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Automation Weekly - Feedback on ISA name, ETO manufacturers double output, Guide to HMI design, OPC analyzer spec, IEC approves WirelessHART & FDT specs, Top ten new products
The October 1, 2008 issue of our Automation Weekly eNewsletter is online now. This issue includes feedback from last week's editorial on the proposed ISA name change, a new article on how ETO manufacturers can double output, guide to HMI design, plus the top ten products introduced this week and the other latest automation news. Sponsored by SIXNET, Northwire and Software Toolbox.
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Small ETO Manufacturers Double Output with Same Staff
By Thomas R. Cutler, Contributing Author
Success in a competitive market is forcing every manufacturer to make their business more responsive to client demands. The pressure is constant for better, faster, and cheaper solutions. This is particularly difficult for engineer-to-order businesses.
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Asset Lifecycle Management & The Digital Plant
Plant Engineering, September 2008
By Sid Snitkin, ARC Advisory Group
Critical human and information assets lie “hidden” behind the equipment façade and their development must be synchronized with the equipment throughout design, build and commissioning to achieve rapid operational readiness goals.
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Change management software at Coca Cola minimizes production downtime
- 09/28/08
The CCE Wakefield plant has 93 Siemens S5 PLCs, 11 Siemens S7 PLCs, 20 Allen Bradley ControlLogix PACs, 31 Allen Bradley SLC500 PLCs, and 26 universal Devices. MDT AutoSave software tracks all changes.
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Building from Worker to the Queen
Automation World, September 2008
By Rob Spiegel
BP Pipelines of North America, in Forest City, Ill., decided to add leak detection to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to monitor pipeline leakage. The challenge was to feed process data from the Sybase database to the leak detection system. Cogent Industrial Technologies used a OPC DataHub to make the connection.
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Turning Tin Into Gold
Automation World, September 2008
By Dave Gehman
Ohio Coatings Co. focuses on smooth flow of data from its ERP system to its control systems. By the time order information from the business system reaches the production floor, the data has generated many hundreds of production parameters. And every process involved, from incoming quality control on steel, to plating to coiling, can be aggregated into custom certifications for every coil moving out of the plant.
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Rockwell Automation to lay off 600 people
- 10/02/08
Restructuring involves headcount reductions, primarily in selling, general and administrative functions, involving three percent of the company’s global workforce of 20,000 people. |
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ATS hosts plant tours across U.S.
- 10/02/08
Plant tours showcase strategies and tactics that improve factory performance, cut costly downtime and protect businesses against recession.
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Open Network Options
- 09/23/08
Control Design, September 2008
By Paul Miller and Joe Feeley
OPC Unified Architecture (UA), abandons the Microsoft–based structure of its much-criticized, DCOM-based, OPC DA predecessor and embraces open, vendor-independent Web Services. OPC UA ties together functions from earlier OPC specifications and enables a common services-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
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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.
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ISA EXPO 2008
October 14-16, 2008 Houston, TX
ISA EXPO is your source for in-depth technical coverage of topics critical to automation and control success. Participate in a single exchange and immerse yourself in that technology, or attend offerings from multiple exchanges for a more global automation and control view.
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MatrikonOPC User Group Europe
October 22, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain
Discrete manufacturers and process control industries are facing growing challenges including limited resources; greater time pressures, new accountability regulations and budgetary restraints. MatrikonOPC Users Group Conference provides an environment that facilitates hands-on learning to overcome challenges and provides integrators and end users with professional development that enables them to proactively counter these industry wide challenges.
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