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Bosch gets creative with fun diversions
Creative Diversions website offers unique and comical look at the engineering profession. Includes music, videos, and even signs related to all types of workplace humor. -
Emerson Sells Brooks Instrument
Emerson sold its Brooks Instrument unit on December 31, 2007, to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund for $100 million in cash. -
Podcast discusses challenges in manufacturing environments
Podcast covers challenges manufacturing environments face in providing real-time, actionable information from plant systems to both mobile and non-mobile employees. -
JAI Appoints Kinney Director of Pre-Sales and Support
Kinney will manage the company’s technical support group in the Americas and provide applications support to JAI’s North American sales efforts. -
PLX Technology uses Magma's IC Design software
PLX Technology implemented its PCIe Gen 2 switch family using Magma's RTL-to-GDSII integrated circuit (IC) design solution. -
Analytical Technology Launches Web Portal
Site contains information on ATi’s water and gas monitors, including product descriptions and literature, support drawings and specifications. -
GRSI opens office in Dallas-Fort Worth
GRSI has opened a new central U.S. regional office in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. GRSI supplies warehouse integration systems. -
Automation Federation works with Manufacturing Extension Partnership
MEP is a program coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. -
ISA99 Cyber Security Standard available
Part 1 focuses on key concepts, terminology and models, and will serve as a foundation for additional standards currently in development in the ISA99 series. -
IXXAT to develop Safety Stack Software for SERCOS
IXXAT will develop a portable stack software for the CIP Safety on SERCOS safety protocol. The stack software can be used for SERCOS master as well as SERCOS slaves. -
Frost & Sullivan predicts PLC sales in China to reach $1 billion in 2013.
Developing customized products for specific industries that have particular requirements could help companies attain an edge over competitors. -
SERCOS/IP Protocol Specification Released
The protocol allows standard Ethernet IP communication with a SERCOS III network both during cyclic real-time network operation and during non-real time operation. -
Cooper acquires Sure Power, OMNEX and Roam Secure
Combined sales for the three companies in 2007 will be approximately $62 million and the combined purchase price is approximately $100 million. -
Schneider Electric Opens Relay Competency Center
The RCC has a centralized team of experts who offer customer assistance, application development and relay design innovation for Square D and Telemecanique plug-in relays. -
ABB New Berlin wins OSHA award
OSHA presented ABB with the VPP Star Award. -
Siemens to power and pump TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline
Siemens will supply electrical equipment, electrical power supply and pumping equipment valued at 150 million Euros. -
Siemens supplies electrical equipment for cement plant in Saudi-Arabia
Siemens has an order from Orascom Construction, Egypt, to engineer and supply all the electrical equipment for the new cement works of the Al Safwa Cement Company, Saudi-Arabia. -
Siemens supplies two Gearless Mill Drives for mine in Venezuela
The drives improve the efficiency of grinding copper ore. The two drives are worth EUR 20 million and will enter service in 2009. -
ARC says Discrete Automation Will Continue Solid Growth
The worldwide market for discrete automation systems is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% over the next five years. -
Semaphore adds ISaGRAF 5 to Kingfisher G30 SCADA System
Kingfisher G30 embeds the ISaGRAF 5 control software environment to provide support both the IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499 standards. -
Honeywell to increase productivity at Swedish Pulp and Paper Mill
Honeywell automates quality control at Karlsborg plant with Da Vinci QCS. -
Omron STI publishes Guide to Detection and Measurement Scanners
The Guide details Omron STI’s family of measuring light curtains, part detection scanners, area detection sensors and vehicle detection scanners. -
Rexroth offers Hydraulic Training Courses
Customized training for new and existing mobile hydraulics and industrial hydraulics installations is available on-site. -
Circonix promotes Andrew Alaya to VP Engineering
Alaya began working at Circonix Technologies in 1999 as an engineering intern. Prior to his promotion, Alaya was responsible for managing software engineering and project execution. -
ARC says Process Electrochemical Systems Market to grow
The worldwide market for PES is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.3% over the next five years. -
Cooper makes tender Offer for MTL Instruments Group
Cooper Controls made a binding offer for all outstanding shares of MTL Instruments Group plc, a publicly traded company based in the United Kingdom. -
EtherCAT accepted as IEC Standard
EtherCAT is now an International Standard communication technology for SERCOS and CANopen drive profiles -
ISA Standards and Practices announces Awards
ISA awarded 13 individuals for exceptional service to ISA standards and practices activities in 2007. -
Visibility to lease ERP systems
The program provides financial options that reduce first year costs to as little as $50/mo for everything. -
ADVANCED Motion Controls donates 158 drives to universities
158 drives were donated toward 27 different projects at 19 institutions totaling over $40,000.00 in donations for servo drives and amplifiers. -
Rexroth publishes guidebook to Optimize Assembly Operations
“How to Optimize Your Assembly Operations” offers detailed comparison of assembly conveyor systems as well as supporting illustrations and charts. -
Innominate signs distributor in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based Vector InfoTech will represent Innominate throughout South East Asia as well as India, China and Saudi Arabia. -
Pittman gearmotors help TUG robot make hospital rounds
TUG robotic indoor transport system navigates autonomously to help eliminate repetitive and mundane tasks, reduce costs, and improve staff productivity. -
Misumi publishes mechanical components catalogs
The Metric and Inch catalogs have 3,000 pages with 500,000 mechanical components and other products for enhanced factory automation. -
Sealant Equipment publishes Dispense Valves Brochure
The brochure has eight product sections covering valves, mixers, shrouds, material regulators, dispense nozzles and accessories. -
ILS publishes Labeling Systems catalog
The Labeling, Barcoding, Data Collection Catalog includes label printing systems, automated print and apply systems, barcode and RFID data collection solutions. -
SEMI approves EtherCAT Industrial Ethernet
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has accepted EtherCAT as a SEMI standard. -
'Twas the night before Last
'Twas the night before last and all through the site, our visitors where browsing to get one last byte. -
Adept signs distributor for Australia and New Zealand
Adept Technology has signed ControlVision as its new regional distributor for Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). -
ABB to supply $440 million power link in China
The power superhighway running 1,240 miles from western China to the highly industrialized coastal area in the east, will have a capacity of 6,400MW. -
Allied Electronics adds Connector lines
Allied will distribute Hirschmann and Pass & Seymour industrial connectors, GCFI products, duplex receptacles, inlets and outlets, and plugs. -
Emerson brochure promotes using genuine Fisher replacement parts
Brochure topics include issues related to performance and safety, material quality, access to OEM specifications, and local Fisher parts support, warranties, and quick ship availability. -
NI announces DATEx Module for Teaching Telecommunications
With DATEx and ELVIS, students can visualize telecommunications concepts in a hands-on learning environment. -
NI's LabVIEW Tools Network has 400 tools and add-Ons
LabVIEW Tools Network expanded by more than 100 new tools developed by NI and third-party vendors in 2007. -
Flow Research Study Predicts Growth in Pressure Transmitter Market
Flow Research says the worldwide pressure transmitter market totaled $1.93 billion in 2006, with a projected yearly growth of 6.1 percent through 2011. -
SERCOS Opens a Branch Office in China
In addition to offices in the USA, Japan and Germany, this makes the fourth office that serves as a contact point for developers and users. -
ABB controls 100 MW solar power array in Spain
Andasol 1 and 2 will each generate 50 megawatts of emissions-free electricity using innovative technology that captures and concentrates sunlight in two vast solar fields of trough-shaped parabolic mirrors. -
Agilent publishes Application Notes on Using Linux in Test Systems
Free, multi-part series of application notes explain how to control test instruments using Linux. -
Bosch Rexroth AG announces Management Changes
Dr. Albert Hieronimus is now chairman of the Bosch Rexroth AG board of management and Dr. Karl Tragl has been appointed to the board. -
Sensor Technology's TorqSense sensor checks gearboxes
Centa Transmissions uses TorqSense to guarantee that the precision gearboxes it supplies to the nuclear industry will never fail prematurely.