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Dust Networks won the Amec Award for Innovation and Excellence from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

The ISA100 standards committee outlined an approach to accommodate and eventually integrate the WirelessHART standard and the ISA100 standard.

AeroAstro will provide ground network upgrades to Globalstar's deployed receivers to expand the current subscriber messaging capacity by 10 X and increase receiver sensitivity by up to 40 percent.

Industrial plants rely heavily on their automation, instrumentation and control data communications to relay signals between machinery, devices and control systems to activate events on an exacting and pre-determined schedule, with little or no margin for error. Plant managers and control network administrators also require optimal security, manageability and reliability so that network availability attains 99.999 percent uptime or better. Yet analysts report that a large percentage of unplanned downtime in industrial operations is caused by network infrastructure problems.

OpenO&M is a cooperative forum where members can work together to solve automation challenges through standardization and harmonization of industry guidelines.

ODVA endorsed Ethernet/IP during its 2007 CIP Networks Conference and 12th Annual Meeting of Members.

Emerson's Smart Wireless network is operating reliably in both the roughing and finishing sections of the hot strip mill.

ICONICS announced its ongoing commitment to the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) standard.

Phoenix Contact and ABB will work together to enhance PROFINET for use in the process industries.

The three organizations will develop a spec for a common interface to a wireless gateway. They will base their work on WirelessHART and the ISA SP100.11a standard.

Based on WirelessHART and ISA100, the wireless infrastructure will connect directly to HART devices and require no changes.

Emerson's wireless system monitors remote equipment buildings at Milford Power, a 500 MW gas-fired turbine facility in Milford, CT.

The RFID center will be located in KMA's Mississauga, Ontario, Canada facility

NI used KEPServerEX technology to create the new NI OPC Server.

WINA will also host three conference sessions as part of the event's Wireless and Networking Exchange.

Wireless network continuously monitors potentially hazardous temperatures in railcars at Croda specialty chemical plant in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania.

New technology enables sensors, signal conditioning circuits, A/D converters, wireless, microcontroller and memory to be integrated on a single chip.

Wurldtech also appointed Jade Bourelle and Dr. Ralph Winter to the board as directors.

PPG Industries installed Emerson's Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It uses ten wireless Rosemount transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement.

Emerson and Cisco will offer open-standard solutions for wireless process and plant management applications that install easily and operate reliably.