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Featured Article: Global Manufacturing -The China Challenge
Product Announcements & Company News
Product Catalog: Measurement and Instrumentation CD
Featured Products:
Panel PCs
IEC 61131-3 SoftLogic Controller
Safety Controller
Training: Measurement Technology Seminars
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Our featured article this week, Global Manufacturing -The China Challenge, was written by Jim Pinto. The reality is more and more manufacturing is moving overseas where it can be done better, cheaper and faster. China is deep into consumer products manufacturing and making a strong move into high tech. IBM's PC business was recently purchased by a Chinese company. Will some of the automation suppliers eventually become Chinese also?
In this issue, we're featuring Endress+Hauser's Measurement and Instrumentation CD technical information documents associated with a broad portfolio of innovative measurement products, including level, flow, pressure, temperature, analysis, data acquisition, data loggers, digital displays, and digital communications.
Our Featured Products in this issue are Beckhoff's Panel PCs, Advantech's IEC 61131-3 SoftLogic Controller and Omron's Safety Controller. 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.
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Featured Article
Global Manufacturing -The China Challenge
In today's global environment whoever manufactures products better, cheaper and faster, wins. Every country in the world is competing. In consumer products, China is grabbing a lot of the prizes. And they're moving strongly into high-tech. IBM's PC business is now Chinese. Will some of the automation majors become Chinese also?
Read full article by Jim Pinto.
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.
- NI's New Lowest-Cost USB Devices Deliver Measurement-Quality Data Acquisition 1/18/05
- Advantech Releases New Industrial-grade Ethernet Switch 1/18/05
- National Instruments Online Instrument Driver Network Now Offers More Than 4,000 Free Drivers 1/18/05
- Matrikon’s ProcessACT Presented with Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award 1/18/05
- Matrikon’s Alarm Management Solution to be IndustrialIT Enabled 1/18/05
- Optech Introduces Sentry SR Level Monitor for Process Control Industry 1/18/05
- Danaher Motion Introduces Rugged, Compact and Economical SECO AC Drives 1/18/05
- Power-io Expands H Family of Solid State Relays with High Current Models 1/18/05
- Omron's New F500 Vision Sensor Offers Unmatched Inspection Speed, Precision And Storage Capacity 1/17/05
- Omron's New ZFV 2D Smart Vision Sensors Bring Cost Control And Higher Speeds To Sensing Applications 1/17/05
- Midwest Motion Products Announces the Release of "MMP25A-24V" Motor Speed Control 1/17/05
- Rockwell Automation Expands Line of ControlNet™ PCI Cards 1/17/05
- Scientific Technologies Inc. Introduces the LCM-100 Series Light Curtain Controller with IP65 Rating and Lockable Metal Enclosure 1/17/05
- Wonderware Receives Editors' Choice Award from Control Engineering Magazine for InTouch 9.0 Software 1/17/05
- Triconex's Fault-tolerant Control System Earns Editors' Choice Honors From Control Engineering Magazine 1/17/05
- Invensys and Hyperion Announce Partnership to Implement DYNSIM-Based Operator Training Simulators in Global Process and Power Plants 1/17/05
- ICS Triplex ISaGRAF Releases New IEC61131-3 Motion Control Solution 1/17/05
- Moxa’s EDS-508 Industrial Ethernet Switch Granted ABB Industrial IT Certification 1/17/05
- Computing Solutions, Inc. Launches LabSoft LIMS v8 Designed For Process Industries 1/14/05
- Intermec's New CN2 Mobile Computer Puts Power in Your Shirt Pocket 1/14/05
- Bosch Rexroth Industrial Hydraulics Announces Whisper™ Pumps VPV Vane Pumps 1/14/05
- Interroll's New Pallet Drive Provides Space-Saving and Maintenance-Free Solution 1/14/05
- Wonderware Receives Top Control Magazine Readers' Choice Awards for HMI and SCADA Software 1/13/05
- NI SignalExpress Software Named Best in Test By Test & Measurement World 1/13/05
- New NI 18-Bit M Series DAQ Devices for PCI Increase Resolution by 400 Percent 1/13/05
- Banner Engineering Introduces Four iKnow™ Vision Sensor Software Training Guides 1/13/05
- Animatics Introduces the Redesigned and Cost Reduced SM1720D SmartMotor 1/13/05
- Adept Technology's PLC Server Robotic Interface Approved by Rockwell Automation for Participation in Its Asia Pacific Encompass Program 1/12/05
- Banner Engineering Introduces Comprehensive 2005 Sensing Products Catalog 1/12/05
- Entertron Introduces 'Power of e' Total Solution From PC to PLC 1/12/05
- Keithley Introduces Tutorial CD for Reliability Testing of Semiconductor Devices 1/12/05
- SpaceAge Controls' RoundAbout™ Cable Guide Eliminates Cable Alignment Hassles 1/12/05
- GE Fanuc Announces Automation Productivity Seminars 1/18/05
- Datalogic Redesigns Web Site to Provide Improved Access to Information and a More User-friendly Environment 1/14/05
- Dynics Names New VP of Sales & Marketing 1/13/05
- Yokogawa Executive Named to Fieldbus Foundation Board 1/13/05
- Schneider Electric Launches Company Program to Achieve Excellence In Providing Innovative Solutions 1/13/05
- Adept Technology to Webcast its Second Quarter Fiscal 2005 Earnings Teleconference 1/13/05
- Matrikon Reports 5% Revenue Growth in First Quarter 2005 1/12/05
Measurement and Instrumentation CD
The Endress+ Hauser CD is an all-in-one resource to find technical information documents associated with a broad portfolio of innovative measurement products from the largest independent instrumentation company in the world. This new version of the CD includes improvements that had been requested in the past, such as a streamlined user interface, and a simple keyword search feature. The products and technologies included on this CD for the process control industries are level, flow, pressure, temperature, analysis, data acquisition, data loggers, digital displays, and digital communications.
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Beckhoff Panel PCs offer 10" to 20" TFT touch screens, function keys, numeric keypad, and alpha-numerical keyboard. More Information on Panel PCs
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Advantech’s ADAM-5510EKW/TP is a powerful IEC 61131-3 SoftLogic Controller and excels with Analog I/O mixes.More Information on SoftLogic Controller
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Omron's F3SX Safety Controller - 1st SIL Level IEC61508 standards controller for "Functional Safety".More Information on F3SX Safety Controller
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Product & Supplier Search
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Systems Engineer: Southwestern, MI - VAI Automation, Inc. 01/17/2005
- Automation Engineer: South San Francisco, CA - Genentech 01/12/2005
- Project Engineer: North Western, SC - AutomationRecruiters 01/18/2005
- Delta V Programmer: San Diego, CA - AutomationRecruiters 1/18/05
- Software Engineer: Akron, OH - AutomationRecruiters 01/18/2005
- Automation Engineer: Le Sueur, MN - AutomationRecruiters 01/18/2005
To view other recent job postings, please use our Job Search Function.
Measurement Technology Seminars
With three years of experience in providing technical seminars, Endress+Hauser continues to offer FREE, half-day technical seminars throughout many cities in the U.S. Seminars are designed to provide insight into the principles and theory behind a measurement technology. In the past three years, over 4,000 plant managers, maintenance personnel, engineers, consultants, specifiers, and project managers have attended one of the 190 seminars we have offered.
Professional Development Hours (PDH) are awarded for each seminar. Upon completion of the seminar, each participant will receive a certificate indicating the PDH value of 3.5 hours.
Spring and fall sessions are planned, with each offering different topics to appeal to many different instrument users. Sessions are free – and they fill up quickly, so registration is required. Please visit www.us.endress.com/seminars for a complete listing of the spring seminars offered, with more to be added in the fall. Or, you may register by phone, simply call 800-428-4344, ext. 304.
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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