Featured Articles:
-Choosing a Higher Performance Database
-Hitting the Relational Wall
-Digital Manufacturing Takes Off; and more

Resources & Literature:
-Exploring Database Management Technologies Webinar
-Download Demo of Indusoft’s WebStudio
-NI Announces LabVIEW Compatibility Program; and more

Application Stories:
-Los Alamos National Laboratory
-Information and Knowledge Management in a Complex World
-New SCADA for Power Grid; and more

Featured Training:
-Objectivity On-Line Training Courses
-Indusoft Training Classes
-ICONICS Training Course; and more

Product Announcements:
-NI releases LabVIEW 8.5 for Machine Control
-NI announces LabVIEW 8.5
-Emerson enhances AMS Suite for Vibration and Thermography Analysis; and more

Company News:
-PANDUIT components added to promis•e design software
-Emerson acquires Decision Management International
-NI's Truchard to present ISA Keynote/Rimbach Lecture; and more

Application News:
-CitectScada Providing Remote Control of 1000 Electrical Substations
-Siemens provides MES for world's largest coal terminal
-Matrikon deploys alarm management at Sasol Synfuels; and more

Featured Events:
-MESA International Plant to Enterprise Conference
-National Manufacturing Week
-ISA Expo 2007; and more

Choosing a Higher Performance Database
By Objectivity, Inc.
There is often a great deal of confusion in determining whether an object database management system (ODBMS) is right for you. Most of this confusion can be resolved by focusing on your application's requirements.

Hitting the Relational Wall
by Dr. Andrew E. Wade, PhD, Objectivity
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMSs) have been very successful, but their success is limited to certain types of applications. As business users expand to newer types of applications, and grow older ones, their attempts to use RDBMS encounter the "Relational Wall," where RDBMS technology no longer provides the performance and functionality needed.

Digital Manufacturing Takes Off
Control Engineering, August 2007
By Frank O Smith
Product lifecycle management (PLM) software could be coming to a control system near you. Maybe not tomorrow, but given recent developments, sooner than you might suspect.

When RTOS Really Is Needed
Control Design, August 2007
By Loren Shaum, Contributing editor
For many machine builders producing similar machines in large volume, the control system has to be compact, often fast, and embedded. For these volume OEMs, a non-Windows platform can make sense.

Alphabet Soup Improves Business visibility
Control, July 2007
By Dave Harrold
The technical details of using S88, S95 and other tools are well-documented. The reason why using them makes good business sense hasn’t been well known - until now.

New threats demand new code analysis tools
Embedded Computing Design, July 2007
By Gwyn Fisher, Klocwork
Developers cannot depend on old code review processes and testing tools to find all the bugs and potential vulnerabilities in today’s connected devices. Modern static analysis tools, however, provide a complete system view and detect any weaknesses in the code that could lead to a malicious attack.

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Exploring Database Management Technologies Webinar
Webinar by Objectivity explores how Object Database Management Systems (ODBMSs) pick up where traditional "relational" databases have left off, saving you time and allowing you to create an elegant solution.

Download Demo of Indusoft’s WebStudio
Download a demonstration copy of InduSoft Web Studio onto your PC. Once installed, you can use InduSoft's Web Studio version 6.1 in Evaluation Mode for 40 hours (includes InduSoft's CEView for Windows CE v3.0 and Windows CE.Net).

NI Announces LabVIEW Compatibility Program
Beginning in August, companies can verify their products are compatible with LabVIEW using requirements provided by National Instruments.

Control Microsystems Introduces SCADAForum
SCADAForum offers threaded discussion groups, a powerful search engine and a vast technical resource library.

Bloomy Controls publishes LabVIEW Book  
The LabVIEW Style Book contains critical insight and style rules designed to optimize performance of LabVIEW applications. Price: $89.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory
By Objectivity
The Alexandria Project is an unprecedented information tracking endeavor. Alexandria is an application that tracks the flow of information into and out of electronic documents, as well as the flow of those documents into and out of other applications. Alexandra requires a high performance database, and real-time solutions.

Information and Knowledge Management in a Complex World
By ARC Advisory Group
An overview of how manufacturers can use the Objectivity/DB object oriented technology to consolidate multi-source data for improved business efficiencies and to enhance strategic planning and profitability.

New SCADA for Power Grid
Control Engineering, August 2007
Marcel Van Helten, GE Fanuc
To serve its growing population, Dakota Electric had to upgrade its obsolete SCADA system. DEA turned to New Zealand-based Catapult Software, which developed iPower, a product specifically for electric utility SCADA operations based on GE Fanuc's Proficy HMI/SCADA iFix.

InduSoft HMI monitors Mega-yachts from Nightwatch
By Indusoft
A modern 120'–150' pleasure craft can require over 400 different analog and digital checkpoints that must be simultaneously monitored. NightWatch needed a better HMI system to meet the needs of the large, multi-screen, glass bridges which are now standard in the megayacht world.

Citect Monitors Uranium Mine
By Citect
The Langer Heinrich Uranium mine selected Citect Professional Services to design, install and commission the entire control automation system consisting of CitectSCADAand CitectSCADAReports combined with Siemens S7-400 PLCs.

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Objectivity On-Line Training Courses
Objectivity offers free on-line modules of its classroom curriculum and object data base training courses on-line. Courses include DB 101, DB for C ++ Developers, and DB for Java Developers, DB Database Administrator.

Indusoft Training Classes
Introduction to InduSoft Web Studio v6.1 training class is scheduled for August 13-16, September 17-20, October 15-18, November 12-15, and December 3-6 in Austin, Texas. Advanced Training for Web Studio is August 20-23, September 24-27, October 22-25, November 27-30 and December 10-13.

ICONICS Training Course
Five-day course combines the TR-GEN32-101 and TR-GEN32-102 courses. It covers GENESIS32 Standard, WebHMI and AlarmWorX32 Multimedia curricula. Courses are scheduled for October 8-12 and November 5-9, 2007 in Foxboro, MA and September 10-14 and November 12-16, 2007 in Plzen, Czech Republic

PLC Structure, Programming, Installation and Maintenance
September 17-21, 2007 Research Triangle Park, NC
This course will enable you to understand PLC architecture, configuration, installation, maintenance and ladder logic programming with 50% hands on training.

Wonderware Tutorials
“Getting Started” online, web-based tutorials quickly allow you to understand the basic building blocks and features of Wonderware software products, including ActiveFactory, Industrial SQL Server, InTouch, QI Analyst and SuiteVoyager.

WEBCAST: Creating Distributed HMI systems with LabVIEW Touch Panel Module
Control and automation experts should attend this 45-minute webcast on demand to learn about new tools in LabVIEW 8.20 and new HMI hardware targets available for creating user interfaces with LabVIEW. This event includes an overview of new hardware targets, explanation of tools available in LabVIEW for programming HMIs, and tips and techniques for integrating code from PXI, Compact FieldPoint, and CompactRIO systems.

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PANDUIT components added to promis•e design software  
Panel builders now have the ability to generate BOMs, purchase order lists, job costing lists, terminal block plans, from-to wire lists and field wire lists.

Emerson acquires Decision Management International
DMI provides software and expertise, including electronic management of workflow, materials, equipment, personnel, and documentation.

NI's Truchard to present ISA Keynote/Rimbach Lecture  
His presentation, "Repairing the Educational System to Meet Industry's Innovation Demands," will focus on how industry trends in multidiscipline design and advanced software tools are speeding innovation.

ARC says SCADA Market for Oil & Gas to reach $1.1 Billion  
The worldwide market for SCADA Systems for the Oil & Gas industry is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.9% over the next five years.

Invensys completes Cimnet acquisition  
Invensys has completed the acquisition of Cimnet, a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software company based in Pennsylvania.

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CitectScada Providing Remote Control of 1000 Electrical Substations
Process & Control Today, July 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Citect has supplied a 50,000-point CitectSCADA system to Yorkshire Electrical Distribution Limited (YEDL) for remote control and monitoring of hundreds of remote sub stations in the West and South Yorkshire area.

Siemens provides MES for world's largest coal terminal
The Richards Bay coal terminal in South Africa exports 72 million metric tons of coal per year. The MES will monitor production and enable planning on the business level.

Matrikon deploys alarm management at Sasol Synfuels
Sasol's Synfuels operation at Secunda, South Africa, deploys Matrikon's alarm management solution throughout their plant, the world's largest synthetic fuels facility.

Emerson to automate China's largest refining/petrochemical facility
Emerson will automate the $3.5B Fujian Refining and Ethylene Joint Venture Project in China. Equipment includes PlantWeb, DeltaV, Foundation fieldbus, Fisher valves and AMS software.

NASA Uses LabVIEW to test Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s successor to the Hubble, has passed a crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the help of National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA.

MESA International Plant to Enterprise Conference
September 16-18, 2007 Orlando, FL
Manufacturers, solution providers, industry analysts, and application vendors will discuss PLM, SCADA, PLCs, ERP, MES, CRM, BPM, SOA, LEAN, and more. The conference will feature break out sessions tailored for attendees' experience levels.

National Manufacturing Week
September 24-27, Rosemont, IL
Four shows in one: Design Engineering, Enterprise IT, Plant Engineering & Maintenance, and Industrial Automation.

ISA Expo 2007
October 2-4, 2007 Houston, TX
Organized around six core automation and control themes, ISA EXPO 2007 provides attendees a content-rich environment that offers unlimited opportunity for exploration of key technologies, professional growth, and interaction with like minded professionals.

NIDays 2007
October 25, 2007 London
Topics covered will include: Real-Time and Embedded Systems, FPGA-based Reconfigurable I/O, Software Development Techniques, LabVIEW SignalExpress, LabVIEW graphical development, Windows Vista, Multicore.

OMAC Integration Symposium
November 28–29, 2007 Everett, WA
This two day event will bring together and integrate the OMAC Working Groups (machine tool, packaging, MS MUG, etc.) into a single cohesive body that will work toward a common objective - enhancing the collaboration between process and discrete industries.

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Vice President, Publisher
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