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Transpara signs Bridge Incubation Group as distributor
Bridge Incubation Group will market Visual KPI throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. -
ABB to upgrade aluminum smelter in Dubai
ABB will provide control and protection systems, as well two new ABB SCADA systems for the rectiformer station control. -
Emerson to automate two new glass plants in China
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, DeltaV, intelligent field devices, and Foundation Fieldbus at Zhejiang Changxing glass plants in the Zhejiang Province. -
B&R supplies control technology to COMAU Robotics
B&R will supply modular servo drives, industrial PCs, and POWERLINK interfaces for COMAU's articulated arm robots. -
Matrikon signs CapuTech as distributor
CapuTech will act as an exclusive reseller and systems integrator for Matrikon Suite products in Texas and Louisiana. -
ISA forms WirelessHART Convergence Subcommittee
The subcommittee will compare the technology within the ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards, with an ultimate goal of merging the best of both standards. -
GE Fanuc completes acquisition of MOST from MTL
GE Fanuc completed the acquisition of assets of the MTL Open System Technologies (MOST) product lines. -
Walter Weisel, CEO of Paro Robots, dies
Weisel was a pioneer in robotics, with a career that spanned over 30 years of driving vast improvements in the technology and mindshare of the dynamic industry. -
Express Logic Joins Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation was created as an independent not-for-profit corporation to act as the steward of the Eclipse community. -
Software Toolbox OPC DataLogger passes OPC Test
Data Logger passes certification tests administered by the OPC Foundation’s Independent Certification Test Lab. -
UEI supplies I/O to replace VME on flight simulator
Flight Simulator manufacturer FlightSafety International switched from using VME systems to UEI’s Gigabit Ethernet RACKtangle I/O chassis. -
ABB to supply cement plant in Honduras with Knowledge Manager
Software will monitor new kiln line at Cementos del Norte’s plant in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to optimize production and performance -
Dematic automates Southern Wine and Spirits distribution center
By Jim McMahon Accumulation conveyors, slug merging and high-speed sortation combine to streamline waving, increase throughput and reduce product breakage at Florida distribution center. -
Festo supplies SERCOS III system to Durr
Festo will supply equipment for the Dürr EcoRPC robot guidance system. -
MatrikonOPC provides data connectivity for Nova BioProfile FLEX analyzer
BioProfile FLEX reduces cell culture analysis time, labor, and operating costs by consolidating chemistry/gases/electrolytes, cell density/viability, and osmolality into a single workstation. -
Glenmount Global acquires Crown ESA
Crown ESA provides Industrial Automation and process control systems in the metals and marine markets. -
LXI Consortium announces first member from China
RIGOL Technologies attended became not only the first Chinese company to join the Consortium, but the first to certify an LXI product. -
ABB analyzer helps pulp mill in Sweden
ABB's online pulp defect analyzer is helping a Södra Cell pulp mill in Sweden achieve its target of 100 percent pulp quality by detecting defects as small as 0.04 square millimeters. -
Rexroth Podcast: How to Design Manufacturing Equipment for Lean
Lean manufacturing expert Jamie Flinchbaugh discusses how machine builders tend to focus too much on what goes on inside the machine rather than on how the machine interfaces with the operator. -
Lee House joins GarrettCom as VP of Engineering and CTO
House will be responsible for all software and hardware engineering including development locations in California, Massachusetts, Virginia and India. -
NewEnergy Alliance to drive innovations in smarter buildings
The Alliance reflects a commitment to drive innovations in demand response that will create smarter buildings and promote environmentally sound business practices. -
Gateway Academy Programs Triple This Summer
The SME Education Foundation is supporting 181 academies where secondary school students receive hands-on experience that support science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. -
ABB to supply controls for cement plant project in Arizona
ABB to supply 800xA Extended Automation System, motors, drives, MCCs, analyzers, CEMS, switchgear, and instrumentation. -
austriamicrosystems provides angular position for the Audi R10 at Le Mans
The AS5243 is used to measure the absolute position of the barrel shaft in the gearbox to ensure an optimized gear change. The Audi R10 is the first diesel powered car to win the Le Mans 24 hours, one of the most famous races in the world. -
GainSpan selects Green Hills Software for Wi-Fi Sensor Network
GainSpan provides Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. -
Kepware’s KEPServerEX passes OPC Certification
KEPServerEX communications solution has passed the latest OPC certifications tests administered by the OPC Foundation independent test laboratory. -
Reliable Controls receives UL916 for MACH-Pro controllers
According to the Underwriter’s Laboratory (UL), UL916 is the UL standard for safety for energy management equipment. -
Autodesk reports 1Q revenue of $599 Million
Autodesk reported revenue of $599 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, an increase of 18 percent over the first quarter of fiscal 2008. -
Piedmont Triad hires Automation Federation to manage roundtable
Automation Federation will manage a roundtable of manufacturing executives and business leaders for the Piedmont Triad Partnership. -
CyboSoft Wins DOE grant for intelligent actuation control
The R&D work can result in an intelligent actuation control solution critical for controlling future energy plants. -
ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute reports progress
The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute is working to develop supporting compliance programs for the universal family of ISA100 standards. -
Sensor Film helps Futek assemble load cells
Futek experienced difficulty assembling some of their load cells to specifications. Using Pressurex sensor film, they found fluctuations in clamping pressure. -
Barry-Wehmiller opens office in Modesto, CA
The Modesto office is the Design Group's 12th office and the third engineering office opened within the last year. -
ISA takes first step toward wireless standard approval
The ISA100.11a Working Group sent its first letter ballot on its draft standard, the first step in getting approval for the ISA100 standard. -
Honeywell supplies simulation technology to Suncor Voyageur
Suncor will use Honeywell’s UniSim simulation technology at its Oil Sands Upgrader Operation in Northern Alberta. -
Moore Industries announces SNAP custom signal interfaces
SNAP provides customers with customized solutions to meet unusual signal interface needs in industrial process control, systems integration and factory automation applications. -
Spartan Scientific releases CRDV condensation drain valve
Model CRDV removes condensation from any point in a pneumatic system. -
Belimo and Tridium to jointly develop wireless VAV controller
Using Tridium’s Sedona Framework, Belimo will build a Variable Air Volume controller that is BACnet compliant and wireless over a 802.15.4 mesh network. -
Azure signs Elatec Vertriebs as distributor
Elatec will distribute Azure's embedded computers in East Central Europe and Russia. -
Souriau updates website, adds product configurator
Online configurator enables users to select a connector that best suits requirements for their industrial application. -
ABB to supply System 800xA to Swedish resin plant
ABB will supply an automation system based on System 800xA and cpmPlus to improve the operations of PA Resins' phenolic and amino resins plant in Perstorp, Sweden. -
Aberdeen announces top 100 technology vendors
Making the list are automation companies such as SAP, Siemens, AutoDesk, ABB and Rockwell Automation. -
ASHRAE President testifies on Green Buildings to House Committee
ASHRAE President Kent Peterson spoke before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming of the U.S. House of Representatives. -
ABB wins $170-million contract for Baltic Sea power link
ABB will supply two HVDC (high-voltage, direct current) converter stations for the Fenno-Skan 2 power link in Sweden and Finland. -
Prosilica GigE Vision Cameras being tested by NASA
GigE Vision Cameras GC650, GC660 and GC1380H are being tested by NASA as the Agency is looking to upgrade its space shuttle video/camera recording systems. -
Keithley offers free Precision Sourcing and Measurement Guide CD
CD contains sourcing and measurement resources, including application notes, articles, white papers, and product demonstrations. -
Northwire sells via e-commerce
NorthwireDirect is an e-commerce website for ordering off-the-shelf, factory-direct cable. -
Hartfiel celebrates 50th anniversary
The Hartfiel Company was founded in 1958, and has distributed automation and motion control products for 50 years. -
Precise Automation awarded patent for Traction Drive Robot
Patent 7,343,684 was awarded to the zero backlash traction drive currently used in three and four axis PrecisePlace Cartesian robots. -
Innova Robotics & Automation changes name to CoroWare
Innova acquired CoroWare Technologies in 2006 and prefers its logo and brand recognition. -
Green Hills Software supports Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs
Software includes INTEGRITY RTOS, C/C++ compilers, MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), virtual prototyping platform, and DoubleCheck static analyzer. -
AMT's Joe Campbell to moderate Robots 2008 Conference
The event includes three days of tutorials, technical presentations, forum discussions and trade fair exhibits. Campbell will serve as host and conference moderator. -
Thermo Fisher supplies analyzer for QC analysis of metal alloys
Plansee Group of Austria required a system that was capable of distinguishing silica from tungsten background at low levels and achieving specific detection limits on silicon and potassium. -
Using Alarm Annunciators in SIL rated Safety Systems
By Darren Barratt, Omniflex Alarm annunciators which involve the human operator in safety functions can only be targeted at SIL 1 level. -
ABB analyzer controls coagulant chemical additions at water utility
An analyzer for dissolved organic compounds monitors raw river influent and automatically controls aluminum sulfate (alum) additions at a water plant in New Jersey. -
Kazio Networks helps companies with Industrial Ethernet
The Lifecycle services program provides network infrastructure design, analysis, maintenance, management, compliancy and consulting for wired/wireless- based systems. -
GreenPeak Technologies opens U.S. office
GreenPeak opened its U.S. sales office in Austin, Texas. Barry Blount, Director of Business Development, has been named to head this new office. -
Northwire MVC-800 FireWire cable hits 11 million cycles
MVC-800 FireWire Cable surpassed 11 million flex cycles in rigorous bending, rolling and torsional tests. -
Pepperl+Fuchs publishes Sensors Catalog
900-page catalog covers P+F's family of capacitive, inductive, weld immune, special application, NAMUR, ultrasonic and photoelectric sensors. -
ICS Triplex to install compressor control system on North Sea platform
The Trusted T6300 system will be installed onto CNRI’s Murchison platform in the North Sea in 2009 to monitor and control a gas-lift process. -
RFM to sell Dust Networks systems
RFM and Dust will integrate Dust SmartMesh-XD embedded systems into OEM modules, gateways and other products which RFM will configure and sell. -
Nanometrics acquires Tevet Process Control Technologies
Tevet is an integrated metrology company serving the worldwide semiconductor and solar manufacturing industry. -
Frost & Sullivan says Safety Systems Market growing in SE Asia
Increasing foreign investments in SE Asia demand certified safety systems in process industries. -
PEI builds ITT Multi-Pin Connectors within 48 hours
PEI builds finished connector products from ITT components, catering to customers who require low volumes and a quick turnaround. -
Bioethanol plant realizes start-up and operational gains
Emerson’s PlantWeb architecture enables TARKÝM plant to start up a month early and produce almost thirty percent above target levels. -
GE Fanuc supplies PLCs and HMI to Macawber Beekay
Equipment includes PLC-based control panels, Proficy HMI/SCADA, CIMPLICITY, and VersaMax I/O to control ash material handling at Macawber Beekay's plant in New Delhi, India -
Keithley releases Semiconductor Device Test Applications CD
CD includes a large variety of semiconductor test application information such as applications notes, white papers, presentations and an Applications Guide. -
ODVA manages ControlNet technology
ControlNet, one of the family of CIP Networks, is now wholly under the management of ODVA. -
IMI Sensors updates Website
Improvements to the website include a new look and better functionality and product search capabilities. -
SME DVD shows applications of RFID technology
"RFID: Tool Tracking Solutions" shows the infrastructure and technology behind RFID as well as real-world practical applications, challenges and advantages of using RFID. -
Endevco appoints Peter Leonhardt Director of Technical Marketing
Leonhardt worked at Endevco in positions including Senior Project Engineer for some 24 years until 2003. -
ISA publishes Industrial Ethernet guide
"Industrial Ethernet for the Plant Floor" provides guidance on how to select components, layout, install, test, certify and troubleshoot a network system. -
ODVA to publish specifications for CIP networks
New specifications are to be published for CIP Networks, including EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet, ControlNet and CIP Safety technologies. -
Cognex Promotes Justin Testa to Executive VP
Testa joined Cognex in 1983 as a sales engineer, held various positions and, in 2007, was promoted to Group Business Manager of the Modular Vision Systems Division. -
Emerson and Wartsila expand global alliance
The relationship combines the process automation knowledge of Emerson, with the power-generation and vessel-automation products of Wärtsilä.