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InTech magazine and CITGO are starting a blog that will cover CITGO's design and implementation of a secure process control network.

The soft master implementation will make SERCOS III the only bus on the market that offers both hardware and software based master implementations.

Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring.

Lockhart has more than 20 years of R&D experience and more than 10 years in management. Previously, Lockhart was a Program Manager at BAE Systems, where she was responsible for projects based on MEMS technology with real time embedded systems.

The 15,000-sq-ft center has a demonstration room, training facility, application lab, office space and a warehouse.

Compare the products & services offered by Remke with other electrical connector suppliers.

ABB's first-quarter net income rose 163 percent to $537 million from $204 million in the same period of 2006, driven primarily by continued strong market demand and further operational improvements.

The ZigBee Telecom Profile provides information delivery, monitoring, and peer-to-peer small data sharing for mobile phone users.

The portal site is a 'one-stop-shop' for the latest information in English on OMRON's industrial automation products and services

The Fieldbus Foundation praised an agreement by the EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) and FDT Group to combine efforts and work towards a single, unified solution for device integration compatible with both technologies.

ISA's Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) standards committee, ISA-SP104, has launched a new website that gives information about the standard and offers resources for learning more about EDDL technology.

The goal is to define a test bed and a set of routines, implementing a set of software tools and scripts to perform these test, and making this available to the public in order to be able prove a level of networking security within a broad set of control systems.

Ethernet Direct signed a distribution contract with Vixa as a new channel partner in Greater China covering Shanghai, Wuhan and Cheng Du regions.

At the Embedded Systems Conference, Lantronix announced the winners of its annual Wireless Design Contest. First Place for $6,000 was awarded to Damien Hubaux and his engineering team from CETIC in Belgium. Their SAND (Smart Adaptable Network Device) System acquires data about driver behavior to train workers and decrease fuel consumption.

Northwire has relationships with more than 250 assemblers to produce made-to-order assemblies of cord sets and power cords for volumes of one to 1,000 pieces or more.

Korenix JetNet 5010G/3010G/4508 industrial Ethernet switches and JetCon 1301 industrial media converters passed IEC 61000-2-6 life vibration tests.

"Network Infrastructure for EtherNet/IP" provides an introduction to the network infrastructure and gives users a framework for identifying the considerations that are most critical to their specific applications. It references specific switch features that users of EtherNet/IP would require for proper communication.

Invensys broke ground for a brand new, 15,500 square foot regional headquarters facility in South East Calgary. It will be twice as large as the present Calgary facility and will have three times the staging area to accommodate staging, testing, and verification of customers' automation systems.

Schneider Electric will significantly increase its level of support for ODVA by becoming one of its principal members. This coincides with ODVA's plans to extend the CIP Network specifications to provide compatibility with Modbus/TCP devices.

Fieldbus Center at Lee College (Baytown, TX) and Tri-State University (Angola, Indiana), have signed a license agreement for sharing fieldbus training resources. The alliance will expand FOUNDATION technology instructional opportunities across the U.S.