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OpinionAre You Getting the Most out of Your ISA Membership?
ISA membership costs just $120 per year and gives you access to dozens of benefits. But even more than these line items, it gives you a way to belong to the profession that you’ve chosen for your life -
Industry Product
EXAIR introduces Type 316 Side Mount Kits for NEMA 4X Cabinet Cooler
The Side Mount Kits maintain the NEMA 4X rating of large and small electrical enclosures. Models for use on NEMA 4 and 12 enclosures are also available. Applications include cooling PLCs, microprocessors, variable frequency drives, industrial computers, and robotics. -
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MTConnect Institute releases Version 1.4.0 of the MTConnect standard
This version expands the “Devices,” “Streams,” and “Interfaces” models, adds many new data items, and includes edits for clarity and usability. -
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Dragos and OSIsoft partner to enhance ICS security visibility
The Dragos Platform integration with OSIsoft's PI System is designed to provide broader visibility of operational data and industrial network data -
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Wyncode Academy announces Wyncode Custom Cohorts automation training programs
Once the program launches, the Wyncode Custom Cohort responsibilities shift to actively managing various components such as monitoring student performance, evaluating course progress, coordinating communication between client, instructional staff and participants as well as employment contracts, orientation and housing. -
Industry Product
Siemens releases Analyze MyDrives and Manage MyMachines/Remote to portfolio of MindApps
Analyze MyDrives and Manage MyMachines/Remote are special MindApps designed specifically for MindSphere, the open IoT operating system from Siemens, which allow users to utilize cloud-based services. -
Industry Product
AutomationDirect announces mini stopper and stopper bolt precision limit switches from Metrol
With 10 micron repeatability and high contact force, these stainless steel switches are suitable for use in precision indexing/positioning applications. -
Industry Product
KINGSTAR announces version 3.4 of KINGSTAR Machine Automation Platform
Version 3.4 adds a variety of functionality, like IO-Link master device support, as well as support for additional hardware and expanded documentation. -
Industry Product
Rockwell Automation introduces Allen-Bradley Guardmaster GuardLink safety system
With GuardLink, safety devices are connected in series while providing access to individual device diagnostics. This system provides safety, diagnostics, remote reset and lock command over a single four conductor cable with up to 32 devices per link. -
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Automation and gaming come together with ISA at USA Science & Engineering Festival
At the exhibit sponsored by the International Society of Automation (ISA) and its umbrella organization, the Automation Federation (AF), hundreds of young people and their parents as well as other visitors competed in a computerized game based on an actual industrial automation and control system. -
Case Study
SAP and Caterpillar: Connecting Live Engineering And Predictive Maintenance
Caterpillar creates machinery that powers businesses, builds communities, and enriches lives, from diesel-powered engines and gas turbines to hydraulic excavators and agricultural tractors. With the help of SAP, Caterpillar has manufactured heavy-duty equipment with IoT sensors for several customers -
FeatureThe Impact of Theft, Accidents, and Natural Losses From Pipelines
Modern leak detection equipment can prevent pipeline theft. -
Industry Product
JAI announces AP-3200T-PGE and AP-3200T-PMCL prism-based area scan cameras
he two new models supplement the AP-3200T-USB with USB3 Vision interface (3 x 3.2-megapixels at 38 frames/second) released earlier this year. All three models feature 3 x CMOS Pregius IMX265 1/1.8-inch sensors with 2048 x 1544 pixels and pixel sizes of 3.45 µm x 3.45 µm. -
Industry Product
Balluff introduces BTL7-T500 position measuring system
With its international approvals, such as ATEX and IECex, the BTL7-T500 offers a range of applications and safe operation in explosion hazard areas of Zone 0 and Zone 1. This means for example it can be used as well for continuous level measurement in refinery tanks. -
Industry Product
Mocana introduces Mocana TrustCenter services platform
Mocana TrustCenter is designed to ensure supply chain integrity, offering full management of cybersecurity across the entire IoT device security lifecycle – embedded systems and software development, manufacturing, device enrollment, and secure firmware updates. -
Industry Product
Rittal North American introduces RiLine Compact System for power distribution
The RiLine Compact System is designed for small control panel applications. For power demands below 100 A, the RiLine system is a power distribution alternative to traditional wiring. -
Case Study
Rockwell Automation helps Colorado State University automate new hands-on brewing lab
The lab is part of CSU’s Fermentation Science and Technology (FST) program. Support from both the university and members of the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork program was vital to getting the brewery operational. -
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Phoenix Contact and Wibu-Systems partner to integrate flagship technologies
CodeMeter, a solution for protection, licensing, and security, has been selected by Phoenix Contact as the technology to streamline license and entitlement management of their PLCnext control system solution. -
ComicOtto Mation Comic Caption Contest - April 11, 2018
The winning caption for this comic caption contest was submitted by Brad H. in South Carolina, USA. Congratulations, Brad! -
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Supporting the American Manufacturing Renewal: Inside Oakland University’s ISE Department
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The ISE program offers a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, designing a curriculum that allows students to think laterally, envision and analyze multiple perspectives in the creative design process.