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Derek Carbin has served as the General Manager and president of Meggitt (Maryland). He retains the position of president.

By Dr Harry Zervos, Technology Analyst Energy harvesters and wireless sensors are not always deployed under "a walk in the park" operating environments. The most interesting applications tend to be in sectors where conditions are harsh or devices are inaccessible once deployed.

Emerson installed PlantWeb digital plant architecture at three plants, including DeltaV digital automation systems, Rosemount instruments, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.

Catalog contains extensive information on linear variable displacement transducers (LVDT), linear encoders and magnetostrictive transducers.

Yole Développement says MEMS will see double digit growth for the next six years, with 20% compound average annual growth in units and 13% growth in revenues, to become a $21 billion market by 2017.

DT-Remote app allows iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android users to view real-time data collected from remote dataTaker systems.

Ashcroft provides flexibility to modify fittings, outputs, enclosures, calibration, mounting methods and much more.

Certification from the HART Foundation is for the hardware and DD files, indicating full compliance with the HART Communication Protocol.

Automation.com, June 2012 By Chris Jones, Micro-Epsilon UK EtherCAT has established itself within the market as a communications standard that can offer true real time capabilities in automation technology. Micro-Epsilon has developed sensors and controllers with EtherCAT capability, enabling them to be smoothly integrated into existing control and automation networks.

Website covers sensors, transducers, vision, RFID systems and networking products.

Written by Jacob Y. Wong and Roy L. Anderson, Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Measurement covers various gas measurement techniques, fundamental aspects and cutting-edge progress.

SpectraSensors in Houston, Texas, develops, manufactures and distributes laser-based gas analytical instrumentation.

Automation.com, June 2012 By J Timothy Shea, VDC Research Group VDC partnered with Automation.com to develop market intelligence studies for Data Acquisition Solutions, including external chassis & modules, plug-in data acquisition analog I/O boards, and standalone data acquisition software.

Automation.com, June 2012 By Turck White paper compares proximity sensors to Turck's factor 1 sensors, discussing performance capabilities, mounting options and cost-efficiency.

The FLT93 Series FlexSwitch Brochure provides complete product and applications information for the flow and level switch.

Meggitt hired Peter Eitnier as Mechanical Engineer for Wilcoxon Research products, and promoted Wayne Glidden to Director of Materials.

BP Exploration replaced unreliable level transmitters previously used on a floating production, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel with guided wave radar transmitters from Emerson.

The market for Programmable Logic Controllers I/O modules recovered quite strongly after the recession with double-digit growth in both 2010 and 2011.

Emerson’s Smart Wireless technology helps identify potential problems and improve plant availability and efficiency of its Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) power station in London.

A thermoIMAGER TIM thermal imaging camera is installed in the injection moulding machine from Kunststoff-Zentrum SKZ KTT to detect defective parts.