OpsManage'11 Conference
November 8-10, 2011
Location: Nashville, TN, USA

Join the Journey to Excellence with Invensys and the Wonderware brand. OpsManage'11 will give you the opportunity to open your mind to new possibilities with innovative solutions that link, inform, and accelerate decision-making and actions - using collaborative workflow to improve your business and production operations. Meet with industry and solutions experts, see the latest product updates and new products.

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OSIsoft's PI System

OSIsoft's PI System, the industry standard in enterprise infrastructure, for management of real-time data and events. The PI System enables users to manage assets, mitigate risks, comply with regulations, improve processes, and drive innovation.

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Wireless Condition Monitoring with Flexible Power Options

The latest release of Essential Insight.mesh™ from GE's Bently Nevada, supports On-Demand data requests and features external power options providing both external line power and an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester. The addition of external power options provides flexibility and eliminates the need for batteries and associated maintenance.

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Power Plant Condition Monitoring  
Power Engineering, August 2011
By Amin Almasi, WorleyParsons
Modern power plants depend heavily on rotating machines such as steam turbines, gas turbines, generators and so on. Condition monitoring requires that suitable sensors be used, dedicated parameters be monitored, baseline (normal condition) be defined and trend of the data be captured to identify condition changes.

Are GIS and EAM Systems Smart Grid-ready?  
Electric Light & Power, August 2011
By Jeff Hanna and Paul Yarka, Accenture
Are our systems and databases that enable transmission and distribution business operations smart grid-ready? More specifically, are the GIS and EAM systems that underpin and support network operations sufficiently integrated to support and enable effective smart grid operations?

Assessing the condition and predicting the remaining life of operating fossil plant equipment
Energy-Tech, August 2011
By Bilan Dogan
The aging of fossil power plants in the United States is placing an ever-increasing burden on owner-operators to make run/repair/replace decisions on equipment.

Power Industry Refocuses, Faces "New Normal"  
Automation World, August 2011
By C. Kenna Amos
There's never a lull in the challenges facing the power industry. Coal-fired power plants remain targets of the Greens. Nuclear power incurs more negative publicity via the earthquake-induced nuclear-plant crisis in Japan.

Using Fossil-Fueled Generation to Accelerate the Deployment of Renewables  
Power, July 2011
By Dr. Justin Zachary, Bechtel Power
It may seem counterintuitive, but the strategic coupling of simple- and combined- cycle technologies with renewable generation could establish the conditions necessary for adding more renewable megawatts to transmission grids around the world.

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Emerson releases EZHSO pressure reducing regulator
4-inch Fisher EZHSO Series spring-to-open natural gas regulator ensures gas delivery for high pressure transmission and distribution applications.

Invensys releases Wonderware Well Field Application
The Well Field Application allows users to see, at a glance, how the entire field is producing, as well as drill down for intimate knowledge about any individual well.

ABB Instrumentation introduces Endura AZ20 combustion gas probe
Featuring probe lengths up to 13.12 ft (4 meters), the Endura AZ20 handles high temperature applications up to 1472°F (800°C).

Other Product Announcements

• Korenix releases JetNet 5828G Modular Managed Switch
• Dunkermotor Introduces STM Solar Tracker Motors
• Meriam introduces PIT5000 Pipeline Integrity Tester
• Lenox releases Portable Furnace Camera Diagnostic System
• SEL announces SEL-2240 Axion modular RTU and PLC
• Yokogawa Releases CW10 Clamp-On Power Meter
• Pico Technology releases PicoLog CM3 Current Data Logger
• Eaton introduces VCP-Wind vacuum circuit breaker
• eSight Energy enhances its energy management suite

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Bosch Rexroth publishes brochure on Automation for Photovoltaics
Brochure describes Nosch's automation solutions for the manufacturing process of solar cells and modules.

GAMBICA offers free VSD energy savings calculator
Free calculator estimates the energy savings that installing a variable speed drive (VSD) on a relevant application can achieve.

Reference Guide reviews 2011 NEC Code Changes
Thomas & Betts publishes Analysis of NEC Code Changes 2011, a free reference guide that highlights changes to the National Electrical Code (NEC) for the 2011 code cycle.

Pepperl+Fuchs publishes brochure on Sensors for Wind Energy
The brochure provides an overview of the sensing technologies for wind energy applications.

Free Library of Power Quality and Energy Monitoring Articles
Draenetz offers more than 55 downloadable technical white papers, articles and marketing documents covering a broad range of power quality and energy monitoring topics.

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Improving the Efficiency of Toronto's District Heating Plant  
Power, August 2001
By Richard Parrish, MindShare Communications
Enwave Energy's district heating plants in downtown Toronto will be operating cleaner and more efficiently when boiler upgrades now under way are completed. Enwave hired Benz Air Engineering (BAE) to design and install upgrades to all eight boilers inside Enwave's Pearl Street Station.

AEP Automates Callout  
Transmission & Distribution World
By Jim Nowak, American Electric Power
Although AEP has implemented a system that covers all of its operating utilities in 11 states, the change-management aspect of this effort is small. AEP will call out crews with an automated system instead of a dispatcher contacting each individual crew member.

Smart grid solution integrates Australia's first community owned wind farm  
Process & Control Engineering, August 2011
ABB's STATCOM PCS 100 was used to connect the renewable energy generated by the Hepburn Wind farm into the electricity grid. The new wind farm located in central Victoria provides a total capacity of 4 MW of power and produces enough electricity for 2,300 homes.

RuggedCom provides communications for photovoltaic plant in Egypt
RuggedCom provided RS900 Ethernet Switches and RMC30 Media Converters to implement the communications infrastructure that connects multiple remote telecontrol units in the plant.

GE controls power at eBay's Topaz Data Center  
The Quad PAC controlled switchgear was designed with a voting scheme where triple inputs are sent to the PLC system. The best of the three dictates the state of the device.

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Increasing the Value of Automation for Industrial Infrastructure Projects  
By Tim Sweet, Honeywell Process Solutions
This white paper discusses the use of modern automation technology to support industrial infrastructure projects in the world's developing regions. It describes the latest innovative strategies for automating balance-of-plant units and other supporting assets in new Greenfield facilities.

Powering the Smart Grid  
By Brian MacCleery, National Instruments
Smart grid technology tackles technical challenges that limit the openness, reliability, and efficiency of energy production and distribution.

Defense in Cyber Space  
By Trent Nelson, Idaho National Laboratory, and Jeff Becker, Honeywell
For industrial facilities, the increased vulnerability of the enterprise resulting from open wireless architectures, coupled with a rise in cyber attacks, has made electronic security a major concern. This whitepaper discusses the present situation regarding cyber security, beating the hackers and how to protect plants against potential cyber attacks.

Video Surveillance Integrated with SCADA  
By Control Microsystems
This paper explores the growing security requirements for critical infrastructure in SCADA industries and the capability of operators to efficiently integrate video surveillance into their existing SCADA networks without hindering communications and bandwidth to the control centre.

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Kitchener commissions 500 kW solar installation
The project is one of the largest solar roof-top installations in Canada.

Avid Solutions Acquires Ingress  
Ingress provides system integration and the design of instrumentation and controls for the power generation industry.

Energy Harvesting to be a $4.4 Billion Market in 2021
This includes 250 million sensors powered by an energy harvester, at an average price of $6 per harvester.

Metso forms power automation joint venture in China
The joint venture will concentrate on developing the digital power plant concept focusing especially on the Chinese market.

Rockwell Automation starts Biofuels Customer Advisory Council
CAC will provide customers with a forum to discuss their needs, challenges and industry opportunities in biofuels.

Advancing International Smart Grid Standards Collaboration
Electric Light & Power, June 2011
By John McDonald, GE Energy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) governing board is accelerating progress toward international smart grid interoperability standards collaboration.

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OSI to supply SCADA system to Vermont Electric
The SCADA system will be integrated with Vermont Electric's smart grid technology.

ABB wins $1 billion order for offshore wind power connection
ABB won an order worth around $1 billion from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind farms to the German mainland grid.

Emerson's AMS Suite to support maintenance at UK power plant
AMS Suite will help EDF Energy access asset health information, view real-time analyses and reports, and develop management strategies to improve plant performance.

Offshore wind test rig
International Power Engineer, July 2011
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) will invest £25m into a state-of-the art, open access, wind turbine drive train test rig seen as crucial for the continued success and further expansion of the UK's offshore wind industry.

Cogeneration plant supports renewable energy generation at Queensland sugar mill
Process & Control Engineering, June 2011
ABB will and deliver a $4 million distributed control system and electrical package for Mackay Sugar's Racecourse Mill renewable cogeneration plant in Australia.

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Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification (EC50E) - Online
October 24, 2011 - December 16, 2011
The course focuses on the engineering requirements for the specification, design, analysis, and justification of safety instrumented systems for the process industries. Students will learn how to determine safety integrity levels and evaluate whether proposed or existing systems meet the performance requirements.

NERC CIP Compliance Training
November 3, 2011
Location: Garland, TX, United States
This course, taught by former NERC CIP auditors, will address cyber security solutions and methods to help secure the power grid and meet the NERC CIP standard requirements.

PROFINET Certified Network Engineering Class
December 5, 2011 - December 2, 2011
Location: Johnson City, TN, USA
In this hands-on training you will dive into the installation, operation and maintenance of PROFINET products and networks. This course is an intensive, four-day training program.

Safety Instrumented Systems Training Course - Electronic Download
This course on Safety Instrumented Systems is designed to make the learning experience comfortable and easy. Everything is explained in easy to understand terms, with plenty of graphics, interactive simulations and worked problems. Everything that you need to know about Safety Instrumented Systems, put together, in an easily digestible form, stripped of all the complexity, but still useful to impart skills to you that you can actually use in your work.

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3rd Annual World Refining Technology Summit & Exhibition
September 28, 2011 - September 29, 2011
Location: Houston, TX, USA
3rd Annual World Refining Technology Summit 2011 is an ideal perfect platform to discuss and learn the latest in refining technology and how to stay abreast of your competitors.

ISA Automation Week 2011
October 17, 2011 - October 20, 2011
Location: Mobile, AL, USA
This world-class conference will cover seven technical tracks in depth and will be designed with information critical to several identified automation and control career paths. ISA Automation Week provides you with the opportunity to get the best unbiased knowledge available to help you in your jobs and your future.

2011 Emerson Global Users Exchange
October 24, 2011 - October 28, 2011
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Exchanging Ideas...Creating Solutions is the theme of this year's conference, to be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Attendees overwhelmingly feel the different ideas and proven solutions from the presentations of users and experts at the conference is the main driving force to attend.

Invensys OpsManage'11
November 8, 2011 - November 10, 2011
Location: Nashville, TN, USA
Invensys Operations Management hosts a multi-discipline event for collaborating on your journey towards manufacturing enterprise optimization.

Automation Fair 2011
November 16, 2011 - November 17, 2011
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Join us in Chicago as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Automation Fair. A great opportunity to explore a wide variety of smart, safe, sustainable manufacturing solutions geared toward improving your business profitability. And, best of all, it's FREE.

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