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Frost & Sullivan says European companies can’t afford to buy test equipment, so they want to rent it instead.

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser PTU (Process Training Unit), a full-scale, working process skid with on-line instrumentation and controls, or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

EasyTune requires no input from the user, completes in a few minutes, and provides measured verification of the servo performance when complete.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Enterprise software cloud offerings and their integration with industrial automation systems is an exciting, evolving development. The new offerings allow manufacturing companies of all sizes to operate more efficiently and be more responsive to customers with a lower investment and lower lifecycle cost.

Yokogawa will continue to supply Main Automation Contractor services (MAC services) to BP’s upstream entities.

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, a plant construction specialist, will use Siemens' Comos plant engineering and plant management software.

The need to track and locate assets, personnel and items for operational efficiency and security is driving the global real-time location systems (RTLS) market.

FRIMO has integrated 80 remote service connectivity solutions. Using VNC (virtual network computing) software, the entire screen content of the remote computer is transmitted and can be used by the service technician like a local PC.

By introducing change management and version control software from for all its PLCs in five production plants, heat exchanger manufacturer SWEP has minimized the risk of machine downtime.

By Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx Here’s a look at the various sources of free electrical energy, from energy harvesting to wind turbines, wave power and triboelectrics.

Twelve Barco F12 WUXGA projectors provide operators with a lifelike, high-resolution environment in which to practice intricate drilling set-ups.

With the groov Action Plan, an Opto 22 engineer works closely with a groov customer to understand project objectives, define requirements, and design the operator interface. Price: $2995.

By Amy Wells, Electroustic Connectors come in all shapes and sizes depending on environment and application. There are literally thousands of options, sometimes for the same job. Inevitably, this can cause a lot of confusion.

Spectrex is a manufacturer of flame and open path gas detectors.

Honeywell’s Assurance 360 program will help Lundin achieve continual and optimal performance of its automation system at the Edvard Grieg field in the Utsira High area of the central North Sea.

By Jim Reichert, Vice President of Sales at Rittal Corporation Building the largest fully automated parking garage in California would seem quite an accomplishment for any developer, but AutoParkit wanted its contribution to easing parking congestion to last longer than the headlines about its “adaptive reuse” technology.

By Stahlin All enclosure materials ---- stainless steel, polycarbonate and FRP --- will provide protection in a variety of applications. It is critical to evaluate the environmental factors of the application where the enclosure will be used.

Wesupply provides a fully managed and outsourced electronic business-to-business integration service, using an approach that maximizes supply chain collaboration between independent organizations.

By John Rinaldi Investing in new control and automation systems is an expensive and disruptive activity, particularly when the majority of the data is already instrumented and sitting in controllers, drives, sensors and other devices in the plant. There is a far more cost effective and non-disruptive way to acquire and use the data trapped on the plant floor.

The global circuit breakers and fuses market will stand at US$31.11 billion by the end of 2021. This translates to a 6% CAGR between 2015 and 2021.