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Visit the PLCopen Organization booth and see how PLCopen member companies are committed to control software standards that improve your quality and productivity.

Honeywell will protect Woodside’s Pluto onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant with a sophisticated industrial security system.

By Form Automation Solutions Manufacturing companies need live workers to check production facilities frequently and to correct issues immediately before they escalate. AuditMatic software and mobile computers are being used to automate gathering, analyzing and reporting field data.

Form Automation Solutions signed distribution agreements with InfoLink and Industrial Network Systems.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.

ABB will provide all maintenance operations and improve efficiency at six pulp, paper and board mills in Finland.

TMACH-ProCom and MACH-ProSys controllers meet or exceed the BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL) requirements for the BACnet Building Controller (B-BC) designation.

OpenScale now helps businesses improve the security of their Unified Communications (UC) solutions.

Siemens will make energy efficiency improvements to 5,500,000 square feet of city facilities.

Carter, former president and CEO of Pavilion Technologies, was named president of Rockwell Software.

In a recent study, 83 percent of the end users across process and factory automation rated interoperability as a medium to high concern.

ASHRAE’s newly renovated headquarters serves as a laboratory without walls to extend the Society’s knowledge and information worldwide.

Catalog has over 115,000 products plus technical information and product photos.

Siemens Building Technologies designed Techwell's TW2815 into multiple video surveillance products to be distributed worldwide.

ASHRAE and the International Facility Management Association are entering into an agreement that increases cooperation between the two groups.

Restructuring involves headcount reductions, primarily in selling, general and administrative functions, involving three percent of the company’s global workforce of 20,000 people.

'Daily Problem Solving in a Lean Organization' explores principles and work practices that businesses which have already implemented lean can use in daily problem solving to sustain the improvements they've made, and to deepen their commitment to lean.

The Siemens contract guarantees EKU will save 24,665,190 kWh of electricity, 89,329 mcf of natural gas, 1,729 tons of coal, 102,585 ccf of water and 138,584 ccf of sewer.

By Rick Zabel, Automation.com The proposed name change of ISA (to "International Society of Automation") is up for a vote again during ISA Expo in Houston, October 14-16, 2008. Last year, the change was voted down, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the change. And there are many reasons for the change. If ISA is truly the global society of automation professionals, then its name should reflect its cause. It's time for a change!