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Plant Asset Management with FDT and PROFIBUS
The Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment in Colorado had 35 gateway access points to monitor and troubleshoot all the instruments and processes within the Profibus network. They replaced the gateways with Trebing + Himstedt’s TH LINK devices. -
OPC UA Adoption by Honeywell Process Solutions
By Bill Lydon, Editor It is clear that OPC UA is transforming the architecture of industrial automation systems and providing a bridge to enterprise systems. With MatrikonOPC as part of the company, Honeywell is in a unique position as a user and supplier of OPC UA software and embedded OPC UA stacks. -
Hollysys to provide Profibus DCS to power plant in China
The DCS will control more than 13,000 points and ProfiBus will control 3,600 distributed devices for two 1GW ultra-supercritical thermal power generating units at the Fujian Hongshan Thermal Power Plant. -
EtherCAT Releases Device Standard for Semiconductor Industry
ETG.5003-1 standard covers nine specific device profiles for the semiconductor industry. -
Nagel Precision connects honing machines to networks
Nagel Precision in the U.S. uses EtherNet/IP and Anybus X-gateways to connect their honing machines to any industrial network. -
Happy Birthday Ethernet!
IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) was first approved as an IEEE standard on 23 June 1983 and since then has been regularly updated. Now that it's 30 years old, can we trust it? -
Software Toolbox changes Licensing for OPC Data Client
The OPC Data Client family is available with one easy installer and one license, significantly reducing the total cost of the components. -
Beckhoff Growth Continues with New NA Headquarters
By Bill Lydon, Editor On May 30, 2013, I attended the grand opening of Beckhoff Automation’s new $8 million North American headquarters. The facility features a training center, an ESD-protected PC repair center, and a building automation system based on Beckhoff‘s own hardware and software. -
Softing's PROFINET software helps control steel plant
SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama. -
National Instruments to resell Kollmorgen Servos
NI will sell Kollmorgen’s EtherCAT AKD brushless servo drive and single-cable AKM motor. -
Sercos publishes news magazine
32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems. -
Where's the Beef? Kepware finds it
Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention. -
Dataforth publishes Corporate Capabilities Brochure
The 16-page document covers 1200+ data acquisition and control, signal conditioning, and data communication products. -
11th sercos PlugFest successfully completed
During the two-day event, many new sercos products from competing vendors were intensively tested with each other to insure users of interoperability of sercos products. -
Ethernet in Process Automation to Double by 2016
Industrial Ethernet nodes in process industries are projected to rise to 8.7 million units in 2016, up a whopping 96 percent from 4.4 million in 2011, as Ethernet increasingly challenges fieldbus for leadership in the industrial networking market. -
IO-Link Mapping Guide for sercos released
This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system. -
Sercos III specification update available
Specification enhancements include updates to the sercos communication protocol and to the different sercos profiles (drive, I/O, encoder and energy). -
Sercos exhibit at Hannover a success
The user organisation saw a significant increase in the number of visitors to its booth as well as in the quality of contacts compared to the previous year. -
Sercos updates free Monitor software
The free tool allows a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the data traffic in sercos III networks, easing development, testing and troubleshooting. -
50th PI Competence Center Established
KW Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the 50th PI Competence Center (PICC) for PROFIBUS and PROFINET.