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  • Advantech receives Class 1, Div 2 Certification for Ethernet switches

    EKI family of industrial Ethernet Switches and Media Converters have received Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Class 1, Division 2 (groups A, B, C, and D) certification for use in hazard locations.
    By: Advantech Industrial Automation Group
    30 July, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • Machine safeguarding market confronting turbulence

    Turbulence in the global market effectively put the brakes on the machine safeguarding market around the third quarter in 2008.
    28 July, 2009 | 3 minutes
  • Ethernet Direct obtains UL certification for Ethernet switches

    Husky series industrial Ethernet switches and Retriever series industrial media converters comply with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Class 1 Division 2 approvals.
    By: Ethernet Direct Inc.
    27 July, 2009 | 1 minutes
  • ABB Q2 revenues down

    Orders decreased across all divisions and regions compared to the second quarter of 2008 on a combination of lower volumes and price decreases resulting from both lower raw material costs and reduced demand.
    By: ABB
    23 July, 2009 | 8 minutes
  • General Monitors gas & flame detectors receive IEC 61508 certification

    Gas and flame detectors received IEC 61508 certification from FM Approvals, demonstrating suitability to Safety Integrity Level (SIL).
    By: General Monitors
    21 July, 2009 | 1 minutes
  • Phoenix Contact obtains ATEX approval

    Phoenix Contact received a Quality Assurance Notification (QAN) certificate to design and produce products that meet the ATEX (Directive 94/9/EC and IECEx) standard for explosive atmospheres.
    By: Phoenix Contact
    16 July, 2009 | 1 minute
  • FCI ST50 mass flow meter receives ATEX approval

    ST50 thermal mass flow meter is now ATEX-approved for potentially explosive environments classified as EExd IIC T4.
    By: FCI - Fluid Components International
    07 July, 2009 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By FCI - Fluid Components International
  • Phaedrus to sell McObject safety technology

    Phaedrus Systems Limited is a specialist for software development in embedded safety-critical and high-integrity projects.
    07 July, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • Siemens Safety Innovation Tour to visit United States

    The tour features live demonstrations and seminars on how to seamlessly integrate certified safety protection into a company’s automation architecture.
    By: SIEMENS, SIEMENS
    07 July, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson expands partial discharge testing service

    Expanded testing will help companies eliminate unplanned outages due to electrical failures, reduce maintenance costs, increase system reliability, and improve worker safety
    By: Emerson
    22 June, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • HIMA HI-Max achieves Achilles certification

    The HIMax safety control system is the 13th HIMA system certified by Wurldtech.
    By: HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH
    17 June, 2009 | 1 minute
  • SICK publishes Guide for Safe Machinery

    The 116-page, illustrated guide contains safety requirements and guidelines for North America to ensure the safety of machinery and people.
    By: SICK, Inc.
    17 June, 2009 | 1 minutes
    Sponsored By SICK, Inc.
  • Aaxeon Ethernet switches receive UL Class I, Division 2 Certification

    Lanolinx Ethernet switches and Optolinx media converters received UL Class I, Division 2 Certification for operation in hazardous environments.
    By: Antaira Technologies, LLC - formerly Aaxeon Technologies
    09 June, 2009 | 1 minute
  • ABB System 800xA safety libraries achieve SIL 2/3 certification

    The recently certified applications provide specific key process protection functions for upstream processes for oil, gas & petrochemical.
    By: ABB
    04 June, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • Adalet announces ATEX control panel assembly certification

    Adalet eliminates the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories for final equipment certification saving customers considerable amounts of time and money.
    02 June, 2009 | 1 minute
  • TUV Rheinland offers GS S1 Certification

    The GS S1 Certificate demonstrates full compliance with both the German Equipment Safety Act and the Low Voltage Directive (LVD), a minimum EU requirement.
    02 June, 2009 | 1 minutes
  • Omron STI publishes guide to Machine and Process Safety Services

    Guide details the company’s suite of services including machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation.
    By: OMRON Scientific Technologies, Inc.
    21 May, 2009 | 1 minutes
  • Omron STI announces Asset Relocation Assessment services

    Program helps companies determine the federal and local compliance level of its machines that qualify for relocation, and the cost to bring those machines into compliance.
    By: OMRON Scientific Technologies, Inc.
    14 May, 2009 | 3 minutes
  • ISA99 plans Working Group on cyber security and safety

    ISA99 Working Group 7 will promote greater awareness of the impact of cyber security issues on the safe operation of industrial processes.
    08 May, 2009 | 2 minutes
  • HANNOVER MESSE receives 210,000 visitors

    210,000 visitors came to Hannover to see 6,150 exhibitors from 61 countries. 70% of the visitors were from Europe, 25% came from abroad, but only 7% came from the Americas.
    26 April, 2009 | 4 minutes
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