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Executive Interview - Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation
By Bill Lydon, Editor I recently had the opportunity to talk with Blake Moret, Senior Vice President at Rockwell Automation. Other than their process control initiatives, we discussed networks, energy monitoring, embedded controllers, regenerative energy and their services business. -
ABB to fund 40 research projects at universities
The ABB Research program is intended to support promising graduate students and senior researchers who are researching projects with industrial applications in the power and automation area. -
Metso to build biomass power plant in Russia
The power plant will utilize bark and wood residues from the Syktyvkar sawmill and other biomass to produce 4 MW of power. Metso will supply process equipment and automation. -
ABB to provide electrical systems for drill ships in Brazil
ABB will supply complete electrical systems including generators, distribution switchboards, transformers, drives and motors to power the ships’ thrusters and drilling systems. -
Advanced Alarm Notification Improves Hydro Operations
Brookfield Renewable Energy uses Exele Information Systems’ TopView Alarm Notification software to monitor values in the data historian. -
MDA South America Power transmission show
For manufacturers of power transmission and control technology, MDA South America will be held in São Paulo in March. -
ABB to upgrade HVDC link in Oregon
ABB will upgrade the existing Celilo HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station in Oregon with valves, controls, transformers as well as switchgear and cooling equipment. -
Emerson controls GE turbine at Alaskan power plant
Emerson successfully replaced existing controls on the Nikiski Generation Plant's GE Frame 6B gas turbine with its Ovation control technology. -
On-Ramp wireless network reports faults for power company
Wireless fault detectors immediately send alarms to grid operators if a problem occurs anywhere along the power lines for San Diego Gas & Electric. -
Barco provides video wall to Bermuda Electric Light
The Barco video wall displays a highly detailed, wide-area view of the island’s power grid, providing real-time data and video on power usage and availability. -
Det-Tronics Flame Detector Certified for SIL 2
The X3302 Multispectrum Infrared Hydrogen Flame Detector was certified as Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL 2) capable by exida. -
Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP. -
Tofino Security Appliance Thwarts Cyber Attacks
By Bill Lydon, Editor The Tofino Security Appliance and its management software withstood a variety of sophisticated reverse engineering attacks conducted by Digital Bond, the world's most respected sources for control system security research. -
NextGen SCADA Europe 2013
NextGen SCADA Europe 2013, 21-22 March in Amsterdam, gathers 100+ electric utility SCADA professionals to discuss advanced SCADA system requirements to support the evolving smart grid. -
Emerson to control solar power facility in Nevada
Emerson will supply an Ovation expert control system to the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah, Nevada. -
Metso to upgrade controls at Australian power plant
Metso supplied the Smithfield Energy Facility plant's existing control system in 1996-97. It has now come to the end of its life cycle and needs to be upgraded. -
Hydroelectric generating utility has to control with the flow
Control Engineering, January 2013 By Jason Wright Box Canyon Dam, north of Spokane, Wash., upgraded its legacy controls with a PlantPAx system with two ControlLogix PACs on each of four turbine generators, FactoryTalk HMIs, and EtherNet/IP. -
PC VUE monitors U.S. wind farms
Iberdrola Renewables, the second-largest energy provider in North America, uses PC VUE SCADA system to monitor PLCs and 2,479 turbines at its U.S. wind farms. -
ASI publishes Product Catalog
The 64 page catalog includes specifications on automation, control and power products. -
OSI to Provide SCADA system for Wind Energy Transmission Texas
The SCADA system will be installed on WETT's high-voltage transmission lines. Its Transmission Network Analysis applications include State Estimator, Topology Processor, Power Flow, Contingency Analysis and Operator training Simulator functions.