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By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

Website covers everything from small, compact products to large operator panel interfaces and open PC-based solutions.

Churchill will be responsible for Fiberguide’s products and services east of the Mississippi river.

DataCELL FIELD MVC-800 FireWire Cable surpassed 11 million flex cycles in rigorous bending, rolling and torsion tests; other cables hit 20 million tick tock tests.

Carter, former president and CEO of Pavilion Technologies, was named president of Rockwell Software.

Allied will be a catalog distributor of Eaton’s industrial control and automation products.

The catalog contains 800 pages with more than 4,800 products, including hundreds of new items.

MINI SAC cordsets meet Fieldbus Foundation's FF-844 requirements for H1 Type A cable.

Belden, Northwire, Phoenix Contact and Rockbestos-Surprenant Cable are the first cable suppliers to pass the Fieldbus Foundation registration process.

Mouser Electronics will distribute Electronic Assembly's LCD function modules.

Catalog has over 115,000 products plus technical information and product photos.

Free Eclipse Ganymede-compliant embedded debugging solution runs on many standard evaluation boards for hosting on Windows and Linux platforms.

Stories cover environmental monitoring, power automation, FAB management, solar energy, factory automation, and security.

Brochure describes nine RoHS compliant, corrosion resistant enclosure families, available in polycarbonate, plus selected availability in ABS, aluminum, and fiberglass.

G-Tek, a software distributor and engineering firm in Ankara, Turkey, will resell and provide integration services for McObject's eXtremeDB and Perst database systems.

Allied will offer the HyperLink product line, which includes antennas, surge and lightning protectors for WLANs, SCADA Systems, ISM, GSM and RFID design applications.

ABB won a $75-million contract from Eskom, South Africa’s national electricity provider, to supply and install circuit breakers to strengthen the country’s electricity network.

Power Integrations was found to have acted properly in the process of applying for and obtaining its patents from the Patent Office. The Court rejected Fairchild's claims and ruled the patents enforceable.

For power outages, VDC and VDC-XE will seamlessly provide up to 300kW of DC power in a single csbinet. VDC models can be paralleled.

ABB will supply LDK Solar more than $36 million in electrical systems, equipment and related engineering and project management services for a new production plant in Xinyu City, China.