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NEMA publishes ANSI C12.22 protocol specification
This application-level standard describes the process of transporting C12.19 table data over a variety of networks. -
ISA100 Factory Automation Working Group calls for papers
The group is seeking presentations for new wireless technology and system architectures for the link between sensors/actuators and automation systems. -
Emerson to automate Mitsubishi advanced polymers plant
Emerson will provide PlantWeb, Foundation fieldbus instrumentation, analyzers, DeltaV controls, AMS software, valves, engineering and project management. -
HIMA to provide Evonik Degussa with fieldbus safety system
HIMA will provide two HIMax CPUs, two system bus modules, two digital output and three input modules, one analog output module and one communications module for PROFIBUS-DP. -
MatrikonOPC supplies IQity with OPC Servers
By using OPC as the means for data delivery, IQity is able to seamlessly interface with clients’ systems, regardless of what hardware or software is located on site. -
ODVA changes its name to ODVA
ODVA changed the legal name of the company from “Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.” to “ODVA, Inc.” -
Honeywell to control Egyptian fertilizer plant
Equipment includes an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), safety systems, and Foundation fieldbus technology. -
Wireless technology enables online filter monitoring
Emerson's wireless technology is enabling INEOS to monitor filters within polyethylene pellet transportation tubes. Eight Rosemount 3051S DP wireless transmitters were installed as well as a single Emerson Smart Wireless gateway. -
Wurldtech and exida combine software
Wurldtech's Achilles cyber security certification program now includes exida’s safety service portfolio. -
MatrikonOPC announces free OPC HDA Test Tool
HDA Explorer is a stand-alone tool for verifying historical data through HDA, testing HDA OPC Servers, and troubleshooting connectivity to HDA OPC Servers. -
Honeywell to control biotech manufacturing processes
Shire Human Genetic Therapies will use Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), Experion Batch Manager, wireless network and Uniformance Process Historian Database. -
Kepware supplies Operon Systems with OPC communications software
Operon Systems makes Red Hawk data collection and manufacturing productivity monitoring solutions. -
Video Monitoring Helps in Tough Economic Times
By Steve Rubin, Longwatch Video monitoring can help companies survive through layoffs, plant closings, and idling of plants. The white paper explains that when plants have layoffs or shut down, much work remains to be done, often by a severely reduced workforce. Video can help pick up the workload. -
IPS to use Achilles to test Foxboro and Triconex systems
IPS will uses Achilles Satellite to test Ethernet-enabled safety and critical control solutions for cyber vulnerabilities. -
Wireless transmitters monitor river water temperatures at Lenzing Fibers
Emerson's wireless temperature transmitters enable the company to meet local government regulations related to the temperature of water discharged into rivers and watercourses. -
Aonix and SYSGO will keep Europe cyber-secure
The two companies will supply software for the European TECOM/FP7 project to ensure the security and safety of embedded computing systems and infrastructures. -
Frost & Sullivan says wireless market in factory automation to nearly double by 2012
The European market earned revenues of over $75.2 million in 2008 and this will reach $132.8 million in 2012. -
ABB controls pumps 25 miles out and 1,000 ft under the North Sea
An undersea cable connects an ACS1000 frequency converter on an oil and gas platform off the coast of Norway to a motor and pump injecting seawater into a new oil field 25 miles away. -
Retrofitting Ethernet Connectivity to Simatic S5
By Softing One of the largest manufacturers of tobacco connected 40 production lines, each being controlled by up to 8 legacy Simatic S5 PLCs, via Ethernet to the MES system by using Softing’s Echolink, a serial to Ethernet converter. -
Lenze uses OPC communications in L-Force industrial PCs
Lenze standardized on Softing’s OPC Tunnel based on the software’s performance and immediate availability for use in a real-time environment under Windows CE .NET.