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Kollmorgen adds PROFINET interface to motion control platform
The fieldbus interface increases the communications flexibility of the automation system for machine builders and end-users alike, further enabling the realization of the best possible application performance. -
Sercos announces YouTube Channel
The sercos international channel offers videos on hot topics in the automation and machinery industry as well as interviews, exhibition films and introduction of member companies. -
INSYS icom announces OpenVPN Connect app
App lets devices featuring openVPN be accessed via Apple smartphones and tablet PCs. -
BearCom publishes Wireless Products & Solutions Guide
Guide covers two-way radios, team communication systems, push-to-talk phones and broadband cards, WLAN systems, IP video surveillance cameras, mesh broadband networks, point-to-point bridges, and more. -
Hilscher signs two U.S. distributors
Hilscher enters U.S. market by signing Professional Control Corporation (PCC) in Germantown, WI and Electro-Matic Products (EMP) in Farmington Hills, MI, as distributors of fieldbus products. -
HMS Industrial Networks acquires IXXAT
IXXAT Automation is a supplier of communication technology for industrial automation, machine manufacturing and the automotive industry. -
Field Communications Lounge at Hannover Messe
HART, FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, OPC and PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET) are co-sponsors of the Field Communication Lounge exhibit at Hannover Messe (8-12 April). -
InduSoft Releases SCADA App for Windows 8
The InduSoft Visualization App offers mobile access to InduSoft Web Studio applications from any Windows 8 device, including iPhones, tablets and laptops. -
On-Ramp wireless network reports faults for power company
Wireless fault detectors immediately send alarms to grid operators if a problem occurs anywhere along the power lines for San Diego Gas & Electric. -
Rockwell Automation adds Jacobs Automation's iTRAK
The iTRAK System provides independent control of multiple magnetically propelled movers on straight and curved paths. The connection will be via EtherNet/IP. -
EtherCAT Technology Group reaches 2,000 Members
ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) has become the 2,000th member of the world’s largest fieldbus organization, the EtherCAT Technology Group. -
Kepware announces Customized Training Program
Training program helps customers set-up and operate OPC-based communication systems for automation applications. -
Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP. -
MatrikonOPC Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification
MatrikonOPC has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification by the Quality Management Institute (QMI) of Toronto, Ontario. -
Hydroelectric generating utility has to control with the flow
Control Engineering, January 2013 By Jason Wright Box Canyon Dam, north of Spokane, Wash., upgraded its legacy controls with a PlantPAx system with two ControlLogix PACs on each of four turbine generators, FactoryTalk HMIs, and EtherNet/IP. -
Sercos international announces 2013 plans
sercos international will present its product and service portfolio together with its members at more than 20 events this year. -
Industrial Ethernet – Too much of a good thing?
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial Ethernet networks and protocols have become a workhorse of automation systems. But how extensively should it be used? Ethernet is not ideal in all applications. Consider the good, the bad and the ugly. -
McCrometer publishes Brochure on CONNECT Wireless Systems
Brochure covers wireless remote monitoring and control systems designed to cover the needs of growers and irrigators. -
Fieldbus Foundation approves Backhaul Architecture
Backhaul architecture enables multiple industrial communication protocols to run over a shared wireless backhaul network in process automation systems. -
Sercos sets record for visitors at SPS IPC Drives Exhibition
More than 20 companies from a wide range of areas presented exhibits and product demonstrations at the user organization's joint booth, which attracted 40% more visitors than in the previous year.
