6 Steps for Evaluating Water-Damaged Electrical Equipment
Buildings, April 2008
Know what actions to take and questions to ask when evaluating water-damaged electrical equipment

Communicating Building Information Across the Enterprise with OPC and BACnet
By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC
Building automation systems have information to relay about energy management, optimized operating conditions, and asset utilization. Unfortunately, they are all speaking different languages and running into application barriers. These systems can be connected and the obstacles overcome using standard, open protocols: OPC and BACnet.

Communicating To the Enterprise Isn’t Science Fiction
By Eric Murphy, MatrikonOPC
Organizations are using OPC to integrate realtime and historic building information into existing business applications to improve the balance between people, infrastructure, facilities and their overall impact on the enterprise bottom line.

Automating Energy Consumption
Automation World, March 2008
By Rob Spiegel
With rising energy costs and the growing interest in reducing carbon emissions, plants are becoming more interested in making their facilities more energy efficient. One of the critical requirements to reduce energy consumption is the ability to track and monitor energy consumption.

Coping with Higher-Priced Energy
Automation World, March 2008
By Harry Forbes, ARC
The first step in coping with energy price increases is to refine the existing energy measurements within a manufacturing operation. New and less-expensive technologies for electric-power measurement using wireless mesh networks should be on the market in the near future.

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Free Electrical Design Trial Software
EPLAN improves the engineering design times, costs and quality of Electrical Control Systems, Fluid Power Systems, and Instrumentation & Control Systems.

AD Products updates enclosures website  
The updated site contains four times as many enclosure products as before.

Calex publishes DC/DC and AC/DC short form product guide
The Short Form Product Guide provides an easy reference selection guide for Calex DC/DC converter and AC/DC power supply products.

Littelfuse adds design guide to Web site
Interactive design guide has library of 50 applications, allowing users to locate the specific product series or part number that best matches their needs.

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Physics Of Structural Automation
Industrial Automation Asia
The Einstein III building in Haidhausen, Germany, has a complete building automation solution that combines CitectFacilities with the European Installation Bus (EIB) and BACnet. The interlacing of these open standards resulted in the networking of the entire building.

High on Efficiency, Low on Water Usage
Buildings, April 2008
Low-consumption flush valves are an easy-to-use, cost-effective technology that will significantly lower water usage.

Making Boiler Runtime More Efficient
Buildings, April 2008
By Dan Margulies, U.S. Energy Group.
With a goal of running your buildings at peak operating efficiency, one of the most effective way to do this is by controlling boiler runtime

Pfizer uses Nalco in water system overhaul
Control Engineering Europe
February 2008
Pfizer claims to have boosted efficiency and control of its cooling and boiler water systems at one of its plants in Cork, Ireland. Nalco’s 3D TRASAR technology was installed on all cooling systems to monitor and control the chemical dosing and operational parameters for each system via stress management.

Finns drive for smart buildings
Control Engineering Europe
January 2008
A local government building in the Finnish city of Tampere has networked variable speed fan drives into its heating and ventilating system during a major refit of the 40-year-old building.

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Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Seminar
May 19-21, 2008 Los Angeles, California
Covers Defining the Maintenance Level; Planning and Estimating; Preventive and Predictive Maintenance; The Scheduling Process and Critical Path Methods for Maintenance. Price: $1,175.

Maintaining Pneumatic Components in Measurement and Control
June 9-10, 2008 Houston, Texas
ISA course explains the technology, operation, and maintenance of pneumatic instruments employed in modern process facilities. Price: $1,395.00

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Seminar
June 9-11, 2008 Williamsburg, Virginia
Covers Defining the Maintenance Level; Planning and Estimating; Preventive and Predictive Maintenance; The Scheduling Process and Critical Path Methods for Maintenance. Price: $1,175.

Basic Electrical Circuits and Controls - AIT Training Course ECM110
This 4-day course covers the basics needed to understand, troubleshoot, and maintain most machine components and control circuits that exist in today’s complex industrial automation systems.

Emerson publishes 2008 educational course catalog
Global Course Catalog, available in print, CD or as a download, describes over 300 courses.

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• Contemporary Controls Releases BASRTP-B BACnet Portable Router
• Contemporary Controls releases BAS Router
• Schneider Electric releases High Density Meter Cabinet

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Siemens brings exiderdome traveling exhibit to U.S.
exiderdome consists of 55 containers, arranged in a two-story building that is about 50 yards long and includes eight product venues, conference rooms, an executive lounge and a central atrium. To reach destinations, exiderdome uses a convoy of 55 tractor trailers.

FlowSense hires Don McFee as project manager
FlowSense hired McFee as project manager for its Building Services Group in the Midwest and Southwest regions.

AHR Expo towers above the rest
By Bill Lydon, Automation.com
The 2008 AHR Expo, held in New York City, January 22-24, shattered attendance records with over 39,000 attendees. The latest in “green” products, trends, technologies and solutions were featured with an array of new, energy-efficient, products on display from more than 1,800 companies around the world.

Engineers Turning to Portals to find Product Information
Control Design, March 2008
By Joe Feeley
A study by Control Design magazine says engineers are getting tired of using Google and Yahoo because “too many of the results have nothing to do with what they’re actually looking for.” Instead, the use of portals, such as www.automation.com/sitepages/pid2687.php, to find information is increasing.

Browse these and more company and organizational news on the Building Automation portal.

Simulation software helps Silver Eagle Refining meet Benzene emission regulations
Simsci-Esscor PRO/II simulation software helps refiner meet upcoming Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) requirements for benzene emissions.

Electrical Safety and Reliability Conference
May 3, 2008 City: Costa Mesa, CA
This year’s conference will feature industry leaders discussing safety and reconditioning standards as well as presentations from the major manufacturers on how to spot defective or counterfeit electrical equipment.

End-to-End Reliability: The Green Outlook
June 1-4, 2008 Boca Raton, FL
This conference is designed for anyone involved with 7x24 infrastructures — IT, data center, disaster recovery and network/telecommunication managers; computer technologists; facility or building managers, supervisors and engineers.

PAS Users Conference
September 15, 2008 Houston, TX
Focuses on how to "Strategize to Optimize" plant operations through informative presentations on such topics as: Operations Effectiveness, Alarm Management, Control Loop Performance Management, Automation Configuration Management, Automated Documentation and Database Management.

Facility Decisions
September 16-17, 2008 Las Vegas, NV
Facility Decisions is a new, free two-day trade show and educational conference for facility professionals who are responsible for the management, operations, maintenance, design and construction of non-residential buildings.

Plant-to-Enterprise Conference
September 21-23- 2008 Orlando, FL
MESA 2008 conference will focus on how plant-wide information systems support five key strategic corporate initiatives – lean manufacturing, quality and regulatory compliance, product lifecycle management, real-time enterprise, and total productive maintenance.

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