas where industrial networking issues can occur: the network, electrical signaling, and cabling infrastructure.

Kelly previously was President of the Remote Automation Solutions division of Emerson Electric.

The DeltaV system with AMS Device Manager has passed the Host Registration Program (HRP) requirements.

Prior to joining Baumer, he served as President and CEO of Fischer Connectors as well as President and CEO of EAO Switch.

PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment.

An iCAP 6000 Series Duo ICP emission spectrometer detects trace contaminants in brine - aqueous sodium chloride (NaCl).

Servomex will supply a complete gas monitoring system for a new Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant being built by Artenius in Portugal.

ABB won transformer orders worth around $30 million from NTPC Limited in India for its Mauda Super Thermal Power Project and Tapovan Vishnugad HydroElectric Power Project.

Emerson intends to work inside the PNO to keep the implementation of EDDL aligned across all protocols.

METTLER TOLEDO Process Analytics acquired the RAMS product monitoring systems for turbidity and color from INNOTECH GbR, a Germany based company.

Allied Vision increased the floor space of its US Subsidiary in Newburyport, MA, and strengthened its sales team with two new representatives.

After traveling to Germany last week for Hannover Messe (Fair), the world's largest industrial trade show, I was struck again by the difference in how engineers are perceived in Germany versus the U.S. German Engineering is often revered as a high quality engineering standard. I'm convinced that this reverence has everything to do with the deep-rooted culture surrounding engineering in Germany.

ABB won substation orders worth around $100 million from Powergrid, India’s national transmission utility, to boost capacity and help improve grid reliability.