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Graduate students at the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University Center for Injury Biomechanics won a design competition sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Emerson to modernize instrumentation, control and electrical subsystems at the largest lignite-fired power plant in Europe, the Belchatow Power Plant in Poland.

ABB will supply a System 800xA, boiler protection, instrumentation and electrical actuators, which will be integrated via a Profibus network. The system will be installed at E.ON-Kraftwerke GmbH's coal-fired plant in Germany's Rhein-Ruhr region

Enraf offers solutions for the control and management of transportation, storage and blending operations in the oil and gas industry.

Most recently, Park held the title of Controller with Plastic Services & Products, Inc., where he successfully completed a merger with a competitor company as well as two outside acquisitions.

This practical reference manual, available in a downloadable PDF format, can be used to prepare for the Control Systems Engineering (CSE) examination.

Applicator is available as a program running on the web-site or by request on CD.

ABB is relocating its global Process Automation division headquarters from Norwalk, CT, to Houston, TX, effective August 1, 2007.

This self-paced training course which covers all of these aspects of Gas Monitors. Learn how these instruments work, what do they measure, how to select them, install them, calibrate them & maintain them. The subject is explained by means of text, rich graphics, Flash based animations, real-life plant photos and videos and interactive simulation exercises. There is also a self-assessment test & a glossary.

Yokogawa and MAVERICK Technologies have been selected as the main automation and control contractors for Chevron’s global refineries.

Type 950XP is now compliant with ATEX directive 94/9/EC for equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres in Europe.

Emerson completed a major modernization program at a custody transfer gas metering installation at the Makpetrol Border Station in Macedonia.

G-TECH, based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, was founded in 1988 by a group of sound and vibration experts.

The Honeywell VersaFlow line includes electromagnetic, Coriolis, ultrasonic and vortex flow meters made by Krohne.

The catalog provides the most up-to-date information and specifications for Dataforth’s signal conditioning, data acquisition, and data communication products.

By Bruce Bradley, Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals This paper describes everything you should consider when applying fieldbus in hazardous areas, then shows how it was done. Author uses it in a class he teaches on hazardous environments.

BEI Industrial Encoders manufactures optical encoders and associated electronics for the industrial market.

Livingston & Haven now sells the Mitsubishi Electric Automation product line; it will add the full line of articulated and SCARA robotic products.

Short Form Catalog includes new products and industry approvals for Precision Air Pressure Regulators, Transducers and Relays.

50-page catalog has an overview of encoder technologies, dimensional and electrical information, mounting tips, and equipment to help obtain the optimal signal quality.