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  • One man’s waste is another man’s energy

    Granger Electric operates a landfill-gas-to-energy program that extracts methane from decomposing waste and supplies it to customers as an alternative "greenhouse" fuel. This story highlights the communication system used between the control center and customers’ sites, to remotely access and monitor energy consumption.
    By: ProSoft Technology, Inc.
    06 March, 2011 | 3 minutes

  • AutomationDirect Technical Product Reference

    AutomationDirect’s volume 14 catalog offers thousands of industrial automation products for a wide range of applications. The latest edition features product descriptions, technical data, and photos for PLCs, touch screen monitors, AC and DC motors, sensors, switches, drives and more.
    04 March, 2011 | 1 minute

  • ODVA publishes white paper on industrial energy optimization

    ODVA plans to raise awareness of energy consumption and offer control strategies that can optimize energy usage throughout the industrial ecosystem from the plantfloor to the grid.
    03 March, 2011 | 2 minutes

  • Wireless I/O Control System Proves Successful for Vehicle Manufacturer in India

    India manufacturer of utility vehicles built a modern greenfield facility with state-of-the-art EMS conveyor enabled by Rockwell Automation control architecture and a ProSoft Technology wireless communication system.
    By: ProSoft Technology, Inc.
    03 March, 2011 | 4 minutes

  • Genzyme monitors 50,000 SCADA points with HMS Anybus Communicator

    Using about 30 HMS Anybus gateways, Genzyme converts serial and ASCII data from centrifuges, pH-meters and balances and sends it over Ethernet or Profibus to the central SCADA.
    By: HMS Industrial Networks Inc
    02 March, 2011 | 4 minutes

  • Bosch Rexroth becomes principal member of ODVA

    Bosch Rexroth, an active member for several years, became one of the organization’s principal members.
    24 February, 2011 | 2 minutes

  • Industrial Wireless Update – where no wires have gone before

    Automation.com, February 2011 While the intense debates continue over industrial wireless standards many automation professionals are applying industrial wireless solutions to achieve greater efficiency and profits for their companies.
    23 February, 2011 | 7 minutes

  • Audi Plant Claims Technological Lead with PROFINET

    Thanks to a large-scale PROFINET network the new Audi A1 manufacturing line at Brussels in Belgium is the newest and most modern Audi plant in Europe.
    14 February, 2011 | 2 minutes

  • Belden installs WLAN Process Control solution for Shell

    Belden designed and delivered a wireless Profinet infrastructure, which acts as an interface to the process control systems at Shell's Ethylene Cracker Complex in Singapore.
    By: Belden
    08 February, 2011 | 3 minutes

  • Industry, ODVA outline best practices for managing energy data

    ODVA's energy approach will simplify the ability to understand energy consumption and enable control methodologies to optimize energy usage throughout the industrial ecosystem from the plantfloor to the grid.
    07 February, 2011 | 3 minutes

  • PROFINET Position Measurement and Motion

    Automation.com, February 2011 By Chris Bowman, TR Electronic Ethernet communication, specifically the PROFINET adaptation, presents automation experts with another avenue for improving system design, achieving growth and increasing competitiveness.
    By: TR Electronic
    01 February, 2011 | 3 minutes

  • Sercos releases Specification for SERCOS III Energy Profile

    SERCOS Energy is an application layer profile that defines parameters and commands for the reduction of energy consumption in a uniform vendor-independent manner.
    30 January, 2011 | 1 minute

  • Honeywell controls Petrovis fuel depot in Mongolia

    Honeywell supplied a PKS control system, OneWireless, Digital Video Manager and Enraf Tank Gauging System to improve the efficiency and safety of a fuel depot near Ulaanbaatar.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    26 January, 2011 | 1 minutes

  • OPC Foundation Announces OPC Test and Certification Program

    For OPC members only, the testing program establishes credibility and ensures that the product is fully compliant with the OPC UA Specifications.
    11 January, 2011 | 2 minutes

  • Liam Power appointed to OPC Foundation Technical Advisory Council

    The Technical Advisory Council advises the OPC Foundation Board of Directors on technical matters relating to the management of OPC specification development.
    06 January, 2011 | 1 minutes

  • PROFIsafe increases throughput at Auto Plant

    Chery Automobile China upgrades its transfer press line and increases throughput by adopting state-of-the-art safety systems using PROFINET with integrated PROFIsafe.
    05 January, 2011 | 1 minute

  • VDC predicts Top 10 Trends for Industrial Networking

    VDC says real-time Ethernet will dominate, wireless is growing, networking will be built in, a large IT player will buy an industrial networking provider, and more companies are going overseas.
    04 January, 2011 | 2 minutes

  • SERCOS celebrates 25th Anniversary

    As a universal and open automation bus, SERCOS combines powerful motion and logic applications with current safety concepts and a broad range of peripherals.
    30 December, 2010 | 1 minutes

  • EPSG openSAFETY now available for PROFINET

    The protocol, which has been certified by German testing authorities TÜV Rheinland and TÜV Süd, allows for communication cycles at the microsecond level.
    16 December, 2010 | 1 minutes

  • MatrikonOPC to supply OPC servers to CNL

    CNL Software will use the OPC Servers in its IPSecurityCenter – a software-based integration and management platform.
    By: MatrikonOPC
    16 December, 2010 | 2 minutes
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