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  • George Brown College offers Online PLC Training

    The PLC Technician II Certificate is a computer-based home study program that enables students to study remotely from home, using a DVD curriculum and a PLC simulator.
    By: George Brown College
    11 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Manufacturing technology orders off in July

    July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $351.21 million, down 23.6% from June and down 23.6% when compared with the total of $459.44 million reported for July 2012.
    10 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • PLCopen opens office in Korea

    PLCopen and Kormocon, the Korean Motion Control Industry Organization based in Seoul, signed an agreement to open a PLCopen office in Korea.
    06 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Improving Cooling Water System Capacity

    PCT Engineered Systems' (PCT) cooling capacity needed to be increased dramatically to meet business demands and the company was able to quickly and efficiently meet this challenge using Siemens controllers and drives.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    06 September, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • IEC 61131-3-based Building Automation System

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The BAS system was implemented using Beckhoff’s programmable controllers and software based on IEC 61131-3 and a standard library of building automation functions including lighting control, window shade control, climate control, and energy consumption monitoring.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    06 September, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • PLCopen Contemplates Coding Conventions

    PLCopen formed several working groups for software development, coding conventions, documentation and other functions for IEC 61131-3 and its PLCopen extensions.
    06 September, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Measurement Technology NW obtains UL approval for PLC

    LCI-90i-IS Rugged Programmable Controller (RPC) has been awarded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification for Class I, Division 2, T5, Group A, B, C, and D locations.
    05 September, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Why You Should Insist on Documented Code for Every New Process Industry Project

    Why You Should Insist on Documented Code for Every New Process Industry Project

    Add comments through the software during programming. People will be very glad that you did.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    30 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Manufacturing technology orders down in June

    June U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $426.83 million, down 5.8% from May. With a year-to-date total of $2,538.55 million, 2013 is down 5.7% compared with 2012.
    12 August, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Asia-Pacific spends the most on Automation

    The Asia-Pacific region accounts for more capital expenditures on industrial automation products than anywhere else in the world, with 46 percent of global investments in 2012.
    07 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Asia to Become Largest PLC Market Worldwide

    ARC says Asia will become the largest PLC market from 2016 onwards. But what about Industry 4.0 and reshoring? Just wishful thinking?
    07 August, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Smart PROFIBUS Monitoring Leads to Fast Results

    Spuntech Industries’ North Carolina plant has a Profibus network that runs seven PLCs with approximately 350 nodes. To help diagnose problems, Spuntech installed Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK hardware and TH SCOPE diagnostic software.
    01 August, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • 3S-Smart Software opens CODESYS Store

    On-line store provides application modules and productivity tools, including device description files, utilities, tested application libraries, additional visualization elements and tool plug-ins for CODESYS users.
    31 July, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Schneider Takes Control of Possible Invensys Bidding War

    A possible acquisition of Invensys Operations Management (IOM), for a proposed $5.0 billion by the French company Schneider Electric, has led to speculation of a potential bidding war for the U.K. engineering company.
    15 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Schneider Electric buying Invensys?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor There has been speculation for a long time that the Invensys automaton business would be sold. Now Schneider Electric has made a 3.3 billion pound ($5 billion) takeover proposal for Invensys.
    12 July, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell System Integrator Program 'Firing on all Cylinders'

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The Honeywell system integrator initiative was launched in 2009 and has quickly become a solid program to serve small to midrange customers with Honeywell’s modular systems. There are 200 system integrators in the program with 55 of them located in the United States.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    08 July, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Beckhoff Automation Opens Office in Chicago Area

    Beckhoff opened a regional office in Woodridge, Ill., in the Chicago suburbs.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    28 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Mitsubishi Certifies Training Center at Bertelkamp Automation

    Bertelkamp's training center provides Mitsubishi Electric university-based training for its programmable logic controls (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMI), variable frequency drives (VFD) and robots.
    27 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters

    By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    21 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • OLDI Adds Products to Rockwell Automation ProposalWorks

    Products include ControlLogix PAC Modules and Network cards for various computer buses and Rockwell Automation networks such as ControlNet.
    20 June, 2013 | 1 minute
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