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Frost & Sullivan says end users wary of wireless
- 10/09/08
In a recent study, 83 percent of the end users across process and factory automation rated interoperability as a medium to high concern. |
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Datalogic acquires Datasensor
- 10/03/08
Datasensor SpA produces optoelectronic sensors and devices for detection, safety, measurement and inspection in industrial automation. |
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RKC Instrument promotes Yoshifumi Unno to President
- 10/01/08
Unno joined RKC as a sales engineer twenty-three years ago and has held various positions in both Japan and China. |
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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 |
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Flow Research says Coriolis Flowmeter to reach $950 million by 2012
- 09/18/08
The worldwide flowmeter market totaled $662 million in 2007, with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.5% through 2012. |
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SNT Sensortechnik signs Telco Sensors as distributor
- 09/10/08
Telco Sensors USA will distribute SNT Ultrasonic sensors for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. |
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K-TEK AccuTrak level transmitters certified for SIL 2
- 08/26/08
AccuTrak AT100 and AT200 magnetostrictive liquid level transmitters have been certified for operation in SIL 2 (Safety Integrity Level 2) environments. |
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Endevco appoints James Rodriguez Vice President of Engineering
- 08/25/08
Rodriguez most recently served as Vice President of Engineering for Barksdale, a provider of industrial fluid measurement and control products. |
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Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires AquaSensors
- 08/21/08
AquaSensors will be integrated into Thermo Fisher’s Water Analysis Instruments business (WAI) of the Environmental Instruments Division.
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Global Test Supply relocates headquarters
- 08/20/08
Global Test Supply moved its North American headquarters to a new, expanded facility in Wilmington, NC. |
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Flowmeters
Control Engineering, August 2008
By Dick Johnson
Online survey conducted by Control Engineering and Reed Research says global competition keeps the pressure on both flowmeter performance and cost issues, with no letup in sight.
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Survey Says Users Demand Wireless Monitoring, Control Products
Control Engineering, August 2008
By Jim Taylor, Venture Development
19% annual growth in wireless (radio frequency or microwave) monitoring and control products through 2012 demonstrates value for data acquisition systems, networking, operator interfaces, remote controls, and sensor applications, as well as user satisfaction.
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SICK opens new office in Baltimore
- 08/14/08
The office includes a showcase room for on-site customer visits, and houses a fully-equipped conveyor loop. |
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Ultrasonic flowmeter market to reach $590 Million by 2012
- 08/07/08
Propelled by strong growth in the oil & gas industry, the worldwide market for ultrasonic flowmeters is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.9% over the next five years.
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Mel Hilderbrand appointed President of Endevco
- 07/30/08
Mel Hilderbrand, formerly Director of Strategic Projects for Meggitt Sensing Systems, is the new President of Endevco.
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NI reports record revenue for Q2 2008
- 07/30/08
National Instruments reported record quarterly revenue of $210.5 million, up 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008.
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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. |
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ABB pressure transmitters comply with dual seal standards
- 07/21/08
2600T Series pressure transmitters are compliant with CSA and ANSI/ISA 12.27.01 Dual Seal Standards for the oil and gas market. |
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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.
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Wilcoxon accelerometers certified to meet ATEX standards
- 07/14/08
The sensors which received new certification are models 786A-IS, 786F-IS, 786T-IS, 787A-IS and 787A-M8-IS, all of which are certified with KEMA, a European hazardous area certifying agency. |
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Opto 22 Videos prove to be popular in automation market
- 07/09/08
OptoVideos have been downloaded by the tens of thousands since they debuted three months ago, and are featured on the websites of several industry-leading blogs and trade publications, including Automation.com.
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Industrial Controls merges with Climatic Control Company
- 07/06/08
Both companies are distributors of HVAC controls, instrumentation and valves. |
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Invensys celebrates 100th anniversary of Foxboro
- 06/26/08
More than 1,000 employees, retirees and other dignitaries and guests participated in festivities at the Neponset facility, where the company started a century ago. |
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ABB expands services and automation for Alberta's oil sands
- 06/20/08
In just two and a half years, the ABB office in Calgary, Canada, has swelled from 45 to more than 200 employees, and it is still hiring. |
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Global Markets for Machine Safeguarding Components and Equipment
Control Engineering Europe, June 2008
Venture Development’s worldwide market study on machine automatic safeguarding components and equipment provides detailed findings by product types and features, geographic markets, applications and industries, user needs, competitors, and much more.
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Smart Dust Inventor to Present Keynote at ISA EXPO 2008
- 06/16/08
Dr. Pister is the Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, and Co-founder and CTO of Dust Networks. |
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ISA84 Safety Instrumented Systems Certificate Programs
- 06/16/08
Three certificate programs are available: Safety Instrumented Systems Specialist, Safety Integrity Level Determination Specialist, and Safety Instrumented Systems Hardware Design and Analysis Specialist.
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AW-Lake appoints sales and engineering directors
- 06/12/08
Curt Foreman and Chris Husson have been appointed Director of Sales & Marketing and Director of Engineering & Operations, respectively. |
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Flow Research says worldwide flowmeter market is $4.5 Billion
- 06/10/08
Ultrasonic and Coriolis are showing the fastest growth, while positive displacement, turbine, and variable area flowmeter markets are declining slowly. |
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Bosch Rexroth opens Tech Center East
- 06/09/08
The facility in Rochester Hills, MI, will house 120 workers from the company’s hydraulics, pneumatics, electric drives, and linear motion and assembly technologies groups. |
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McCrometer signs ABLE Instruments as rep for UK And Ireland
- 06/04/08
ABLE serves the oil/gas and process industries in the UK, Ireland, and North Sea region countries. |
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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. |
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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. |
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PCB Piezotronics names John Sperrazza Sales Manager
- 05/05/08
The IMI Sensors division of PCB Piezotronics appointed John M. Sperrazza as North American Sales Manager. |
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National Instruments reports Q1 Revenue of $193 Million
- 04/30/08
Net income for Q1 2008 was $17.6 million with diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.22.
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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. |
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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.
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AW-Lake appoints Yolande Burnham President
- 04/25/08
Yolande Burnham was appointed President of AW-Lake Company & Sheepscot Dispensing Systems (SDS), companies of TASI Group. |
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Endevco signs Dainan Tech as Asia-Pacific rep
- 04/23/08
Dainan Tech in Singapore will rep Endevco products in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Invensys Mexico Opens Gas Operating Center
- 04/17/08
The new center at Reynosa City, Tamaulipas State, has all the resources necessary for Invensys to support PEMEX in the Burgos basin. |
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Siemens brings exiderdome traveling exhibit to U.S.
- 04/16/08
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.
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FLIR Systems acquires CEDIP
What’s New in Process Technology, March 2008
FLIR Systems AB has become the majority shareholder of fellow infrared specialist CEDIP Infrared Systems. The CEDIP infrared camera operations will be integrated into the thermography division of FLIR Systems AB and trade under the FLIR brand name.
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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/sitepages/pid2687.php, to find information is increasing. |
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ARC says Radar Level Market to reach $421 Million
- 03/11/08
The worldwide market for radar level devices is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.9% over the next five years. |
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ISA issues call for papers for ISA EXPO
- 03/11/08
Abstracts will be accepted until 11 April for paper, panel, and tutorial sessions.
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Market Prospects for Position Sensors
Sensors, February 2008
A market study by Venture Development assessing North American markets for linear displacement, proximity, and rotary (nonmodular) position sensors forecasts market growth for many different sensing technologies.
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ABB reports $29.2 billion in revenue in 2007
- 02/14/08
ABB's net income increased to a record $3.8 billion in 2007 from $1.4 billion a year earlier as markets remained strong and further operational improvements were made.
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Endevco finds oldest functioning sensor
- 02/13/08
The Endevco model 2224C was factory calibrated by Endevco in July 1962 and purchased by Dr. Charles Stark Draper, a professor at MIT who also ran the MIT Instrumentation Lab.
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ABB CEO Fred Kindle leaves company
- 02/13/08
ABB Chief Executive Officer Fred Kindle is leaving the company due to irreconcilable differences about how to lead the company. Chief Financial Officer Michel Demaré is interim CEO.
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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.
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Omron promotes Nigel Blakeway to COO
- 02/04/08
Nigel previously served at Omron Component Business-European Union (OCB-EU) in Amsterdam as the COO. |
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National Instruments Reports Record Revenue and Net Income
- 01/30/08
National Instruments reported record quarterly revenue of $205 million, up 13 percent and the company's best revenue growth quarter for 2007. |
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ARC ranks ABB top Process Automation System supplier
- 01/28/08
The study says the total worldwide market for automation systems in the process industries will grow by 9.6% to over $47 billion by 2011.
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MCAA makes Three-Year Market Forecast
MCAA says the 2006 total market value for twelve PI&A products is $6.7 billion for the United States and $784 million for Canada. In the U.S., annual growth will be 3.6% with 4.2 % in Canada. Four products are forecasted to grow faster than the average in both regions – Electronic Flow, Pressure, Remote I/O and Electronic Level. |
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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. |
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Endevco appoints Jeremy Bryceson UK Sales Manager
- 01/24/08
Endevco created this new position to further strengthen its account management and customer service resources in this region. |
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Endevco names Maryann Villanueva Western Regional Sales Manager
- 01/24/08
Villanueva will be responsible for sales in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. |
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ARC predicts Temperature Transmitter Market growing 6.5%
- 01/17/08
The market was $281 million in 2007 and is forecast to be over $386 million in 2012, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.
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Computer Aided Solutions enhances Paint Oven Temperature Data Logger
- 01/15/08
The system measures and records temperatures inside a paint curing oven during production. |
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ABI Research says Wi-Fi moving into sensor networking
- 01/15/08
Rarely is Wi-Fi used for wireless sensor networking or industrial process control. In many cases, Wi-Fi can transmit farther than sensor network technologies |
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American Industrial Partners acquires Brooks Instrument
- 01/14/08
Brooks is a supplier of flow measurement and control devices to the low flow application market. |
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Emerson service center re-approved for nuclear industry
- 01/14/08
The Instrument & Valve Services Center, Columbia, SC, is approved as a supplier to nuclear power plants throughout the US and Canada.
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Emerson Acquires The Automation Group
- 01/09/08
TAG provides process automation/control system engineering, instrument and electrical design, project management services to the refining, petrochemical, chemical and coal power industries. |
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Emerson Sells Brooks Instrument
- 01/06/08
Emerson sold its Brooks Instrument unit on December 31, 2007, to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund for $100 million in cash. |
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ARC says Process Electrochemical Systems Market to grow
- 12/19/07
The worldwide market for PES is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.3% over the next five years. |
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Flow Research Study Predicts Growth in Pressure Transmitter Market
- 12/17/07
Flow Research says the worldwide pressure transmitter market totaled $1.93 billion in 2006, with a projected yearly growth of 6.1 percent through 2011. |
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Endevco receives key ISO certifications for quality management systems
- 12/13/07
In addition, the company has received accreditation of the laboratory quality management system for its sensor calibration laboratory, also based on ISO requirements.
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Endevco licenses NASA technology for new silicon carbide pressure sensors
- 12/12/07
The NASA technologies licensed by Endevco include a packaging technique and chip fabrication methods developed by a team led by Dr. Robert Okojie at Glenn for use in aircraft engine combustion chambers. |
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TURCK incorporates full subsidiary in Australia to support emerging markets
- 12/12/07
Prior to this, TURCK products have been distributed in Australia by Micromax, who will remain TURCK’s distribution arm for factory automation focused products with the full support of the new local subsidiary to help grow the TURCK market.
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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. |
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INFICON Acquires Sigma Instruments Inc.
- 12/11/07
Sigma products complement the INFICON portfolio of instruments, and address the growing demand in thin film coating manufacturing for high quality products, such as mobile phones, computers, digital cameras and other consumer electronics. |
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General Monitors and ELPRO partner to deliver wireless gas and flame detectors
- 12/11/07
General Monitors announces its partnership with ELPRO Technologies in offering wireless technology and communications for its advanced gas and flame detector product lines, which provide critical protection to people, equipment, and plants engaged in hazardous industries worldwide.
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ATI Industrial Automation opens new office in Beijing, China
- 12/03/07
ATI’s new office houses sales, customer service and training departments along with areas for spare parts and product demonstration.
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ABB plans major expansion in India
- 12/03/07
ABB plans to develop its Indian operations by investing $100 million over three years to expand business, engineering and R&D capacities, build new factories and broaden its automation and power product range in India. |
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Frost & Sullivan says Vision needed for automation
- 11/27/07
Machine vision systems are becoming critical to the emerging requirements of industrial automation and robotics. |
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Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters achieve CSA dual seal certification
- 11/07/07
Certification eliminates need for secondary seals. |
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Endevco signs rep in Seattle
- 10/30/07
RepTech Northwest will handle sales and customer support in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. |
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Endevco appoints Dan Schultz Regional Sales Manager
- 10/05/07
Schultz will be responsible for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana. |
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FluidIQs National formed to pursue municipal instrumentation and control projects
- 10/03/07
FluidIQs in California, Revere Control Systems in Alabama, and Instrument Control Systems in Minnesota will combine resources to pursue large municipal instrumentation and control projects. |
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Control Microsystems Opens U.S. headquarters
- 10/02/07
The Denver, Colorado, office will have customer support, sales offices, and a training center.
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Banner Racing wins final race of season
- 09/26/07
Banner Engineering Racing won the final race of the 2007 season, the Grand-Am Rolex GT Sunchaser 1000, on Sept. 15 at Miller Motorsports Park. |
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ChipSensors puts wireless sensors on chips
- 09/18/07
New technology enables sensors, signal conditioning circuits, A/D converters, wireless, microcontroller and memory to be integrated on a single chip.
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ProSoft Technology's Gas Flow Computer certified for custody transfer in Canada
- 08/30/07
The PTQ-AFC module complies with AGA 3, 7 and 8 measurement standards and operates with enough precision to be used when establishing prices for the gas being measured. |
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Racine Federated makes Inc Magazine's list of fastest growing companies
- 08/30/07
Racine Federated was ranked among the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in America. |
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Loadstar Sensors appoints Jayant Patel Director of Sales
- 08/23/07
Jayant has over thirty years of experience in engineering, product management, sales and marketing in the aerospace, medical device and instrumentation industries. |
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ARC says pressure transmitter market to be $2.3B by 2011
- 08/15/07
The market was $1.8 billion in 2006 and is forecasted to be over $2.3 billion in 2011, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.
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Omron appoints Gregg Holst President and COO
- 08/10/07
He assumes the position immediately, filling a 10-month-long vacancy created by the death of the previous COO and President.
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ARC says Coriolis flowmeter market to grow 12% annually
- 08/09/07
The market was $650 million in 2006 and is forecast to be over $1.1 billion in 2011.
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Micronor wins patent for fiber optic rotary encoder
- 08/08/07
Micronor has secured U.S. patent 7,196,320 for its ZapFREE Fiber Optic Rotary Encoder System.
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ARC ranks ABB top automation services provider
- 08/08/07
The study reports that the total worldwide market for these services was close to $14 billion at the end of 2006, and will increase by more than $10 billion over the next five years, to $24.9 billion in 2011. |
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Endevco appoints Alan Manara as VP Sales and Marketing
- 08/08/07
Manara will be responsible for managing strategic and tactical relationships with the the company’s current and potential customer base. |
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Hannover Messe expands Interkama in 2008
- 07/31/07
Asset Management and Control Engineering will join the INTERKAMA Exhibit Program. |
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Honeywell completes acquisition of Enraf
- 07/31/07
Honeywell acquired Enraf Holding B.V. in a deal valued at approximately $260 million. |
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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. |
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ABB Q2 net income doubles to $729 million
- 07/26/07
Earnings in the quarter rose to $1 billion on a 27% increase in revenues and net income doubled to $729 million.
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Baumer Process Automation Div unites three groups
- 07/10/07
The Process Automation Div combines Bourdon-Sedeme of France, Haenni Instruments of Switzerland, and Kamstrup Process of Denmark. |
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Flowserve open R&D facility in Bangalore
- 07/09/07
The facility provides support for product and technology development projects from conceptualization through final drawings and pre-production prototypes. |
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FCI thermal switches and flow meters receive IEC approval
- 07/02/07
FCI’s FLT93 Switch, ST98 Flow Meter, and GF90 and GF92 Flow Meters have received IEC/IECx approvals for safe use from the IEC. |
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Endevco sensors assist winning team in vehicle safety competition
- 06/27/07
Graduate students at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics won a design competition sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. |
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Honeywell to acquire Enraf for $260 million
- 06/26/07
Enraf offers solutions for the control and management of transportation, storage and blending operations in the oil and gas industry. |
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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.
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ABB Process Automation moves to Houston, TX
- 06/19/07
ABB is relocating its global Process Automation division headquarters from Norwalk, CT, to Houston, TX, effective August 1, 2007. |
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ControlAir Type-950XP I/P Transducer is ATEX compliant
- 06/14/07
Type 950XP is now compliant with ATEX directive 94/9/EC for equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres in Europe. |
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Endevco signs G-TECH Instrument as rep in Taiwan
- 06/12/07
G-TECH, based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, was founded in 1988 by a group of sound and vibration experts. |
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BEI Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary
- 06/06/07
BEI Industrial Encoders manufactures optical encoders and associated electronics for the industrial market. |
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AW-Lake achieves safety approvals for RT-Ex15 flow monitor
- 05/15/07
CSA and INMETRO approved the RT-Ex15 meter-mounted flow monitor for use in Class I/Div 1 hazardous areas. |
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Robert Owen Inc to resell Kepware comunications software
- 05/10/07
Robert Owen Inc. will resell Kepware device communications software with its sensor and signal conversion hardware. |
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Dinesh Paliwal leaving ABB
- 05/10/07
Dinesh Paliwal, President, will leave ABB at the end of June. |
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Meggitt forms Sensing Systems group
- 05/10/07
The division was formed by merging Endevco, Meggitt Aerospace Systems and Meggitt Electronics groups into a single entity.
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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. |
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ABB creates engineering and science education foundation
- 05/04/07
ABB will create a foundation with total funding of $16.6 million to sponsor talented and needy students in engineering and natural sciences. |
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Sadlowski named Chief Executive Officer for Siemens
- 05/03/07
Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring.
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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. |
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TURCK builds Kübler encoders in the U.S.
- 05/01/07
Kübler two-inch encoders are now assembled in Minneapolis. |
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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.
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Danaher Industrial Controls changes name to Dynapar
- 04/19/07
The Feedback Business Unit within Danaher Industrial Controls Group has changed its name to Dynapar, effectively combining the brands of Dynapar, NorthStar, Harowe, Hengstler, and Acuro. |
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Flowserve receives award in India
- 04/12/07
Flowserve was honored as the recipient of the Indo-American Chamber-Sanmar Indo-U.S. Business Cooperation Award. |
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Flow Research Study predicts $1 Billion Flowmeter Market
- 04/12/07
The study, "The World Market for Differential Pressure (DP) Flowmeters and Primary Elements," says the worldwide DP flowmeter market totaled $996 million in 2006, and will exceed one billion dollars in 2007. |
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Invensys 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. |
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Emerson renames Solartron densitometers
- 04/10/07
Emerson changed the brand name of Solartron densitometers to Micro Motion. Emerson acquired the densitometers product line in 2005. |
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Racine Federated acquires Flow Meter lines from Asahi/America
- 04/09/07
RFI will acquire the the Universal Vortex Flow Meter and FloSonex Ultrasonic Flow Meter product lines from Asahi/America. RFI will take full ownership of stock and warranty responsibility for both Vortex Flow Meter lines. |
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LXI Consortium announces Application Contest
- 04/05/07
The contest is open to users of LXI instrumentation who have interesting or effective applications in test and measurement system design and operation that incorporate LXI products in the system. First prize is $2500. |
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Sensor Developments offers ISO-17025 force calibration lab
- 04/02/07
SDI's A2LA accredited laboratory can calibrate force levels up to 300klbs/1334.4kNewtons and torque levels up to 360kin-lbs/40.6kNm. It uses a combination of NIST traceable force standards and NIST traceable dead weights to perform calibrations. |
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FCI's CM Series Coriolis Flow Meters Receive FM Approval
- 03/20/07
CM Series Coriolis Flow Meters have been certified by FM [and FMC (Canada)] as Class I, Div I, Groups A, B, C and D rated for service in hazardous locations where combustible gases may be present. |
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Emerson forms Remote Automation Solutions division
- 03/19/07
The new division combines Emerson's Bristol, Fisher, Daniel, and Mobrey remote technology products and services into one larger, dynamic business to serve the remote measurement and control needs of the oil, gas, water and wastewater treatment industries. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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