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Where's the Beef? Kepware finds it
Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention. -
Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure
The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products. -
Honeywell Adds New Members to PKS Advantage Program
GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network. -
11th sercos PlugFest successfully completed
During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products. -
Ethernet in Process Automation to Double by 2016
Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market. -
ProSoft’s wireless radios help control Missouri thrill ride
Prosoft lets each PLC on SkySurfer communicate with the Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1100 master PLC on the flight deck. The master PLC has an HMI connected to it so an operator can start a cart and monitor data. -
Yokogawa to evaluate Field Wireless Systems for Petrobras
Yokogawa will evaluate field wireless technology based on the ISA100.11a1 industrial automation wireless communications standard. -
AST Pressure Sensors monitor Medical Safety Trailers
The pressure sensors are serving as components in a wireless remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations. -
Use Wireless Transmitters for Diagnostics, Improvements, and Metrics
Wireless transmitters can rapidly prototype, demonstrate, analyze and justify installations of online diagnostics, metrics and improvements. -
IO-Link Mapping Guide for sercos released
This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system. -
ETSI publishes specification for Ultra Low Energy wireless
DECT ULE (Ultra Low Energy), a low power consumption radio technology, is intended for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. -
White paper describes wireless ‘Sentrollers’
In this paper, Sentrollers are defined as a new, all-encompassing term for sensors, actuators and controllers – the various devices that make up the new Internet of Things. -
Sercos III specification update available
Specification enhancements include updates to the sercos communication protocol and to the different sercos profiles (drive, I/O, encoder and energy). -
Nivis offers free ISA100.11a and WirelessHART software
The open source offering includes software for ISA100.11a and WirelessHART, including Field Devices, Backbone Router, Gateway, System Manager and Security Manager. -
Sercos exhibit at Hannover a success
The user organisation saw a significant increase in the number of visitors to its booth as well as in the quality of contacts compared to the previous year. -
Korenix switches prevent broadcast storms on Tibet Railway
By installing wired and wireless Korenix industrial Ethernet switches in 22 of its trackside railway stations and 96 field level sites, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway eliminated the risk of broadcast storms on its monitoring and control system network. -
Emerson to control waste-to-energy gasification facility in France
Emerson will supply an Ovation control system, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, valves and smart wireless instrumentation to the waste- and biomass-fed power station at Morcenx in southwestern France. -
Sercos updates free Monitor software
The free tool allows a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the data traffic in sercos III networks, easing development, testing and troubleshooting. -
50th PI Competence Center Established
KW Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the 50th PI Competence Center (PICC) for PROFIBUS and PROFINET. -
How to Achieve Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Communications
The commissioning and configuration of digital communications of a field-level network at an industrial operation, such as Foundation Fieldbus, is fundamental to obtaining certification of the digital


