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Art to Part Manufacturing Shift
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Art to Part has been a vision since the 1970's to have a holistic computer aided product design to manufacturing process. The technology is available today, but manufacturers also need to make organizational changes to fully leverage it. -
The Cure for the Automation Workforce Crisis
Retiring workers are leaving a huge void in the process industries, but new blood hasn’t rushed to fill it. Even new opportunities like shale oil extraction haven’t attracted the workers they require. -
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. -
Flexible-Structure Control: A Strategy for Releasing Input Constraints
Process output can be brought back to the set point only by activating an auxiliary manipulated variable -
Parker Hannifin updates inPHorm hydraulic sizing software
Sizing software streamlines the process of specifying hydraulic accumulators by increasing efficiency and minimizing the engineering time required to design accumulators. -
EPLAN speeds up coiling and winding projects by 30%
Advanced Machine & Tool switched from AutoCAD Electrical to EPLAN because a major automotive customer wanted it. -
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing, & the Economy
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing & the Economy -
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. -
Operator Training Simulators market to grow
Trends such as the aging workforce, the new digital generation worker, emerging market workers, safety and risk avoidance factors are all pointing toward OTS market growth. -
AVEVA acquires Global Majic’s simulation software
The GMS team will become a part of AVEVA’s simulation development program to deliver 3D interactive virtual environments. -
Festo device macros added to EPLAN
Users of the EPLAN Platform can use the macros to create overview drawings, electrical and pneumatic circuit diagrams, and PLC overviews of Festo CPX/MPA valve terminals. -
Sercos releases Multislave Emulator software tool
The PC-based software tool emulates complete Sercos networks and the connected Sercos slave devices. -
Emerson provides 3D CAD models for regulators
The interactive 3D CAD drawings are high-quality, photorealistic images that can be rotated and zoomed for a complete view of the product. -
Siemens and Bentley Systems to unify PLM & FIL software
The two companies will unify Siemens' Teamcenter Product and Production Lifecycle software and Bentley's ProjectWise Factory Infrastructure Lifecycle software. -
Honeywell announces winner of 2012 UniSim student competition
Davide Bocciardo from the University of Edinburgh won with his entry “Customising UniSim Design: membrane separation and its application to carbon capture.” -
Synergy uses AVEVA Laser Modeller on offshore platform project
A true as-built model of the facility was not available, so laser scanning was used to generate an intelligent PDMS model. -
Training & Improving Operator Efficiency...Wasted Investment?
Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Improving operator interaction is a good topic but this perspective may be holding back automation industry progress. It seems to me the industry should be putting more effort into developing more advanced automation with the goal of eliminating operators. -
Boulder Wind Power simulates new wind power generator
BWP uses the 3D version of the Opera electromagnetic simulator from Cobham Technical Services to design a wind generator that uses an axial flux, air-core architecture that will reduce the cost of wind generated electricity. -
Invensys supplies Virtual Reality Training to Department of Energy
The SimSci-Esscor EYESIM training solution is used within integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants at NETL's Center in Morgantown, WV. -
Siemens to acquire Kineo CAM
Kineo CAM, headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a provider of computer-aided motion software.
