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PLCopen Fluid Power Control Initiative Launched
PLCopen launched the Fluid Power Control Function Blocks technical group at a kickoff meeting June 23, 2009 in Frankfurt, Germany. The initiative will extend PLCopen specifications to include fluid power. -
Nol-Tec offers emergency service for industrial controls and systems
Nol-Tec’s 24/7 Emergency Service provides around the clock support when a machine, process or production line is down. -
ISaGRAF supplies IEC 61131-3 programming to SIXNET
ISaGRAF 5 programming software will be used on SIXNET’s IPm2m RTU and Datalogger. -
PLCopen renews accreditation of iƒak as Test Laboratory
Accreditation is a formal recognition that a test laboratory is competent to carry out specific tests in compliance with the PLCopen guideline “Compliance Testing & Certification.” -
ARC says process industries are weathering current economic storm
Automation expenditures in the process industries reached $45.5 billion dollars in 2007 and are forecast to exceed $61 billion by 2012. -
IEC 61131 Programming training
Eaton's Training Services is a PLCopen certified training center for the IEC 61131-3 programming language standard. -
PLCopen elects Erich Janoschek committee chairman
Erich Janoschek from TÜV Rheinland was elected chairman of the PLCopen Technical Committee for Safe Software. -
ISaGRAF supplies software to CSE-Semaphore
ISaGRAF software will be used in CSE-Semaphore’s Kingfisher series of Advanced RTUs, which are now available with Secure DNP3 Authentication. -
Honeywell to sell MasterLogic PLC worldwide
Long sold in Asia, MasterLogic is now sold, delivered and supported by Honeywell’s global organization. -
PLCopen extends motion control to cover fluid power
PLCopen is launching a new initiative in the Motion Control working group to extend the specifications to fluid power. -
Rockwell Automation controls Green Planet Farms food plant
PlantPAx process automation system manages more than 100 batch and continuous process phases. System includes HMI software, instrumentation and wireless equipment. -
Eaton's Hydraulics Group Joins PLCopen
PLCopen is a non-profit industry organization dedicated to improving the programming efficiency control and automation engineers by providing information, training, and fostering communications between users, vendors, educators and others. -
Rockwell Automation to supply ISaGRAF v5 to OSI
OSI will use ISaGRAF v5 for the new Automation Control Platform (ACP) option on their OSIRIS Secure RTU. -
HANNOVER MESSE receives 210,000 visitors
210,000 visitors came to Hannover to see 6,150 exhibitors from 61 countries. 70% of the visitors were from Europe, 25% came from abroad, but only 7% came from the Americas. -
ABB Q1 revenues steady despite economic challenges
ABB’s first-quarter 2009 revenues rose 3 percent to $7.2 billion while orders decreased by 3 percent to $9.2 billion. -
SERCOS lll software now available without license fees
SERCOS III will be the first high performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations. -
Beckhoff increases turnover to 278 Million Euros in 2008
Beckhoff Automation closed the 2008 business year successfully with robust turnover growth of 20 percent. -
Bosch Rexroth publishes automation and drives catalogs
Automation Systems and Control Components catalog provides details on PLCs and automation systems, while Drive System catalog covers electric drives and motor products. -
ABB relocates North American headquarters to Cary, NC
Among the primary factors behind this move are significant cost savings and a favorable business climate in the Triangle, as well as closer proximity to growing customer and employee bases. -
ABB supplies PLCs for solar trackers
Solar power plants using solar trackers typically generate 30% more energy than fixed systems. ABB supplies PLCs and HMIs for solar trackers.
