Winner of Cartoon Caption Contest
I would like to thank everyone who submitted a caption for our recent Cartoon Caption Contest. After narrowing down the captions to the top ten, we asked our subscribers to vote on the best caption. Since all the captions were good, there was no landslide winner. However, there was one caption that won by a decent margin with more than 20% of the vote.

The winning caption is, "This is not what I had in mind when I said that a couple of robot arms would increase productivity." This caption was submitted by Nelson Gil of ENGEE Consulting Ltd in Alberta, Canada.

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Where engineering is serious business...with Glimielikiet!
By Bill Lydon
Hannover Messe (Fair) is an impressive experience for anyone, particularly engineers. In addition to being the world's largest industrial trade fair, it is a celebration of engineering and manufacturing excellence in a spirit of cooperation. The word 'Glimielikiet" helps to describe the Hannover Messe atmosphere, which connotes the notion of belonging, social acceptance, cheerfulness, the absence of anything hectic and the opportunity to spend quality time.

Air Products installs GE wireless monitoring system
The new system is helping improve operational efficiency and productivity by providing a way to reliably monitor, diagnose and maintain water equipment and processes.

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Red Lion releases panel meter selector tool
Selector tool enables users to quickly and accurately identify one or more meters that best match their criteria.

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Machine and process safeguarding seminars
One-day training seminars by Omron STI help educate plant personnel on the requirements and methods of machine and process safeguarding.

Smart camera seminar
June 3-4, 2009 Livonia, MI and Cleveland, Ohio
Free half-day seminars introduce the Matrox Iris GT with Design Assistant smart camera/software package.

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ISaGRAF supplies software to CSE-Semaphore
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Emerson to control floating storage and regasification unit
Emerson will supply DeltaV, AMS Suite software, Fisher control valves, Rosemount transmitters, and safety systems on the Golar Freeze, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) vessel.

Siemens Energy to supply 33 wind turbines in North Dakota
SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines will be supplied to the Bison I wind project, located near Center, North Dakota, and will be built in two phases.

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