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MatrikonOPC Announces Control System Security and OPC Workshop
This workshop trains automation professionals on the ”must know” topics that will allow them to properly design and implement secure control networks and OPC architectures. -
sercos releases tube racer app
The game is available in the iTunes Store and shows in a playful manner how the common network infrastructure for sercos III and EtherNet/IP works. -
WLAN and Bluetooth Dominate Wireless Automation Equipment
More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. -
Altera offers license-free EtherCAT Protocol software for FPGAs
Altera’s solutions implement both the protocol IP and software stack into an FPGA using programmable logic and a soft embedded processor. -
EtherCAT in mobile applications
By Dr. Guido Beckmann, EtherCAT Technology Group EtherCAT is an open, real-time capable communication system which is widely used in manufacturing automation and, due to its properties, is also ideal for mobile applications such as heavy vehicles. -
Smart PROFIBUS Monitoring Leads to Fast Results
Spuntech Industries’ North Carolina plant has a Profibus network that runs seven PLCs with approximately 350 nodes. To help diagnose problems, Spuntech installed Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK hardware and TH SCOPE diagnostic software. -
Plant Asset Management with FDT and PROFIBUS
The Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment in Colorado had 35 gateway access points to monitor and troubleshoot all the instruments and processes within the Profibus network. They replaced the gateways with Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK devices. -
OPC UA Adoption by Honeywell Process Solutions
By Bill Lydon, Editor It is clear that OPC UA is transforming the architecture of industrial automation systems and providing a bridge to enterprise systems. With MatrikonOPC as part of the company, Honeywell is in a unique position as a user and supplier of OPC UA software and embedded OPC UA stacks. -
Hollysys to provide Profibus DCS to power plant in China
The DCS will control more than 13,000 points and ProfiBus will control 3,600 distributed devices for two 1GW ultra-supercritical thermal power generating units at the Fujian Hongshan Thermal Power Plant. -
EtherCAT Releases Device Standard for Semiconductor Industry
ETG.5003-1 standard covers nine specific device profiles for the semiconductor industry. -
GreenPeak opens China office
The new office in Hong Kong will bring Zigbee and home data communications to China. -
Nagel Precision connects honing machines to networks
Nagel Precision in the U.S. uses EtherNet/IP and Anybus X-gateways to connect their honing machines to any industrial network. -
Happy Birthday Ethernet!
IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) was first approved as an IEEE standard on 23 June 1983 and since then has been regularly updated. Now that it's 30 years old, can we trust it? -
Software Toolbox changes Licensing for OPC Data Client
The OPC Data Client family is available with one easy installer and one license, significantly reducing the total cost of the components. -
Cosmos Electric Joins ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
Cosmos Electric Company is a Japanese-based maker of gas detection systems. -
Big Data Focus at 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium
Big Data is Big News in just about every corner of our digitally connected world. Leveraging massive amounts of process data archives is a game changer for practically any industrial process, enabling -
Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters
By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software. -
Softing's PROFINET software helps control steel plant
SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama. -
National Instruments to resell Kollmorgen Servos
NI will sell Kollmorgen’s EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive and single-cable AKM motor. -
Sercos publishes news magazine
32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems.
