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Document provides examples and guidance for the combination of the different technologies, making it easier for a user to integrate safety in a motion and logic application.

This document covers user guidelines, and is the third part of a set of documents of the PLCopen Task Force Motion Control.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation committed $1.4 million for youth programs in 2008.

The office will service European, Middle Eastern and African markets for embedded I/O products. The office is headed by Stefan Baginski.

Macrina will be leaving his role as Director of the Electronics Assembly group at Panasonic Factory Solutions at the end of April to join Microscan Systems.

Report presents alarm management best practices guidelines for improving safety and reliability in power generation industry.

DRB will sell Precise Automation products in Korea and China, including PrecisePlace Robots, Guidance Motion Controllers and PreciseVision Software.

PLC Metrics allows automation engineers and technicians to automatically analyze PLC programs, such as the number of rungs, I/O and steps, hardware configuration, and Grafcet steps and macros.

“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Acquisition” explains the overall concept of data acquisition and considerations for analog input systems.

More than 60 short and informative SME videos have been uploaded to YouTube and generated more than 200,000 hits.

ABB installed a System 800xA process control system at Jura Cement Fabriken in Wildegg, Switzerland.

The new center at Reynosa City, Tamaulipas State, has all the resources necessary for Invensys to support PEMEX in the Burgos basin.

Adaptive Instruments markets Accutech wireless instrumentation products. In 2006 SCADAgroup acquired Control Microsystems, and earlier this year acquired Trio Datacom.

The contract focuses on identifying concurrent programming defects, which are notoriously difficult to identify and manually debug.

ManualTesting.com is a community site with free resources designed to alleviate the headaches caused by the burden of time-consuming manual testing on QA departments.

Modernization at Petrobras Zarate included Foundation fieldbus, DeltaV, AMS asset management, flow, level and temperature instruments, and Fisher valves with FIELDVUE digital valve controllers.

Industrial Controls Distributors is the exclusive representative for Honeywell Analytics, experts in gas detection.

Graduation for Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) certificate students will be May 9, 2008 at Bison Gear headquarters.

Autodesk made $17 million worth of software available to student competitors, including Autodesk Inventor, 3ds Max and Autodesk Combustion.

The application note, “Metal Coatings Analysis Using the Exoscan Hand Held FTIR,” explains how it does non-destructive analysis of samples.

ThreadX has been used to power a wide variety of products, from printers to wireless devices.

Keynote speakers include Dick Morley, father of the PLC, and Dr. John R. Bratten, Nautical Archaeologist.

XLReporter enables reporting in Microsoft Office Excel to be performed automatically and in the background.

CD Rom contains product information and application notes related to biodiesels, feed stocks and general analysis.

The pharmaceutical industry in Europe is struggling with price pressures and severe competition, making it a stro0ng growth market for automation and control.

The CENTUM; CS 3000 Production Control System and STARDOM Network-based Control System will use the Tofino Industrial Security Solution.

OPC wants system integrators who routinely use OPC to sign up for a program to help raise the overall quality and reliability of OPC products.

Siemens provided product lifecycle management software and services for digital product design, simulation, analysis, manufacturing and product data management.

Included are presentations on future technologies, software, hardware, controls, vision, robots etc.

Students at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Sault Sainte Marie, MI, developed a vision-based robotic workcell as a senior project.

The program enables technology companies in the process control/SCADA market to provide their customers with integrated Defense in Depth cyber security solutions.

GE Fanuc will offer iPower as a standard Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX option.

The market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to over $1.1B in 2012, a growth rate of 32% per year, according to ARC Advisory Group.

The largest optical telescope in the northern hemisphere, the Gran Telescopio Canarias (Grantecan) on La Palma, Spain, uses HEIDENHAIN model ERA 780C angle encoders.

In accordance with DIN EN ISO 14021, an Efficiency Label is now being affixed to all TopTherm PLUS cooling units.

The first step in any power quality strategy is developing a complete understanding of your electrical environment, implementing a good power distribution system design and using good grounding techniques. If you want virtually maintenance free protection from a wide range of power problems, the constant voltage transformer, correctly applied, is still one of the best forms of total power conditioning.

Advanced ID Asia incorporated the AS3990 UHF RFID “Simply Gen2” Reader Chip into their latest product, the PR110 handheld RFID reader.

The wizard builder creates connection wizards for communication between process controllers (DCSes and PLCs) and PC based software.

Manufacturers can learn about the GS and CE Markings, with details about their purposes and differences, in a new white paper by TÜVRheinland.

AirSprite Technologies joined as a founding member.

Wolowec is Vice-president, Solutions Business at Endress+Hauser. He is replacing former PTO Board member Todd Hubbell.

ABB is supplying a System 800xA for the Sri Chamundeswari cogeneration plant in Karnataka state, southern India.

Graham Partners partnered with Inverness Graham Investments on the transaction.

SoftBrasil is the South American distribution channel for MatrikonOPC products and solutions.

CD includes product animations, handbook, white papers and catalogs covering the structural design, operating principles and characteristics of linear motion technology components.

Honeywell will supply Profit Suite and engineering services for the S-OIL Corporation Onsan refinery.

The brochure highlights specific sensor and instrumentation available for pressure monitoring, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and control applications in hazardous factory environments.

Prior to joining IMI, he worked at Accutech Instrumentation Solutions, FCx Performance and IRD Mechanalysis.

Transformers are IEEE802.3af-compliant and available in three sizes (EP7, EP10 and EP13) for 3W, 7W and 13W applications.

Fifteen educators from across the United States have won awards sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation and 3M.