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ASM Consortium Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The ASM Consortium was started in 1994 to address Process Industry concerns about the high cost of incidents, such as unplanned shutdowns, fires, explosions, emissions, etc. -
Festo Develops Wind Powered Generator
The design, based on the aerodynamics of a seagull’s wing, is 45% efficient and uses advanced automation control technology for continuous optimization based on wind conditions. -
ASHRAE and IAQA merge
ASHRAE and the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) will merge and IAQA headquarters will relocate from Rockville, MD, to Atlanta. -
NEMA appoints Kevin J. Cosgriff president and CEO
Cosgriff, a former vice admiral in the U.S. Navy, comes to NEMA after serving as Senior Vice President of International Business and Government for Textron Systems Corporation. -
6 Reasons to Move Toward a Paperless Manufacturing Operation
By Greg Goodwin, LNS Research The writing is on the wall: Paper is being slowly but surely phased out of our daily lives, and as goes the consumer so eventually will the enterprise. -
Emerson introduces online asset management tool for drivetrains
Asset Management Program (AMP) for couplings is an online tool for tracking the location, life history and latest revision drawings and installation instructions for all critical drivetrain couplings owned by customers. -
Gartner Report rates cloud-based Sync and Share Solutions
Gartner summarized the relative strengths and weaknesses of 19 suppliers. IBM, Google and Microsoft fared poorly. -
EXAIR publishes Blowoff And Cooling Products Catalog
This 168 page catalog features products that can help companies conserve compressed air and reduce dangerous noise levels. -
AVEVA to supply design software to KBR for global projects
KBR will deploy AVEVA E3D software on major capital projects around the world. -
Fieldbus System Integrity and the Benefits of Modular Infrastructure
By Jason Norris and Jason Nicholl, Phoenix Contact A modular approach to Fieldbus can help achieve maximum availability and system integrity. but communication interruptions typically happen. Modular field-based diagnostics can help achieve maximum availability and integrity of a fieldbus system. -
Town in Austria installing smart metering
In the small town of Ybbs an der Donau, Kamstrup is installing the first complete smart metering project for the regional supplier of electric energy - E-Werk Wüster in Austria. -
Festo Didactic Acquires Lab Volt
Lab-Volt was founded in 1934 and provides integrated learning systems and modular multimedia education programs in the electronics, electrical and mechanical engineering and telecommunication fields. -
EnOcean Alliance defines commissioning of smart buildings
The EnOcean Alliance defined a unified specification for remote commissioning of energy harvesting wireless devices in building automation systems. -
Metso to control energy-from-waste plant in Peterborough, UK
Metso will supply a DNA automation system, information management system and a fully integrated Machine Monitoring solution to predict mechanical faults in critical machinery. -
Bosch Rexroth releases educational resource kit
This kit will help machine builders, system integrators and manufacturing end-users uncover wasted time, effort and resources within their operations and develop solutions to help them become more lean. -
ASHRAE/IES Publishes Standard 90.1 User’s Manual
Manual has Guidance on how to incorporate changes regarding building envelope, lighting, mechanical and the energy cost budget in the 2013 energy standard. -
Site Survey Rules for Industrial Wireless Use Case
By Bob Voss, Panduit Industries are rapidly adopting wireless networks because of their many benefits on the plant floor, including convenience, mobility, reduced cabling and lower labor costs compared to wired networks. Here are four steps to help plant operators establish wireless zones on the plant floor effectively. -
The Do’s and Don’ts of Process Safety
By Paul Gruhn, Rockwell Automation Changes in technology have led to a variety of recent developments in process safety, with many suppliers releasing new systems that significantly depart from the past. These do’s and don’ts can help you choose the right safety-instrumented system for your process. -
Ethernet Extenders Can Cause Thousands of Dollars in Damage
The problem is that almost all PoE Ethernet Extenders on the market operate as simple passive power injectors and always apply 44-57volts of power to the RJ45 port pins. This results in severe damage if non-PoE compliant Ethernet devices are accidently connected. -
Belden to present Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Design Seminar
The seminar, held Sept. 21-24, 2014, in Houston, enables those who design or maintain industrial Ethernet networks to gain valuable insights and hands-on experience for mission-critical Ethernet networking.