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The PLCs will control the sedimentation process of the concentrating mill at Europe's largest gold mine: Agnico Eagle's mine in northern Finland which is 150 km inside the Arctic circle near the town of Kittila.

ISA Education Programs in March Feature Wide Offerings

This tool allows companies to combat the increasing talent shortage and achieve stronger performance from their workforce while providing clear development pathways and career growth opportunities for their employees.

Exida certified the LESV-Flow Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

Bestobell Marine will supply cryogenic globe, check and FLIV valves for the 173K LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Carrier being constructed for Teekay LNG Partners LP of Canada.

Werum is a provider of software for production control and production monitoring for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.

As main automation contractor for the massive upgrade, Emerson provided technologies and services that helped enable the Chicago-area refinery modernize its facility to process advantaged crude supplies.

Simple To Complex Machinery Guarding Solution From a simple to complex machine guarding, Tapeswitch Corporation offers a full product line of trapped key power isolation and machine access solutions that is custom configured to your machinery power type, access point structures doors, hatches, gates, control panel lock-out, and power isolation operation and trapped key access lock-out component configuration.

UOP's 1,000th system for purifying hydrogen is being installed at Ruwais Refinery, United Arab Emirates, and operated by the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (TAKREER).

Tapeswitch Corporation Offers : New Programmable, Mini, Type 3, CAT 3 Safety Laser Scanner For A Simple To Complex Machine Guarding/Area Guarding Solution for Machine Builders and Users.

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Mexican manufacturers are the second-largest importers of U.S. packaging and processing machinery, because companies like Nestlé and PepsiCo are expanding manufacturing operations there.

By Bill Lydon, Editor At Automation Fair 2013, I spoke with Rockwell Automation’s Frank Kulaszewicz about the progress on their new architecture developments. The new controller architecture will consist of a backplane and each module will have its own IP address. Every motor drive, intelligent overload, intelligent sensor, intelligent light curtain, and other device will have an IP address.

Application Finder intelligent software tool allows users to search for the appropriate laser profile sensor by considering a number of application-related search criteria.

The HIMax Programmable Electronic System fire & gas detection system will be installed on the Kittiwake Oil Platform in UK North Sea.

Brad Steege and Joe Mustari are Subject Matter Experts that can address custom technical wire and cable, retractile cords, cable assembly and connector needs.

Use a smart transmitter & smart electrodes and do standardization and/or periodic buffer calibrations based on electrode life expectancy.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The improvement of manufacturing productivity and quality requires sharing data and synchronizing controllers. This can now be accomplished by using new standards that were jointly developed by PLCopen and the OPC Foundation.

Codenomicon, a Finland-based cybersecurity company, specializes in identifying unknown software bugs.

ISA will conduct four highly intensive technical training events—comprised of technician, automation engineering and safety courses—in Denver, Houston, and Carson, California during 2014.

Franklin Control Systems moved into a 60,000 sq. ft. engineering and production facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, doubling the company’s space under a single roof.

By Andrew Stuart, Honeywell Process Solutions Today, plant personnel have access to new human-machine interface (HMI) solutions providing the ability to display and interact with system or plant-wide data. This enables high-quality collaboration with the field or with experts in other locations.

ABB replaced all of the electrical equipment including 5500KW motors, converter, transformer, motor control centers, switchgear and mechanical auxiliary equipment such as the cooling system pump skid, chillers and fin-fan heat exchangers.

Northeast Lantern selected Rootstock’s Cloud Manufacturing ERP to track inventory and have vision on its production flow on the floor.

Established in 1994, AP Dataweigh is an American manufacturer of in-motion checkweigher machinery.

The 2014 ISA FPID Symposium will be held 5-6 March 2014 at ISA headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

The Fieldbus Foundation postponed its 2014 General Assembly in Rotterdam due to travel and security restrictions associated with the upcoming Global Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Schülein has over 30 years' experience in the field of automation technology. He spent the last 25 years working for the Baumüller Nürnberg Group.

exida certified that the Detcon FP-700 Combustible Gas Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

The key to implementing an optimal, balanced industrial cybersecurity solution is to focus on designing plant connectivity with a high level of security from the ground up. It is important to assess y

Following a strong year in 2012, the North American robotics market recorded its best year ever in 2013 in terms of robot shipments, according to the Robotic Industries Association.

As development and technology partners in the area of specialty photoelectric sensors, the companies are connected by a long-standing cooperation venture.

Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7 percent to over 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in the 2013 financial year.

When released, the adapter will enable wired field instruments or analytical sensors to be used as ISA100 Wireless devices.

Schneider Electric added EtherNet/IP Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to the ConneXium Tofino Firewall to further harden industrial control systems against network incidents and cyberattacks.

TechwaY will be the distirbutor in France for high-speed, high-resolution cameras.

Parker Remote Manager mobile application lets users monitor and control Interact Xpress and Parker Factory Display products.

Through the donations of Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and TriNova, Polk State College will be the new home to a $1 million, state-of-the-art PTU (Process Training Unit).

Manual explains the Moog Animatics Class 5 SmartMotor support for the CANopen protocol.

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the 2013 Rockwell Automation Fair, Cisco described how their routers are becoming distributed embedded computer devices, intended to process and react to information from devices and sensors at the edge of the network. Could your next automation controller be embedded in an Ethernet switch?

Pumping applications with a variable-flow requirement can lower energy and life-cycle costs with the application of a variable-speed motor to deliver the desired process flow rate

Video walls have been installed in Emerson’s Houston Hydrocarbon and Energy Center and at the iOps (Intelligent Operations) Center in Austin, Texas.

By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research In a manufacturing organization, understanding what’s happening at the plant level is crucial because it’s where the rubber really hits the road. Having visibility into shop-floor operations is important for achieving several company goals, like meeting customer demands, identifying lagging assets, and reducing manufacturing costs.

The Twin Cities Section presented “Best Use of Automation”award to Grandview Middle School in Mound, Minnesota, in conjunction with a national engineering competition.

Dave Edstrom, recently past President and Chairman of the Board of the MTConnect Institute, joined the senior management team as Chief Technology Officer.

The fifteen-year-old Automation Systems Interconnect (ASI) reports that more than 8,000 satisfied customers have purchased directly through ASI or a franchised distributor.

Festo signed distributors for Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas.

A detailed understanding of instrumentation is critical for any automation professional.

While some Trackmotion modules were fabricated and machined in Switzerland, the entire product line is now built in the US.

Softing's PROFINET device implementation has passed the Class III category of the "Net Load Test" performed by PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI).

End users are looking to reduce energy consumption and operational costs by replacing old motors with more energy-efficient ones.

This 250-page reference describes theoretical and practical considerations involved in the measurement of low DC currents, high resistances, low DC voltages, and low resistances.

By Chuck Cimalore, Omnify Software With the ability to share information across the enterprise, PLM technology touches many phases of the engineering design and manufacturing cycle.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation now offers connections to complementary products from other vendors through the e-F@ctory Alliance Program.

Aero Stanrew is a designer and manufacturer of electromagnetic components and electronic systems to the aerospace, defence, oil & gas and space markets.

Cisco estimates there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2020. These devices are creating a tidal wave of data that is expensive to move to existing cloud environments for analysis and conversion to useful content.

The $140 million manufacturing hub in Raleigh -- combining 18 companies and many universities and labs -- has the potential to fast-forward development of some products by at least a decade.

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Prior to joining SL Power Electronics, Croal was the Vice President/General Manager of AMETEK’s Programmable Power Division.

The OPC Data-UA toolkit was certified by the OPC Foundation for OPC UA client development.

The Energy Management Information System will provide real-time monitoring, analysis and detection of excessive plant energy consumption.

SCADA/DMS provides smart grid modeling, analysis and automation capabilities, including Distribution Power Flow, Fault Location, Isolation and Service Restoration, Feeder Reconfiguration and Volt/VAR Control.

Red Lion installed a remote connectivity solution that provides monitoring and control throughout EPM¹s power distribution network, helping to save time and reduce costs.

BEI Kimco built a permanent life testing station to assess and substantiate actual actuator life cycle capabilities.

The Design Guide was updated to reflect the new signals adopted with the PICMG COM.0 R2.1 specification, and includes design rules and guidance for the latest high-speed interfaces, including PCI Express Gen3, SuperSpeed USB and SATA 6Gb/s.

By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.

Simone Wakefield was also appointed Executive Vice President and retains her role as Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation.

The sensors will be used on the BLOODHOUND SSC Project – the 1,000 mph land speed record attempt that is scheduled to take place in 2016.

Having historically used measurement services providers, PVR wants to build a measurement department from the ground up.

The new building is located in Warrendale, PA, a little more than 10 miles from their previous location in Emsworth. Both cities are suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Drones may soon offer a cost-effective and scalable alternative to traditional palletizing methods, as demonstrated by this video.

App is for any novice or experienced engineer who uses motion control products in their industrial automation machinery.

The ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system has obtained the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.