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		HART Seeks Nominees for HART Plant of the Year Award - 05/24/12 End users and manufacturers from all world areas are encouraged to enter their plant or customer’s plant for recognition. Nominations will be accepted through 15 July 2012.

		Spies, Hackers and Energy - Preventing a Digital Pearl Harbor - 04/26/12 OilPrice.com, April 2012 By Jen Alic The real threat to US energy infrastructure from the cyber theater is China and Russia, both of whom are believed to be developing cyber warfare methods capable of dealing a major blow to critical infrastructure.

		Endress+Hauser joins ODVA as principal member - 04/23/12 Endress+Hauser will become a principal member, joining Bosch Rexroth, Cisco Systems, Rockwell Automation, Omron and Schneider Electric.

		FieldServer Technologies opens office in Berlin - 04/05/12 The company appointed Paul Lambert as its manager of regional sales for Europe.

		Reliable Controls execs get BACnet appointments - 03/06/12 Roland Laird was appointed to the Board of Directors of BACnet and Michael Osborne will be Secretary of the Standing Standard Project Committee (SSPC) 135 (BACnet).


		Fieldbus Foundation Announces Scholarship Recipients - 03/06/12 Fieldbus Foundation announced the 2011-2012 recipients of the James O. Gray-Fieldbus Foundation Scholarship Fund.

		ARC says Foundation Fieldbus is Number One - 02/23/12 ARC says Foundation fieldbus accounted for nearly three-quarters of the total digital process fieldbus marketplace in 2011.

		Holt Integrated Circuits CAN Controllers Pass Conformance Test - 02/14/12 Validation of Holt's CAN controller at C&S group guarantees conformance and correct protocol response when operating within a CAN network.

		FDI Cooperation formed to support fieldbus Device Integration - 02/07/12 FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International and OPC Foundation founded the company.

		Mechatrolink Members Association Offers Free Upgraded Membership - 01/31/12 Mechatrolink is the most widely used motion control network in Asia, and is gaining ground in the U.S. An annual Regular Membership in MMA normally costs $1,500, but until March 31, 2012, it’s free.

		How China is Stealing Our Secrets - 01/22/12 PD&D, January 2012 By Michael P. Collins U.S. Intelligence agencies say that both Russia and China steal technology information over the internet as a matter of national policy. It is hard to say if China is still the red menace from the cold war, or if they have morphed into a new form of winner-take-all amoral version of capitalism.

		Fieldbus Market to grow in India and China - 12/19/11 ARC says with an average compounded annual growth rate over 24 percent, Asia will be the fieldbus growth engine. The U.S. is way behind.

		Fieldbus Foundation Registers H1 ITK 6.0 Devices - 12/13/11 Fieldbus Foundation registered devices based on its H1 Interoperability Test Kit (ITK) Version 6.o from Emerson Process Management and Yokogawa.

		Fieldbus Foundation announces FOUNDATION for ROM initiative - 12/07/11 The initiative integrates ISA 100.11a, WirelessHART, wired HART, and wired H1 protocols into a single standard environment.

		Softing joins Fieldbus Foundation Development Services Program - 11/29/11 The program helps automation vendors get started with FOUNDATION product development by making it faster and easier to bring fieldbus equipment to market.

		Trebing + Himstedt signs WESCO as distributor - 11/15/11 WESCO will distribute T+H Industrial Communication Solutions and Services for Fieldbus and Ethernet networks in Virginia.

		SEMI accepts ODVA networks as international standards - 11/14/11 The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) organization has renewed EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet as standards in its sensor bus network communications activities.

		Emerson reaches 580 million total hours of wireless operation - 10/20/11 Emerson says it's accumulated 580 million total hours of wireless operation across 6,100 networks.

		HART Communication Foundation Opens Office in Japan - 10/20/11 The Tokyo office provides users and Foundation member companies with application assistance, information and technical support on the HART Communication Protocol.

		Common WirelessHART Gateway specified - 10/07/11 Fieldbus Foundation, the HART Communication Foundation (HCF) and PI have joined forces to create a common architecture for a WirelessHART gateway device

		Softing signs C&E Sales as Profibus Distributor - 10/03/11 C&E has 30+ field sales people and technical specialists to service customers in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

		Fieldbus Foundation Issues Transducer Block Specification - 09/29/11 Specification defines transducer block for interfacing HART devices to FOUNDATION fieldbus.

		FDI group will organize fieldbus - 09/27/11 FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International and OPC Foundation founded FDI to establish an organization to manage device integration.

		Fieldbus organisations get together to provide simplified wireless communication - 09/08/11 Control Engineering Europe, August 2011 In a bid to convince the process industry to make the best use of wireless communication technology, Profibus & Profinet International, Fieldbus Foundation and the HART Communication Foundation are working on the development of an architecture for a WirelessHART gateway.

		ProSoft to resell Western Reserve Controls DeviceNet products - 09/01/11 ProSoft Technology has exclusive sales rights for all of the WRC network communication products that are centered on DeviceNet communications technologies.

		Moore HIX HART Signal Isolator Receives CSA Approval - 08/24/11 The HIX HART signal isolator has received General Location and Class I, Division 2 (Non-Incendive) approvals from CSA International in the United States and Canada.

		ARC says HART is the leader in communications - 07/21/11 HART's market share is larger than all other fieldbus devices (Foundation fieldbus, Profibus, etc.), proprietary protocols and 4-20mA combined.

		ISA gets “social” with ISA Interchange blog - 07/20/11 ISA launched its social media site, ISA Interchange. This news-and-blog site provides automation professionals with an opportunity for finding relevant, high-quality technical knowledge.

		Moore Industries Promotes Scott Saunders to COO - 07/20/11 Scott Saunders has added Chief Operations Officer to his current role as VP Sales & Marketing, while Gary Prentice has been named the company’s National Sales Director.

		ASM accredited as Profibus Competence Center in Saudi Arabia - 06/27/11 The ASM Competence Center will support companies in new product development, provide technical support for Profibus, allow demonstrations of interoperability of products and provide training programmes.

		CLPA releases CC-Link IE Field Network safety specifications - 06/27/11 CC-Link IE Field Network with integrated safety meets international safety standards for SIL3 compliance and follows IEC61784-3:2010 for functional safety fieldbuses.

		Fieldbus Foundation brings more information through HSE with Wireless and Remote I/O - 06/27/11 Plant Engineering, June 2011 The Fieldbus Foundation announced the latest progress on its Wireless and Remote I/O (WIO) technology, including a suite of solutions to assist automation suppliers in developing WIO devices. WIO will enable the utilization of an open, interoperable fieldbus automation infrastructure incorporating Foundation fieldbus High Speed Ethernet (HSE) and industrial wireless applications.

		FDT Technology Recognized as ANSI/ISA Standard - 06/22/11 ANSI formally approved Field Device Tools (FDT) Technology standards, previously adopted internationally as IEC 62453.

		Modbus Joins the Wireless Cooperation Team - 05/31/11 Modbus joined with Fieldbus Foundation, PROFIBUS and the HART Communication Foundation to work on the development of wireless gateway specifications.

		Softing signs AWC as a Distributor - 05/24/11 AWC operates 24 locations in 9 states (Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Florida) and employs over 285 people.

		ODVA appoints leaders for 2011-2012 - 05/15/11 Appointments were made in March 2011 at ODVA’s annual meetings of its board and of its members in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

		FieldServer DNP3 Gateways pass DNP Level 2 Conformance Tests - 04/28/11 DNP3 protocol was originally developed for interoperability between substation computers and RTUs but is now also widely used in the water/wastewater, transportation and oil/gas industries.

		EnOcean interoperable with TCP/IP - 04/26/11 EnOcean Alliance announced that its wireless, battery-less energy harvesting sensors and associated control systems are now fully interoperable with TCP/IP.

		HART Seeks Nominees for Plant of the Year Award - 04/21/11 The HART Plant of the Year is presented to end user companies in the process automation industry to recognize the exceptional application of HART Communication technology.

		Yokogawa Appoints Chester Mroz Head of North American Business - 03/30/11 Mroz was the President of ABB’s petroleum, chemical and consumer industries business area based in Zurich, Switzerland.

		Siemens launches Plantville interactive game - 03/24/11 Online game simulates a Plant Manager’s experience and challenges players to increase productivity, sustainability and the overall health of an industrial plant.

		Yokogawa Joins PROFIBUS User Organization - 03/22/11 Yokogawa joined the PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO), an interest group for the PROFIBUS and PROFINET standard communication protocols.

		WAGO 2011 Innovation in Automation Tour Underway - 03/16/11 Consisting of two identical vans, IIAT presents WAGO’s latest Automation, Interconnect and Electronic solutions directly to industrial professionals.

		Fieldbus Foundation appoints Larry O’Brien Global Marketing Manager - 03/16/11 O’Brien has 18 years of experience in the process automation business as a research director and analyst at ARC, and has been closely tracking and reporting on developments surrounding FOUNDATION fieldbus for much of his career.

		Flowserve uses Transpara's Visual KPI software for asset data - 03/15/11 Transpara Visual KPI extends visibility of equipment performance data by delivering KPI), scorecards, trends and alerts to more than 400 smartphones and PDAs.

		Cognex to add POWERLINK to In-Sight vision products - 03/13/11 Machine manufacturers will benefit from the synchronization of Cognex In-Sight products and the B&R control system, as well as easy integration with a wide range of machine designs.

		HART Communication Foundation supports latest EDDL Standard - 03/10/11 Recent improvements to the EDDL standard include support for offline configuration with default parameters, Unicode character sets, and ability to display all device diagnostics and setup information.

		Online Development names Mark Knebusch VP of Operations - 03/07/11 In this expanded role, Knebusch will lead the company's business operations for all product development and will continue to focus on new business expansion.

		Bosch Rexroth becomes principal member of ODVA - 02/24/11 Bosch Rexroth, an active member for several years, became one of the organization’s principal members.

		Yokogawa names Chet Mroz President and COO - 02/07/11 Mroz is based in the Sugar Land, Texas, office and is responsible for all day to day operations in North America.

		Sercos releases Specification for SERCOS III Energy Profile - 01/30/11 SERCOS Energy is an application layer profile that defines parameters and commands for the reduction of energy consumption in a uniform vendor-independent manner.

		FieldServer Technologies Gateways get LonMark Certified - 01/26/11 LonMark Certified products include the FS-B2011 Serial-LonWorks-Ethernet Gateway, FS-B3510 Multiport LonWorks Gateway and the FS-B4011 10-Port LonWorks Gateway.

		Emerson adds PROFIBUS to pressure and temperature transmitters - 01/06/11 The Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter and Rosemount 644 temperature transmitter are now available with PROFIBUS PA profile V3.02.

		VDC predicts Top 10 Trends for Industrial Networking - 01/04/11 VDC says real-time Ethernet will dominate, wireless is growing, networking will be built in, a large IT player will buy an industrial networking provider, and more companies are going overseas.

		EPSG openSAFETY now available for PROFINET - 12/16/10 The protocol, which has been certified by German testing authorities TÜV Rheinland and TÜV Süd, allows for communication cycles at the microsecond level.

		HMS Industrial Networks becomes Profinet Competence Center - 12/14/10 In addition to providing user support HMS plans to specialize in helping device manufacturers add PROFINET to their products.

		SERCOS releases FDT specification for SERCOS III - 12/01/10 The FDT/DTM specification for SERCOS III was developed by a joint working group of SERCOS International and the FDT group

		FDT Group and CC-Link agree to cooperate - 11/14/10 CLPA will support the development of an annex of the protocol for the FDT standard to support the CC-Link family of networks including its CC-Link IE Field Gigabit Industrial Ethernet.

		Emerson Process Management joins FDT Group - 11/07/10 FDT Group named Steve Armstrong of Emerson to the Board of Directors and Martin Zielinski to the Executive Committee as Vice President.

		IEC approves openSAFETY as worldwide standard - 11/07/10 Process & Control Engineering, October 2010 The fieldbus-independent openSAFETY protocol was tested according to IEC 61784-3 FSCP 13 and approved by national IEC committees representing 27 countries including China, USA and Germany, and is therefore released for international standardisation.

		Opensafety protocol cleared for international standardisation - 09/24/10 Process Engineering News, September 2010 Opensafety, the fieldbus-independent protocol, has been tested according to IEC 61784-3 FSCP 13 and approved by national IEC committees representing 27 countries including China, the USA and Germany. Opensafety has therefore been released for international standardisation.

		FDT Group updates FDT standard - 09/21/10 FDT 2.0 includes.NET and FDT Express development environments.

		HART Communication Foundation improves WirelessHART Test System - 09/19/10 Updates improve test performance, tool usability and technician productivity.

		Invensys to stage more OpsManage'10 shows - 09/16/10 OpsManage’10 shows will be held in Orlando; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Taipei, Taiwan; Paris, France; and São Paulo, Brazil.

		TURCK's JBBS FM Approved for Hazardous Locations - 09/15/10 JBBS junction bricks for AS-interface networks are now FM approved for Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C and D hazardous locations.

		Ethernet POWERLINK appoints two to its supervisory board - 08/25/10 The Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG) appointed Christian Schlegel and Laurent Schmitt to its supervisory board.

		Safety-over-EtherCAT Now an International Standard - 07/13/10 Together with the IEC 67184-3 specification, the Safety-over-EtherCAT Protocol has been accepted unanimously by the 27 national IEC committees.

		Dean Kamen to keynote ISA Automation Week 2010 - 07/07/10 Kamen is the inventor of the Segway and founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).

		ProComSol obtains HART Registration for HART Modem - 07/07/10 The HM-USB-ISO passed the rigorous HART Communication Foundation (HCF) registration program and has been officially registered by the HCF to meet protocol specifications.

		ISA Opens Registration for ISA Automation Week 2010 - 06/21/10 ISA Automation Week will be held 4-7 October 2010 in Houston, Texas, at the Westin Galleria Hotel.

		ODVA publishes new specs for networks - 05/13/10 Specs cover EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet technologies.

		Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group announces openSAFETY - 05/02/10 With openSAFETY, the Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group (EPSG) has now laid the foundation for the first completely open safety-related data communication protocol for all areas of automation.

		WirelessHART Approved by IEC - 04/21/10 The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has approved the WirelessHART specification as a full international standard (IEC 62591Ed. 1.0).

		Automation.com celebrates 10 years of growth - 04/15/10 Since its inception in 2000, Automation.com has grown to become the leading online publisher of automation-related news, information and resources. Each month, the site attracts more than 115,000 automation professionals from around the world.

		SoftDEL BACnet Testing Laboratory achieves ISO accreditation - 04/06/10 SoftDEL Systems has successfully completed the ISO ISO17025:2005 process, including an assessment of the laboratory’s compliance with the A2LA Information Technology Program Requirements.

		Pepperl+Fuchs offers Fundamentals of Fieldbus Technology seminar - 03/28/10 Non-commercial training seminar on April 21, 2010, teaches the basic principles, advantages and benefits of fieldbus technology and segment design.

		ARC says prices are coming down on automation products - 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors.

		Honeywell joins EDDL Cooperation Team - 02/23/10 Honeywell will support efforts to develop a single, unified standard for integrating field devices with industrial facility control systems.

		ARC says refining automation to increase - 02/21/10 Automation expenditures by the refining sector are expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly five percent over the next five years, according to ARC.

		EnOcean and BACnet to develop spec for wireless building systems - 01/25/10 BACnet International and the EnOcean Alliance will develop a vendor independent gateway specification for integrating wireless energy-harvesting nodes into BACnet for building automation and control.

		FDT Technical Seminar - 01/25/10 March 9, 2010 Long Beach, CA Free seminar covers how to access diagnostics and device parameters without installing and maintaining multiple, proprietary software applications on a maintenance station or laptop.

		EDDL Cooperation Team expands - 12/10/09 To accelerate deployment of Field Device Integration (FDI) technology, key automation suppliers have agreed to enlarge the scope of the EDDL Cooperation Team, which will become the FDI Cooperation.

		Automation Systems Market is coming back very slowly - 12/08/09 ARC says the short term forecast for discrete automation systems looks bleak, but moderate market growth is expected five years from now. China and India are doing well, of course.

		ISA appoints Bill Lydon chief editor for InTech - 12/02/09 Automation.com's Bill Lydon was appointed editor of InTech, further strengthening ISA’s partnership with Automation.com to jointly publish several e-newsletters for InTech and Automation.com subscribers.

		CANopen Annex Released for FDT Specification - 12/02/09 The annex includes, beside the actual specification document, the XML schemas and examples which are required to implement a Device Type Manager (DTM) for CANopen devices.

		Cognex joins CC-Link - 12/02/09 Cognex joined the Board of Director Companies of the CLPA (CC-Link Partner Association.

		Frost & Sullivan says Europeans love Industrial Ethernet in new plants - 12/02/09 The European Industrial Ethernet Market will reach $307.12 million by 2015, but end users are only willing to employ industrial Ethernet technologies in new projects or in Greenfield applications.

		NAMUR confirms WirelessHART for Process Applications - 11/17/09 NAMUR reports that WirelessHART technology meets the requirements for wireless sensor networks in process applications.

		MooreHawke TRUNKGUARD device couplers approved by Fieldbus Foundation - 11/09/09 TG200 and TG300 device couplers successfully completed the Foundation Device Coupler Registration Process for the Fieldbus Foundation.

		ISA announces Corporate Sponsorship Program in 2010 - 11/05/09 Sponsorship packages will offer year round promotion, prominent association-wide access and recognition, and turnkey service from a dedicated team of professionals.

		ABB explains accelerated Field Device Integration - 11/03/09 Key Suppliers recently agreed to enlarge the scope of the EDDL Cooperation Team and will become the FDI Cooperation.

		ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions.

		ISA describes plans for ISA Automation Week 2010 - 10/25/09 ISA Automation Week will feature intensive educational and applications-based technical conference sessions delivered by subject matter experts. The event will have a focused exhibition area for a limited number of companies to showcase products and services.

		MooreHawke's TRUNKSAFE device couplers receive Factory Mutual approvals - 10/15/09 TRUNKSAFE acquired ATEX-Type N, IECEx-Type N, and cFMus-General/Ordinary Location and Non-Incendive certifications from Factory Mutual.

		Pepperl+Fuchs and R. STAHL agree to support DART - 10/10/09 Process & Control Today, October 2009 Both companies will sell DART technology. With DART, the requirements of IEC 60079-11 regarding the protection of devices by means of intrinsic safety are raised significantly, allowing the intrinsically safe supply of up to 50 watts of effective power to devices within the ex zone.

		HART Foundation upgrades HART Server - 10/08/09 HART Server Version 3.1 supports HART 7, HART-over-IP based networks, and WirelessHART gateways.

		ISA selects Automation.com to provide E-Newsletters - 10/07/09 The co-branded e-newsletters will be distributed to Automation.com’s subscribers, InTech subscribers, and ISA members and customers, creating a combined total distribution of more than 90,000 world-wide automation professionals.

		Siemens merges four divisions into one - 10/01/09 Siemens Energy & Automation, Siemens Transportation Systems, Siemens Building Technologies, and Siemens VAI Services merged into a new company, Siemens Industry.

		POSITAL encoders certified for IRT by Profibus - 09/30/09 OPTOCODE rotary encoders with PROFINET I/O interfaces are now certified for IRT (isochronous real-time) data transfer protocols.

		WAGO celebrates 30th anniversary - 09/23/09 Established in 1979 in a small suburban Milwaukee office by one employee, WAGO operates out of a 75,000 sq. ft manufacturing complex in Germantown, WI.

		Schneider Electric VP named president of ODVA Board of Directors - 09/21/09 Cyril Perducat, senior vice president of system consistency and innovation for Schneider Electric, has been chosen to serve as president of the board of directors for ODVA.

		FDI project team announces 'milestones' - 09/13/09 Control Engineering Europe, September 2009 The Steering Committee of the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) Co-operation Team (ECT) announced at Achema that its technical team has achieved “important milestones” as it develops a common solution for field device integration (FDI).

		Profibus International Competence Centre to open in India - 08/30/09 The UL Group has been given authority to establish a Profibus International Competence Centre in India by Profibus International (PI).

		CC-Link claims to be dominant open fieldbus network in Asia - 08/25/09 The CC-Link Partner Association announced CC-Link open fieldbus network has exceeded 6.5 million nodes worldwide and that new research finds that CC-Link is the predominant open network in Asia.

		EtherCAT Technology Group opens test center in Japan - 08/06/09 ETG opened the first EtherCAT Test Center outside Europe in Kyoto, Japan.

		ABB Q2 revenues down - 07/23/09 Orders decreased across all divisions and regions compared to the second quarter of 2008 on a combination of lower volumes and price decreases resulting from both lower raw material costs and reduced demand.

		Leonard W. Moore named Honorary Member of ISA - 07/22/09 The highest honor bestowed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), Honorary Member, has been given to Moore Industries’ founder and President Leonard W. Moore.

		FDT appoints new Managing Director - 06/22/09 Flavio Tolfo, Managing Director for the last three years, will take his retirement as of July 1, 2009. The new managing Director will be Glenn Schulz.

		FDT gains IEC approval - 06/21/09 FDT has become an International IEC Standard - IEC 62453.

		ODVA publishes new specifications for CIP networks - 06/04/09 Specifications cover EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet technologies.

		K-TEK's level transmitters achieve FOUNDATION Fieldbus certification - 05/26/09 AccuTrak AT100 and AccuTrak AT200 liquid level transmitters have been certified by the Fieldbus Foundation for H1 Interoperability.

		Rival fieldbuses prepare for a wireless future Control, May 2009 By Andrew Bond, Industrial Automation Insider Rival fieldbus organizations the Fieldbus Foundation (FF) and Profibus & ProfiNet International (PI) are taking steps to ensure that they still have a role in any future Ethernet- and wireless-dominated world.

		ARC says process industries are weathering current economic storm - 05/21/09 Automation expenditures in the process industries reached $45.5 billion dollars in 2007 and are forecast to exceed $61 billion by 2012.

		SICK joins PTO - 05/14/09 SICK joined the PROFIBUS/PROFINET Trade Association (PTO) North America.

		Emerson DeltaV is registered as Foundation fieldbus host - 04/30/09 The DeltaV system with AMS Device Manager has passed the Host Registration Program (HRP) requirements.

		Emerson joins PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation (PNO) - 04/29/09 Emerson intends to work inside the PNO to keep the implementation of EDDL aligned across all protocols.

		FDT Group forms group to upgrade standard - 04/27/09 FDT2.0 has been initiated with the goal to evolve the current FDT Technology to meet user feedback and requirements.

		HANNOVER MESSE receives 210,000 visitors - 04/26/09 210,000 visitors came to Hannover to see 6,150 exhibitors from 61 countries. 70% of the visitors were from Europe, 25% came from abroad, but only 7% came from the Americas.

		Yokogawa's CENTUM and STARDOM now Fieldbus Foundation hosts - 04/23/09 CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System and STARDOM Network-based Control System are certified by the Fieldbus Foundation as Integrated Host Class systems.

		ABB Q1 revenues steady despite economic challenges - 04/23/09 ABB’s first-quarter 2009 revenues rose 3 percent to $7.2 billion while orders decreased by 3 percent to $9.2 billion.

		SERCOS lll software now available without license fees - 04/22/09 SERCOS III will be the first high performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

		SERCOS working on encoder profile for SERCOS III - 04/22/09 A specification for an encoder profile for the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet protocol is being developed in consultation with users and suppliers and will be available in November 2009.

		ABB’s System 800xA registered as FOUNDATION Fieldbus Host - 04/20/09 System 800xA was registered as a FOUNDATION fieldbus host system after it passed the Fieldbus Foundation’s Host Profile Registration Process.

		ABB relocates North American headquarters to Cary, NC - 04/14/09 Among the primary factors behind this move are significant cost savings and a favorable business climate in the Triangle, as well as closer proximity to growing customer and employee bases.

		Softing supplies PROFINET stack to Omron - 04/14/09 Omron will use Softing’s PROFINET stack in a new line of PROFINET devices.

		HANNOVER MESSE 2009 stresses energy effiicency - 04/06/09 The subject of energy efficiency is a recurrent theme throughout the range of offerings at the 13 international trade fairs that form this year's HANNOVER MESSE.

		Flying robots at HANNOVER MESSE - 02/23/09 UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles) will be a special highlight. This will be backed up by live demonstrations of glass façade-cleaning robots - also decidedly "aboveground."

		ABB orders decrease in Q4, but 2008 income up - 02/12/09 Orders decreased 19 percent in the fourth quarter but full-year EBIT nevertheless reached a record $4.6 billion.

		VDC Research sees strong growth for POWERLINK networks - 02/10/09 Study says Ethernet IP, TCP/IP and Modbus TCP are the most common Ethernet-based systems on the American market today. The highest increases in market share over the next four years are expected for POWERLINK and ProfiNet.

		Consumers want safe, modern and sustainable U.S. manufacturing - 02/09/09 Survey shows most Americans believe highly automated factories are important to economic growth. The majority support a stimulus package to modernize U.S. factories.

		Pepperl+Fuchs ADM diagnostic module works with Emerson’s AMS Suite - 02/05/09 ADM provides real-time monitoring of Foundation Fieldbus physical layer, enabling AMS Suite users to automatically commission fieldbus segments.

		SIXNET names Hilton Nicholson President and CEO - 02/01/09 Nicholson succeeds former CEO Steve Schoenberg, who will continue to serve on the company’s board of directors.

		Hannover Fair covers optimizing energy efficiency in industry - 01/27/09 The INTERKAMA+ tradeshow at HANNOVER MESSE 2009 is gearing up to make a contribution of global significance in this area via its "Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes" display.

		SERCOS and FDT work together - 01/22/09 SERCOS III will be the first high-performance real-time Ethernet communication standard to support FDT Technology.

		ASHRAE publishes 2008 BACnet standard - 01/21/09 The new standard replaces the 2004 version for BACnet technical and specification efforts. Price: $119.

		ARC says DCS market in Latin America continues to grow - 01/20/09 The DCS market in Latin America will grow at an annual rate of close to 10% through 2012, reaching a total size of almost $1.5 billion.

		Moore Industries obtains ATEX approval for ROUTE-MASTER Fieldbus system - 01/13/09 ROUTE-MASTER has ATEX approval as a redundant intrinsically-safe fieldbus system permitting the connection of any mix of FISCO and ENTITY devices.

		Fieldbus Foundation announces Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) specs - 01/07/09 The latest SIF release includes the SIF final Technical Specification package, SIF Interoperability Test Kit, and updated DD Library with SIF function blocks.

		Legal disputes among suppliers halts exiderdome U.S. tour - 12/21/08 Legal disputes have prevented exiderdome from being transferred from a barge to land for the second half of its U.S. tour.

		PDVSA Petropiar receives HART Plant of the Year award - 12/10/08 PDVSA Petropiar oil refinery uses Emerson's AMS Suite and HART field instruments to enable predictive diagnostic benefits.

		Omron adopts EtherCAT for its Motion Bus System - 12/09/08 Omron intends to develop EtherCAT-based servo motors and inverters as well as motion controllers by summer 2009.

		POWERLINK specification V.1.1.0 adds new features - 12/03/08 Improvements include the complete integration of high availability functionality and a greater bandwidth for the asynchronous phase.

		LonWorks networking becomes ISO/IEC standard - 12/03/08 ISO and IEC have formally approved LONWORKS control networking technology as ISO/IEC 14908, Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4.

		ODVA publishes new specifications for CIP networks - 12/01/08 Additions include requirements to support CIP Safety on SERCOS III and redundant media in EtherNet/IP systems for real-time control systems.

		LONMARK International announces new members - 11/18/08 Wonderware, Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA), and EnOcean Alliance join LONMARK.

		SERCOS announce packaging profile for SERCOS III - 11/13/08 The Pack Profile defines a subset of the SERCOS interface functions for packaging machinery.

		FDI Team completes use case analysis - 11/06/08 The FDI (Field Device Integration) completed the team draft architecture concept and the complete inventory of use case analyses.

		ABB Q3 net income up 26% - 10/23/08 ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

		Hoffer HRT1 Rate Indicator meets HART 7 Specifications - 10/22/08 Hoffer Flow Controls HRT1 Rate Indicator/Totalizer has been verified to meet the HART 7 Protocol standard and carries the “HART Registered” mark.

		Automation suppliers support WirelessHART standard - 10/22/08 Representatives from ABB, Emerson Process Management, Endress+Hauser, and Siemens supported WirelessHART technology at ISA.

		Fieldbus Foundation And ISA to work on wireless - 10/13/08 As part of the wireless backhaul network initiative, the Fieldbus Foundation and ISA will develop a standard to interface between different technologies.

		Phoenix Contact's cordsets meet Fieldbus Foundation specs - 10/09/08 MINI SAC cordsets meet Fieldbus Foundation's FF-844 requirements for H1 Type A cable.

		Fieldbus Foundation registers H1 Fieldbus Cables - 10/07/08 Belden, Northwire, Phoenix Contact and Rockbestos-Surprenant Cable are the first cable suppliers to pass the Fieldbus Foundation registration process.

		Fieldbus Foundation establishes European Marketing Committee - 10/03/08 Fieldbus Foundation established the Central and Eastern European Marketing Committee (FFCEEMC) to promote an increased awareness and adoption of FOUNDATION technology.

		Fieldbus Foundation releases Diagnostic Specification - 10/01/08 Fieldbus Foundation released its final Diagnostic Profiles Specification, based on guidelines established by the NAMUR Working Group 2.6.

		Emerson ships WirelessHART products - 10/01/08 Emerson has begun shipping WirelessHART products from its Smart Wireless range of pressure, flow, level, temperature, vibration, pH, and discrete transmitters and gateways.

		Softing acquires majority interest in INAT GmbH - 09/28/08 INAT's range of real-time Ethernet products complements Softing's embedded fieldbus technology.

		WirelessHART specification approved by IEC - 09/28/08 HART 7.1 was approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a Publicly Available Specification (IEC/PAS 62591Ed. 1).

		IEC subcommittee passes FDT specification - 09/25/08 Subcommittee IEC SC 65 E approved all 18 parts of the FDT specification.

		Emerson promotes John Berra to Chairman - 09/22/08 Emerson named Steven A. Sonnenberg executive VP and promoted John M. Berra to chairman of Emerson Process Management

		Northwire obtains Fieldbus Foundation approval for cable - 09/18/08 FF-844 certification assures that DataCELL cable is electrically precise and meets FOUNDATION fieldbus type A cable physical property requirements.

		2007 was a good year for DCS sales - 08/13/08 The market for process manufacturing and automation remains strong. Nowhere is this more evident than the global DCS market, which grew by almost 13% between 2006 and 2007.

		Fieldbus Foundation releases Device Coupler test specification - 07/25/08 Test Specification (FF-846 FS 1.0) helps coupler manufacturers perform a standard set of tests against their implementation.

		ABB Q2 Net Income up 34% - 07/24/08 ABB reported record orders, revenues and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) in the second quarter of 2008, with net income reaching $975 million.

		Fieldbus Foundation names Farshad Amir to its Board Of Directors - 07/23/08 Dr. Farshad Amir, technology manager of instrument and control systems for DuPont Engineering, has been named to the board of directors.

		Fieldbus Foundation releases EDDL-compatible Device Descriptions (DD) - 07/23/08 New releases for DD technology are compliant with the IEC 61804 and ISA104 Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) profile.

		ProSoft Technology mourns loss of President/Founder, assigns successor - 07/22/08 Douglas Sharratt, lost his life in a plane crash in Sunriver, Oregon. ProSoft Technology names CFO, Gary Joke, his successor.

		ABB appoints Joseph Hogan CEO - 07/17/08 Hogan is currently CEO of GE Healthcare and is a member of the GE Senior Executive Council. He will join ABB on September 1, 2008.

		Fieldbus Foundation demonstrates SIF Technology in Amsterdam - 06/17/08 Held at the Shell Global Solutions technology center in Amsterdam, the SIF demo attracted process automation end users and equipment suppliers from around the world.

		ISA forms WirelessHART Convergence Subcommittee - 05/22/08 The subcommittee will compare the technology within the ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards, with an ultimate goal of merging the best of both standards.

		Kepware’s KEPServerEX passes OPC Certification - 05/19/08 KEPServerEX communications solution has passed the latest OPC certifications tests administered by the OPC Foundation independent test laboratory.

		Belimo and Tridium to jointly develop wireless VAV controller - 05/15/08 Using Tridium’s Sedona Framework, Belimo will build a Variable Air Volume controller that is BACnet compliant and wireless over a 802.15.4 mesh network.

		Moore Industries Seeks Oldest Products Still in Service - 05/07/08 Moore Industries is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, and is trying to find the oldest of its products that are still in service.

		ABB Automation World held in Houston with record attendance - 05/05/08 A record 3,300+ customers, distributors, channel partners, original equipment manufacturers and ABB employees attended the three-day trade show and conference that ran from April 29 through May 1 in Houston, Texas.

		Moore Industries Celebrates 40 Years of Success - 04/30/08 Still privately-held by founder and CEO Leonard W. Moore, the company has come a long way from humble garage beginnings when Moore designed and built the company's first electronic signal converters. Today, the company builds signal conditioners, temperature transmitters, fieldbus interface devices and much more.

		HART companies push WirelessHART - 04/28/08 Sean Keeping of ABB, Mark Schumacher of Emerson, Frank Hils of Endress+Hauser amd Hans-Georg Kumpfmueller of Siemens offer their views of WirelessHART.

		SERCOS releases CIP Safety Specification - 04/27/08 The CIP Safety on SERCOS specification is being released as a function-specific profile (FSP Safety) for Industrial Ethernet-based SERCOS III.

		PTO appoints Victor Wolowec to Board of Directors - 04/10/08 Wolowec is Vice-president, Solutions Business at Endress+Hauser. He is replacing former PTO Board member Todd Hubbell.

		ISA Calls for Papers for Marketing & Sales Summit - 03/24/08 Abstracts may be submitted for the conference session presentations through 11 April 2008. The event, in Cleveland, Ohio, is set for 17-19 September 2008.

		FDT Group interoperability project continues - 03/20/08 Since November 2007, 22 FDT Group member companies have participated in a project to test the interoperability of the FDT/DTM Technology in a very diverse setting.

		Engineers Turning to Portals to find Product Information - 03/13/08 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/portals, to find information is increasing.

		ISA issues call for papers for ISA EXPO - 03/11/08 Abstracts will be accepted until 11 April for paper, panel, and tutorial sessions.

		Cooper acquires MTL Instruments Group - 02/11/08 Cooper Controls Limited acquired more than 98 percent of the outstanding shares of The MTL Instruments Group.

		Yokogawa establishes marketing center in Dallas - 02/06/08 Dr. Maurice Wilkins, formerly of ARC Advisory Group, will lead the group as VP of Strategic Marketing, Yokogawa IA Global Marketing.

		FDT Group increases to 60 members - 02/04/08 FDT Group added eight international companies to the membership of the non-profit organization within the past year.

		WIB Test compares FDT/DTM and EDDL for Asset Management - 02/04/08 Testing was performed by the Shell Global Solutions test laboratories in Amsterdam. Results show FDT/DTM and EDDL are complementary technologies.

		EtherCAT becoming more successful in Asia - 02/01/08 The EtherCAT Technology Group sees signs of acceptance in Asia.

		EtherCAT Technology opens office in Korea - 01/29/08 The new ETG office is hosted by the industrial automation company Tri-TEK in Seoul, Korea.

		Institutional Investor names Emerson's CEO Best in America - 01/28/08 David N. Farr, chairman, CEO and president of Emerson, was named the top CEO in the electrical equipment and multi-industry category.

		PLCopen publishes standard on XML Control Logic - 01/21/08 PLCopen XML schemas and documentation as well as an introduction are available free on the internet.

		WirelessHART Communication Supported by Leading Process Automation Companies By HART Communications Foundation In a display of unified commitment to the new technology, representatives from ABB, Emerson, Endress+Hauser, and Siemens spoke of the positive impact WirelessHART technology will have on the process industry and their expectation for the quick adoption of the technology by end users.

		IXXAT to develop Safety Stack Software for SERCOS - 12/28/07 IXXAT will develop a portable stack software for the CIP Safety on SERCOS safety protocol. The stack software can be used for SERCOS master as well as SERCOS slaves.

		SERCOS/IP Protocol Specification Released - 12/28/07 The protocol allows standard Ethernet IP communication with a SERCOS III network both during cyclic real-time network operation and during non-real time operation.

		Cooper makes tender Offer for MTL Instruments Group - 12/19/07 Cooper Controls made a binding offer for all outstanding shares of MTL Instruments Group plc, a publicly traded company based in the United Kingdom.

		EtherCAT accepted as IEC Standard - 12/19/07 EtherCAT is now an International Standard communication technology for SERCOS and CANopen drive profiles

		SEMI approves EtherCAT Industrial Ethernet - 12/18/07 Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) has accepted EtherCAT as a SEMI standard.

		SERCOS Opens a Branch Office in China - 12/17/07 In addition to offices in the USA, Japan and Germany, this makes the fourth office that serves as a contact point for developers and users.

		Emerson helps StatoilHydro win 2007 HART Plant of the Year award - 12/12/07 Emerson's AMS Suite and field devices are cited as key enablers in StatoilHydro's effective use of predictive diagnostics for the Ormen Lange Project, including the subsea installations, onshore terminal and the world's longest sub sea gas pipeline project.

		StatoilHydro Ormen Lange selected as 2007 HART Plant of the Year - 12/11/07 The award is given annually to recognize the people, companies and plant sites around the globe that are using the advanced capabilities of HART Communication in real-time applications to improve operations, lower costs and increase availability.

		ABB joins North American PTO - 12/06/07 The PTO is one of 25 regional associations that develop and promote the use of PROFIBUS fieldbus and PROFINET Industrial Ethernet standards for automation.

		SERCOS III Accepted as IEC Standard - 11/29/07 SERCOS III integrates the open Ethernet protocol with high-speed data transfer at 100 MBitS per second.

		Fieldbus Foundation Releases Temperature Transducer Specification - 11/28/07 This new release includes features enabling automation equipment suppliers to further improve the diagnostics, interoperability and reliability of FOUNDATION-compliant products.

		Fieldbus Foundation announces scholarship recipients - 11/20/07 Singapore Polytechnic, SAIT, Waseda University and Lee College choose student winners.

		Woodhead introduces SST Remote DeviceNet Scanner - 11/15/07 The SST controls I/O devices connected to a DeviceNet network without the need of a local PC.

		Fieldbus Foundation Conference concludes in London, UK - 10/15/07 The Fieldbus Foundation held its second combined EMEA User and Industry Association Consultation Meeting in London, UK, from 17-19 September 2007.

		Woodhead sponsors Univ of Waterloo’s Midnight Sun IX solar powered race car - 10/15/07 Woodhead Industries provided the team with DeviceNet products which were integrated in this year’s Midnight Sun IX solar powered race car.

		Fieldbus Foundation Establishes Norwegian Marketing Committee - 10/03/07 The Norwegian marketing committee (FF-NO MC) will promote the adoption of FOUNDATION technology throughout the Norwegian market.

		ISA EDD spec gains ANSI approval - 10/03/07 ISA-TR61804-4 (104.00.02)-2007, Function Blocks (FB) for Process Control - Part 4 was approved by ANSI.

		ABB and Phoenix Contact to collaborate on PROFINET - 09/28/07 Phoenix Contact and ABB will work together to enhance PROFINET for use in the process industries.

		MooreHawke Joins Emerson Alliance Program - 09/20/07 MooreHawke is now on Emerson's Approved Product List, and Emerson will co-market MooreHawke FOUNDATION fieldbus device couplers.

		Fieldbus Foundation Establishes CIS&B Marketing Committee - 08/03/07 The marketing committee serves the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltics (CIS&B) region.

		Yokogawa expands HART agreement with Moore Industries - 07/26/07 The agreement now includes Moore's HCS HART Concentrator System. The HCS converts the digital signal from HART-based transmitters to a standard MODBUS RTU communication protocol.

		Fieldbus Foundation Brazilian Marketing Committee names officers - 07/13/07 Officers include Claudio Fayad, Emerson Process Management, Chairman; Marcos Rocha, Pepperl+Fuchs, Co-chairman; and Augusto Pereira, Yokogawa, Secretary/Treasurer.

		Softing provides fieldbus connectivity for GE Fanuc - 07/02/07 Softing North America will provide Foundation fieldbus connectivity for GE Fanuc's Proficy Process Systems solution.

		ABB names Enrique Santacana Head of ABB US - 06/29/07 He replaces Dinesh Paliwal, who is leaving ABB at the end of June. Most recently, he was ABB's Region Division Manager for Power Products in North America.

		Moore Industries appoints Yong Park to Controller - 06/25/07 Most recently, Park held the title of Controller with Plastic Services & Products, Inc., where he successfully completed a merger with a competitor company as well as two outside acquisitions.

		Fieldbus Foundation updates Host Profile Spec - 06/20/07 FF-569 Version 2.0 supports new Host Profile Test & Registration Program. It includes updated FOUNDATION fieldbus host profiles, interoperability requirements, and test procedures leading to host registration.

		Innominate warns against pitfalls of Industrial Ethernet - 06/12/07 Businesses must navigate an increasing number of standards and an increasing number of threats associated with industrial automation. "It won't be all plain sailing," warns Joachim Fietz, CEO, Innominate.

		ISA Publishes EDDL Standard - 06/12/07 ISA published ANSI/ISA-61804-3 (104.00.01)-2007, Function Blocks (FB) for Process Control - Part 3: Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL).

		EtherCAT establishes North American Office - 06/06/07 Joey Stubbs, ETG North American representative, will run the office in Austin, Texas.

		Express Logic announces RTOS support for Luminary Micro's Microcontrollers - 06/05/07 ThreadX RTOS and NetX TCP/IP networking stack support Ethernet-enabled and CAN-enabled Stellaris microcontrollers. Free demo available.

		Ethernet Direct to distribute IntraVUE2 software - 06/05/07 IntraVUE 2.0 network management software is now available from Ethernet Direct.

		Fieldbus Foundation Establishes India Marketing Committee - 05/31/07 The organization will promote adoption of FOUNDATION fieldbus technology in India.

		Phoenix Contact names Mercier wireless business development manager - 05/24/07 Paul Mercier previously served as the national wireless specialist for Phoenix Contact USA. In his new role, Mercier will focus on the continuing growth of wireless and Foundation Fieldbus technologies.

		MTL acquires Elpro International for £12m - 05/21/07 MTL Instruments Group plc acquired Elpro International Pty Ltd, an Australian based developer and supplier of wireless solutions.

		Fieldbus Foundation Establishes Brazilian Marketing Committee - 05/17/07 The Committee will organize fieldbus-related activities, including training seminars, trade show displays, and end user demonstrations.

		Dinesh Paliwal leaving ABB - 05/10/07 Dinesh Paliwal, President, will leave ABB at the end of June.

		Moore Industries Promotes Charles Larson to Director of Technology - 05/09/07 Larson will provide a bridge between Marketing and Engineering to help develop and optimize the commercial exploitation of Moore's intellectual property.

		FF approves MooreHawke's TRUNKSAFE Fault-Tolerant Fieldbus system Approved by the Fieldbus Foundation,TRUNKSAFE achieves fault-tolerance without duplicating every component and installing special software at the DCS.

		Sadlowski named Chief Executive Officer for Siemens - 05/03/07 Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring.

		InTech and CITGO start Cyber Security Blog - 05/03/07 InTech magazine and CITGO are starting a blog that will cover CITGO's design and implementation of a secure process control network.

		SERCOS promotes soft master for SERCOS III - 05/03/07 The soft master implementation will make SERCOS III the only bus on the market that offers both hardware and software based master implementations.

		Phoenix Contact Opens Technology Center in Houston - 05/02/07 The 15,000-sq-ft center has a demonstration room, training facility, application lab, office space and a warehouse.

		Moore Industries Promotes Tina Lockhart to Director of Engineering - 05/02/07 Lockhart has more than 20 years of R&D experience and more than 10 years in management. Previously, Lockhart was a Program Manager at BAE Systems, where she was responsible for projects based on MEMS technology with real time embedded systems.

		ABB Announces income up 163% in Q1 - 04/27/07 ABB's first-quarter net income rose 163 percent to $537 million from $204 million in the same period of 2006, driven primarily by continued strong market demand and further operational improvements.

		Fieldbus Foundation praises EDDL/FDT agreement - 04/17/07 The Fieldbus Foundation praised an agreement by the EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) and FDT Group to combine efforts and work towards a single, unified solution for device integration compatible with both technologies.

		IPS building new regional HQ in Western Canada - 04/10/07 Invensys broke ground for a brand new, 15,500 square foot regional headquarters facility in South East Calgary. It will be twice as large as the present Calgary facility and will have three times the staging area to accommodate staging, testing, and verification of customers' automation systems.

		Schneider Electric becomes principal member of ODVA - 04/10/07 Schneider Electric will significantly increase its level of support for ODVA by becoming one of its principal members. This coincides with ODVA's plans to extend the CIP Network specifications to provide compatibility with Modbus/TCP devices.

		Fieldbus Training Centers to share resources - 04/09/07 Fieldbus Center at Lee College (Baytown, TX) and Tri-State University (Angola, Indiana), have signed a license agreement for sharing fieldbus training resources. The alliance will expand FOUNDATION technology instructional opportunities across the U.S.

		Annual sales of PROFIBUS reach 3.4 million nodes - 03/30/07 Annual sales of PROFIBUS nodes reached a new high of 3.4 million in 2006 according to figures just released by PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International). This brings the total number of PROFIBUS nodes installed worldwide to 18.8 million. PROFIBUS remains on track to surpass 20 million nodes by 2008.

		ARC says Asian DCS Market thrives on massive investments in manufacturing - 03/15/07 Strong economic activity in Asia is spurring the growth of manufacturing, which in turn is propelling the growth of the automation market in the region. The Asian market for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.0% over the next five years, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.

		Syncroness study confirms trend of outsourcing new product development - 03/15/07 According to the study, 83% of respondents had outsourced some or all of NPD activity, confirming that outsourcing of core product development is extremely important in today’s market.

		ISA leads efforts to develop an Automation Engineering Degree Program - 03/15/07 A committee of industry leaders and academia met at ISA headquarters to begin work on the learning objectives for an automation engineering curriculum for universities. "Our goal is to develop curriculum content for a 4-year automation engineering degree program," said committee chair Randy Buchanan of the University of Southern Mississippi.

		Halliburton moves corporate HQ to United Arab Emirates - 03/12/07 Halliburton Company will open its corporate headquarters office in the United Arab Emirates. Chairman, President and CEO Dave Lesar will move to Dubai. The headquarters in Dubai is the next step in a strategic plan announced in 2006 to focus on expanding its customer relations with national oil companies while concentrating more of the company’s investments and resources in growing its business in the Eastern Hemisphere.

		MooreHawke's TRUNKGUARD passes fieldbus short-circuit tests - 03/12/07 Independent tests prove that the TRUNKGUARD device coupler works seamlessly with a DeltaV control system during repeated short-circuit testing and extreme temperatures. According to Evaluation International, TRUNKGUARD continued to operate and maintain communications with DeltaV after multiple short circuits on spurs, temperatures from -40 to 70°C, and operation at upper and lower voltage limits.

		Nick Moore promoted to Director of Strategic Planning at Moore Industries - 03/08/07 Nick will work with all vice presidents, corporate officers, directors and department heads to ensure that operations are in line with Moore Industries’ corporate goals and initiatives. Moore Industries is a leader in the design and manufacture of interface instruments and fieldbus equipment.

		ARC says Foundation Fieldbus Dominates Fieldbus - 03/02/07 According to a study prepared by the ARC Advisory Group, Foundation fielbus accounts for over two-thirds of process fieldbus revenues. ARC says the global market for fieldbus solutions in the process industries reached $831.7 million in 2006 and projects current growth trends will expand the fieldbus market to over $2.279 billion in 2011.

		Moore Industries signs Arjay Automation as Manufacturer’s Rep in Upper Midwest - 02/22/07 Moore Industries signed Arjay Automation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a manufacturer’s representative for all Moore Industries product lines, including MooreHawke. Arjay will be responsible for covering Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and western Wisconsin for Moore Industries.

		ABB 2006 net income rises 89% to $1.4 billion - 02/16/07 ABB's net income rose 89 percent to $1,390 million in 2006 amid strong demand for technology to increase power grid reliability, industrial productivity and energy efficiency. Revenues for 2006 reached $24,412 million, an increase of 11 percent (10 percent in local currencies) over 2005, while orders were 22 percent higher (22 percent in local currencies) at $28,401 million.

		ODVA upgrades its website - 02/13/07 The site offers improved navigation, secure order entry, search capability and an interactive calendar to keep industry informed about all of ODVA’s activities worldwide.

		President of Moore Industries gets Pilot's License at Age 73 - 01/10/07 Leonard Moore passed all the FAA requirements for his pilot's license, and now is certified to fly single-engine land-based aircraft. Mr. Moore has been flying since he was a teenager in Oelwein, Iowa, and soloed for the first time at age 16. Since then, he has continued to fly, but always with instructors or other certified pilots. When he rebuilt an old Ercoupe, he decided to use it to get his license.

		Fieldbus Foundation announces scholarship winners - 01/09/07 The Fieldbus Foundation announced the 2007 recipients of the James O. Gray-Fieldbus Foundation Educational Scholarship. They include Kenneth Ng Choon Guan, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore; Jan Krak, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Alberta, Canada; and Akira Uehara, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

		ARC says worldwide total process automation market to reach $79 billion - 12/21/06 Manufacturing companies continue to increase investments in capital expenditures for automation equipment as they recognize the role of automation in the global market. As a result, the worldwide market for total process automation will grow robustly, with ARC expecting a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.4% over the next five years, to reach nearly $79 billion in 2010.

		ARC predicts global DCS market to grow 7% through 2010 - 12/14/06 The Distributed Control System (DCS) market experienced the strongest growth in a decade between 2004 and 2005, increasing at a rate of close to 9%. This strong growth is expected to continue through 2010, with the global market increasing at an average annual rate of almost 7%, according to the new ARC Advisory Group study, “Distributed Control System (DCS) Worldwide Outlook”

		PROFIBUS Trade Organization Announces New Certification Training Courses - 02/20/06 The PROFIBUS Trade Organization (PTO) and the PROFI Interface Center (PIC) announced two new courses as part of the PROFItech Certification Training Course program for 2006. The two new classes added to the program include a PROFIBUS Installer’s Class and a PROFINET Certified Network Engineering Class.

		PROFIsafe Safety Fieldbus Technology Now Extended to PROFINET - 10/25/05

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