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Honeywell to help modernize Austrian paper plant
The mill – where paper has been made for more than four centuries – makes 980,000 tons of multicoated paper per year for publications around the world. Honeywell will implement a range of upgrades that include server virtualization, process visualization and cybersecurity solutions. -
COPA-DATA helps Novarc Technologies enhance HMI software
zenon’s application as an HMI gives SWR operators flexibility to set welding parameters. This is a requirement for the environment in which SWR is designed, as almost every job requires some level of customization. -
Emerson announces agreement to acquire General Electric’s Intelligent Platforms Business
The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of fiscal 2019, subject to regulatory approvals, GE’s consultation with employee representatives where required and other customary closing conditions. -
Emerson releases Digital Transformation Roadmap
The goal is to help companies use technology to reach Top Quartile performance, measured by optimized production, improved reliability, enhanced safety and minimized energy usage. -
Open Systems International announces Al Eliasen as Chief Operating Officer
Eliasen is an automation industry professional with more than 25 years of experience in corporate operations and engineering management. At OSI, he has overseen all project delivery operations to date. -
ISA announces ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018 standard
ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018, Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems: Technical Security Requirements for IACS Components, provides the cybersecurity technical requirements for components that make up an IACS, specifically the embedded devices, network components, host components and software applications. -
Process Solutions announces launch of Robotic Controls Division
The division is being formed in response to customer and supplier demand, along with the Northwest region’s lack of service providers for robot-based automation. -
The Next Generation of HMI and SCADA
By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 The next generation of HMI and SCADA technologies is now poised to deliver the rich interfaces users expect, with even easier connectivity to the thriving variety of Internet of Things devices. -
Are Industrial Protocols Going the Way of AppleTalk, DecNet & Netware?
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The industrial automation industry has a reputation and history of being behind the technology adoption curve. With an prganizational need for reliability and system availability, the key question is: When is a new technology reliable enough that the benefits outweigh the risk? -
HANNOVER MESSE announces "Integrated Industry – Industrial Intelligence" theme for 2019 event
The theme of HANNOVER MESSE 2019 underlines the growing importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the production and energy industries, including such areas as energy efficiency and use and autonomous production processes as well as challenges in terms of interfaces, protocols and security. -
MSA introduces Apple iOS X/S Connect App for MSA ULTIMA X5000 and General Monitors S5000 gas monitors
These detectors feature Bluetooth wireless technology and can now connect with MSA’s new Apple iOS X/S Connect App along with the previously released Android X/S Connect App. -
Applying Apps in Industrial Automation
By Don Pham, IDEC Smartphone and tablet users prefer apps to browser-based access for everyday tasks, and this preference is spreading to industrial automation. -
Rockwell Automation helps Mosaic Company enhance DCS, visibility
To meet growing demands for increased crop yields, Mosaic needed to add a premium fertilizer product line to its New Wales, Florida, facility. In order to accommodate the new process, the company needed to drastically expand the existing distributed control system (DCS). -
How HMI Technologies Enable Greater Remote Access to the Plant Floor
Converging networking and other technologies ease remote access from the plant floor to PCs, tablets, and smartphones. -
Conveyco Technologies releases Warehouse Automation Guide
The 12,000 word guide covers such topics as automation trends, KPI’s, robotics, labor availability, efficiency, AS/RS, G2P, poly-bags, safety, system maintenance, and more. -
Moore Industries announces 50th anniversary celebration
Since 1968, Moore Industries has been serving process manufacturing businesses and fortune 500 companies in oil, gas, mining, chemical, power generation, water/waste water treatment, pharmaceutical, food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, semiconductor, and biotechnology industries. -
Inductive Automation names Brock Solutions as first system integrator in Inductive's Enterprise Integrator Program
Inductive Automation defines Enterprise Integrators as those with a high level of Ignition certification, a global presence, the ability to take on enterprise-wide projects, and 250 or more engineers, among other requirements. -
AutoQuiz: Motor Shaft Speed Relationship to Frequency and Number of Poles
The shaft speed of a motor is directly proportional to the frequency and is inversely proportional to the number of poles. -
Siemens talks digitalization, edge computing at Siemens Factory Automation SCADA/IPC Days 2018
From February 19-22, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas, approximately 130 people gathered for four days of product presentations, emerging technology discussions and a market trend outlook at the Siemens Factory Automation SCADA/IPC Days 2018. -
AutoQuiz: Nonhazardous Pressurization Systems
A Type X pressurization system reduces the classification within the enclosure from Division 1 to nonhazardous and, therefore, permits the use of ignition-capable equipment inside the enclosure.
