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Read the online version if some of the links don't work in this Automation Software Update. | | | November 2007 | | Sponsor: Objectivity |  | In this Issue | Concrete ways to harness data and turn it into actionable information
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Operating in today’s global environment necessitates the real-time interoperability of information across the globe. Companies must find ways to exchange, aggregate and analyze information at record speeds in order to identify and solve problems before they occur…problems that could cause immeasurable delays and costs.
The ARC Advisory Group recently released a new Profile Brief, "Information and Knowledge Management in a Complex World" which proposes concrete ways to harness data and turn it into actionable information.
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| | Featured Articles:
-Complex Data Management in the Flat World: Creating Interoperability & Collaboration
-Choosing a Higher Performance Database
-Open Control Programming at Last?; and more Resources & Literature:
-NI starts FPGA Development forum
-NWA publishes white paper on SPC-based Analytics
-Flexibility guaranteed; and more Application Stories:
-Wisconsin Public Service Optimizes with CMMS
-Got automation
-True PC-Based Control; and more Featured Training:
-OPC Training Institute anounces free DCOM Webcast
-Database Management for Industrial Automation & Control
-PLC Automation: PLC Structure, Programming, Installation, and Maintenance; and more Product Announcements:
-SimSci-Esscor adds Excel to PipePhase software
-NI enhances LabVIEW 8.5 Student Edition
-Emerson updates AMS Suite software
-NI enhances LabVIEW SignalExpress 2.5
-Matrikon announces OPC driver for GE Mark V Turbine; and more
Company News:
-Matrikon announces Q4 2007 results
-ARC predicts SCADA Market in Water & Wastewater to Exceed $275 Million
-Sudipta Bhattacharya appointed President of Wonderware; and more Application News:
-Honeywell to integrate operations at China's largest gas field
-Emerson's digital valve controllers improve control at water treatment facility
-Invensys installing InFusion system for Petro Rabigh; and more Featured Events:
-ATX - Automation Technology Expo West
-Embedded Systems Conference
-SCMLogistics India 2008; and more | | Featured Articles |
Complex Data Management in the Flat World: Creating Interoperability & Collaboration
By Objectivity
Manufacturing, process control and automation require the ability to monitor and
correlate data and data’s relationships from different sources in a real-time
environment. Streaming event data can be correlated to provide predictive alarms and intelligence to solve problems before they occur.
Choosing a Higher Performance Database
By Objectivity
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.
Open Control Programming at Last?
Control, November 2007
By Dan Hebert, senior technical editor
Universal PLC programming software could reduce PLCs to a commodity status, like PCs. The only winner would be the company that controlled the software standard, as Microsoft does with PC operating systems and applications.
Service Plant Soon?
Control, November 2007
By Nancy Bartels
EAM is different from industry to industry. Just what is enterprise asset management? CMMS, EAM, PM, CBM, ERP or some combination?
What’s Driving the Industrial Marketplace?
Control Engineering, October 2007
Sumiya Donna Imam, Freescale Semiconductor
Whether on the factory floor or an offshore oil rig, there is increasing need for additional functionality. Sophisticated real-time software systems and powerful processors are needed to meet this demand.
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| | Resources & Literature |
NI starts FPGA Development forum
FPGA IPNet provides an open forum for sharing LabVIEW FPGA IP and modules for analog and digital I/O, communication buses/protocols and motion control.
NWA publishes white paper on SPC-based Analytics
The paper details how process-based manufacturing and business analytics enable enterprise decision making.
Flexibility guaranteed
By John Croft, ABB
Technical note describes how software libraries in ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA can gather information from multiple plant sources and transform it into relevant information for users such as maintenance technicians, process engineers, production managers, or plant operators.
Rockwell releases IT Reference Architecture resources
Reference Architectures include design guides, white papers as well as an educational seminar series that addresses the technical and cultural convergence of manufacturing and IT.
Deacom releases Process Manufacturing ERP Podcast
This podcast segment reviews the three stages of a successful ERP implementation within a batch process manufacturing company.
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| | Application Stories |
Wisconsin Public Service Optimizes with CMMS
Control, November 2007
Avantis Pro EAM software manages all the company’s preventive maintenance (PM) at its fossil fuel plants. The company is integrating Avantis with its financial, inventory and corporate labor systems as well.
Got automation
InTech, November 2007
Pennsylvania milk producer Dietrich handles small, specialized batches of product such as organic or kosher foods and food ingredients. It uses tablet PCs and MES software to manage clean-in-place processes.
True PC-Based Control
American Machinist, October 2007
Fluid Line Products in Willoughby, Ohio, replaced some outdated equipment with true PC-based controls: the P100 THINC-OSP Microsoft Windows and PC-based control from Okuma America Corp.
Woodworking Automation: Manufacturing Execution System Solutions
By Thomas Cutler
Engineer-to-order is a style of manufacturing rather than one specific industry grouping. For such a style, an MES solution should include parametrics and dynamically change bills of materials, bills of labor, labor routings, costs, selling prices, etc.
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| | Featured Training |
OPC Training Institute announces free DCOM Webcast
Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM MST
If you receive DCOM errors such as 'Access Denied' or are terrified of opening up DCOMCNFG, join this webcast.
Database Management for Industrial Automation & Control
February 4-5, 2008 Research Triangle Park, NC
Learn the ways in which information is stored, managed and protected in a modern IACS including how to access and manipulate that information and what steps can be taken to safeguard and insure the availability of that information.
PLC Automation: PLC Structure, Programming, Installation, and Maintenance
April 7-11, 2008 Philadelphia, PA
This course will enable you to understand PLC architecture, configuration, installation, maintenance and ladder logic programming with over 50% hands on training.
ARC European Process Management Academy
January 28-30, 2008 Düsseldorf, Germany
Attendees will learn how to manage and optimize production plants using collaborative manufacturing concepts and technologies.
OPC Training Institute announces workshops
Training workshops provide people in the industrial automation, manufacturing, and military field with a theoretical background in OPC technology.
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| | Product Announcements | | | Browse more Product Announcements on the portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | Company & Organizational News |
Matrikon announces Q4 2007 results
Revenue was $18.44 million with a net loss of $0.25 million. Matrikon restructures management and separates two business units. CTO takes sabbatical.
ARC predicts SCADA Market in Water & Wastewater to Exceed $275 Million
The world-wide market for SCADA systems for the water & wastewater industries is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4% over the next five years.
Sudipta Bhattacharya appointed President of Wonderware
Bhattacharya joined Invensys in August 2007 as chief software solutions officer. He came from SAP AG.
ISA Security Compliance Institute seeks members
ISA is recruiting Strategic Members, Technical Members, and Informational Members from the industrial community for the ISASecure program.
Rockwell Automation to Acquire Pavilion Technologies
Pavilion Technologies software products will be integrated into the FactoryTalk suite and the Logix Control Platform.
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Honeywell to integrate operations at China's largest gas field
Honeywell will supply Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) R300 software and SCADA technology to manage data at the Puguang Gas Field in Sichuan Province.
Emerson's digital valve controllers improve control at water treatment facility
The R. E. Badger Filtration Plant in California has improved process control, efficiency, and reliability by installing FIELDVUE digital valve controllers and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.
Invensys installing InFusion system for Petro Rabigh
Petro Rabigh is a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, headquartered in Rabigh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
IFS supplies ERP to Beverage Can Machinery Producer
Belvac, which provides beverage can makers with machinery, implemented IFS ERP at its corporate headquarters to replace its existing MANMAN system.
Visibility supplies ERP to Campbell Wrapper
Campbell Wrapper, a manufacturer of horizontal flow wrapping and feeding equipment, selected VISIBILITY.net as its integrated ERP solution.
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| Browse more application news on the portal. | | Featured Events |
ATX - Automation Technology Expo West
January 29-31, 2008 Anaheim, California
Latest advances in automation including assembly systems, custom automation, control software/hardware, motion control, robotics, sensors, vision inspection systems, and much more.
Embedded Systems Conference
April 14-18, 2008 San Jose, CA
Attracts the industry’s engineers and engineering managers, media and technology analysts, executives, financial analysts, venture capitalists, and many of the largest hardware and software companies.
SCMLogistics India 2008
March 17, 2008 New Delhi, India
Annual supply chain management and logistics conference by Indian and international manufacturers that focus on the Indian market
WBF North American Conference
March 24, 2008 Philadelphia, PA
Keynote speakers, panels, discussion forums, and individual presentations will focus on evolving manufacturing methods and technologies, and industry standards including ISA-88, ISA-95, ISA-99, B2MML, and Make2Pack.
Automation Technology Egypt 2008
April 8, 2008 Cairo, Egypt
International exhibition on Factory Automation, Instrumentation & Controls, Information Technology & Software Solutions, Building Automation, Safety & Environment, etc.
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