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From One Techie to Another:
One Step Closer to Personal Automation
Featured Article:
Product Costs: The Conflict between Engineering and Finance
Featured Catalog
Allen-Bradley® Essential Components Catalog
Featured Products:
LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit
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One Step Closer to Personal Automation
According to a recent article in Popular Science, Your cell phone is so money, we'll soon be using our cell phones as a credit cards. A tiny add-on chip will turn our cell phones into little data centers.
With a new wireless standard called Near Field Communication (NFC), we'll be able to pay for items by simply swiping our cell phones near cash registers. Unlike radio-frequency identification (RFID) and other existing contactless payment systems, NFC chips allow two-way information exchange by rolling an RF transmitter and reader into one five-millimeter package. The chip will also be able to take in data like receipts, bus schedules, concert tickets and more. Even better, we won't have to buy new phones. SanDisk will offer mini-SD card-sized adapters that will add NFC to any smartphone with a Symbian operating system.
The applications for this technology could be endless. Why not embed our drivers license, insurance cards and other information in our cell phone? Of course, this technology would make our cell phones much more valuable, but if it can eliminate having to carry around a wallet also, I'm all for it. An obvious issue that comes to mind with this technology is security, but I would think the use of a PIN number (or similar mechanism) would solve that problem.
You can bet I'll be in line to get my mini-SD adapter when they become available next spring...if for no other reason than to see if it actually works.
You gotta love technology!
Enjoy the rest of this eNews!
Rick Zabel
Vice President, Editor-in-chief
Product Costs: The Conflict between Engineering and Finance
Manufacturing in North America today is under siege as companies struggle against increasing challenges to deliver quality products, on time, and at the required price. All these functions must be performed while managing the profitability and growth requirements of a very demanding public marketplace.
Read complete article by Thomas R. Cutler and Frank V. Azzolino.
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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.
- Unmanaged ethernet switches from Phoenix Contact provide security and port options 8/1/06
- Aerotech announces low profile, direct-drive, air-bearing rotary stages 8/1/06
- Amphenol announces IP67 Ring Ethernet Switch 8/1/06
- Rotary encoder collars from Stafford come in custom sizes and targets 8/1/06
- MTS Sensors catalog covers linear position sensors 8/1/06
- Barry-Wehmiller companies exhibiting at Pack Expo 8/1/06
- Anver's vacuum tube lifter pad attachment handles odd-shaped loads 8/1/06
- Handheld terminal from Rockwell Automation helps reduce downtime and improve control system security 7/31/06
- Emerson introduces extreme temperature Coriolis meters 7/31/06
- Pneumatic directional control valves master catalog from Rexroth 7/31/06
- MICRONOR Introduces Handheld Pendant with live or dead man enable switches 7/31/06
- ASI releases automation connectivity products brochure 7/31/06
- Command Tooling Systems adds 1200 metric toolholders 7/31/06
- ifm efector introduces proximity sensors with ranges up to 40mm 7/28/06
- B&R puts direct fieldbus connection on the valve manifold with IP67 protection 7/28/06
- B&R adds compact CPU to Ethernet I/O system 7/28/06
- Advantech launches Ethernet Switch with Multi-Mode ST Fiber Port 7/28/06
- Pepperl+Fuchs RFID System now available with DeviceNet and Ethernet/IP 7/28/06
- TURCK wall plate adapters provide transition between conduit and cables 7/28/06
- Oxford Sensor launches machine vision hardware and software system 7/28/06
- Axiomtek announces industrial motherboard with Intel Dual-Core Processing Technology 7/28/06
- Moore Industries Device Couplers provide short-circuit protection for Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA devices 7/27/06
- Rockwell Automation announces new plant power monitor 7/27/06
- TOL-O-MATIC gearboxes with 3:2 and 2:1 gear ratios and metric versions 7/27/06
- Barco shows new MES for plastics manufacturing applications 7/27/06
- Acrosser's Ethernet network has built-in Bypass LAN function 7/27/06
- Sionex allows OEMs early access to microanalyzer 7/27/06
- McObject’s new 64-bit database supports massively larger real-time data 7/27/06
- New compact and reliable general purpose power supplies from Phoenix Contact 7/26/06
- Guide to Sensor Technology for Metalforming available from Pepperl+Fuchs 7/26/06
- New KurtUSB module from Kurt Manufacturing for high speed data analysis, automation control 7/26/06
- Quatech delivers industrial-class 802.11 wireless connectivity to washroom 7/26/06
- National Instruments releases ECU measurement and calibration toolkit 7/26/06
- National Instruments lowers test costs with eight-channel oscilloscope 7/26/06
- MOXA PCI Express serial boards first to receive Windows XP/2003 (x64) WHQL Certification 7/26/06
- PlantData Technologies leads industry with more than 50 SCADA security assessments 8/1/06
- OTIS Korea becomes 300th member of EtherCAT technology group 8/1/06
- Keithley wins R&D 100 Award 8/1/06
- Donald Labbe of Invensys presented 2006 ISA Power Industry Division Achievement Award 8/1/06
- InSync Software Inc. names Yashpaul Dogra VP of Product Marketing 8/1/06
- Haas hires Hass: Bud Industries hires Josiah Haas as national sales manager 8/1/06
- ABB Low Voltage Products trailer stops in five major New York State markets in 10 days 7/28/06
- National Instruments reports record quarterly revenue of $160 Million 7/28/06
- Schneider Electric posts excellent results in first-half 2006 7/28/06
- Caterpillar expands electric power manufacturing capabilities in Newberry, S.C. 7/27/06
- Enhanced testing facilities at MTS ensure sensor accuracy and quality 7/26/06
- ISA appoints Global Operations Manager 7/26/06
- Honeywell to supply process automation system for Vietnam’s first oil refinery 8/1/06
- KUKA Robotics to provide 6 axis pc based robot for plastics routering cell 7/31/06
- FlowSense awarded design-build construction project from the US Navy 7/31/06
- Adept Technology gets $500,000 order for disk drive cleaning robots 7/26/06
- BASF saves $12,800 in a single incident with Emerson's Machinery Health Monitor 7/26/06
Allen-Bradley® Essential Components Catalog
From push buttons and terminal blocks, to I/O systems and operator interface devices, the Allen-Bradley® Essential Components catalog offers access to one of the broadest ranges of industrial components available anywhere. Featuring over 10,000 components in six categories – Power, Logic, Operation Interface, Connectivity, Safety, Sensors and Switches – this catalog is a must-have reference. Best of all, it's available at no charge. With Rockwell Automation, you get the right components, at the right price, right when you need them.
Easy audio measurements, fractional-octave analysis, sound and vibration displays and more with NI's LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit.More Information on LabVIEW Sound and Vibration Toolkit
Contact National Instruments for Measurement & Automation Catalog or Application Assistance
Siemens SIMATIC Microbox 420-T Technology controllers: A combination of PLC and motion control functionalities.More Information on SIMATIC Microbox 420-T Technology controllers
Contact Siemens for Product CD or Application Assistance
Huge Savings on AC Drives, Motors, Servos and Steppers for Motion Control from AutomationDirect.More Information on Motion Control Systems
Contact AutomationDirect for Product Catalog or Application Assistance
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Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Business Development Manager/Regional Sales Manager: San Francisco, CA - RTP Corp 8/01/2006
- Director of Advanced Engineering: Danbury, CT - Management Search, Inc. 7/31/2006
- Area Sales Engineer: Multiple Locations, USA - Scientific Technologies Inc 7/28/2006
- Equipment Technician: Los Angeles, CA - xpedx 7/28/2006
- Sales Manager: Providence, RI - Management Search, Inc. 7/26/2006
- Mechanical Engineer: Franklin, MA - Management Search, Inc. 7/26/2006
- Senior Software Test Manager: York, PA - Invensys Wonderware 7/25/2006
- Toolkits Principal Technical Support Engineer: Lake Forest, CA - Invensys Wonderware 7/25/2006
- Competitive Intelligence Analyst: Forest, CA - Invensys Wonderware 7/25/2006
- Sales Consultant: Multiple Locations, USA - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Regional Motion Engineer: Orange County, CA - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Electrical and Controls Engineer: Modesto, CA - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Business Development Manager: Napa, CA - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Sales Engineer, Motion Control Products: Twin Cities, MN - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Sales Engineer - Controls Systems Integration: Minneapolis Area, MN - automationtechies 8/01/2006
- Project Manager: North of Twin Cities, MN - automationtechies 7/27/2006
- Sr. Controls Engineer: Exton, PA - automationtechies 7/25/2006
- Field Service Engineer: Upstate, NY - automationtechies 7/24/2006
- Account Executive/Sales Engineer/Business Development Manager: Winston-Salem, NC - automationtechies 7/12/2006
- Project Leader: Raleigh, NC - automationtechies 6/28/2006
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Rick Zabel
Vice President, Editor-in-chief
Automation.com
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