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The solution includes SimSci-Esscor DYNSIM process simulation and FSIM Plus controls simulation, supporting a variety of operator training functions.

InfoWorld, May 2007 By Matt Hines The first remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been identified by researchers.

Dinesh Paliwal, President, will leave ABB at the end of June.

Honeywell will implement 10 UniSim Operator Trainer Simulator projects at MOL's Duna and Slovnaft refineries over the next three years. MOL is one of Europe’s largest oil and gas companies.

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

MED will build headsets based on polymer organic light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs), a competitor to LCD flat panel displays.

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.

ISA approved ISA-RP77.60.05, "Fossil Fuel Power Plant Human-Machine Interface: Task Analysis," as an ISA recommended practice.

"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.

This grant will part fund a project which will be important in the field of low-cost organic electronic devices, and especially in the development of low-cost flexible displays. The total value of project is around $500k.

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.

Invensys broke ground for a brand new, 15,500 square foot regional headquarters facility in South East Calgary. It will be twice as large as the present Calgary facility and will have three times the staging area to accommodate staging, testing, and verification of customers' automation systems.

Under the terms of the agreement, Kay-EE has the right to market and manufacture products using Duraswitch electronic switch technologies. Guangzhou Kay-EE Membrane Keyboard Switch Co. (Kay-EE) is one of the largest suppliers of membrane switch panels in mainland China.

ICONICS received the Microsoft ISV Trailblazer Partner of the Year Award.

Strong economic activity in Asia is spurring the growth of manufacturing, which in turn is propelling the growth of the automation market in the region. The Asian market for Distributed Control Systems (DCS) is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.0% over the next five years, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.

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.

Honeywell has been awarded a $7 million contract to implement an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and FOUNDATION Fieldbus solution at a new chemical plant operated by Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company (KPPC). The plant will produce aromatics materials, mainly paraxylene for exportation and benzene that will be used in other regional projects.

Extio remote graphics units (RGUs) have been selected by ABB Automation Technologies for integration in the new ABB System 800xA Extended Operator Workplace, which provides a broad view of production processes to control room operators.

The resulting company, known as OA International bv, is a 200+ employee global automation solutions provider. Martin F. Wieffering, former CEO of KSE Protech is now OA International's Chief Executive Officer & Chairman.