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Caterpillar uses eLOG software to monitor performance of 77 diverse manufacturing systems at the Aurora, Joliet and South Milwaukee plants.

Autodesk appointed Oleg Shilovitsky as Senior Director of PLM and Data Management. Shilovitsky is a co-founder of Inforbix.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Jay Funnell, et al, Honeywell Process Solutions A semantic model promotes a lower total cost of ownership within data environments used for operational, production and asset management functions. Here's how it works.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Cisco's newly-formed Connected Industries Business Unit, recently created to help customers realize the benefits of the transition to Ethernet and IP in manufacturing plants, launched a new switch series and is reaching out to a broad base of potential partners.

Dynamic Systems helps Labels West, a print manufacturer, track production jobs with barcodes and CheckMate Job Tracking.

TBP electronics purchased a complete factory-wide Aegis MES system for their facilities in Dirksland and Eersel, the Netherlands.

TNPI will use the software to integrate preventative maintenance records, asset data, equipment histories, and other pipeline data.

Prior to joining Control Station, he was Vice President of Sales at Integra-Cast and held various sales management positions at Emerson.

Epicor will supply an ERP system to Golden Chip Company, a Saudi-based smart card manufacturer.

The worldwide market for Engineering Design Tools for Industry and Infrastructure is presently quite strong in almost all sectors, says ARC.

Mitsubishi Power Systems offers real-time monitoring and advanced prediction of potential problems through a 24-hour Remote Monitoring Center (RMC) located in Orlando, FL.

PlantFloor24 is a platform-independent, hardware, software and process support solution, and a 24/7 support center.

Wonderware NorCal will distribute TopView alarm management, notification, and remote monitoring software product line in California.

Insensys will distribute Paradox Engineering’s PE.WSNi and PE.AMI solutions for industrial data acquisition, collection, transportation, storage and delivery.

Prior to joining Geometric, Pascarella was responsible for Strategic Automotive Initiatives at Dassault Systèmes.

Datum Alloys will use the ERP to to replace its custom manufacturing and finance solutions in three countries.

IMCO Engineering & Construction, based in Kuwait and Qatar, will use IFS to streamline processes such as project and contract management.

AVEVA NET was installed at the Phu My 3 Power Plant Project in Vietnam.

The Group offers consultancy in the areas of technology assessment and roadmap, application portfolio rationalization, and PLM ROI improvement.

Automation.com, June 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Participants of the Pharmaceutical Automation Roundtable discussed the use of data, modeling and other automation technology for Intelligence-based Manufacturing. The goal is to move from responsive and reactive actions to preventative and proactive manufacturing strategies. This is part 6 of a 6 part article series.