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Honeywell signed a global five-year agreement to be a Main Automation Contractor (MAC) for Shell.

The new OPC UA technology provides an efficient and secure infrastructure for communications - from sensor to business enterprise computing for all automation systems in manufacturing and process control. OPC UA leverages web services to provide a single programming paradigm in a scalable architecture that can be implemented is a range of devices - from embedded to enterprise.

The capabilities of PLCs and weight controllers are maximized and costs reduced when a strong bidirectional interface is used. The PLC is capable of performing a variety of tasks, but a wiser (and now easier) solution is to offload some functions to a dedicated weight controller.

An open source software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the web.

Designed to connect a wide range of products using open communication standards, developers can download the new license and royalty-free adapter stack through SourceForge.net.

OPC Server Simulators include both an OPC DA/HDA server and an OPC A&E server simulator, allowing users to test any third party OPC Client application using simulated data and messages.

The co-branded e-newsletters will be distributed to Automation.com’s subscribers, InTech subscribers, and ISA members and customers, creating a combined total distribution of more than 90,000 world-wide automation professionals.

From IDNet, engineers can download LabVIEW Plug and Play, LabWindows/CVI Plug and Play and Interchangeable Virtual Instrument (IVI) instrument drivers to automate measurements from instruments.

This implementation guide, by the OMAC Packaging Workgroup, has been created to aid software developers in achieving a clean and efficient implementation of PackML.

Invensys will supply DYNSIM modeling and simulation software to help improve the design, start-up and operation of new coal gasification plants.

Siemens Energy & Automation, Siemens Transportation Systems, Siemens Building Technologies, and Siemens VAI Services merged into a new company, Siemens Industry.

The goal of the Human Centered Design Institute is to ensure that user work practices and improved task completion are at the heart of every new product that Emerson introduces.

Toolkit contains 1,415 rigorously tested numerical routines for MATLAB.

Control Station Sdn. Bhd will be run by Barry Martin, a process control practitioner with 17 years of experience in the Asia region.

The $1.1 million order from KSG Kraftwerks-Simulator-Gesellschaft MBH of Essen, Germany, includes CPU blades, I/O controllers, associated software and support.

Yokogawa will supply an operator training system (OTS) for a natural gas liquefaction plant that is being built in Tananger, Norway.

The Petronas LNG Complex is the world’s largest integrated LNG production facility, with eight production trains and a combined capacity of approximately 23 million tons per annum.

The Desktop Factory 3-D Printer, which is currently in an advanced development stage, produces robust plastic parts at a build speed comparable to existing 3-D printing technologies.

Graphics Display Designer software tool allows a designer to visually create screens on a computer and then auto-generate the code that draws these screens.