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Paper describes the implications of FOUNDATION SIF (FF-SIF) technology for the global plant safety system market and end users.

Hot tanks at the refinery are fitted with wireless temperature transmitters as a cost-effective means of keeping control room operators informed of conditions inside the tanks.

Guide helps network engineers understand how applications flow across the network and how they fail, and provides a five-step process for troubleshooting application problems when they occur.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

Smart Wireless instruments mounted on a rotating reactor at Coogee Chemical Company, Kwinana, Australia, prevent frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.

OVS-400 Industrial video server is connected with EDS-231PRO and EDS-351PRO series Industrial rated IP-66 cameras to provide real time remote monitoring.

Husky is employing PROFIBUS technology in its high-tech injection molding machines.

ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

Wireless transmitters monitor wellhead annular pressure at BP’s Wytch Farm onshore oilfitters field.

OPC Foundation and Kepware will manage the development of OPC-UA in a managed community “open source code” model.

Representatives from ABB, Emerson Process Management, Endress+Hauser, and Siemens supported WirelessHART technology at ISA.

Hoffer Flow Controls HRT1 Rate Indicator/Totalizer has been verified to meet the HART 7 Protocol standard and carries the “HART Registered” mark.

SEL uses Mu Dynamics’ Mu-4000 service analyzer to reduce potential security vulnerabilities for control and automation systems.

Compact Application Protocol (CAP) expands ZigBee applications to any IP-enabled device, regardless of the type of network, wired or wireless. Arch Rock submitted the CAP spec to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Cypress Envirosystems partnered with Honeywell to create a OneWireless version of its Wireless Gauge Reader.

Boise enhanced safety at its paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon, by using Smart Wireless products to monitor its eye wash and safety shower stations.

The group will develop a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers.

OpenScale now helps businesses improve the security of their Unified Communications (UC) solutions.

Wurldtech and Matrikon signed an agreement focused on introducing cyber risk management solutions for real-time industrial environments.

ICONICS' list of compatible OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) and Data Access (OPC-DA) servers is available on line.