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Support includes Natural User Interface (NUI), cloud connectivity, Windows-to-Go, and Secure Boot functions of Windows 8.

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.

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.

ARC says the total PLC and PLC-based PACs market in Asia will exceed $6.4 billion in 2016.

Control Station's LOOP-PRO TUNER PID controller tuning software is integrated within the PlantPAx engineering workstation.

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.

The document contains a general overview of the implementation of safety around presses, coupled to twelve function blocks.

VIPA is a manufacturer of PLCs, I/O modules and HMIs in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

Update includes integration of the first parts of the PLCopen specifications on motion control.

Advanced Motion Controls has been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control Certificate for its product Click&Move (C&M).

The document contains a general overview of the implementation of safety around presses, coupled to twelve defined function blocks.

IMS says the Asia-Pacific PLC market will be driven by Chinese domestic consumption because no other industry is growing.

This remote-monitoring solution allows OEMs to identify and resolve technical issues, perform scheduled and preventive maintenance, and monitor their installed base of machinery.

IMS Research projects that revenues in the Asia-Pacific PLC market (excluding Japan) will rise to only $3.6 billion in 2016.

Rockwell will supply PACs, variable frequency drives, software and engineering support services for machinery control systems onboard U.S. Navy and Coast Guard surface ships.

Schneider Electric will be using ConneXium Tofino Security technology to protect its industrial automation systems.

An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.

The POSITAL Programmable Potentiometer has been added to the list of products referenced by the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork.

The PlantPAx system with EtherNet/IP and ControlNet network connectivity passed tests for “61b,” the Fieldbus Foundation’s most demanding host profile.

Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor It is hard to find another platform with the computing power and rapid prototyping capabilities of LabVIEW coupled with NI hardware. Because it comes at a price, their products are used in demanding industrial automation applications out of the reach of typical industrial controllers.