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Toshiba GE Turbine Components is buying its MAXOS non-contact measurement system to inspect and measure turbine blades.

Emerson will supply DeltaV, AMS Suite software, Fisher control valves, Rosemount transmitters, and safety systems on the Golar Freeze, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessel.

Movie magic will make 18 ABB Robots appear to be an almost endless manufacturing line of robots on the Terminator factory floor, mass producing a growing army of the Terminators.

Roxar provides subsea instrumentation and software to help operators monitor production continuously and observe and control oil and gas fields from remote locations.

The new system is helping improve operational efficiency and productivity by providing a way to reliably monitor, diagnose and maintain water equipment and processes.

Long sold in Asia, MasterLogic is now sold, delivered and supported by Honeywell’s global organization.

SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines will be supplied to the Bison I wind project, located near Center, North Dakota, and will be built in two phases.

Automation expenditures by the upstream oil and gas sector, which includes exploration, production, and pipelines, are expected to grow at an annual rate of nine percent over the next five years.

PLCopen is launching a new initiative in the Motion Control working group to extend the specifications to fluid power.

Woods brings a wealth of manufacturing experience to the Association For Manufacturing Technology, having worked at everything from small tool and die shops up to multibillion-dollar machine tool corporations.

Catalog covers signal conditioning, data acquisition, and data communication products.

“Think Outside the Chip: MEMS-Based Systems Solutions” all-day session presents information on the partitioning, integrating and creating of MEMS- based systems and their applications.

Tools cover three primary areas where industrial networking issues can occur: the network, electrical signaling, and cabling infrastructure.

Kelly previously was President of the Remote Automation Solutions division of Emerson Electric.

The DeltaV system with AMS Device Manager has passed the Host Registration Program (HRP) requirements.

Prior to joining Baumer, he served as President and CEO of Fischer Connectors as well as President and CEO of EAO Switch.

PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment.

An iCAP 6000 Series Duo ICP emission spectrometer detects trace contaminants in brine - aqueous sodium chloride (NaCl).

Servomex will supply a complete gas monitoring system for a new Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA) plant being built by Artenius in Portugal.

ABB won transformer orders worth around $30 million from NTPC Limited in India for its Mauda Super Thermal Power Project and Tapovan Vishnugad HydroElectric Power Project.

Emerson intends to work inside the PNO to keep the implementation of EDDL aligned across all protocols.

METTLER TOLEDO Process Analytics acquired the RAMS product monitoring systems for turbidity and color from INNOTECH GbR, a Germany based company.

Allied Vision increased the floor space of its US Subsidiary in Newburyport, MA, and strengthened its sales team with two new representatives.

After traveling to Germany last week for Hannover Messe (Fair), the world's largest industrial trade show, I was struck again by the difference in how engineers are perceived in Germany versus the U.S. German Engineering is often revered as a high quality engineering standard. I'm convinced that this reverence has everything to do with the deep-rooted culture surrounding engineering in Germany.

ABB won substation orders worth around $100 million from Powergrid, India’s national transmission utility, to boost capacity and help improve grid reliability.

November 18-20, 2009 New York, NY Meeting has a comprehensive program of workshops, round table discussions and talks addressing current topics in lab automation.

Dr. Douglas White received the AIChE Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (FPD) award, one of two FPD annual awards, for his outstanding technological contributions to the advancement of these industries.

The 28-page full-color catalog provides an overview of flow sensor and controller products and solutions.

In the video, Dr. Peter Martin discusses energy management in the context of five areas that process manufacturers can monitor and control in real-time to maximize profit.

The CL11 single board computer will be deployed as part of the Cabin Electronics system onboard Airbus aircraft.

MAVERICK Technologies will sell aspenONE Production Management & Execution, Advanced Process Control and Operator Training Simulators (OTS).

FDT2.0 has been initiated with the goal to evolve the current FDT Technology to meet user feedback and requirements.

ZigBee will incorporate global IT standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) into its specification portfolio of low-power wireless networking standards.

ABB’s automatic rail-mounted gantry cranes (ARMGs) have revolutionized the way that containers are handled in container terminals the world over.

Rosemount wireless transmitters include five measuring pressure, one differential pressure, and one temperature; each measurement point has redundant communication to the RTU via two or three routes.

PLCopen is a non-profit industry organization dedicated to improving the programming efficiency control and automation engineers by providing information, training, and fostering communications between users, vendors, educators and others.

Honeywell joined CSIA, North America’s largest organization for independent control systems integrators.

Kepware will deliver Windows CE communications solutions for use with ICONICS embedded SCADA and visualization products for machine builders and Panel OEMs.

Wireless Designer simplifies the task of planning and specifying wireless networks.

OSI will use ISaGRAF v5 for the new Automation Control Platform (ACP) option on their OSIRIS Secure RTU.

Stoney Creek Secondary school in Orchard Park, Canada, won the ‘Motorola Quality,’ Delphi “Driving Tomorrow’s Technology,” and the General Motors ‘Industrial Design’ awards.

The worldwide market for Inductive Sensors is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 1.3 percent over the next five years.

210,000 visitors came to Hannover to see 6,150 exhibitors from 61 countries. 70% of the visitors were from Europe, 25% came from abroad, but only 7% came from the Americas.

ABB won an order worth $14 million to provide a complete electrical balance of plant (eBoP) solution for a 150-megawatt integrated, combined-cycle solar power plant under construction in Algeria.

By Northwire Different interpretations of NFPA-79 have generated articles in trade publications and on Web sites, in white papers and in discussions and debates. This paper provides information to sort out the misperceptions perpetuated about NFPA-79.

Lundy has extensive experience in the maintenance and reliability field and is a certified Level 3 Vibration Analyst.

ABB’s first-quarter 2009 revenues rose 3 percent to $7.2 billion while orders decreased by 3 percent to $9.2 billion.

FLT93 Tank Level Switch is now rated for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 compliant service by the testing laboratory TUV NORD CERT GmbH.

The order, which also encompasses GlobalCare support services, is worth more than $1 million and will be deployed in 350 sites worldwide.

Power Efficiency's EcoStart was installed on twenty moving walks at Boston Logan International Airport, saving 60,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year.

Industry Canada certified the inRAx flow computer’s gas measurement values are accurate to the degree that they can be used in the transfer of ownership.

Site includes resources for safety automation issues, with emphasis on machine safety, process safety, safety services, legislation and standards.

CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System and STARDOM Network-based Control System are certified by the Fieldbus Foundation as Integrated Host Class systems.

Catalog covers Banner's machine safety product line, which includes safety light screens, safety laser scanners, fiber optic safety systems, safety controllers and modules, two-hand control modules and emergency stop devices.

SERCOS III will be the first high performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

A specification for an encoder profile for the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet protocol is being developed in consultation with users and suppliers and will be available in November 2009.

Website showcases Ethernet, BACnet, ARCNET and Controller Area Network (CAN) technologies in multiple industries, and makes it easier for users to access an extensive technical library and eStore.

Emerson is the main instrumentation and controls contractor for the Qatargas 2 project, the world’s largest facility for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Kepware Technologies has been selected as an Encompass Global partner by Rockwell Automation.

ATEX certification for amplified, Hall effect and magnetoresistive speed sensors covers an ambient temperature range from –40 to 80C.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo visited ABB’s stand in Hannover, Germany.

The service center now has 21,500 square feet of industrial and office space and serves the eastern United States.

Brochure gives a complete overview of particle size analyzers for the cement industry.

Grazier is Investigation Scientist & Science Planning Engineer for the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

By Nathan Xavier, Rittal Modular freestanding enclosures offer a number of key advantages when compared to traditional unibody enclosures. Many times these attributes are overlooked either out of a false perception of increased enclosure costs, a reluctance to change or a simple lack of awareness to the possible benefits of modular solutions.

The oil companies are using compliance-certified OPC technology from Cyberlogic to aggregate information from legacy OPC servers and build reliable, redundant information systems that can handle volumes of data efficiently.

An independent jury selected the company on the basis of its newly developed mechatronic drive system allowing for the highly dynamic speed control of wind turbine rotors.

Each day, Phoenix Contact's USA YouTube channel will feature a five- to ten-minute video detailing news from the show, including customer and employee interviews, product launches and other show highlights.

System 800xA was registered as a FOUNDATION fieldbus host system after it passed the Fieldbus Foundation’s Host Profile Registration Process.

ABB demonstrated technologies and equipment for the emerging Smart Grid to U.S. Senators and staff at a Smart Grid Demo Day in Washington, DC.

PAC8000 SafetyNet has been approved by TUV for applications requiring the handling of safety and process control data in the same controller.

Specifier’s Guide is a resource of 11,000-plus enclosure products, accessories, and technical information.

Eight SERVOTOUGH Fluegas units, optimized to measure both 02 and COe, have been installed to monitor the oxygen burn mix for the combustion boilers at Drax Power Station in Selby, Yorkshire.

Five easy tips for factory and manufacturing facility owners and operators to reduce their carbon footprint and start reaping the savings.

Siemens Building Technologies supports the University of Missouri System event featuring keynote from T. Boone Pickens on April 22-23 in Columbia, Mo