Digitize Work Processes with Industrial Workflow Execution
By GE Fanuc
Workflows are a key element to connecting and managing flexible work processes that can be very dynamic. By leveraging a common reference model and workflow engine layered on with transformational innovation specifically to improve production operations, companies can enable workflows to execute across many systems. (Registration required)

Meet the Next Generation of OPC
Sensors, July 2008
By: Tony Paine, Kepware Technologies
A new generation of OPC, known as OPC-UA, is upon us. This latest generation of OPC-UA delivers solutions to problems of the past, adds significant new capabilities, and provides a foundation for future developments.

Fix me
Plant Services, July 2008
By Bob Sperber
While developers of computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) or enterprise asset management (EAM) packages are steadily adding capabilities for handling condition-monitoring tasks and opening their technology platforms for greater connectivity, CMMS and condition-monitoring systems still aren’t capable of being plugged directly into each other.

Selecting an automation systems integrator is about more than cost
Advanced Manufacturing, July 2008
By Chris Stergiou
Once upon a time, most plants had in-house machine design departments to develop new equipment. Alas, this is no longer the case as manufacturing doctrine is driven by a strategy of outsourcing non-core competencies. This “back to basics” approach means that in-house efforts are geared to product design and development and this has created a manufacturing process knowledge gap as in-house engineers are focused on production

Tools Provide Global Collaboration
Automation World, July 2008
By Gary Mintchell
Managing today’s manufacturing enterprise is impossible without collaboration. Most companies have employees located in facilities around the world who need to work together in real time. New technologies are required to enable widespread collaboration.

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Wonderware announces Customer Support program
Customer First program offers support options including 24/7 support, dedicated technical account management, critical incident response, software updates and advice on software architecture and security.

Vision algorithms by the book
Test & Measurement World, May 2008
Review of book, Machine Vision Algorithms and Application. It covers machine vision in three main chapters. The longest chapter covers vision algorithms, while the remaining two address vision applications and hardware (lenses, cameras, and lights).

PAS and EPRI publish Alarm Management Applications Guidelines
Report presents alarm management best practices guidelines for improving safety and reliability in power generation industry.

OPC Foundation starts Technical Advisory Blog
MatrikonOPC's Eric Muphy was selected by the OPC Foundation to launch the official OPC Foundation Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Blog

Original Software starts web site for software testing
ManualTesting.com is a community site with free resources designed to alleviate the headaches caused by the burden of time-consuming manual testing on QA departments.

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The Smart Factory
Advanced Manufacturing, July 2008
To maintain their quality commitment to Ford for assembling key automotive components, Automodular needed to make sure that all their people had all the information needed to assemble each part, at the right time. Automodular turned to PinPoint Information Systems to develop a software system to communicate and verify information and track conformance to standards in real time.

Better hardware, better bottle
Control Engineering Europe, June 2008
Amcor, an Australian packaging company, installed Wonderware InTouch SCADA and real-time database InSQL on Advantech Touch Screen PCs. The acquisition of data from plastics machinery required fast data access without affecting PLC cycle time. A pilot design was developed and tested prior to deployment across 28 machines.

ABB Chosen To Give Polypropylene Plant Optimum Regulatory Control
Process Industry Informer, June 2008
ABB’s Loop Performance Manager (LPM) software is giving Petroquimica Cuyo’s, Mendoza, Argentina polymer plant improved productivity. Besides its usefulness for loop tuning activities and process insight through its model building capabilities ABB’s LPM software is helping the Mendoza facility operate at peak efficiency and meet its market demands.

Integrator Uses Simulation to Close Design Loop
Control Design, June 2008
Maverick Technologies uses software emulation to help identify potential control problems upfront, shorten the machine’s start-up time, and provide a good platform for operator training.

Upgrade delivers spare parts
Control Engineering, May 2008
By Marvin Coker, Bachelor Controls
Golden Triangle Energy Cooperative in Craig, MO, had control system hardware that had been deemed obsolete by the manufacturer, and replacement parts were becoming difficult to find. Bachelor Controls upgraded the system to Rockwell Automation’s Process Automation System, ControlLogix PAC and I/O, and RSView.

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MRP Software Training
August 20-21, 2008 Wayne, PA
DEACOM Material Requirements Planning (MRP): Run MRP, drilldown into source detail, generate purchase orders, and more.

Inductive Automation offers free online training for FactorySQL
Flash-based tutorials illustrate the ins and outs of FactoryPMI SCADA and FactorySQL OPC to SQL data logger.

Emerson Mine seminars cover predictive automation
Smart Mine seminars demonstrates how predictive automation technologies can solve mining application challenges.

OPC Training Seminars
The OPC Foundation and its sponsoring members will host a series of eight one-day training seminars. These free seminars are tailored for end-users, systems integrators and OEMs, and are designed to cover the fundamentals of OPC including Servers, Clients, OPC Data Access, OPC Unified Architecture, Best Practices and Compliance.

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• BlueCielo upgrades InnoCielo Asset Management Module
• Software Toolbox upgrades OmniServer 2.6
• Thermo Fisher enhances ARL SMS analysis automation software
• Infimatic introduces Freedom eLog software
• WebDock updates DataPort Data Collection for RSLinx
• TiPS releases LogMate AlarmKB software to audit alarms
• MASS Group upgrades FactoryServer CMMS
• Saelig introduces USB DeviceExaminer software

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Protecting Your Company From Supply Chain Fraud
Manufacturing.net, July 2008
By Amanda Earing
The Global Fraud Report, released in April by Kroll, cited a 2007 survey that found 42 percent of firms worldwide suffered from at least one incidence of either supplier fraud or theft of physical assets -- just two of the many ways to abuse supply chains -- and 9 percent had suffered both. Today, those numbers are suspected to be much higher.

InduSoft achieves Microsoft Gold status for fifth straight year
InduSoft attained Gold Certified status in ISV/Software Solutions, Mobility Solutions, Business Process and Integration, and Custom Development Solutions.

Wonderware announces Innovation Partner Program
Companies participating in the Innovation Partner Program will use the Wonderware System Platform software as the foundation for implementations of customer automation and information projects.

Matrikon to use design engineers from India
Matrikon entered into a joint entity agreement with India’s SoftDEL Systems to support Matrikon’s product development initiatives and provide project consulting globally.

IFS and ESRI add mapping to asset management
IFS and ESRI are bringing geographical information systems and enterprise asset management together.

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China uses Wonderware to modernize railway stations for Olympics
Wonderware System Platform 3.0, Historian and InTouch 10.0 HMI will be installed at four railway stations and operate the "Passenger Information System."

Yokogawa signs agreement with Russia's Gazprom Neft
Yokogawa will introduce its integrated production control systems and operation support software at four of the company’s refineries.

Lambeau Field uses Proteus CMMS
The Packers use Eagle Technology's ProTeus Enterprise system, Metasys and ProLink, a web-based Service Request, Preventive Maintenance (PM) Task module.

Matrikon supplies Alarm Management to LyondellBasell Europe  
All LyondellBasell production facilities in Europe will integrate and use Matrikon’s Alarm Management software suite with a variety of different control systems.

Emerson to optimize steam temperature on Doosan Babcock boiler
Emerson will install its SmartProcess Steam Temperature optimization technology on a Doosan Babcock supercritical, pulverized coal boiler that will power a new station in Kentucky, USA.

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.

Emerson Exchange
September 29 - October 03, 2008 Washington, DC
More than 325 workshops and short courses, plus management sessions, technology exhibits, industry forums, and educational opportunities.

The Wonderware WonderWorld Global Industry Conferences
WonderWorld global industry conference series, co-sponsored by Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric, will kick off the week of October 6 in Las Vegas.

ARC Advisory Group’s Asset Lifecycle Management Forum
October 13-15, 2008 Houston, Texas
Asset-intensive organizations suffer staggering losses each year as a result of poor Asset Information Management. Fast access to complete, accurate information is the foundation for operational excellence in Asset Lifecycle Management. Learn how your peers have implemented best-in-class programs at ARC Advisory Group's Asset Lifecycle Management Forum: Optimize Asset Lifecycle Performance through Better Asset Information Management.

Cyber-Con 2008
October 26-29, 2008 Boston, MA
Conference provides an interactive and informative forum for users to share ideas and thoughts about common customer challenges, suggestions and recommendations from the global customer community and communicate collectively to the Industrial Defender team.

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