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OPC UA - The Top 10 Considerations for Developers
By Arun Ananthampalayam, Honeywell Process Solutions Whether you are a tool builder or an application developer – if your software needs to access automation data, you may want to implement OPC UA connectivity to ensure your system can access data via the world’s most popular, standards-based, open connectivity solution. The question is: How to best do this? -
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RedViking helps GKN Driveline ensure manufacturing visibility
GKN, a manufacturer of automotive driveline products, was seeking an end-to-end traceability strategy and discovered the Argonaut system from RedViking -
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Rockwell Automation helps Loparex alleviate power supply drops with sag-correction system
For more than a decade, the company’s 305,000-square-foot production facility in Hammond, Wisconsin, had been experiencing voltage sags several times per year that disrupted its largest production line. To get a better grip on the voltage-sag problem, Loparex installed the Allen-Bradley i-Sense and i-Grid intelligent network system from Rockwell Automation on its largest coating line. -
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Adams Group chooses Inductive Automation's Ignition for SCADA in vegetable oil plant
For supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) in its vegetable oil and grain plants, Adams uses Ignition by Inductive Automation. Ignition is an industrial applications platform with fully integrated tools for building SCADA, manufacturing execution system (MES), and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions. -
FeatureAutoQuiz: What are the Closure Members in Globe and Butterfly Valves?
A butterfly valve has a circular body and a rotary-motion disk-closure member. The physical blocking mechanism in a globe valve is a plug. -
Industry Product
Nozomi Networks announces SCADAguardian v. 17.0
A solution for cybersecurity risk detection is now a solution to support both operational visibility and ICS cybersecurity with new modules for Asset Management and Vulnerability Assessment. It also introduces Dynamic Learning for configuration-free deployments. -
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Mitsubishi Electric Automation introduces MTConnect adapter for shop floor monitoring
The MTConnect adapter combined with a third-party client software interface gives executive management, plant managers and shop floor personnel a complete overview of shop floor activity. -
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On Robot to announce expansion into US market at Automate 2017
Officially launching to the North American market at Automate 2017 in April, On Robot’s two-finger RG2 grippers—available in both single and dual versions— mount on the arms of cobots without any external wires; for robots that have infinite rotation of the last joint. -
Industry Product
Hardy Process Solutions introduces Hardy Dynamic Checkweigher
The Hardy Dynamic Checkweigher is a fully automated system designed to weigh items automatically in-motion. The Checkweigher controller can communicate both upstream and downstream across the Connected Enterprise Network. -
Industry Product
AAEON announces AAEON UP Core computing board at Embedded World 2017
The AAEON UP Core is a board with 64 bit, 1.92GHz Intel Atom x5 Z8350 Processors (codename Cherry Trail). The on-board GPU is the Intel Gen 8 HD 400 with 12 Execution Units for up to 500MHz delivering 3D graphics. -
Industry Product
Advanced Micro Controls releases NR60 series of rotary shaft encoders
The AMCI NR60 networked encoders are 100% compatible with Allen-Bradley, Siemens, and Schneider PLCs that support EtherNet/IP or Modbus TCP/IP. -
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DIN-rail power supplies for railway applications
By Christoph Frodl, PULS Train travellers and commuters want one thing above all else from the railway: Reliability. This expectation is also passed on by the railway company to its suppliers, right through to the manufacturers of individual components, such as power supply units. -
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ISA and Automation Federation expert Steve Mustard to present at Advanced Design and Manufacturing conference
Mustard is featured in an online article—posted by PLASTICSTODAY—that promotes the presentation he will be giving next week at the Advanced Design and Manufacturing conference, to be held 29-30 March at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. -
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Helukabel announces completion of expanded German production plant
One of the project’s objectives was to consolidate global R&D activities into one location. The engineering center houses additional test and inspection equipment, particularly for moving applications as well as for extreme temperature climates. -
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DIN Rail Power Supplies: Users benefit most from optimised basic functions
By Bernhard Erdl, PULS GmbH The fourth industrial revolution is extremely power-hungry. Due to increasing networking and continuous information exchange in production technology, power requirements as well as the importance of machine availability are ever increasing. -
Case Study
Micro-Epsilon's displacement measurement sensors to be used in European telescope project
The European Southern Observatory based in Garching, Germany, is relying on displacement measurement systems from Micro-Epsilon for a project to build the world’s largest mirror telescope in Chile, which also involves French cooperation partner Fogale. The inductive sensor systems used for displacement measurement determine the position of each single mirror segment in three axes to nanometer accuracy. -
Industry Product
Bel Power introduces TET3000-12-069RA power supply
The TET3000 is a 3000 W Titanium efficient front-end AC-DC power supply that converts standard AC mains power into a main output of 12 VDC for powering intermediate bus architectures (IBA) in servers, routers and network switches. -
Industry Product
Icon Labs announces Floodgate Certificate Authority IoT authentication solution
The Floodgate Certificate Authority encompasses a range of potential use cases including key management, generating public key infrastructure certificates, and injecting pre-generated keys during the manufacturing process. -
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Seeq to present with Bristol Myers Squibb and Devon Energy at OSIsoft User Conference
The presentations will speak of the benefits Seeq customers are realizing in the oil & gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, mining, food and beverage, and other process industries. -
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EU Horizon 2020 launches RobMoSys robotics software project
RobMoSys (Composable Models and Software for Robotics) is an €8 million Innovation Action involving 9 partners from 5 countries and will be carried out over four years.