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While there is a great deal of legitimate concern about cyber security, many industrial facilities may be at high risk due to poor physical security. There is a need for a comprehensive security strategy for these facilities and other critical infrastructure. Honeywell Process Solutions' industrial security initiatives go beyond cyber security to address physical plant security.
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Longwatch presents Webinar: Video, the Next Sensor for Factory Automation
August 28, 2008, 9-10:00 a.m. EDT
Webinar discusses the emergence of new video technology, the value of integrating video with HMI/SCADA, and how video can be integrated with process historians, alarms and other event information. |
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Unleashing the Power of OPC - A 2-Part Educational Webinar Series
September 10 and 24, 2008 - 11 AM US Eastern Time (GMT-5), 4 PM London
This series brings two VENDOR NEUTRAL presentations from the highly popular OPC Road Shows series to the comfort of your own office. These webinars will show you how to leverage OPC investments and OPC technology in your custom business and manufacturing software applications using Visual Studio.NET. |
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Upcoming Events & Training
- FDT Technical Seminars: Through October 28, 2008
- OPC Training Seminars: Through November 13, 2008
- Instrumentation Scotland: September 3-4, 2008
- IPS North American Client Conference: September 7-11, 2008
- RFID World: September 8-10, 2008
- International Manufacturing Technology (IMTS) 2008: September 8-13, 2008
- PAS Users Conference 2008: September 15-17, 2008
- Benefits of Automation training course: September 16-17 and November 5-6, 2008
- ISA Marketing & Sales Summit: September 17-19, 2008
- Industrial Ethernet Seminar: September 22-25, 2008
- Emerson Exchange: September 29 - October 3, 2008
- The WonderWorld™ 2008 Global Conference Series: Begins October 6, 2008
- Thermo Fisher Informatics Conference: October 6-9, 2008
- FDT Group exhibit: October 14-16, 2008
- Free Machine Vision Seminars: October 22, 2008
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| New Jobs |
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Control System Project Manager: Novaspect, Inc. - Chicago, IL
- Senior Controls Engineer: Kennametal, Inc. - Pittsburgh, PA
- Controls Engineer: NanoGram Corporation - Milpitas, CA
- Controls Engineer/Senior Programmer: Prousys, Inc. - Southern CA or Southeastern US
- Batch Control System Engineer: Novaspect, Inc. - Chicago, IL
- PLC Programmer AD: Contra Costa Electric, Inc. - Bakersfield, CA
- Software Engineer: automationtechies - Chicago, IL
- Controls Engineer: automationtechies - Vacaville, CA
- Automation Engineer: automationtechies - Richmond, VA
- Automation Engineer: automationtechies - Richmond, VA
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