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Parpia will take over the position from Ravishankar G., who resigned for personal reasons.

CIMdata says cPDm will continue as the fastest-growing segment of the PLM market with a five-year forecast of 9.3 percent, resulting in a projected cPDm market size of $15 billion by 2015.

Automation.com, April 2011 By Jeff Kamin, QComp Robots are the buzz for anyone in manufacturing, assembling, packaging or distributing products. Many end users rely on an integrator or OEM to provide a robot solution without really understanding the potential benefits and liabilities. This article poses some of the questions that a robotic user should consider prior to selecting a robot and a robot programmer/installer.

Supply chain software developer merges with systems integrator.

ROMeo optimization software enables CNPC to respond in real time to changes in feedstock variation, process conditions and utilities prices for sustainable energy savings.

Automation.com, March 2011 By PLCopen North America The use of skid mounted equipment has become popular for a number of reasons but they pose some unique automation and control challenges that can be solved by using IEC 61131-3 and PLCopen standards.

Constellation will deploy the SmartSignal Shield predictive-diagnostic solution, along with SmartSignal Cycle Watch software for combustion turbine start-ups.

Online game simulates a Plant Manager’s experience and challenges players to increase productivity, sustainability and the overall health of an industrial plant.

Honeywell will provide its Safety Manager, Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), Da Vinci Quality Control System (QCS) and OptiVISION manufacturing execution system (MES).

GE will integrate controls at 13 water treatment plants and 62 sewer pumping stations, covering an area of 36 square miles.

Automation.com, March 2011 By Bill Lydon, Editor The intent of this energy initiative is to create a comprehensive approach to the optimization of energy usage for the industrial consumer that is scalable, open and inclusive for both users and suppliers.

The SAFEcontractor certificate was awarded for all of the company’s activity, including technical consultancy, industrial automation hardware, industrial automation software, training and support.

Revenue for the quarter was $410,532, an 18% increase over $347,023 for the same period last year.

Transpara Visual KPI extends visibility of equipment performance data by delivering KPI), scorecards, trends and alerts to more than 400 smartphones and PDAs.

Multi-variable predictive control technology such as Profit Controller allows mining companies to design, implement and maintain advanced control systems, which can drive processes to maximum economic benefit.

Fox-IT will integrate MatrikonOPC’s full range of OPC Servers into its Fox DataDiode - a solution used to securely transmit data between networks that have different levels of security.

This total consumption was down 16.3% from December but up 188.3% when compared with the total of $128.82 million reported for January 2010.

By Mark Humphlett, Infor Soon after starting a continuous improvement program, Overly Door realized that its largest source of waste came from the way that it took orders and translated those orders into information that drives manufacturing — a process affecting the entire business.

Process Data Monitor (PDM) learns from the day to day operation of your systems and automatically generates an experience database. It then generates confidence metrics for usual behavior and delivers notification on unusual behavior.

Exploring critical business areas for both project and asset performance, the paper seeks to identify how Owner Operators can reduce operational cost and risk through an optimised information management strategy.