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| Sponsor: ARC Advisory Group |
Please join your peers and ARC Analysts for ARC Advisory Group's upcoming Forum entitled "Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Global Manufacturers," on February 4-7, 2008 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida.
This ARC forum addresses the extraordinary opportunities and threats created by today's global market through informative, focused presentations by best-in-class CEOs, manufacturing and automation executives, and ARC's Industry analysts. Learn how top industry leaders are successfully addressing these challenges and continually improving their strategies to reach operational excellence.
For the list of session topics, speakers and hotel information, please visit: www.arcweb.com/res/forumorl |
| Sponsor: MYNAH Technologies |
3rd-Generation Simulation Software Designed for Operator Training and Software Acceptance Testing
Scalable, powerful, and easy to use, MiMiC is the first 3rd-generation simulation solution that is cost effective yet allows dynamic, accurate modeling of process plant unit operations.
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What’s in a Name? (A portal by any other name is not the same)
The word “automation” has a pretty broad meaning when you consider everything it encompasses. As anyone would expect by our name, the Automation.com web site covers just about every aspect of automation related to manufacturing, both process and discrete. Since we publish so much content on the site daily, we anticipated that many visitors would have a hard time sorting through all the information to find exactly what they were looking for. It’s been almost one year since we launched 24 Product Portals designed to organize content on Automation.com by topic.
Each portal is organized by the following sections so you can easily find content of interest:
- videos and podcasts
- articles and white papers
- featured products
- product announcements
- application stories
- company and organizational news
- resources and literature
- application news
- training and seminars
- events
There is no question in my mind that we publish more automation-related content than other web site – by leaps and bounds. Not only are we populating these portals with content that we publish, we are also searching the web, on at least a monthly basis, for other applicable content. If we find any applicable articles, resources or whatever, we’ll provide links to it from our portals. So OUR portals are true Web Portals - they function as a point of access to information on the Internet, as defined on Wikipedia.
Over the Holidays we did revamp the portals a bit; combining a few, expanding Automation Software into three portals, and adding a new Security portal. Remember that we publish a topical newsletter in conjunction with each portal. Our Automation Weekly subscribers were automatically added to the distribution lists for most portals, so please review your profile and preferences to ensure you receive the newsletters you want. To update your subscription profile, please use the link in the footer of this e-newsletter, or click here. (Be sure you use the links in the actual e-mail newsletter, not the online version)
As the portals are building momentum and traffic, they are also gaining sponsors. I'm pleased to report that many of our portals and topical e-newsletters already have the support of many automation suppliers through annual sponsorships.
With our 24 portals, and with the frequency they are being updated, you really have no reason to go to any other automation web sites. Right? As always, we are interested in your feedback. Tell us how we are doing.
Happy New Year!
Enjoy the rest of this Automation Weekly!
Rick Zabel
Vice President, Publisher |
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European Exporting Boom 2008
While consumers just added thousands of dollars more debt to their credit card balances and bears and bulls at the stock exchange take turns predicting gloom or boom times, the U.S. economy trade data at an annualized rate is nearing 20% improvement. Strengthening the demand for U.S. goods are the powerful overseas economies combined with a very weak dollar, which has dropped a corresponding 20% over the past five years.
Read full article by Thomas R. Cutler
Read more articles by Cutler
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Guide to Detection and Measurement Scanners
The Guide details Omron STI’s family of measuring light curtains, part detection scanners, area detection sensors and vehicle detection scanners. A product selection tool helps users determine the optimum measuring scanner for their application, including part ejection counting, part selection/verification, part presence detection, vehicle detection and separation, or measuring and profiling.
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Rexroth publishes guidebook to Optimize Assembly Operations
“How to Optimize Your Assembly Operations” offers detailed comparison of assembly conveyor systems as well as supporting illustrations and charts.
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Interactive Training System Software for PLCs
With ITS PLC you get 5 real world based industrial systems so you can program your PLC and validate your control algorithm through a real-time interactive experience. The result is an immersive simulated environment that allows highly realistic training scenarios, without any risk of injury to man or damage to machine.
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Other Upcoming Events & Training
- Rexroth offers Hydraulic Training Courses: Training begins January 14, 2008
- OPC Training Workshops: Workshops begin January 14, 2008
- WBF presents Webcasts in First Quarter 2008: Webcasts begin January 16, 2008
- 2008 BICSI Winter Conference: January 14-17, 2008
- Agilent Web Cast: Debugging serial systems using oscilloscopes: January 22, 2008
- Hands-On PLC Training Workshop: January 22-24, 2008
- The Electronics West Show: January 29-31, 2008
- ATX - Automation Technology Expo West: January 29-31, 2008
- ARC's Twelfth Annual Orlando Forum - Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Global Manufacturers: February 4-7, 2008
- Machine Design Seminars in California: February 5-6, 2008
- BlueCielo’s European User Conference: February 10-12, 2008
- IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2008: February 12-14, 2008
- MTEC Sensors, Measurement & Instrumentation: February 13-14, 2008
- 2008 Motor, Drive & Automation Systems Conference: February 14-15, 2008
- MEASUREX: February 17-21, 2008
- Instrumentation & Control Master Series: February 25-28, 2008
- Design of Experiment (Six Sigma DOE) 4 Day Workshop: February 26-29, 2008
- Fieldbus Foundation General Assembly 2008: February 27-29, 2008
- LDAR Leak Detection Symposium has 40 CFR 60 course: April 1-3, 2008
- 2008 Siemens Automation Summit: July 23-25, 2008
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Go to our Daily News Headlines page for the latest automation news.
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| New Jobs |
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Controls Engineer: Bont Software & Control Systems, Inc. - Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
- Automation Specialist: Alexandria Technical College - Alexandria, MN
- Project Engineer: Remote Automation Solutions Div of Emerson Process Management - Watertown, CT
- Technical Consultant – Drives and Power Products: automationtechies - St. Paul, MN
- Controls Engineer: automationtechies - Plymouth, MN
- Electrical Engineering Supervisor: automationtechies - Delaware, OH
- Validation Engineer: automationtechies - San Francisco, CA
- Control Systems/Project Engineer: automationtechies - San Francisco, CA
- Controls Engineer: automationtechies - Oak Brook, IL
- Process Controls Engineer: automationtechies - Joliet, IL
- Project Engineer: automationtechies - NC, USA
To view other recent job postings, please use our Job Search Function. For recruiting and contract staffing services, please visit www.automationtechies.com. |
| Humor of the Week |
Dilbert - I hope you didn’t spend your New Years Day like Dilbert
Goin' Fishin' - Accounts receivable goes after slow paying customers (View entire series) |
I hope you enjoyed this Automation Weekly update. If you have any comments or suggestions regarding the content in this e-newsletter or on Automation.com, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Rick Zabel
Vice President, Publisher
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