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Standalone industrial routers may not disappear, but their revenue market share is set to decline over the next five years, according to IHS.

ISA-100.11a-2011, "Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications," received approval from all 21 participating National Committees of the IEC.

Courtney Hill, President, CJ Hill Consulting Services and retired General Manager, Manufacturing & Quality at GE Aviation, will become President and Chairman of the Board.

App gives iPhone, iPad and iPod device users ready access to Molex products and support for industrial automation projects.

The two-day event took place at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

VMonitor provides monitoring and control solutions for wellhead and upstream applications that combine wireless instrumentation and communication with visualization software.

Cisco, Panduit, Rockwell Automation and ODVA are sponsoring a new online community that extends the Industrial IP Advantage website.

With IXXAT Safe, HMS offers a product family under the IXXAT brand for fast, cost-effective implementation of safe communications solutions for Profinet and Ethernet/IP.

By Bill Lydon, Editor This new initiative, supported by CISCO, Rockwell Automation, Panduit and ODVA, supports IP network convergence between the enterprise and plant floor. The Industrial IP Advantage website and activities are an agnostic way to share best practices, information, and educate the industry to accelerate adoption of IP technology.

Yokogawa will supply a CENTUM VP control system to control plant facilities such as reaction tanks and distillation units, and field instrumentation and equipment including FOUNDATION fieldbus flowmeters, pressure transmitters and control valves.

The PROFI Interface Center (PIC) built a display wall of PROFINET devices they have tested and certified.

Crack Semiconductor, a Canadian-based leader in Public Key or Asymmetric Cryptography Solutions, joined the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute.

By Bill Lydon, Editor PAS has developed a new product to sync "as built" documentation with the current installed system, eliminating wasted man-hours, decreasing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), and aiding with cyber security requirements and regulations.

Your industrial plant or facility must have a proper defensive design so that the network, control devices & systems are cybersecurity hardened.

The outdoor broadband network transports telemetry data from mining and process equipment to the White Springs Agricultural Chemicals' operations center.

The 80-page guide lists 125 providers of Sercos-enabled products and serves as a guide for all who use the high-performance Sercos automation bus or intend to do so.

The transportation and water and waste water industry sectors have both experienced large increases in the number of reported cybersecurity incidents in recent years, up 160% and 60% respectively.

By Bill Lydon, Editor As Industrial Ethernet protocols have proliferated on the factory floor, IP devices have become vulnerable to cyber threats. Ironically, while the importance of cyber security protection is being emphasized, the industrial Ethernet protocol associations have no firm plans to migrate to new Ethernet standards that offer higher cyber security protection.

Most recently, Crone served in the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Valin Corporation, a provider of process control and automation solutions.

By Bill Lydon, Editor To learn more about the Belden's Certified Industrial Network Program, I talked with Brian Oulton, Director of Initiative and Vertical Marketing at Belden. Here is a transcript of that interview.