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  • TrendMiner appoints John Miller and Edwin van Dijk as Vice Presidents of Strategic Accounts, Marketing

    Miller’s primary focus is to support current accounts and manage the company’s growth strategy by working closely with prospects and new accounts. van Dijk, who will join TrendMiner on January 1, 2017, will be responsible for TrendMiner’s global marketing strategy.
    06 December, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Talent Bridges the Gap Between IT and OT in the Industrial Internet of Things

    By Dave Vasko, Rockwell Automation & IoT Talent Consortium Only about 14 percent of companies have been able to fully connect their manufacturing floors with their IT departments, because manufacturers just don’t have the talent they need with skills in security, cloud, industrial communications and data analytics technologies
    By: Rockwell Automation
    01 December, 2016 | 5 minutes
  • Honeywell's control and safety systems selected for Turkish natural gas pipeline

    The system will ensure safe operations of compressor stations along the entire length of the pipeline. The Southern Gas Corridor is a critical part of the European Union’s strategy to enhance its energy security.
    By: Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control
    01 December, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • WSCAD releases expanded electrical CAD data library

    Over 140,000 updated parts, data and new records were added in 2016, including several from manufacturers such as BALLUFF, DRAGO, Phoenix Contact, and Siemens.
    01 December, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson provides Roxar reservoir modeling software to Kuwait Oil Company

    Emerson’s Roxar RMS reservoir modeling software includes a variety of different modules covering well correlation, mapping, structural modeling, petrophysical modeling, local model updates, facies modeling, fracture modeling and uncertainty management.
    By: Emerson
    30 November, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Control Station announces 2017 manufacturing training schedule

    Training workshops will be delivered in collaboration with the company’s Solution Partners and Product Distributors, and they will emphasize techniques for optimizing a production facility’s regulatory control systems.
    By: Control Station, Inc.
    30 November, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • ISA's 2016 Process Control Symposium draws over 300 attendees

    Attending engineers, technicians and plant managers gained the latest insights, news and trends in process measurement and control across key process industry sectors. Particular attention was placed on the critical issues in instrumentation, communications, control systems, safety and security.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    28 November, 2016 | 3 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Intertec provides automated cooling for Middle Eastern refinery

    The environmental protection solution is being provided as part of an upgrade to the burner management systems at the core of the plant's refining processes.
    22 November, 2016 | 4 minutes
  • Materials Handling Automation Innovations include Safety and Ergonomics

    By Thomas R. Cutler, Manufacturing Media Consortium The notions of safety and profitability are not mutually exclusive. This article discusses cost-effective ways how automation can help facilitate your organizational safety
    07 November, 2016 | 4 minutes
  • SICK's LaserGuardian Intrusion Detection System earns Benchmark Innovation Award

    The LaserGuardian from SICK and The HawkEye Effect software provides the ability to know the exact location of an intrusion and pinpoint it on an overview of the facility or interior blueprint.
    By: SICK, Inc.
    03 November, 2016 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By SICK, Inc.
  • ABB announces APW virtual conference for the oil, gas, and chemicals industry

    The event, “Outperform in an uncertain market,” will focus on the oil, gas and chemicals industry and will take place November 10, 2016, 11:00 am-4:00 pm EST. The online conference is free to attend.
    By: ABB
    03 November, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • Menzel Elektromotoren delivers dust resistant motor for Senegalese cement manufacturer

    The motor, which provides the plant with finely ground coal dust to meet the plant's primary energy needs, is operated in a hazardous area classified as zone 22.
    03 November, 2016 | 1 minute
  • ISA’s Standards & Practices Board presents annual awards

    This year, five individuals were presented with awards at the recent ISA Leaders Meeting by Nicholas P. Sands of DuPont, the 2015-16 Vice President of ISA’s S&P Department.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    02 November, 2016 | 1 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Beckhoff opens new facility in Mason, Ohio

    Strategically located in the Cincinnati metropolitan area, this 3,300 square-foot office adds greater local sales and engineering presence for customers in Ohio and the Great Lakes region.
    By: Beckhoff Automation
    31 October, 2016 | 1 minute
  • SICK to partner with AutoCoding Systems at Pack Expo to discuss food safety

    The presentations will focus on how technology suppliers are working to help food and beverage manufacturers meet FSMA requirements. The in-booth presentation will be delivered at the SICK booth by Erik Phillips, US Director of Sales and Business Development at AutoCoding Systems.
    By: SICK, Inc.
    28 October, 2016 | 1 minute
    Sponsored By SICK, Inc.
  • Honeywell to automate remote offshore North Sea drilling platform

    When drilling operations are completed, Statoil’s Valemon platform, located on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, will become a periodically-manned installation and Statoil’s first platform that will be operated from shore
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    26 October, 2016 | 1 minutes
  • ISA and Beamex join to host flowmeter calibration webinar

    The webinar, which will be held November 17 from 12-1:30 PM EST, will feature three automation experts: Nicole Meidl, Product Management Engineer, Emerson; Ned Espy, Technical Director at Beamex; and Roy Tomalino, Calibration Engineer at Beamex.
    By: Beamex, Inc
    21 October, 2016 | 3 minutes
  • ISA opens Saudi Arabian training center at Jubail Industrial College

    The Jubail-ISA Training Center brings ISA’s globally recognized automation and control instruction—as well as its certification review and certificate program courses—to Jubail Industrial City, home to one of the world’s most advanced industrial and engineering complexes.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    20 October, 2016 | 4 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Infinity QS releases whitepaper on automated food safety guidelines

    The increasing availability of the tools that facilitate higher levels of manufacturing productivity and quality creates an opportunity for manufacturers to embrace a fresh mindset and leverage prevention and traceability regulations to improve safety, increase revenue, and elevate brand reputation.
    By: InfinityQS
    17 October, 2016 | 2 minutes
  • ProcessVue facilitates alarm management for international gas pipeline

    M.A.C. Solutions installed ProcessVue Collector software at both ends of the pipe. The collector has the function of sucking the data out of the local SCADA database.
    11 October, 2016 | 5 minutes
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