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By Bill Lydon, Editor Manufacturers worldwide are in a productivity race enabled by a wide range of new automation technology. In order for your company to remain competitive, it needs to apply new technology to grow and survive in the world economy. To do this, manufacturing companies must stay up to date on the latest developments.

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group is expanding its Northeast operations with a new office in East Brunswick, NJ.

AVEVA software enables D3’s designers to have a clear understanding of the as-is condition of an asset during brownfield projects.

KBR will deploy AVEVA E3D software on major capital projects around the world.

New features add design functionality, increasing supplier integration and streamlining the circuit design process.

WEBENCH PCB Export lets engineers create a power supply printed circuit board (PCB) layout and export it to computer-aided design (CAD) development platforms.

AVEVA will supply its Enterprise Resource Management suite and Everything3D design software to AMEC’s worldwide offices. AMEC employs around 27,000 people in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Designer Schematic Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software is available from Digi-Key for $300.

EPLAN began as a three-person shop in 1984, substituting paper & ink with a PC & software. Now it has more than 40,000 customers and 100,000 installations.

The new facility is in the WaveRock SEZ development in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India.

Total will use AVEVA PDMS, Instrumentation, Electrical, Engineering, Diagrams and Review software across its local site modifications and repair projects.

Headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Robtec is the largest Latin-American additive manufacturing service bureau and a 3D printing and scanning products distributor in the region.

Initec Plantas Industriales has successfully deployed AVEVA Electrical software on all of its Oil & Gas projects for a 40% reduction in time.

Inter RAO-Engineering, a Russian engineering contractor (EPC) in the power industry, will use AVEVA solutions as a platform to perform engineering and design work on complex projects.

Honeywell’s Refining and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) and its Intuition Executive advanced information management software will be installed in 17 PetroChina refining and petrochemical sites across China.

By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.

Burgasnefteproekt used AVEVA software to capture the as-built asset and create a 3D model of an existing flaring system.

Additions include General Electric switchgear, Numatics fluid power components, Murrelektronik field distributors, plus Omron, Schweiger, Sigmatec, Stego and TKD.

JSC NIAEP-ASE will use the software to support the whole lifecycle of a nuclear plant – from engineering & design phase to decommissioning.