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Transparency Market Research says the Photonic IC market was valued at USD 160.1 million in 2012, which is expected to reach USD 996.2 million by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 31.3% from 2013 to 2019.

Piecewise Controller Design for Affine Fuzzy Systems

Growth in this market is driven by the use of ultrasonic flowmeters for custody transfer applications and the resulting product development of multipath meters. Inline ultrasonic meters account for two-thirds of revenues, with the remainder divided between clamp-on and insertion meters.

This 12-page brochure contains detailed information of Mencom industrial connectors.

InStep’s PRiSM software uses advance pattern recognition to provide a quantitative comparison between current and historical asset operational behavior for the early identification of equipment health and performance problems.

The 8,900-square-foot facility features a training room, demonstration room and office space.

If an article is written by the sales and marketing department, be on the lookout for a biased view of a product or service.

The next five years will be extremely fruitful for device makers; the market should reach $70B by 2018, before decreasing.

Deutsche Messe had consolidated revenues of more than €312 million and a net profit of €13.4 million, its second best result since 2001.

ISA announced the training courses and preliminary technical program for its 2014 Process Control & Safety Symposium, to be held 7-9 October 2014 in Houston, Texas.

NASA's Ames Research Center had a need for a rugged, wide-input, compact PC to oversee all navigation and data collection processes for one of their ongoing planetary rover projects.

The software grants are for students in manufacturing programs at community colleges and universities in Virginia.

Schmit was most recently Executive Vice President at Daifuku Webb Holding Company.

WAYJUN WJ60 series 8-ch DI/DO Isolated Digital Signal Module has a Slim-line plastic housing with integral 35mm DIN rail mounting , terminals, and power supply(8-32VDC)

HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG closed fiscal year 2013 with record sales of 105 million euros. This 16% increase in sales over the previous year was significantly higher than the industry average growth rate. Orders received thus far in 2014 indicate that double-digit sales growth will also be achieved this year.

Transparency Market Research has announced the addition of the "Circuit Breakers and Fuses Market- Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013 - 2019" report to their offering.

12 technical sessions and 35 technical papers covered leading-edge topics in sampling, chromatography, spectroscopy, chemiluminescence and other analytical techniques.

Based on xCORE microcontrollers from XMOS and Synapticon’s SOMANET technology, the kits enable efficient, standards-compliant and safe motion control applications, ranging from simple single-axis solutions to distributed motion control systems.

Sercos hosted 25 technology and automation vendors and end users to its 13th PlugFest on May 7 and 8 at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Herbert Senzano Lopes, a master’s degree student at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), designed a solution to show how flare gas from pipelines could be reused to generate energy.

Customers of pressure gauges and temperature measurement products can now order online through the USG Factory Direct E-Store.

The brochure lists ABB measurement products that may be applied to the various components, such as well heads, separators, fracking fluids, pump jacks, tank levels, storage, and gas transmission.

At four plants, Metso will supply an extensive Metso DNA automation system for all process controls and plant information management.

MicroCal has a 30-year history of developing and supplying microcalorimeters, used extensively to study proteins and other biomolecules in drug discovery and development.

Reference Recorders Shake Up Old Standards

aeSolutions will market and deliver ISA's series of safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management courses throughout North America.

Plant owners are particularly interested in security products, services, and solutions that can detect and delay threats and are able to employ cutting-edge innovation and technology.

By installing the eWON VPN routers and Talk2M Internet-based remote access system, Aquatic Engineering & Construction is able to monitor and quickly resolve issues on its heavy-duty tensioner equipment, located onboard remote marine vessels.

WAYJUN products carry the CE approval for safety.

In the industrial production process, there are many continuous variables, such as temperature, pressure, flow, level and speed all are analog. To make the programmable controller to handle analog signal, need achieve the A / D or D / A conversion.

With Modbus, RS485/232 to Analog Current or Voltage Signal Converters, 12-bit DA converter, analog signal output accuracy>0.2%

Transparency Market Research has announced the addition of the "Motor Vehicle Sensor Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012 – 2018" report to their offering.

Metso will supply a DNA automation system, IQ quality control system, IQ Dilution Profiler for a dilution headbox, and a IQ Moisturizer system for moisture profiling to Pratt Industries in Valparaiso, Indiana.

ABB and Marbles Kids Museum are launching a play-based power grid exhibit, called Kid Grid, to generate interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in young children.

Rotork valve actuators upgrade and automate flow control equipment in many areas of Thames Water’s operations.

Spectrum Technologies supplied an enamel stripping system for the magnet wire coils used in the stators for the gear box in Volkswagen's latest range of electric engines.

Shah is responsible for R&D, new product development, and product & technology strategy by working closely with key customers.

LEAP represents a departure from the way plants are typically designed and built by using parallel workflows to keep automation systems off critical implementation paths.

Pepperl+Fuchs’ F31K2 valve position feedback sensor survives the harsh and corrosive environment found at Dutch salt-making company Frisia Zout.

Established in 1974 in Cambridge, UK, the company started off in a small building with just a few employees but now has three manufacturing locations and several offices in ten countries.

Next Frontier for the Operator-Automation Relationship

Delta’s CliQ and CliQ II DIN rail power supply and module series have more models now certified according to ATEX Directive 94/9/EC with group II, category 3G (Zone 2), nA or nA nC type of protection, IIC with T4 temperature class according to IEC/EN 60079-0 and IEC/EN 60079-15.

By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been significant automation in petrochemical processing plants. However, it is surprising how little automation has been adopted in other parts of the oil & gas industry. This has changed over the last four years because the cost of operations is growing faster than profit margins.

The first official certificate for a successfully tested EtherCAT device was issued not long after the new North American EtherCAT Test Center was accredited by the ETG.

ITTIA's research says DB SQL significantly outperforms SQLite in write throughput, boasting high insert and update performance both on flash media and hard disk.

AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel formed IIC earlier this year to support better access to data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds. Moxa is one of the first industrial automation companies to join the Consortium.

By Kevin Callahan, Alerton BAS are getting more powerful and easy to use all the time. Key features and benefits to look for this year include BAS software, control modules and wall sensors.

The identification of deadtime and ramp rate can provide tuning, rapid modeling, and future values for smart reset, feedforward, and setpoint responses.

By Punya Prakash, Texas Instruments Building automation systems are striving to keep up with a renaissance in processing prowess by incorporating hierarchical and distributed architectures, low-power processing and control capabilities, advanced sensors and many other exciting new technologies. In fact, sometimes the most pressing challenge is how to make sense of it all.

The HART Communication Protocol is now a China National Standard (GB/T 29910.1-6-2013) approved by the Standardization Administration of the China Industrial Department.

Rotalec has been a distributor of high technology industrial machine automation products, product identification systems, and mill products for over 30 years.

The Engelberger Robotics Award will be presented to Dr. Rodney Brooks, Dr. Rory Cooper and Dr. Vijay Kumar.

General’s CEO and senior management team remain in charge.

Open Systems International will replace the existing SCADA/EMS system at Sharjah Electricity & Water Authority in the United Arab Emirates with a new SCADA/EMS system based on OSI’s monarch platform.

Blakeway also is Omron Corporation Executive Officer, and Chairman, President and CEO of Omron Management Center Of America.

As U.S. manufacturing recorded the greatest monthly increase so far in 2014, a survey involving members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) also points to an upswing in the automation industry.

Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.

The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.

Anglia will distribute and market the full Bel portfolio of circuit protection, magnetics and interconnect devices to OEMs throughout the UK and Ireland.

Epicor-sponsored research reveals that manufacturers with the right software tools to track and manage performance metrics come out on top -- outperforming competitors by up to 10% in areas such as manufacturing cost reduction, net profit margin increases, and on-time delivery.

Total machine components grew 29% in the first quarter, while total machine vision systems grew six percent, according to statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group.

By Thomas Waggershauser, HMS Industrial Networks The growing demands in the number of nodes, transfer rates, and cycle times lead to bottlenecks that the limitations of classic CAN (8 data bytes and 1 Mbit/s data rate) cannot fulfil: CAN FD significantly extends the usable data rate and usable data length.

Various wireless topologies can be employed to meet the demands of industrial wireless applications, including star, tree, mesh, and cluster.

Shipments of primary plastics equipment for reporting companies totaled an estimated $300.5 million in Q1, up 11 percent when compared with the same quarter of 2013.

One function of the new E3-research project will be to see where humans fit into an automated factory.

Bestobell Marine will supply globe and check valves in sizes DN25 up to DN350, for the cargo containment system onboard the vessel, as well as supplying a FLIV (float level isolation valve) for the secondary float measurement system.

AVEVA will supply its Enterprise Resource Management suite and Everything3D design software to AMEC’s worldwide offices. AMEC employs around 27,000 people in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Tritec Systems is an established UK systems integrator, with over twenty years of experience providing industrial automation and control systems, software, support and training.

Prior to this appointment, he was vice president/general manager of the Advanced Solutions line of business for HPS.

Metso will supply a Pulp Expert automatic pulp laboratory with consistency, freeness, tensile, dirt, brightness and High-Definition fiber and shive measurements to Zellstoff Celgar, a supplier of market kraft pulp, located in Castlegar, British Columbia.

The mine hoists will help Boliden raise production from 1.4 to 2.5 million tons per year.

Westec makes more than 6,000 products, including a wide range of junction boxes, multi-pole connectors, and connector assemblies for automation, robotics and other harsh-duty industrial applications.

4-20mA/0-5V to RS485/232 signal isolated converters

Industrial researchers model an accumulator used in industrial elastic web processing plant to allow changing the material roll while the rest of the line remains at a constant web velocity.

This certification allows Midwest Engineering Systems to custom build industrial control panels and display the UL Mark on the panels.