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  • LeddarTech to supply sensors to Valeo

    Valeo will use LED-based detection technology to develop a new infrared sensor for vehicle road obstacle detection and tracking functions.
    19 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • How Can Advanced Calibration Strategies Improve Control Performance?

    How Can Advanced Calibration Strategies Improve Control Performance?

    How Can Advanced Calibration Strategies Improve Control Performance?
    By: Contributing Authors
    19 February, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • PMMI Mechatronics Certificates go to Purdue

    A government grant and PMMI’s Mechatronics Certificate program will support training for more than 300 individuals as mechatronics technicians and industrial machinery mechanics at Purdue University Calumet.
    17 February, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Beckhoff Promotes Aurelio Banda to VP of Sales and Marketing

    Prior to his promotion, Banda was a Central Region Manager for Beckhoff in the U.S. Banda will work at the Beckhoff North American headquarters in Savage, Minn.
    12 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Exida certifies Woodward LESV-flow sensor

    Exida certified the LESV-Flow Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.
    11 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson upgrades controls at BP's Whiting refinery

    As main automation contractor for the massive upgrade, Emerson provided technologies and services that helped enable the Chicago-area refinery modernize its facility to process advantaged crude supplies.
    10 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • How to Determine the Health of an Industrial pH Reference Electrode

    Use a smart transmitter & smart electrodes and do standardization and/or periodic buffer calibrations based on electrode life expectancy.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    07 February, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • ISA to conduct four training events

    ISA will conduct four highly intensive technical training events—comprised of technician, automation engineering and safety courses—in Denver, Houston, and Carson, California during 2014.
    06 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • STM Sensor Technologie joins Balluff Group

    As development and technology partners in the area of specialty photoelectric sensors, the companies are connected by a long-standing cooperation venture.
    04 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser sales reach $2.43 billion

    Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7 percent to over 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in the 2013 financial year.
    04 February, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Yokogawa Develops Multi-protocol Wireless Adaptor

    When released, the adapter will enable wired field instruments or analytical sensors to be used as ISA100 Wireless devices.
    04 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser donates instrumentation to Polk State College

    Through the donations of Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and TriNova, Polk State College will be the new home to a $1 million, state-of-the-art PTU (Process Training Unit).
    03 February, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Is your next automation controller an Ethernet switch?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor At the 2013 Rockwell Automation Fair, Cisco described how their routers are becoming distributed embedded computer devices, intended to process and react to information from devices and sensors at the edge of the network. Could your next automation controller be embedded in an Ethernet switch?
    03 February, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Festo signs three Distributors

    Festo signed distributors for Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Texas.
    31 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Why Is Instrumentation Critical for the Automation Professional?

    Why Is Instrumentation Critical for the Automation Professional?

    A detailed understanding of instrumentation is critical for any automation professional.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    31 January, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Keithley Publishes Low Level Measurements Handbook

    This 250-page reference describes theoretical and practical considerations involved in the measurement of low DC currents, high resistances, low DC voltages, and low resistances.
    30 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.
    28 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Micro-Epsilon to provide sensors for land speed record car

    The sensors will be used on the BLOODHOUND SSC Project – the 1,000 mph land speed record attempt that is scheduled to take place in 2016.
    27 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Yokogawa Obtains ISASecure Certification for ProSafe-RS

    The ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system has obtained the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.
    27 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • 2014 Manufacturing Outlook from Siemens CEO

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.
    27 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
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