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  • Emerson helps Alberta refinery enhance automation technology

    Emerson helps Alberta refinery enhance automation technology

    Using elements of Emerson’s Project Certainty methodology, North West Redwater Partnership reduced global automation engineering complexity and completed the instrumentation and control scope for refinery automation.
    26 October, 2018 | 2 minutes
  • EdgeX Foundry announces EdgeX-enabled developer kits

    EdgeX Foundry announces EdgeX-enabled developer kits

    There will be two different kinds of dev kits - community and commercial. For options in the community track, the bill of materials will be purchased independently online, the code will be downloaded straight from a special repository on the project GitHub, and questions will be answered through forums like the EdgeX Rocket Chat.
    18 October, 2018 | 2 minutes
  • ABB to help electrify Indian railways

    ABB to help electrify Indian railways

    The project is part of the 'Mission Electrification' initiative of the Indian Railways, which aims to convert an additional 24,000 kilometers of railways from fossil fuel to electrification.
    17 October, 2018 | 1 minute
  • How to Choose the Right Power Supply: Starting with accurate DC/DC converter measurements

    How to Choose the Right Power Supply: Starting with accurate DC/DC converter measurements

    By Florian Haas, TRACO POWER GROUP It is well-known that there are many manufacturers out there, so the quality, as well as price of a specific product, can vary greatly.
    16 October, 2018 | 6 minutes
  • ABB announces new Indoniesian manufacturing facility

    ABB announces new Indoniesian manufacturing facility

    The unit is the fourth manufacturing facility that ABB has set up in the country during the last three years as part of a $30 million investment plan. The other units manufacture high-voltage air-insulated switchgear, low-voltage, and medium-voltage switchgear.
    09 October, 2018 | 1 minute
  • Scottish universities to partner with Mexican government to launch energy sector education program in Mexico

    Scottish universities to partner with Mexican government to launch energy sector education program in Mexico

    SENER (Mexico’s Secretary of Energy) this week announced that Robert Gordon University (RGU) and the University of Aberdeen will join Imperial College London and the IFP School in France as the selected universities.
    05 October, 2018 | 2 minutes
  • GE Power chooses Nozomi Networks to deliver ICS cybersecurity

    GE Power chooses Nozomi Networks to deliver ICS cybersecurity

    GE will utilize Nozomi Networks’ advanced solutions for industrial control system (ICS) cyber resiliency and real-time operational visibility.
    05 October, 2018 | 1 minute
  • Scottish universities to partner with Mexican government to launch energy sector education program in Mexico

    Scottish universities to partner with Mexican government to launch energy sector education program in Mexico

    SENER (Mexico’s Secretary of Energy) this week announced that Robert Gordon University (RGU) and the University of Aberdeen will join Imperial College London and the IFP School in France as the selected universities.
    05 October, 2018 | 2 minutes
  • What Does Prevention Through Design Really Mean?

    What Does Prevention Through Design Really Mean?

    By Rachel Bugaris, Panduit The significance of PtD in manufacturing-oriented environments today can’t be understated, and furthermore the case for PtD in implementing solutions that design electrical safety into the process can easily be made.
    03 October, 2018 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson announces acquisition of HTE Engineering Services

    Emerson announces acquisition of HTE Engineering Services

    HTE Engineering Services is headquartered in Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland. Terms of the acquisition, which closed on October 1, were not disclosed.
    03 October, 2018 | 1 minute
  • Emerson announces agreement to acquire General Electric’s Intelligent Platforms Business

    Emerson announces agreement to acquire General Electric’s Intelligent Platforms Business

    The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of fiscal 2019, subject to regulatory approvals, GE’s consultation with employee representatives where required and other customary closing conditions.
    02 October, 2018 | 1 minute
  • ABB to help provide enclosures for Brazilian pipeline network

    ABB to help provide enclosures for Brazilian pipeline network

    ABB will provide E-houses for the 47 pumping stations along the pipeline, spread across 47 kilometers, connecting a station being built in São Bernardo do Campo to the Capuava Refinery (RECAP) in Mauá in São Paulo.
    28 September, 2018 | 1 minutes
  • ABB to help power Portuguese wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean

    ABB to help power Portuguese wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean

    ABB has been selected to deliver its WindSTAR transformers specifically designed for floating wind turbines, to MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).
    26 September, 2018 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell announces strategic alliance with Sunpreme

    Honeywell announces strategic alliance with Sunpreme

    The cooperation will enable Honeywell to deliver solar modules with data analytics to commercial and industrial customers to help them achieve sustainability goals.
    26 September, 2018 | 1 minute
  • Falkonry announces launch of global partner program

    Falkonry announces launch of global partner program

    As part of this program, SCSK Corporation and KOLON BENIT have begun selling Falkonry LRS in Japan and South Korea respectively, and Falkonry is engaged with other OEMs, system integrators, distributors, resellers and referral partners around the globe who are expected to follow.
    26 September, 2018 | 1 minutes
  • ISA announces ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018 standard

    ISA announces ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018 standard

    ISA/IEC 62443-4-2-2018, Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems: Technical Security Requirements for IACS Components, provides the cybersecurity technical requirements for components that make up an IACS, specifically the embedded devices, network components, host components and software applications.
    25 September, 2018 | 2 minutes
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  • ABB to help Egyptian power company digitalize electric grid

    ABB to help Egyptian power company digitalize electric grid

    The scope of supply includes an ABB Ability Network Manager SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)/Energy Management System (EMS), more than 120 Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and a fiber-optic communications network to monitor and control the grid.
    25 September, 2018 | 1 minutes
  • How ICS Security Attacks Can Cripple Smart Cities

    How ICS Security Attacks Can Cripple Smart Cities

    By Ben C. Garber, Ultra Electronics, 3eTI Cyber attacks can bring these thriving smart cities to a standstill and create utter chaos. Ensuring cyber-physical security against local and foreign adversaries is the new challenge for today’s city planners.
    24 September, 2018 | 4 minutes
  • The Next Generation of HMI and SCADA

    The Next Generation of HMI and SCADA

    By Benson Hougland, Opto 22 The next generation of HMI and SCADA technologies is now poised to deliver the rich interfaces users expect, with even easier connectivity to the thriving variety of Internet of Things devices.
    19 September, 2018 | 7 minutes
  • Are Industrial Protocols Going the Way of AppleTalk, DecNet & Netware?

    Are Industrial Protocols Going the Way of AppleTalk, DecNet & Netware?

    By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The industrial automation industry has a reputation and history of being behind the technology adoption curve. With an prganizational need for reliability and system availability, the key question is: When is a new technology reliable enough that the benefits outweigh the risk?
    18 September, 2018 | 4 minutes
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