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National Instruments wins magazine award
An electronic magazine ranked NI as Number 66 in its list of top 100 employers. -
JAI A/S appoints Stoltenberg Executive VP
Henrik F. Stoltenberg was appointed Group Executive VP, responsible for the daily operation of JAI A/S. -
LXI Consortium meeting held in Beijing
June 19-21, 2007 Beijing, China The LXI Consortium's General Meeting will be held in Beijing, China, June 19-21, 2007, the first General Meeting to be held in Asia. -
MTL acquires Elpro International for £12m
MTL Instruments Group plc acquired Elpro International Pty Ltd, an Australian based developer and supplier of wireless solutions. -
IPS sponsors ethanol-powered IndyCar
Invensys will be a sponsor of the No. 17 Rahal Letterman Racing Team Ethanol IndyCar driven by Jeff Simmons. -
Agilent and Solarflare announce tools for 10-GB Ethernet Upgrades
The products enable network users to upgrade installed networks to 10 GbE over existing LAN cabling. -
MOXA exhibiting at Computex Taipei 2007
MOXA will be exhibiting at Booths D202 and D301 in Hall 1, with a focus on industrial IT. -
Schneider Electric exec named finalist in American Business Awards
Thomas Insprucker is a finalist in the Best Marketing Executive category for the 2007 American Business Awards. -
WBF names Hawkins for Guido Award
Bill Hawkins spent 20 years with Hercules Chemical as an industry user and his next 20 years with Rosemount as a control system supplier. -
Siemens supplies drives and automation for rolling mill in China
Siemens landed orders from Baoshan Iron & Steel Group Co. Ltd. in Shanghai to supply drive and automation equipment for the modernization of the Hot Strip Rolling Mill No. 1 and expansion of the plate mill. -
Fieldbus Foundation Establishes Brazilian Marketing Committee
The Committee will organize fieldbus-related activities, including training seminars, trade show displays, and end user demonstrations. -
Fieldbus Foundation to conduct Seminar In Brazil
Fieldbus Foundation will present a fieldbus educational seminar on July 12, 2007, at the Renaissance Hotel in São Paulo, Brazil. -
Wurldtech Labs awards six controllers Achilles Certification
Controllers from Yokogawa, Emerson, Invensys and ICS Triplex earn Wurldtech Labs Achilles security certification -
ABB wins $26-million contract in Qatar
ABB received a $26 million order as the Main Instrumentation and Main Electrical Contractor for two oil platforms being built for Maersk Oil Qatar. -
Beckhoff Automation sales increase 26% in 2006
During 2006, the company had sales of 190 million euros. -
Vulnerabilities identified in SCADA systems
InfoWorld, May 2007 By Matt Hines The first remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been identified by researchers. -
MaverickTechnologies building new HQ in Illinois
The two-story building will span 35,000 square feet with facilities for research and development. -
Omron STI publishes Machine Safety Engineering Guide
This 1500+ page, two-volume set is a comprehensive machine and process safety product and technical reference guide. -
GE Fanuc Offers Plant2Enterprise Webcasts
Attendees will learn how to “Optimize Plant Performance” and have the opportunity to ask questions during live question and answer sessions. Webcasts run June through September. -
Fieldbus Foundation to do safety instrumented demos at big users
Field demonstrations of FOUNDATION for Safety Instrumented Functions wil be held at Shell, Amsterdam; Saudi Aramco; BP, Germany; and Chevron, Richmond, California. -
AW-Lake achieves safety approvals for RT-Ex15 flow monitor
CSA and INMETRO approved the RT-Ex15 meter-mounted flow monitor for use in Class I/Div 1 hazardous areas. -
Rexroth appoints Amy Defayette to Product Marketing
Amy R. Defayette will do Product Marketing for the company's VarioFlow conveyor product line. -
Emerson to install Ovation control system at power plant in India
Emerson will install PlantWeb digital plant architecture and Ovation expert control system on two 300-MW coal-fired units at Amarkantak Power Plant in India. -
Intermec delivers an RFID System That Keeps Sushi moving
Blue C Sushi implemented RFID equipment from Intermec and Microsoft BizTalk RFID software to track its food and automatically calculate customers' bills. -
NI hosts Mechatronics forums for Machine Designers in June
Attendees will explore techniques for mechatronics-oriented design with software, electromechanical sensing and actuation; graphical programming for embedded systems; and remote monitoring and support. -
Schneider announces enterprise energy management software
The solution combines Square D PowerLogic ION EEM software with engineering services to deliver a customized set of energy modeling, dimensional analysis and visualization tools. -
Rockwell Automation Fair to be held in Chicago
November 13-15, 2007 Chicago, Illinois Rockwell Automation will host the 16th annual Automation Fair, a free forum with more than 100 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees from around world. -
ZigBee Goes Green
The ZigBee Alliance says its members are joining forces and leveraging their global wireless and utility expertise to fight the predicted global energy crisis. -
Thermo Fisher Launches Online Resource Center for Trace Element Analysis
The comprehensive forum is an essential source of information for those in the environmental field, providing the necessary tools and technical advice to help scientists performing trace element analysis. -
IAS installs automated storage systems at Irish electronic company
IAS Industore installed and commissioned 13 Hänel Rotomat automated vertical storage systems at Benning, a manufacturer of power supplies in Ireland. -
Meggitt forms Sensing Systems group
The division was formed by merging Endevco, Meggitt Aerospace Systems and Meggitt Electronics groups into a single entity. -
WBF gives Brandl and Emerson Thomas G. Fisher Awards
Dennis Brandl, Principal Consultant of BR&L Consulting, Inc., and Dave Emerson, Principal System Architect, Yokogawa Corporation of America, are recipients of the Thomas G. Fisher Award. -
Honeywell to automate coal power plant in the Netherlands
Honeywell will supply automation and control for the Nuon Magnum plant, a 1200 MW coal/biomass and natural gas power station planned in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. -
Dinesh Paliwal leaving ABB
Dinesh Paliwal, President, will leave ABB at the end of June. -
Robert Owen Inc to resell Kepware comunications software
Robert Owen Inc. will resell Kepware device communications software with its sensor and signal conversion hardware. -
Misumi supplies mechanical parts to Farris Automated Systems
FAS developed an ultrasonic welding and tubing cutoff machine using Misumi's locating pins, linear shafts, linear bushings, stopper blocks, timing belts, timing pulleys and hexagonal posts. -
Siemens hosts Safety Webinars May-August
A series of free safety webinars begin May 24, 2007 and run for four months. Topics include risk assessment, U.S. and international safety standards and new safety technology. -
Elobau publishes machine safety sensors brochure
Downloadable machine guarding products brochure includes non-contact sensors and control units for industrial machine safety. -
Garland offers custom-machined chain guides
Garland Manufacturing offers custom-machined chain guides and wear parts for high-speed and heavy-load conveyor applications. -
TWINLINX to develop RFID chip for MIKOH
TWINLINX will develop an electronic chip that prevents tampering with MIKOH's Smart&Secure RFID tags. -
ISaGRAF 5.1 achieves IEC 61499 compliance
Version 5.1 of ISaGRAF has been confirmed by TÜV Rheinland to be compliant with the requirements detailed in the IEC 61499 standard. -
Baldor publishes Powerlink-compatible AC drive catalog
The 28-page catalog details the drive's architecture, a bus for plug-in expansion options, software configuration for different motor types, and Ethernet Powerlink capability. -
DEACOM ERP manages Spectra Colors Dye Manufacturing
Spectra Colors, a supplier of dyes, selected DEACOM ERP software to replace its homegrown UNIX System. -
Avantis achieves Windows Vista certification
Avantis.PRO enterprise asset management (EAM) software solution has been Windows Vista certified. -
Moore Industries Promotes Charles Larson to Director of Technology
Larson will provide a bridge between Marketing and Engineering to help develop and optimize the commercial exploitation of Moore's intellectual property. -
Mark Manzo joins OpenMake Software as VP of Sales
Mamzo has held executive positions with Serena, Merant, STEP Technology and Vermont Creative Software. -
Honeywell to supply controls to MOL Group in Hungary
Honeywell will implement 10 UniSim Operator Trainer Simulator projects at MOL's Duna and Slovnaft refineries over the next three years. MOL is one of Europe’s largest oil and gas companies. -
Junot Systems Launches OPC to SAP Site
The web site showcases Junot's NLINK OPC to SAP Solution.. -
Matrikon signs two partners in Quebec
Everest Automation will be a distributor and Top Control will provide consulting services and optimization solutions based on Matrikon products. -
ABB forms CPM Operations business unit
Headquartered in Baden, Switzerland, the CPM Operations business will provide support in the United States, Europe and Asia. -
Bison Gear Celebrates 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago, CEO Ron Bullock, purchased Bison Gear and expanded it to become a world class gearmotor, electric motor and gear reducer manufacturer. -
Deacom enhances ERP Website
Website provides info on ERP software for building component, manufactured building, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing. -
FF approves MooreHawke's TRUNKSAFE Fault-Tolerant Fieldbus system
Approved by the Fieldbus Foundation,TRUNKSAFE achieves fault-tolerance without duplicating every component and installing special software at the DCS. -
Wonderware celebrates 20th anniversary
Wonderware celebrates its 20th anniversary as a developer of factory and industrial automation and information software solutions. -
ABB creates engineering and science education foundation
ABB will create a foundation with total funding of $16.6 million to sponsor talented and needy students in engineering and natural sciences. -
Metso shipping valves to SABIC polyethylene plant
Metso is producing a large shipment of Neles control and on-off valves for the new SABIC 400,000 tpa polyethylene plant in Wilton, UK -
FluidIQs opens Salt Lake City resource center
The new resource center includes key engineers formerly with Flow Solutions process integration group. -
National Instruments Hosts Automated Test Summit
Automated Test Summit 2007 will be hosted live on the Internet May 8, and will be available on demand for 90 days. -
Phoenix Contact becomes Innominate distributor
Phoenix Contact will distribute Innominate's mGuard industrial security products. -
InTech and CITGO start Cyber Security Blog
InTech magazine and CITGO are starting a blog that will cover CITGO's design and implementation of a secure process control network. -
SERCOS promotes soft master for SERCOS III
The soft master implementation will make SERCOS III the only bus on the market that offers both hardware and software based master implementations. -
ST‘s R17 robot arm goes to the movies
ST Robotics’ R17 anthromorphic robot arm was featured in “The Last Mimzy,” a science fiction film about the future. -
Honeywell meets guaranteed productivity increase for dairy supplier
A Honeywell Profit Controller at Glanbia PLC in Ireland paid for itself in six months, meeting Honeywell’s guaranteed payback of investment within 12 months. -
Torque sensor from Sensor Technology replaces slip rings in aircraft
TorqSense transducer uses a RF link to constantly monitor shaft torque in the UK's Nimrod reconnaissance and attack aircraft. -
Sensor Technology's torque sensor validates sprinkler systems
Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionized the validating process for Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard, UK. -
Sadlowski named Chief Executive Officer for Siemens
Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring. -
MicroEmissive Displays to build P-OLED-based headsets
MED will build headsets based on polymer organic light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs), a competitor to LCD flat panel displays. -
Niceware enhances NiceLabel labeling software
NiceLabel version 5 now provides a toolset that enables users to manage print jobs. -
Bertram Capital acquires Power Distribution
Power Distribution, Inc., manufacturer of power distribution, power monitoring and static switching equipment, has been acquired by Bertram Capital. -
ABB wins service contract in Canada
ABB will manage maintenance operations at ATC Panel's Pembroke, Ontario, Canada plant. -
Honeywell to install Experion at world’s largest paraxylene plant
Honeywell will supply a $7.7 million Experion PKS and Safety Manager for the $1.2 billion Sohar Aromatics plant, located at Oman’s Port of Sohar. -
Moore Industries Promotes Tina Lockhart to Director of Engineering
Lockhart has more than 20 years of R&D experience and more than 10 years in management. Previously, Lockhart was a Program Manager at BAE Systems, where she was responsible for projects based on MEMS technology with real time embedded systems. -
Phoenix Contact Opens Technology Center in Houston
The 15,000-sq-ft center has a demonstration room, training facility, application lab, office space and a warehouse. -
Portescap supplies motion control for educational robots
Khepera III robot is designed for robotic demonstrations and experiments in training future engineers and designers on subjects ranging from artificial intelligence to real time programming and controls. -
Transpara and SmartSignal combine monitoring software
Transpara and SmartSignal allow joint customers to access critical performance-monitoring data and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on any mobile device.