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Bosch Rexroth wins 2013 HERMES AWARD
Bosch Rexroth won the award for its Open Core Engineering project, which unites the previously separate worlds of programmable logic controllers (PLC) and information technology (IT). -
PLCopen publishes Safety Part 4 Application for Presses
PLCopen and its members published PLCopen Safety Part 4 safety specification, specific to the application of presses. -
Itris Automation introduces web site for PLC program analysis
PLC Checker website is a static code analyzer and collaborative cloud application, used to enhance the quality of PLC programs. -
January U.S. manufacturing technology orders down
January U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $370.62 million, down 26.5% from December and down 12.2% reported in January 2012. -
New Orleans to Host Siemens 2013 Automation Summit
The Summit, being held June 24 - 27, will provide professionals with end user automation learning opportunities - from process and discrete to motion control and drives. -
HMS to supply Netbiter to Crouzet
Crouzet will use Netbiter as a remote management solution for their Millenium 3 Smart PLCs, allowing users access to data on field equipment over the web. -
Executive Interview - Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation
By Bill Lydon, Editor I recently had the opportunity to talk with Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation. Other than their process control initiatives, we discussed networks, energy monitoring, embedded controllers, regenerative energy and their services business. -
PLCopen updates User Guidelines for Motion Control
User Guidelines contain easy-to-understand application examples and show how to create user-derived function blocks to add to a company specific library, improving the reusability of the application programs. -
B&R adds Machine Control Group as distributor in Missouri
Machine Control Group, an engineering focused solution provider, will represent B&R Automation in Missouri, Arkansas, and western Tennessee. -
Lapauw resolves machine software problems remotely
Lapauw uses eWON's Talk2M, an Internet-based remote maintenance and diagnostics service, to provide a secured VPN connection between the Lapauw service engineers and the PLC on the customer’s machinery. -
Advantech Announces Support for Microsoft Windows 8
Support includes Natural User Interface (NUI), cloud connectivity, Windows-to-Go, and Secure Boot functions of Windows 8. -
Hydroelectric generating utility has to control with the flow
Control Engineering, January 2013 By Jason Wright Box Canyon Dam, north of Spokane, Wash., upgraded its legacy controls with a PlantPAx system with two ControlLogix PACs on each of four turbine generators, FactoryTalk HMIs, and EtherNet/IP. -
PC VUE monitors U.S. wind farms
Iberdrola Renewables, the second-largest energy provider in North America, uses PC VUE SCADA system to monitor PLCs and 2,479 turbines at its U.S. wind farms. -
PLC and PAC Market in Asia growing
ARC says the total PLC and PLC-based PACs market in Asia will exceed $6.4 billion in 2016. -
Control Station supplies PID tuning software to Rockwell Automation
Control Station's LOOP-PRO TUNER PID controller tuning software is integrated within the PlantPAx engineering workstation. -
Rockwell Automation's New SOA Architecture - Studio 5000
Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The Rockwell Software Studio 5000 unified engineering and design environment is a framework for engineering collaboration - the start of a new system architecture built on a SOA, "a bottom up build," that will evolve over the next few years. -
PLCopen publishes safety spec for presses
The document contains a general overview of the implementation of safety around presses, coupled to twelve function blocks. -
Yaskawa Europe to Acquire VIPA
VIPA is a manufacturer of PLCs, I/O modules and HMIs in Herzogenaurach, Germany. -
PLCopen updates User Guidelines for Motion Control
Update includes integration of the first parts of the PLCopen specifications on motion control. -
PLCopen certifies Advanced Motion Controls
Advanced Motion Controls has been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control Certificate for its product Click&Move (C&M).