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  • iQuest Integrates KEPServerEX to Deliver Augmented Reality View of Plant Floor

    Process Automation provider uses KEPServerEX to instantly gather, view, and access data associated with industrial machinery on iPads and iPhones, turning any plant floor into a data-rich environment.
    04 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ICONICS Achieves OPC UA Lab Certification for GENESIS64

    GENESIS64 HMI/SCADA software has achieved certified compliance for OPC UA, OPC, BACnet, Modbus IP and SNMP.
    24 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • EtherCAT Test Center in China issues first certificate

    The EtherCAT Test Center (ETC) in China issued its first official Chinese conformance certificate to Tsino Dynatron Electrical Technology.
    20 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • EtherCAT Roadshow tours North America

    From October 15th to 24th, 2013, no-charge full-day seminars on the subject of EtherCAT technology will be held across the U.S. and Canada. The seminars are educational events delivered by the foremost EtherCAT experts from the ETG and the sponsoring companies.
    20 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • connectBlue Ethernet Port Adapters UL/cUL Listed

    Bluetooth Access Point and Bluetooth / Wireless LAN Ethernet Port Adapters can now be used in applications in hazardous environments such as in the oil & gas and chemical industries.
    17 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • OPC updates OPC UA for Devices and Analyzers

    New versions of OPC UA For Devices (DI) and OPC UA For Analyzer Devices (ADI) have been released by the OPC Foundation.
    16 September, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Emerson automates Lubrizol additives facility in China

    Emerson supplied a DeltaV system to manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis meters, Fisher control valves and regulators, and wireless HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus communications.
    12 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Kepware President and CEO to present at Fall Industrial Automation Events

    President and CEO, Tony Paine, will speak as an expert on systems communication and industrial automation during two acclaimed energy telecommunications and manufacturing intelligence events this fall.
    09 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Leveraging DoD Wireless Security Standards for Automation and Control

    Leveraging DoD Wireless Security Standards for Automation and Control

    Industrial control systems are increasingly under attack and basic wireless security is inadequate. Government-validated technologies can be used to achieve greater cybersecurity
    By: Contributing Authors
    04 September, 2013 | 10 minutes
  • Farsens announces Battery free sensor kits

    Farsens is offering basic and regular sample kits for parties interested in testing their wireless battery free sensor products.
    03 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • WirelessHART Seminars in Asia, Europe and USA

    The vendor-neutral seminar includes presentations by technology experts, live demonstrations of WirelessHART technology (IEC 62591; EN 62591), and firsthand experience of the technology’s interoperability, reliability, applications and ease of use.
    28 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Foundation Fieldbus Analysis for Floating Production Storage and Offloading Projects

    Foundation Fieldbus Analysis for Floating Production Storage and Offloading Projects

    Advantages of using Foundation Fieldbus on floating production storage & offloading project, analyzing results as if implemented using Foundation Fieldbus.
    By: Contributing Authors
    26 August, 2013 | 13 minutes
  • MatrikonOPC Announces Control System Security and OPC Workshop

    This workshop trains automation professionals on the ”must know” topics that will allow them to properly design and implement secure control networks and OPC architectures.
    22 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • sercos releases tube racer app

    The game is available in the iTunes Store and shows in a playful manner how the common network infrastructure for sercos III and EtherNet/IP works.
    14 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • WLAN and Bluetooth Dominate Wireless Automation Equipment

    More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology.
    08 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Altera offers license-free EtherCAT Protocol software for FPGAs

    Altera’s solutions implement both the protocol IP and software stack into an FPGA using programmable logic and a soft embedded processor.
    05 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EtherCAT in mobile applications

    By Dr. Guido Beckmann, EtherCAT Technology Group EtherCAT is an open, real-time capable communication system which is widely used in manufacturing automation and, due to its properties, is also ideal for mobile applications such as heavy vehicles.
    01 August, 2013 | 7 minutes
  • Smart PROFIBUS Monitoring Leads to Fast Results

    Spuntech Industries’ North Carolina plant has a Profibus network that runs seven PLCs with approximately 350 nodes. To help diagnose problems, Spuntech installed Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK hardware and TH SCOPE diagnostic software.
    01 August, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Plant Asset Management with FDT and PROFIBUS

    The Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment in Colorado had 35 gateway access points to monitor and troubleshoot all the instruments and processes within the Profibus network. They replaced the gateways with Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK devices.
    01 August, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • OPC UA Adoption by Honeywell Process Solutions

    By Bill Lydon, Editor It is clear that OPC UA is transforming the architecture of industrial automation systems and providing a bridge to enterprise systems. With MatrikonOPC as part of the company, Honeywell is in a unique position as a user and supplier of OPC UA software and embedded OPC UA stacks.
    22 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
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