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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.
    By: Kepware
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure

    The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products.
    By: Dataforth Corporation
    10 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell Adds New Members to PKS Advantage Program

    GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    07 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 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.
    06 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 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.
    05 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • 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.
    By: ProSoft Technology, Inc.
    30 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Yokogawa to evaluate Field Wireless Systems for Petrobras

    Yokogawa will evaluate field wireless technology based on the ISA100.11a1 industrial automation wireless communications standard.
    By: Yokogawa Corporation of America
    23 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • 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.
    By: American Sensor Technologies, Inc. (AST)
    23 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Use Wireless Transmitters for Diagnostics, Improvements, and Metrics

    Use Wireless Transmitters for Diagnostics, Improvements, and Metrics

    Wireless transmitters can rapidly prototype, demonstrate, analyze and justify installations of online diagnostics, metrics and improvements.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    17 May, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • 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.
    16 May, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • 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.
    13 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • 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.
    08 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 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).
    02 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 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.
    By: NIVIS
    30 April, 2013 | 1 minute
  • 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.
    26 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 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.
    By: Korenix Technology
    23 April, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • 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.
    By: Emerson
    22 April, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • 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.
    16 April, 2013 | 1 minute
  • 50th PI Competence Center Established

    KW Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the 50th PI Competence Center (PICC) for PROFIBUS and PROFINET.
    10 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • How to Achieve Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Communications

    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
    By: Contributing Authors
    10 April, 2013 | 8 minutes
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