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  • ENSCO Acquires IData Product from Quantum3D

    The IData product line consists of a software development toolkit and application elements for digital display devices.
    25 April, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to modernize power plant automation at Xcel Energy

    Phase 1 includes modernization of the workstations, data historian, and communication networks. Follow-on phases include the modernization of distributed controllers and I/O.
    19 April, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Racine Federated improves manufacturing process with iPads

    The EMAP system includes the deployment of several Apple iPads to the flow meter production line, including assembly, testing and shipping operations.
    18 April, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Video describes Automated Water Treatment HMI

    The Open Automation Software application demonstrates monitoring 1 to 25 water treatment filter beds with one click of the mouse.
    05 April, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Skid Integration Problems Solved by PLCopen Standards

    Automation.com, March 2011 By PLCopen North America The use of skid mounted equipment has become popular for a number of reasons but they pose some unique automation and control challenges that can be solved by using IEC 61131-3 and PLCopen standards.
    29 March, 2011 | 8 minutes
  • Siemens launches Plantville interactive game

    Online game simulates a Plant Manager’s experience and challenges players to increase productivity, sustainability and the overall health of an industrial plant.
    24 March, 2011 | 3 minutes
  • WAGO 2011 Innovation in Automation Tour Underway

    Consisting of two identical vans, IIAT presents WAGO’s latest Automation, Interconnect and Electronic solutions directly to industrial professionals.
    16 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Mobiform Software reports profitable quarter

    Revenue for the quarter was $410,532, an 18% increase over $347,023 for the same period last year.
    16 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Flowserve uses Transpara's Visual KPI software for asset data

    Transpara Visual KPI extends visibility of equipment performance data by delivering KPI), scorecards, trends and alerts to more than 400 smartphones and PDAs.
    15 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Fox-IT partners with MatrikonOPC for secure OPC connectivity

    Fox-IT will integrate MatrikonOPC’s full range of OPC Servers into its Fox DataDiode - a solution used to securely transmit data between networks that have different levels of security.
    15 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation announces Lifecycle Service Agreement

    The agreement helps manufacturers minimize the serious financial consequences due to extended unplanned downtime when spare parts or speedy repair are unavailable for outdated Rockwell Automation components.
    14 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Aware Technology formed to deliver Process Data Monitor automated learning solution

    Process Data Monitor (PDM) learns from the day to day operation of your systems and automatically generates an experience database. It then generates confidence metrics for usual behavior and delivers notification on unusual behavior.
    08 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Absolute positioning on a budget

    When the Rock-Tenn paperboard mill in Aurora IL wanted to automate the positioning and tensioning of the belts on its paperboard dryer conveyor system, it took an innovative combination of high-end, absolute encoders and basic, low-end control and drive technology to get the job done.
    06 March, 2011 | 3 minutes
  • ABB publishes brochure on 2600T family of pressure transmitters

    The brochure highlights a comprehensive range of pressure measurement products, stressing reliability and simplified installation and configuration.
    06 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • One man’s waste is another man’s energy

    Granger Electric operates a landfill-gas-to-energy program that extracts methane from decomposing waste and supplies it to customers as an alternative "greenhouse" fuel. This story highlights the communication system used between the control center and customers’ sites, to remotely access and monitor energy consumption.
    06 March, 2011 | 3 minutes
  • AutomationDirect Technical Product Reference

    AutomationDirect’s volume 14 catalog offers thousands of industrial automation products for a wide range of applications. The latest edition features product descriptions, technical data, and photos for PLCs, touch screen monitors, AC and DC motors, sensors, switches, drives and more.
    04 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • ISA99 launches Cyber Threat Gap Analysis Task Group

    The task force will determine if companies following the ISA99 standards would have been protected from such sophisticated attacks and to identify changes needed, if any, to the standards being developed by the ISA99 committee.
    03 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Post-Stuxnet Industrial Security: Zero Day Discovery and Risk Containment of Industrial Malware

    By Torsten Rössel, Innominate Security Technologies AG Phoenix Contact’s new white paper explains how the FL mGuard with CIFS Integrity Monitoring can provide early warning about malware similar to Stuxnet.
    03 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Comark Corporation launches e-commerce site

    Comark’s online store offers a wide variety of their most popular products for the Industrial, Marine, Kiosk and Digital Signage market segments.
    02 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Schneider Electric offers 3D CAD drawings for automation products

    Customers can access and search the catalog directly from the Schneider Electric U.S. website and download the drawings into their designs, allowing shorter design time and faster time to market.
    02 March, 2011 | 1 minute
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