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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.

The market for industrial automation equipment will grow 6.2 percent this year to approximately $170 billion, helped in part by the recovery of global manufacturing in the first quarter, according to IHS.

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Design of controller using variable transformations for a nonlinear process with dead time

KGM 282 allows the user to precisely pinpoint the problem in the dynamics of the machine in order to increase its accuracy.

Achieving Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 with non-redundant field devices is possible, but not always easy.

RefreshEng converts any of Cincinnati's 2-OM family of centerless grinder machines to the same precision machining available on new grinders - but for an outlay that is some 60% lower than a new machine.

Application of management, operational & technical controls will reduce risks to industrial automation & control systems and will mitigate vulnerabilities.

Frost & Sullivan says the Global Machine Tools and Cutting Tools Market earned revenues of $15.72 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $21.18 billion in 2017.

$372.50 million in orders were down 26.6% from March and down 12.6% when compared with the total of $426.44 million reported for April 2012.

By Thomas R. Cutler Curtiss Wright Controls in Shelby, NC used vimana to improve equipment utilization on a production cell with 4 high-end CNC-based Horizontal Milling machine tools by over 20% in just ten weeks.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the last two years, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) UK Petrochemicals has empowered users to create custom dashboards based on Excel spreadsheet data and calculations using software from Sabisu. The software enables people to organize their data around "Communities" related to areas of interest.

Considerations for Selecting A Controller- or Server-Based Batch Sequencer

The increased cost of using individual fuses will be quickly recovered by the reduced time to troubleshoot and resolve field wiring problems. One or two instances of bringing production back on line w

Implementing cybersecurity programs for industrial automation & control systems requires identification of areas to be protected & assessment of threats.

Even though machine tool demand has had a weak start in the first quarter of 2013, experts look to the second half of the year to provide growth in orders.

Information needed to take advantage of the best industrial technology and address all of the considerations of an application is often difficult to find.

Suburban Manufacturing installed two Okuma MB-4000H horizontal machining centers and a larger PALLETACE flexible manufacturing system in its Northeast Ohio machine shop.

The AMT Sao Paulo Technology Center in Brazil lets AMT members establish operations within Brazil, build relationships and explore the market’s potential.