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13 example projects cover Express Logic products and include multifunction examples that illustrate how to use several products together.

The CUAUV team, made up of 43 students from three of Cornell’s colleges, spends more than 20,000 person-hours per year designing its vehicle and has won the annual RoboSub competition four out of the last five years.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Manufacturers worldwide are in a productivity race enabled by a wide range of new automation technology. In order for your company to remain competitive, it needs to apply new technology to grow and survive in the world economy. To do this, manufacturing companies must stay up to date on the latest developments.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial control systems are the “brains” of any automated manufacturing system. Many of these systems require motion systems - “brawn” - to accomplish the physical aspects of automation. Motion technologies have improved and are refined to meet the new manufacturing requirements. MDA North America provides the opportunity for engineers to sharpen motion knowledge and learn from industry experts first hand.

By Sasan Montaseri, ITTIA Developers must plan for data management from the earliest stages of product development. Without the right database, developers risk incurring hidden costs as the complexity and scale of the application grows, including: data loss, inconsistency, poor performance, undetected conflicts, and boundless resource consumption.

By Nigel Rozier, Raima From batch processing to sophisticated real-time processes, effective data management is the key to boosting efficiency, increasing productivity and reducing costs in industrial applications. This article explores the role of data management solutions embedded within industrial automation systems.

March U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $492.78 million, up 38.5% from February and up 2.9% when compared with the total of $479.04 million reported for March 2013.

The discontinued support impacts millions of both personal and professional users worldwide, including the many companies that have implemented Windows XP in industrial automation applications.

The HIO Project was created to unlock the traditional restraints seen in the embedded hardware industry, and enable developers to participate in hardware development much like we have seen in the open source software realm.

GE Intelligent Platforms will develop and manufacture rugged high performance embedded computing (HPEC) and graphics solutions based on Tegra K1.

PENTA manufactures medical embedded PC systems and monitors.

Prior to his promotion, Banda was a Central Region Manager for Beckhoff in the U.S. Banda will work at the Beckhoff North American headquarters in Savage, Minn.

The Design Guide was updated to reflect the new signals adopted with the PICMG COM.0 R2.1 specification, and includes design rules and guidance for the latest high-speed interfaces, including PCI Express Gen3, SuperSpeed USB and SATA 6Gb/s.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.

MPLAB integrates the licensing, resale and support of both Microchip and third-party middleware, drivers, libraries and real-time operating systems.

As director of engineering in charge of embedded GUI tool development, Maxwell will lead Express Logic’s efforts to offer GUI design tools and technology for real-time embedded systems.

Elma will offer a wide range of custom chassis designs and embedded system platforms based on ADLINK’s small form factor boards.

The engineers include Jeffrey Anderson, Calvin Anderson, Cameron Johnson, Martin Tato and Tristan McCormick.