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  • Industrial PC Market Prefers Windows 7 to 8

    According to a new report by IMS Research, Windows 8 will make little impact on the industrial PC (IPC) market in the next three years.
    06 March, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • B&R adds Machine Control Group as distributor in Missouri

    Machine Control Group, an engineering focused solution provider, will represent B&R Automation in Missouri, Arkansas, and western Tennessee.
    By: B&R Industrial Automation Corp.
    20 February, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Progea updates Movicon Apps for Android 4.0 & iPhone/iPad

    The new Apps for iOS operating systems (iPhone and iPad) and devices based on Android 4.x. are now downloadable from the respective stores.
    By: Progea North America Corp.
    20 February, 2013 | 1 minute

  • Thin Clients Eliminating Plant Floor PCs

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With higher speed and more reliable Ethernet networks, lower cost more powerful computers, and virtualized systems, Thin Clients are becoming effective replacements for PCs.
    05 February, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • InduSoft Releases SCADA App for Windows 8

    The InduSoft Visualization App offers mobile access to InduSoft Web Studio applications from any Windows 8 device, including iPhones, tablets and laptops.
    By: InduSoft, Inc.
    31 January, 2013 | 1 minute

  • Barco provides video wall to Bermuda Electric Light

    The Barco video wall displays a highly detailed, wide-area view of the island’s power grid, providing real-time data and video on power usage and availability.
    24 January, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Hacking the Industrial SCADA Network II

    By Frank Dickman The original "Hacking the Industrial SCADA Network" (Part I) was first published in 2009. This article, Part II, is the summary of what has happened since the original publication, and the outcome of predictions which first appeared in Part I.
    23 January, 2013 | 1 minute

  • Hydroelectric generating utility has to control with the flow

    Control Engineering, January 2013 By Jason Wright Box Canyon Dam, north of Spokane, Wash., upgraded its legacy controls with a PlantPAx system with two ControlLogix PACs on each of four turbine generators, FactoryTalk HMIs, and EtherNet/IP.
    16 January, 2013 | 1 minute

  • Beijer HMI controls winches on Russian Icebreaker

    Adria Winch is using the QTERM-A7 HMI with iX software by Beijer Electronics to control five oceanographic winches located on an open deck of a Russian research icebreaker ship.
    09 January, 2013 | 2 minutes

  • Matrox supplies 12-Monitor Video Wall to Australian Grand Prix

    Matrox Mura MPX Series video wall controller boards facilitate operations within a high-pressure Formula One Grand Prix race control room.
    By: Matrox Graphics Inc.
    07 January, 2013 | 1 minutes

  • HMI Solution Offers Flexible Customization Options

    By Kim Ground, Technic Surface Finishing Technologies uses InduSoft's Web Studio HMI/SCADA software to provide remote access to its customers' surface finishing machines for updates and diagnostics.
    By: InduSoft, Inc.
    03 January, 2013 | 6 minutes

  • Is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) worth the risk?

    Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to the growing trend of letting employees use their own devices as operator Interfaces for business and automation systems in the workplace.
    17 December, 2012 | 3 minutes

  • Invensys Advances Enterprise Control System (ECS)

    Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The foundation of the Enterprise Control System (ECS) is an integration framework that ties applications together in an open Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) that allows systems to be deployed with standard components and minimizes customization.
    14 December, 2012 | 4 minutes
  • How to Maximize Operator Effectiveness with a High-Performance HMI

    How to Maximize Operator Effectiveness with a High-Performance HMI

    HMI information needs to be displayed in meaningful and actionable ways rather than as "raw data."
    By: Contributing Authors
    12 December, 2012 | 8 minutes

  • Power Plant uses Text Messaging for alarms

    The Pawnee Station set up a cause code system for their text messages in the event of a shut down or malfunction. Each code represents a cause and is texted to plant managers and maintenance personnel.
    By: Exele Information Systems, Inc.
    10 December, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • InduSoft signs Advantech as distributor

    Advantech has become an authorized distributor of InduSoft’s InduSoft Web Studio HMI/SCADA software package.
    By: InduSoft, Inc.
    07 December, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • Yaskawa Europe to Acquire VIPA

    VIPA is a manufacturer of PLCs, I/O modules and HMIs in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
    By: Yaskawa Electric America, Inc.
    02 December, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • ZigBee Input Device standard available

    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.
    15 November, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • NEC to supply displays to QA Graphics

    NEC Display Solutions will supply LCD monitors and touchscreen solutions.
    By: QA Graphics
    14 November, 2012 | 2 minutes

  • AutomationDirect PLC Renovates Old Label Printer

    An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.
    12 November, 2012 | 4 minutes
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