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Greg Sumners

Greg Sumners joined Beamex Inc. in 2008 as president, responsible for the North American business. An engineering graduate of Oxford, he furthered his education at Henley Management College in England. Sumners began his career as an industrial engineer and became a practitioner of the Institute of Management Services. Moving into management, he held purchasing, information technology, sales, and manufacturing positions.

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Industry Product

JVL Industri Elektronik A/S introduces CiA402 Drive profile and synchronization for EtherCAT

The JVL EtherCAT module is equipped with two Ethernet connectors and a built-in switch, enabling line, star, tree and ring topology without any extra hardware. The JVL EtherCAT module has several LEDs, enabling technicians and operators to get a status overview.

11 January, 2019
Case Study

Siemens helps Konecranes implement digital innovation platform

Using the Siemens platform for digital innovation, Konecranes has been able to connect the data from all of these organizations to create one 360 degree view of how prototypes are running and performing, and correlating requirements to, real world performance data.

11 January, 2019 | 1 minute
Industry Product

EGE releases STD flow controller with aseptic Varivent F process adapter

The thermal sensor is suitable for use in category 2 hazardous areas. It detects flow velocities between 1 cm/s and 10 cm/s in water and between 3 cm/s and 200 cm/s in oil.

11 January, 2019
Industry Product

Thorlabs announces VEG210C1 and VEG220C1 imaging systems

Based on Thorlabs’ MEMS‐VCSEL swept‐wavelength laser source technology, these systems are available in both 100 kHz (VEG210) and 200 kHz (VEG220) variants.

11 January, 2019
Industry Product

Measurement Computing Corporation releases MCC 152 voltage output and digital I/O HAT for Raspberry Pi

The MCC 152 features two 0-5 V analog outputs with updates rates up to 5 kS/s. Eight digital I/O lines are also included and can be configured as input or output on a bit by bit basis. Up to eight MCC HATs

11 January, 2019
News

FreePoint Technologies announces acquisition of CoreSolutions

Through the acquisition, FreePoint will accelerate the development of its ShiftWorx platform for machine monitoring in manufacturing while providing configuration and customization to meet enterprise customer needs.

10 January, 2019 | 1 minute
News

CyberX announces patent for ICS Threat Monitoring Analytics

The patent covers analytics for detecting anomalous behavior in ICS networks incorporating specialized ICS protocols such as Modbus and DNP3, and specialized ICS devices such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).

10 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
Industry Product

Mitsubishi Electric introduces MAPS 4 SCADA solution

Built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the full MAPS 4 process suite delivers flexibility in handling, automating, controlling, verifying and auditing processes.

10 January, 2019
News

AutomationDirect announces free online PLC training

Due to the high demand and requests for training in the field of industrial automation, AutomationDirect is now offering unlimited access to selected Interconnecting Automation training series for anyone interested in learning about industrial controllers.

10 January, 2019 | 1 minute
Case Study

Rockwell Automation helps Arkansas Steel enhance manufacturing intelligence

While updating the plant’s control layer, IT teams at Arkansas Steel began considering additional opportunities to improve operations. What they found was an issue with workforce utilization: Operators’ attention was divided between the process of creating tie plates and handling data.

10 January, 2019 | 5 minutes
News

ControlSoft announces acquisition of eSimulation and DxT3

Through this acquisition, eSimulation can offer a range of solutions to the midstream and upstream industries. For example, ControlSoft’s MANTRA advanced process control (APC) platform can help stabilize gas plants, condensate stabilizers, and fractionation facilities and enable operators to effectively hit optimization targets

10 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
News

International Society of Automation (ISA) announces Paul Gruhn as 2019 Society President

ISA is a nonprofit professional association that provides technical resources and programs for those who apply engineering and technology to improve the management, safety and cybersecurity of modern automation and control systems used across industry and critical infrastructure.

10 January, 2019 | 2 minutes

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Digitalization and the Food and Beverage Industry

By Robert Glass, ABB Digitalization encompasses a transformation in the way industrial environments work. For the food and beverage industry, this means companies can better comply with legislation through a transformation in areas including connectivity, smart sensors, traceability, cloud computing and monitoring.

10 January, 2019 | 4 minutes
Industry Product

ABB introduced ACH580 series of variable frequency drives

ACH580 VFDs are integrated with ABB Ability monitoring services – ABB’s cross-industry, digital offering, which provides real-time data about drive status and performance from any location. Monitoring parameters include drives availability, environmental conditions and fault events.

10 January, 2019
Industry Product

Watlow releases batch processing feature for its F4T temperature and process controller and D4T data logger

The batch processing feature is designed for OEMs and end users with thermal processes who seek to collect manufacturing part processing thermal data. The F4T or D4T with batch processing automates data record entry and reports.

10 January, 2019
Feature

PID Control Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Robotic Manipulators [Technical]

The performance of conventional PID controllers in robotics falls short in applications which are nonlinear and uncertain. Almost all industrial processes are nonlinear and uncertain.

By: ISA Transactions

09 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
News

Altizon and AXISCADES partner to enhance smart manufacturing application design

AXISCADES will be working directly with Altizon’s Datonis platform and products R&D group to design and build manufacturing applications that help manufacturers accelerate their Industry 4.0 journey

09 January, 2019 | 1 minute
News

Senseye and Iconsys partner to launch predictive maintenance service

The companies have joined forces to launch a digital maintenance service that combines Iconsys’ expertise in industrial data collection and integrated manufacturing systems with Senseye’s prognostics and predictive maintenance software.

09 January, 2019 | 1 minute
Industry Product

ZWSoft announces ZW3D 2019

Being optimized and innovated on the 3D CAD platform, ZW3D 2019 is equipped with sub-assembly, this edition allows engineers to verify the motion of the whole assembly.

09 January, 2019
Industry Product

Bedrock Automation announces OSA Remote controller with Achilles Level 2 certification

The OSA Remote embeds more than 30 cyber security technologies, including public key infrastructure (PKI) with secure keys inserted at birth, and advanced authentication and encryption capabilities for SCADA.

09 January, 2019