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Hollysys to provide Profibus DCS to power plant in China
The DCS will control more than 13,000 points and ProfiBus will control 3,600 distributed devices for two 1GW ultra-supercritical thermal power generating units at the Fujian Hongshan Thermal Power Plant. -
Real Time Automation Gateways meet UUKL Smoke Certification
The products covered by UUKL are intended to be installed in conjunction with heating-ventilating-air conditioning (HVAC) equipment to form a system for controlling the flow of smoke in a building during a fire condition. -
EtherCAT Releases Device Standard for Semiconductor Industry
ETG.5003-1 standard covers nine specific device profiles for the semiconductor industry. -
GreenPeak opens China office
The new office in Hong Kong will bring Zigbee and home data communications to China. -
Nagel Precision connects honing machines to networks
Nagel Precision in the U.S. uses EtherNet/IP and Anybus X-gateways to connect their honing machines to any industrial network. -
Cosmos Electric Joins ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
Cosmos Electric Company is a Japanese-based maker of gas detection systems. -
Happy Birthday Ethernet!
IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) was first approved as an IEEE standard on 23 June 1983 and since then has been regularly updated. Now that it's 30 years old, can we trust it? -
Software Toolbox changes Licensing for OPC Data Client
The OPC Data Client family is available with one easy installer and one license, significantly reducing the total cost of the components. -
Big Data Focus at 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium
Big Data is Big News in just about every corner of our digitally connected world. Leveraging massive amounts of process data archives is a game changer for practically any industrial process, enabling -
Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters
By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software. -
Softing's PROFINET software helps control steel plant
SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama. -
National Instruments to resell Kollmorgen Servos
NI will sell Kollmorgen’s EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive and single-cable AKM motor. -
Sercos publishes news magazine
32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems. -
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. -
Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure
The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products. -
Honeywell Adds New Members to PKS Advantage Program
GasSecure, Redline Communications and Purelink joined the PKS Advantage program for the OneWireless Network. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Yokogawa to evaluate Field Wireless Systems for Petrobras
Yokogawa will evaluate field wireless technology based on the ISA100.11a1 industrial automation wireless communications standard.

