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  • Roxtec cable seals minimize installation for FANUC Robots

    The seals minimize the risk of field installation failure, protect the equipment, and improve the robot life cycle.
    18 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Gelita uses Epicor ERP for collagen manufacturing

    To meet Gelita's unique process manufacturing needs, Epicor ERP was extended to deliver a Blending Workbench.
    18 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Costain uses AVEVA Laser Modeller to make 3D plant models

    AVEVA Laser Modeller enabled the rapid conversion of nearly 1,000 laser scans into intelligent, as-built 3D plant models at an unnamed North Sea oil & gas facility.
    17 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson automates Lubrizol additives facility in China

    Emerson supplied a DeltaV system to manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis meters, Fisher control valves and regulators, and wireless HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus communications.
    12 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Cincinnati uses Team Viewer for remote access

    Team Viewer allows Cincinnati technicians to view a machine’s PC-based control as though they are right in front of it.
    12 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • B&R speeds up Woojin injection molding machines

    B&R servo technology and POWERLINK communication helped Woojin optimize the speed and precision of three different lines of injection molding machines.
    10 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Power Utilities use Real-time Condition Monitoring

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Duke Energy, the largest electric power company in the United States, has deployed National Instruments (NI) technology for monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics in their electric utilities in an effort to improve operations and optimize workforce activities.
    09 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • IEC 61131-3-based Building Automation System

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The BAS system was implemented using Beckhoff’s programmable controllers and software based on IEC 61131-3 and a standard library of building automation functions including lighting control, window shade control, climate control, and energy consumption monitoring.
    06 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Improving Cooling Water System Capacity

    PCT Engineered Systems' (PCT) cooling capacity needed to be increased dramatically to meet business demands and the company was able to quickly and efficiently meet this challenge using Siemens controllers and drives.
    06 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Conroe Machine uses Programmable gages for machining and parts sorting

    Renishaw's Equator programmable gages are being used for measuring and sorting mud-motor bearings.
    06 September, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • QA Graphics helps college validate building data

    Bridge Data Manger is being used by the campus to verify that the utility meter data reporting, including the electrical, gas, steam, and chilled water use is performing as the building design intended.
    05 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • West controller helps check aerospace components

    Temperature controllers from West Control Solutions are being used by Active Magnetic Inspection on two stress relief ovens that each required monitoring of 60 product containers.
    05 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Aurora Water measures zeta potential on line

    Through automated, frequent measurements of zeta potential, the on-line system enables continuous monitoring of the coagulation processes used in the treatment of the water.
    23 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB robot and machine tending system installed at Atlas Copco

    The Atlas Copco cell has an ABB IRB 6640 robot, three Okuma lathes, SVIA’s PickVision Smart Camera vision system and a Renishaw equator. The IRB 6640 will load and unload the three lathes.
    22 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • RLE Technologies uses Northwire cables for disaster prevention

    RLE has more than 7 million feet of Northwire manufactured leak detection sensing cable installed in a wide variety of systems around the globe.
    21 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson controls Exelon Generation unit

    Emerson replaced aging turbine and balance-of-plant controls with its Ovation expert control system at Westport 5 Generating Station in Baltimore, Maryland.
    21 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Axiom installs conveyor at Tamar Foods

    The Tamar conveyor system had to handle "green totes" - something the existing conveyor system couldn't do.
    21 August, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Lockheed Martin converts to Perle Fiber Media Converters

    Lockheed Martin chose Perle Fiber Media Converters to provide copper to fiber conversion in a harsh Data Imagery application. It's all very hush-hush, though.
    20 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • LaRue roasts Coffee with Epicor ERP

    LaRue Coffee Roasterie of Omaha, Nebraska, has gone live with the Epicor Tropos enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
    20 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ABB automates gas pipeline from North Africa to Europe

    ABB’s integrated automation, fire and gas, and emergency shutdown system enables the station and the terminal to be monitored and controlled by remote from one control room.
    19 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
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