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EnOcean appoints Matthias Poppel COO
Most recently, he was EMEA Director Embedded Processing Marketing and Applications at Texas Instruments. -
Creating value added with Condition-based maintenance
Automation.com, April 2012 By Josef Schindler, Siemens Industry Describes how the Simatic Maintenance Station offers support for condition-based maintenance through plant-wide diagnostics in both continuous and discrete automated production processes. -
FieldServer Technologies opens office in Berlin
The company appointed Paul Lambert as its manager of regional sales for Europe. -
Ford Powertrain Standardizes on PROFINET
Automation.com, April 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Ford's Powertrain Group has taken a complete systems approach to automation, driven by goals to improve operations, efficiency and flexibility. PROFINET has been an enabler for Ford's manufacturing architecture and became one of the tools used to achieve their goals. -
ISA publishes Foundation Fieldbus, fourth edition
This edition provides in-depth coverage on Fieldbus communications and configuration, including calculation of macrocycle for Control-in-Field and in the host system. -
IEC publishes EDDL Technical Report
IEC 61804-6 report explains the requirements for field device integration and how they are met using the EDDL standard (IEC 61804-3). -
Unbreakable SCADA Security: Protecting Hydrocarbon Facilities and Pipeline Networks
Automation.com, March 2012 By Frank Dickman, Piping Design Consultants A simple industrial network security solution is readily available and being deployed to protect oil fields and transportation in Russia. -
B&B Electronics Acquires Conel in Czech Republic
Conel is a manufacturer of reliable and secure wireless communications routers, gateways and devices that connect cellular networks to Ethernet, serial and other data networks. -
Sercos publishes Sercos III Specification Update V1.3
V1.3 specification broadens the functionality and the range of applications of the international Sercos real-time standard, while considering new trends in machine and plant construction. -
Sercos Robotic Band
The Sercos robotic guitar is played by a system that interprets MIDI files using an MLP industrial control from Bosch Rexroth and bus terminals from Phoenix Contact to actuate a group of lifting solenoids via Sercos commands. -
EtherNet/IP accepted as national standards in China and Korea
The National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China and the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards adopted EtherNet/IP. -
ISA Communications Division to host Wireless Factory Automation Workshop
ISA Communications Division to host Wireless Factory Automation Workshop -
BASF Benefits from Fast Implementation and Reduced Maintenance Costs
Automation.com, March 2012 By Rockwell Automation Rockwell installed three ControlLogix PACs, FactoryTalk, and a 100Mbit network with two Stratix 8000 switches to replace five old PLCs and ControlNet at a BASF shipping facility in Germany. -
Fieldbus Foundation Remote Operations Management Strategy
Automation.com, March 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The goal of FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM) is linking people that understand the processes and equipment in a secure fashion around the world to achieve faster start-up time and reduced operating costs. -
Bachmann Electronic acquires Certec
Since its founding in 2005 Certec has specialized in the development of state-of-the-art web HMI and SCADA systems. -
Fiberguide Industries promotes Patricia Seniw to President
Seniw holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and a Master of Business Administration from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). -
Industrial Standards for Wireless are good and bad
The wireless market is affected by competition between standards that leads customers to fear that wireless is emerging as the next platform for the automation fieldbus wars. -
Trends in industrial communication 2012
Automation.com, March 2012 By Staffan Dahlström, HMS Industrial Networks Despite a turbulent market, we saw a growing interest in industrial communication solutions in 2011. Trends include the growth of networks (70 at last count), the need to save energy, integrated safety networks and remote access. -
Creating Value in a Hyper‐connected World
Automation.com, March 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Tom Koulopoulos discusses innovation, big data, connections and collaboration at the recent PROFINET Executive Forum. If we open our minds and use data, connections and collaboration, we create a recipe for intelligence (success). -
Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz study energy savings potential with PROFIenergy
Automation.com, March 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor An energy savings study at Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz plants based on the use of PROFIenergy of PROFINET showed potential savings per work cell of 5,700 euro and 33.250 kg of CO2 emissions per year.