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Aqsens QS performs on-site quantitative monitoring of polymeric scale inhibitors in oil field-produced waters.

By Bob Goossens, Acieta Robots protect workers from jobs hazardous to their health, increase capacity and enable new products that couldn’t be produced any other way. It’s hard to think of a manufacturing job that a robot can’t perform faster and with better repeatability.

$1 million worth of robots will be working in the hospitality, food and beverage industry in Southeast Asia.

The market was valued at USD 12.85 billion in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 7.0% from 2015 to 2021 to account for USD 20.57 billion in 2021.

Solenoids can be 2-way, 3-way, 4-way or 5-way?

Already in 2015 China had 85% of the global manufacture capacity of RFID tags, with over 150 RFID companies operating in the country.

KPI-ML will help manufacturing companies implement the ISO 22400 standard thereby increasing the flow of key performance indicators within a business.

The 61st Annual ISA International Instrumentation Symposium was held May 12 at the Westin Hotel in Huntsville, Alabama

Flowserve received orders totaling approximately $18 million for pumping systems for the Petroperú Talara refinery in Piura, Peru.

The 10th Annual ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium, will be held 4-6 August 2015 in Orlando, Florida.

Benefits such as greater flexibility, faster recovery, cost effective, automated and simpler to test are some key factors driving the growth of global DRaaS market.

Advocacy is one of ISA’s long-term strategic objectives and at the core of the Automation Federation’s mission.

The patent-pending inductive technique has already been used over temperature ranges of several hundred degrees Celsius with a accuracy of 1°C and could replace existing contact methods such as thermocouples and infrared.

RESOLUTE encoders provide position feedback and control accuracy in Instron’s ElectroPuls systems for fatigue testing.

The linear guidance systems form part of the assembly jigs for the Airbus A350 wings, which are currently being assembled at the Airbus site in Broughton, UK.

ABB opened a new robotics plant at its facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

New industrial automation industry standards are enablers for leveraging new technology for the process industries.

Transparent In-Line Encryption (TILE) provides security at the industrial field device level.

MCAA predicts a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 4.3 percent for the Process Instrumentation and Automation market.

By Igor Glikin, Tolomatic Most electromechanical rodless actuators commonly use one of two main drive trains to convert rotary motion of the electrical motor to linear motion of the actuator’s load-carrying device: a power screw drive or a timing belt drive. Here’s how to select drive trains for reliability, efficiency and long service life.

LCR will use ADLINK products in its line of fully integrated embedded computing systems.

By Jason Spera, Aegis By adopting a true paperless environment, and not just displaying PDFs, a factory can increase yields, quality and traceability while reducing costs and eliminating many of the risks associated with incorrect or badly controlled documentation.

By Jeff Nedwick, Infor Automotive One of the first steps needed to address the generational divide is to acknowledge the perceptions each generation has about the manufacturing industry and each other.

UC-8100 embedded computing platform is now certified to operate on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.

The global cloud security market was worth US$ 4.50 Bn in 2014 and is expected to reach US$ 11.84 Bn by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 12.8% from 2015 to 2022

By Bill Lydon, Editor In an article titled 'Is it time for a new automation architecture?' I posed a question that stemmed from a number of discussions with users who believe our industry is stagnant. Many users voiced their opinions in an open discussion forum. They are frustrated with debates about which existing, outdated architectures are better. Many believe it’s time for a NEW architecture.

June 2015 offered a number of educational and technical training offerings from ISA.

By Jonathan Wilkins, European Automation

In liquid flow, what is the collapse or implosion of bubbles called?

Over 500 people attended the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) Executive Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., which was held April 29 – May 2, 2015

Web software has been expanded to include air conditioners, heat exchangers, fans and blowers in a single user-friendly program.

Reflecting the EPA’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, the symposium, to be held 19 May through 21 May in New Orleans, will outline the direction and recommendations needed to follow best practices

La Pierrette produces synthetic sapphires and rubies for luxury watch movements. A Keyence IM Series system watches over the process.

Universal Robots is a supplier of collaborative robots that work side by side with production workers.

The highest power-rated medium voltage (MV) drives ever used in a reversing roughing mill were commissioned by ABB at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot hot strip mill in South Wales.

Parker Hannifin is sponsoring Victory Motorcycles as they compete in the 2015 Isle of Man TT Zero Challenge on June 10.

PID controllers for front-end production rate, slurry concentration & average fermentation time can decrease costs and increase production rates for ethanol plants.

The sensors provide curve detection and derailment protection for trains traveling 186 mph.

Enhancements in WeConfig 1.2 enable time consuming and complex configuration of large networks to be implemented reliably in just minutes.

The Tuning Akademie racing team uses the sensors to measure the distance between the vehicle and the road surface to determine the aerodynamic balance and respective downforce at the from the rear axles.

AutomationDirect now carries the Eaton FAZ series breaker family.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $399.83 million, up 30.3% from February’s $306.96 million but down 18.7% when compared with March 2014.

Canonaco most recently worked at Omron as General Manager and Vice President of Sales for Canada.

This SITO technology offers a sensitive, accurate and fast touch response. It can be easily customized to work with a device’s unique bezel and electronic requirements.

A Cognex DataMan 300 is able to read IDs on process-free printing plates at NELA, replacing other scanners that could not see the virtually invisible IDs.

Matrox Extio F2408 KVM extenders were installed at New Zealand’s National Control Centres, which operate the National Grid power system.

Enhancements in Version 5.2 include PowerMap, Rail Inspector and RailScope features to simplify design of densely populated power systems

An ISA technical paper presents an improved reinforcement learning method to minimize electricity costs on the premise of satisfying the power balance and generation limit of units in a microgrid with

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the 2015 ARC Forum in February Bedrock Automation demonstrated additional features to the company’s automation controller product. These features exemplify their technology leadership and reflect their commitment to delivering integrated, easy to use, scalable, and secure products. I reviewed the following new new features with Albert Rooyakkers, Bedrock Founder, CTO, and VP Engineering.

Watzke will be based in Chicago and is responsible for all Lenze operations outside of Europe including the USA, China and India.

Micrel is a manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide analog, Ethernet and high-bandwidth markets.

TRW Automotive in Germany uses 80 WIN wireless transmitter units to monitor machine status.

By Lance Doherty, et al, Linear Technology One of the visions of the Internet of Things is to be able to measure and instrument things that have never before been measured. Applications call for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to deliver wire-like performance and yet be practical to deploy.

“Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide” by Gregory K. McMillan has been updated to deliver more precise and optimal tuning for nearly all types of applications in the process industries.

Since July of 2014, Duncan has been chief operating officer (COO)

Donations to Purdue University included process measurement instrumentation, a control system, control panels, servers, hardware, piping, large industrial water tanks, pumps, valves, cabling, and engineering guidance.

Which type of flowmeter measures flow by measuring volume directly?

KION will purchase the Handling Automation division for an enterprise value of approximately € 72 million.

ANSI C12.19-2012 defines a table structure for utility application data to be passed between an end device and any other device.

Association plans to recognize those it sees taking active steps to raise the understanding of the role and business value of Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions.

Designed for working pressures as high as 22,500 PSI, ‘flared cone’ technology advances the performance of compression style tube connections for instrumentation systems.

The overall automation market is expected to reach $125 billion by 2018 at a CAGR of 7.3%.

Connect Tech will sell ADLINK products in off-the-shelf and custom carrier boards for rugged and industrial automation applications throughout North America.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is connecting the physical and virtual worlds. It has brought people, processes and equipment together, from sensors and smart devices to entire systems. The proliferation of smarter end points, data analytics, scalable computing, mobility and visualization are reshaping the future of industrial automation.

Catalog covers Digital Panel Meters and Control Instrumentation

The symposium was held April 26-30 in Galveston, Texas.

The move was driven by the introduction of phase two of the EU’s IE3 efficiency level legislation for electric motors in Europe.

A team of researchers from the Cornell University have said that they have discovered a breakthrough transistor technology. The findings of the study, which were published in the Nature journal, state that the team has found an exceptionally efficient novel method of producing transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD).

Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR), a family-run company in the United States, recently announced that it has shattered an existing world record for recycling the highest volume of e-waste in a week. The company said that this feat now takes them to the Guinness Book of World Records, replacing the current contender who hails from Australia.

Close collaboration between humans and robots, working as colleagues on assembly lines and in other applications, will be a large part of the future of industrial robotics. Robots will need to develop

By Bryant Bell, EMC Enterprise Content Division Virtually every company has information stored in multiple applications, here’s how to search for information across all of them simultaneously.

Georg Bretthauer retires after 13 years, and Hans Jakob Roth is the successor.

Sealevel Systems will provide computing and I/O solutions for OEMs using ADLINK's computer-on-module (COM) and Sealevel's custom carrier board technology.

2014 bookings in the process measurement and automation industry grew approximately 14.2% to $3.9 Billion.

Rockwell Automation has been named as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies” for the seventh time by the Ethisphere Institute, a recognition that honors companies that continuously improve ethical leadership and corporate behavior at every level of their organizations.