Articles and News

Honeywell will supply an Experion Process Knowledge System and Unisim to control KOGAS' liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.

Kevin Bishop will manage the new office and take charge of business development for the North American region.

Geometric will sell MetaCAM, a sheet metal product from Metamation.

Shock waves can be adequately controlled by optimizing the cooling pulsation timing and amplitude. This offers great potential for power plant turbine manufacturers to develop more compact engines.

Automation.com, May 2011 By Bill Lydon, Editor The PlantTriage "true believers" gathered at the ExperTune User Conference from around the world to improve their skills and share their project successes. The conference focused on ways to improve process control performance with training, access to industry experts, and case studies.

Automation.com, May 2011 By Bill Lydon, Editor The size of Hannover Fair can be overwhelming but there were industry and technology trends reflected in products and presentations at the event. Here are some specific examples for illustration - in most cases there are many more companies that have products supporting these trends.

With the installation of a vacuum fixture, EKM Elektronik went from testing 30 boards in 8 hours to testing 70 boards in 8 hours.

Research into technical software application spending from Cambashi indicates that, in 2011, worldwide recovery is likely to be fastest in the Aerospace, Process and Utility industries.

Infoteam Software will distribute ISaGRAF in Europe, Germany and China.

In 2010, the Chinese Mainstream PLM market grew 16.2%, and in 2011 the growth rate of the Chinese Mainstream PLM market is forecast to be 16.5%.

Automation.com, May 2011 By Bill Lydon, Editor Here are a few highlights from ABB Automation & Power World 2011. The event attracted a record number of participants, totaling more than 4,200, and featured over 400 educational workshops and hands-on training sessions, over 45 customer-presented case studies, and an exhibition of ABB and partner products.

Excel-Lent software will calculate the number of teeth in the pinion and gear, DP or Module, face width etc. required to transmit power.

The Aegis software collects data and puts it into reports, visualizations, and real-time dashboards that are used by C2M to constantly improve quality and efficiency.

INITEC Energía uses the software to develop and manage HVAC diagrams and P&ID systems.

Free app quickly converts units of measure, calculates the inertia of common shapes, determines material density and looks up common trigonometric or calculus functions.

Successful product development efforts will increasingly be shaped—and driven—by advanced IT tools like product lifecycle management (PLM) and collaborative software

Automation.com, April 2011 By Roy Kok How did Scotty know? How do you know when your systems are normal? Are the Dilithium crystals at their proper temperature and vibrational frequency for this Warp Speed and area of space? Could he be sure he caught every last Tribble, and none are blocking the cooling ducts to the Anti- Matter Drive?

Webinars on April 19 and 28 detail Luxology's modo for SolidWorks Kit, a new tool that facilitates the use of the company's modo software for advanced visualization by SolidWorks users.

Axens will become a sub-licensor of Invensys Operations Management’s SimSci-Esscor PRO/II software.

Honeywell will provide its UniSim Design process simulation software to Shell through 2015.