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IPS building new regional HQ in Western Canada
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 becomes principal member of ODVA
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. -
ODVA Publishes EtherNet/IP Document
"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. -
Fieldbus Training Centers to share resources
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. -
Emerson to acquire data from wind farm network in UK
Emerson will provide a wide area data gathering system to connect 19 active wind farms to npower's corporate headquarters, operations center, and regional centers in various locations in the UK. -
Belden will acquire Lumberg Automation
It is anticipated that the Lumberg Automation Components acquisition will be completed in June or July of 2007. -
ICONICS wins Microsoft award
ICONICS received the Microsoft ISV Trailblazer Partner of the Year Award. -
Ethernet Direct meets Korean MIC Standard
Ethernet Direct's Industrial Ethernet Switches have been approved by the new Korean MIC certificate regulation. The new surge test has already been effective since January 1, 2007, concerning immunity, signal ports and telecommunication ports. -
ICS Triplex ISaGRAF works with Beck Embedded Web Controller
ISaGRAF is compatible with Beck's IPC@CHIPR SC123/SC143 series of embedded web controllers. By using ISaGRAF 5, IPC@CHIPR users have the option of using the IEC 61499 standard to easily create distributed control applications. -
Annual sales of PROFIBUS reach 3.4 million nodes
Annual sales of PROFIBUS nodes reached a new high of 3.4 million in 2006 according to figures just released by PI (PROFIBUS and PROFINET International). This brings the total number of PROFIBUS nodes installed worldwide to 18.8 million. PROFIBUS remains on track to surpass 20 million nodes by 2008. -
Ethernet Direct adds four support locations In India
Ethernet Direct now provides 4 support locations in Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and soon in Delhi. -
ISA-SP100 group accepts wireless draft standard
At a recent ISA-SP100.11a working group meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, 60 attendees unanimously approved the scope and systems architecture of Release 1 of the draft standard. Release 1 will assure multi-vendor device interoperability, and will include only 2.4 GHz 802.15.4-2006 radios. -
Invensys and Apprion install wireless infrastructure at power company
Invensys Process Systems and Apprion have successfully implemented wireless applications at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Lost Pines Power Park. LCRA recently merged these two plants under one functional management system with a layered WiMax/WiFi wireless infrastructure to help link the two plants. -
Network Vision names ARC Informatique distributor
ARC Informatique has been appointed distributor of Network Vision's IntraVue. IntraVue is a tool developed for the support of network equipment and the IP addressable devices connected to it. -
OMAC evaluates OPC link from CNC to ERP
The OMAC HMI Working Group organized a joint project between Boeing, Okuma and NIST to evaluate the integration of CNC to ERP and determine if part accountability could be achieved with minimal integration efforts using OPC/OMAC technologies. -
PDI Introduces Certified Partner Program
This program allow data center managers to know that their building management system has been integrated and proven out with PDI's Branch Circuit Monitoring System (BCMS). BCMS can monitor and report current and voltage measurements on each individual circuit branch breaker which can prevent overloading any of these circuits. -
Bosch Rexroth sales hit $6.2 billion
Bosch Rexroth AG increased sales in 2006 by 7.1 percent to approximately $6.2 billion (4.9 billion Euros). Sales grew 16 percent in Middle and Eastern Europe and 14 percent in Asia, including 33 percent growth in China. Sales in North and South America declined slightly in a difficult economic environment. -
Connect One Opens U.S. Office, Names President
Connect One opened a new office in San Jose, CA, and hired Ehud (Udi) Yuhjtman as President. Connect One manufactures semiconductors and device servers for Internet connectivity for machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. -
Ethernet Direct opens office in France
Ethernet Direct France serves countries in Southern Europe. -
SOMA uses McObject’s eXtremeDB-HA database in microwave system
SOMA Networks will incorporate McObject’s eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) in-memory embedded database in its FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System.