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Rockwell will acquire Industrial Control Services Group Limited for £110 million in cash. ICS trades and does business as ICS Triplex, a supplier of critical control and safety solutions to the process industries.

ABB received a $26 million order as the Main Instrumentation and Main Electrical Contractor for two oil platforms being built for Maersk Oil Qatar.

Controllers from Yokogawa, Emerson, Invensys and ICS Triplex earn Wurldtech Labs Achilles security certification

Downloadable machine guarding products brochure includes non-contact sensors and control units for industrial machine safety.

Phoenix Contact will distribute Innominate's mGuard industrial security products.

InTech magazine and CITGO are starting a blog that will cover CITGO's design and implementation of a secure process control network.

Siemens appointed Dennis Sadlowski President and CEO, succeeding Aubert Martin, who is retiring.

Honeywell will supply a $7.7 million Experion PKS and Safety Manager for the $1.2 billion Sohar Aromatics plant, located at Oman’s Port of Sohar.

To help reduce the shortage of qualified entry-level workers in Manufacturing, Bison is starting a training program consisting of applied math and manufacturing principles.

ABB's first-quarter net income rose 163 percent to $537 million from $204 million in the same period of 2006, driven primarily by continued strong market demand and further operational improvements.

The portal site is a 'one-stop-shop' for the latest information in English on OMRON's industrial automation products and services

ISA submitted ISA-12.12.01, "Nonincendive Electrical Equipment for Use in Class I and II, Division 2 and Class III, Divisions 1 and 2 Hazardous (Classified) Locations," for ANSI approval.

"Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance," by Bill R. Hollifield and Eddie Habibi, describes how properly designed and maintained alarm systems can drastically help to improve plant safety, reliability, and profitability.

The goal is to define a test bed and a set of routines, implementing a set of software tools and scripts to perform these test, and making this available to the public in order to be able prove a level of networking security within a broad set of control systems.

The InterTech Development Company web site has an online library of leak test and functional test applications. It explains how factors such as fixture design, systems integration, and customization of test instruments bear on Gauge R&R in real world applications.

Omron merges safety equipment acquired from STI last year into a new category brand called 'STI' (Safety, Innovation & Technology). Its OS3101 Laser Safety Scanner would be the first product marketed under the new brand.

ISA's SP99 standards development committee is making substantial progress on several fronts in its work to develop standards and guidelines for the electronic security of industrial automation and control systems.

Bosch Rexroth AG increased sales in 2006 by 7.1 percent to approximately $6.2 billion (4.9 billion Euros). Sales grew 16 percent in Middle and Eastern Europe and 14 percent in Asia, including 33 percent growth in China. Sales in North and South America declined slightly in a difficult economic environment.

A committee of industry leaders and academia met at ISA headquarters to begin work on the learning objectives for an automation engineering curriculum for universities. "Our goal is to develop curriculum content for a 4-year automation engineering degree program," said committee chair Randy Buchanan of the University of Southern Mississippi.

According to the study, 83% of respondents had outsourced some or all of NPD activity, confirming that outsourcing of core product development is extremely important in today’s market.