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PI views the announcement by Emerson Process Management that it is expanding its AMS Suite to include connectivity to PROFIBUS PA as good news.

PROFINET functions for process automation include CiR, redundancy, time synchronization, and time stamping.

Honeywell will supply an Experion Process Knowledge System and plant security to Alliance Oil Company for its Khabarovsk Refinery in far east Russia.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Emerson is expanding their role of providing lifecycle services and achieving the "trusted advisor" status with customers. With the addition of new employees and products, they are positioning themselves to better serve process automation users.

The PC-based software tool emulates complete Sercos networks and the connected Sercos slave devices.

The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has attracted more than 2,200 member companies from 56 countries.

The Semiconductor Technical Working Group of the EtherCAT Technology Group published 12 comprehensive profile documents since October 2011.

The organizations will work on the interface between BACnet (ANSI ASHRAE 135 / ISO 16484-5) and OPC-UA (IEC 62541).

Now users can incorporate HART, WirelessHART and FOUNDATION fieldbus information into one standard environment for data and device management.

MACH-ProAir, MACH-ProZone, RC-Archive version 3, and RC-Studio 2 have been certified by BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL).

Petock was formerly Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, at Tridium.

The operating range of SDSL broadband routers are now up to 15 kilometres at rates up to 10.4 Mbit/s via standard telephone wires.

Recently I watched the movie Apollo 13 again, this time including my four children who had never seen the cinematic classic. I’ve personally seen it too many times to count; it’s one of my favorites

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial Ethernet protocols, coupled with low cost pervasive Ethernet technology, have made the support of multiple protocols on a single controller a reality, enabling users to leverage the advantages of various networks and make technology additions to existing systems.

Previoiusly, Arnold was responsible for marketing at SDL Language Technologies, and Marketing Program Manager for CoCreate Software.

ZigBee Input Device is the global standard for greener, innovative and easy-to-use mice, keyboards, wands, touchpads and other input devices used with computers and CE devices.

Schneider Electric will be using ConneXium Tofino Security technology to protect its industrial automation systems.

ODVA appointed director Cyril Perducat chairman of the board, director Frank Kulaszewicz as treasurer, and Richard Harwell as chief technology officer (CTO).

Gateways from Yokogawa, Honeywell and Nivis successfully demonstrated interoperability with a WCI test client.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Homeland Security's Lisa Kaiser gave a sobering presentation on cyber security issues and attacks. Kaiser emphasized that we are playing catch-up, noting that Foreign Cyber Espionage in the USA has been more intense in the last few years with a large black market for buying and selling information.