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Featured Article: The Lord of the Industrial Ethernet Ring
Product Announcements & Company News
Product Catalog: Industrial Control & Data Acquisition CD
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Training: Risk Assessment Safety Training
Services offered by Automation.com & Automationtechies
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe and happy Holiday.
In the featured article this week, The Lord of the Industrial Ethernet Ring, written by your's truly, I have the personal pleasure of introducing a brand new product offered by SIXNET. The Real-time Ring™ Ethernet Switch is being exclusively announced in this issue of our e-newsletter. Rather that just reciting the features and benefits of this new product, I thought it would be beneficial to give you a brief history of the evolution of industrial Ethernet connectivity products. By knowing this history, you will better understand the benefits of this new switch.
In this issue, we're featuring SIXNET's Industrial Control & Data Acquisition CD with product information on Controllers, RTUs, Ethernet Switches, Industrial Modems and Process Quality I/O.
Our Featured Products in this issue are SIXNET's Real-time Ring™ Ethernet Switches, National Instruments CompactRIO and Siemens Risk Assessment Safety Training. If you haven't seen our Featured Products for January, please be sure to review our Featured Product page.
And, as usual, don't forget to review the new Product Announcements, Company News, Application News and Job Postings added to our site in the last week.
On to the good stuff...Enjoy the rest of this e-news!
Featured Article
The Lord of the Industrial Ethernet Ring
Ethernet has become nearly as common on the factory floor as PLCs. In many cases, along with this need for Ethernet connectivity is the need for fault-tolerant network redundancy. Automation and control engineers have been forced into this IT domain and really don’t want to get too involved with the idiosyncrasies and maintenance of Ethernet networks, especially redundant networks…they just want to plug them in and they work. Along comes the Real-Time Ring™ Ethernet Switch.
Read full article by Rick Zabel, Automation.com.
Articles and white papers on various automation topics
Application stories using various automation products
Hear all about it...industry news is published on our site daily. Here are the latest news headlines for your review...use the following links to read the full article. Check out our Daily News Headlines page frequently to stay up-to-date on the industry events.
- SIXNET Introduces Real-Time Ring™ Switch, Fault-tolerant Ethernet Switch for Deterministic Systems 1/5/05
- Adalet Wireless Offers New Battery-Powered Wireless System for Transmitting Temperature and Pressure Signals 1/4/05
- Kaif Digital Introduces New Wall-Mount Multi-Zone Process Controller (wMPC) 1/4/05
- Beckhoff Automation Makes EtherCAT White Paper Available For Download 1/3/05
- TURCK Introduces the New Kübler by TURCK T8.A02H Incremental Hollowshaft Encoder 1/3/05
- TURCK Introduces EZ-track R16 Line of Intrinsically Safe, Programmable Liquid Level Sensors 1/3/05
- Advantech Launches eAutomationPro.com with Product Information & Online Direct Purchasing Ability 1/3/05
- FKI Logistex Vertical Carousel Design Targets Small Item Storage and Retrieval 1/3/05
- Banner Engineering Releases iKnow™ GUIDE TO SENSING 12/27/04
- GE Fanuc Automation to Launch New Motion Control Solutions for Machine Tool Applications at WESTEC 2005 12/22/04
- TURCK Introduces the Latest Addition to the Extensive Permaprox Line of Inductive Magnetic Sensors: BIM-INR 12/22/04
- SERCOS Meets OMAC Packaging Workgroup Vision For Servo Interoperability 12/22/04
- BizWareDirect Releases DataLynx™ Remote Data Collection Software 12/22/04
- Aerotech Announces ABG10000 Series Air-Bearing Linear Motion Gantry System 12/22/04
- Matrikon Announces Alarm Management Workshop for Power & Utilities 1/4/05
- OMNI Technologies Reports Profitable Fourth Quarter and Historic Annual Growth Rate 1/4/05
- Tecnomatix Agrees to Be Acquired by UGS for $228 Million or $17 Per Share 1/4/05
- Northwire Announces Strategic New Southwest Production Facility 1/3/05
- Honeywell Acquires Operator Training Business and Simulation Technology from Aspen Technology; Hires Key HYSYS Development Staff 1/3/05
- Endress+Hauser and Rockwell Automation Team to Offer Comprehensive Production & Process Automation Solutions 12/22/04
- ExperTune to Expand Thanks to Explosive Growth in PlantTriage 12/22/04
Industrial Control & Data Acquisition CD
SIXNET's CD is a great tool for any industrial control professional's arsenal. The CD contains time-saving application suggestions and technical notes, detailed datasheets and user manuals, product demos, and useful software tools.
SIXNET's Industrial Ethernet and Data Acquisition product line features:
- LINUX IPm Products, including the SixTRAK IPm Open DCS Controller and the VersaTRAK IPm RTU.
- Real-Time Ethernet Switches for harsh industrial environments.
- Industrial Modems and Process Quality I/O.
This CD is your best resource for LINUX Open Control!
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SIXNET Real-time Ring™ Ethernet Switches with 5 mS fault-tolerant ring recovery for deterministic control systems. More Information on Real-time Ring™ Ethernet Switches
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NI's CompactRIO is a small rugged industrial control and acquisition system powered by reconfigurable I/O.More Information on CompactRIO
Request 2005 Product Catalog
Product & Supplier Search
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Technical Sales: LA & Sacramento, CA - WEG motors, drives and control 12/31/04
- HMI/SCADA Developer: Southeast US - RCS Corporation 12/30/04
- DCS Integrator: Open, USA - Verano, Inc. 12/29/04
- Drives Support Analyst: Suwanee, GA - WEG Electric Motors Corp. 12/22/04
- Project Engineer: North Western, SC - AutomationRecruiters 1/4/05
- Software Engineer: Akron, OH - AutomationRecruiters 1/4/05
- Controls Engineer: Minneapolis, MN - AutomationRecruiters 1/4/05
- Sr. Application Engineer: Fresno, CA - AutomationRecruiters 1/3/05
To view other recent job postings, please use our Job Search Function.
Siemens Risk Assessment Safety Training courses help you protect your personnel and machines.
More Information on Risk Assessment Safety Training
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Other Training Courses & Seminars
Browse for training courses, seminars, web-seminars and workshops offered by various training organizations, product manufacturers and suppliers in industrial automation, process control and instrumentation. For information on specific training courses and seminars, please use the following links:
- Bar Code Training
- Data Acquisition Training
- Data Communications and Networking Training
- Electrical Controls Training
- Instrumentation & Process Control Training
- Machine Vision Training
- Motion Control Training
- OPC & Industrial Networking Connectivity
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Training
- Risk Assessment Safety Training
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