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Advanced Machine & Tool switched from AutoCAD Electrical to EPLAN because a major automotive customer wanted it.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The Rockwell Software Studio 5000 unified engineering and design environment is a framework for engineering collaboration - the start of a new system architecture built on a SOA, "a bottom up build," that will evolve over the next few years.

Trends such as the aging workforce, the new digital generation worker, emerging market workers, safety and risk avoidance factors are all pointing toward OTS market growth.

The GMS team will become a part of AVEVA’s simulation development program to deliver 3D interactive virtual environments.

Users of the EPLAN Platform can use the macros to create overview drawings, electrical and pneumatic circuit diagrams, and PLC overviews of Festo CPX/MPA valve terminals.

The PC-based software tool emulates complete Sercos networks and the connected Sercos slave devices.

The interactive 3D CAD drawings are high-quality, photorealistic images that can be rotated and zoomed for a complete view of the product.

The two companies will unify Siemens' Teamcenter Product and Production Lifecycle software and Bentley's ProjectWise Factory Infrastructure Lifecycle software.

Davide Bocciardo from the University of Edinburgh won with his entry “Customising UniSim Design: membrane separation and its application to carbon capture.”

A true as-built model of the facility was not available, so laser scanning was used to generate an intelligent PDMS model.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Improving operator interaction is a good topic but this perspective may be holding back automation industry progress. It seems to me the industry should be putting more effort into developing more advanced automation with the goal of eliminating operators.

BWP uses the 3D version of the Opera electromagnetic simulator from Cobham Technical Services to design a wind generator that uses an axial flux, air-core architecture that will reduce the cost of wind generated electricity.

The SimSci-Esscor EYESIM training solution is used within integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants at NETL's Center in Morgantown, WV.

Kineo CAM, headquartered in Toulouse, France, is a provider of computer-aided motion software.

Lesedi Nuclear Services, a South African EPC in the power industry, uses AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Instrumentation and AVEVA Diagrams to optimise its design process on power plant projects.

NMHG’s design engineers use the aPriori software to quickly and easily compare the cost of different product design alternatives and understand the cost impact of different design options.

Automation.com, October 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor It is hard to find another platform with the computing power and rapid prototyping capabilities of LabVIEW coupled with NI hardware. Because it comes at a price, their products are used in demanding industrial automation applications out of the reach of typical industrial controllers.

HSMWorks Aps is a developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software.

VRcontext is a developer of 3D visualization and training software for displaying complex engineering data in the shipbuilding and plant construction industries.

Results for the 29th edition of IMTS 2012 prove the continuing leadership of manufacturing in the overall economy as Show Management reports the strongest results in more than a decade.