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  • Baumer obtains UL listing for CleverLevel level switch

    CleverLevel LBFS/LFFS level switch has been listed by the American Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL).
    21 November, 2014 | 1 minute
  • ASM Consortium has 20th anniversary

    The ASM Consortium has been working continuously together for more than 20 years to maximize safety and performance by preventing or minimizing the impact of abnormal situations.
    20 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork to supply electro-hydraulic actuators for oil pipeline in Colombia

    Rotork EH electro-hydraulic actuators will be used for failsafe valve control on the Colombian Bicentennial Pipeline, which will have a capacity of up to 600,000 bbl/d of crude oil when completed in early 2016.
    20 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Asiatic Agricultural Industries Converts to EX

    Mettler Toledo helped Asiatic Agricultural Industries to convert its mix of EX and non-EX equipment in its plants to all EX equipment.
    17 November, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • B&R opens office in Manchester, UK

    Managed by area sales manager Andrew Norcliffe, the UK Northern office employs 3 application engineers, including a dedicated B&R technology trainer.
    17 November, 2014 | 1 minute
  • 2014 Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 5.2%

    September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $647.63 million, up 77.3% from August and up 61.4% when compared with the total of $401.18 million reported for September 2013.
    10 November, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Cyber Sciences obtains CE and RCM Marks for event recorders

    CyTime Sequence of Events Recorders (SER) and GPS time synchronization products are now suitable for use in European and Australian mission critical facilities.
    07 November, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Phoenix Contact obtains safety ratings for QUINT POWER DC/DC converters

    Three models in the QUINT POWER family of DIN rail DC/DC power converters are listed for IECEx, ATEX, and Class I, Division 2 applications.
    07 November, 2014 | 1 minute
  • exida certifies RPC Radiy RadICS logic solver

    exida has certified RPC Radiy’s FPGA-Based Safety Controller (FSC) RadICS for functional safety, ensuring that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.
    06 November, 2014 | 1 minute
  • HIMA modernizes safety systems at Heide Refinery

    Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems.
    06 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • WIN-911 Opens Office in Grenoble, France

    The European office will deliver channel partner and technical support for alarm notification software to European, Middle Eastern, and African markets.
    30 October, 2014 | 1 minute
  • PPCL to fix control room alarms at Atlantic LNG plant

    Process Plant Computing Limited will streamline control room alarms across four LNG trains at Atlantic's Point Fortin plant, on the southwest coast of Trinidad.
    29 October, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • HIMA to supply safety solution to Daqing Petrochemical

    Daqing Petrochemical Company will use the HIMA FlexSILon TMC solution for safely controlling turbomachines at its gasoline desulfurization plant being built in Daqing City, in China’s Heilongjiang province.
    29 October, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Building Safety into Metal Forming Machines

    By Steve Aamodt, SICK To help prevent injuries and increase productivity for end users, machine builders are incorporating safety into the design of metal forming and bending machines. The old way of thinking, that safety harms productivity, has changed, in large part due to better safety systems.
    29 October, 2014 | 7 minutes
    Sponsored By SICK, Inc.
  • Rexroth adds CIP Safety on Sercos to its drives

    To simplify the development of complex machines, Rexroth is integrating safety technology into the Sercos automation network.
    27 October, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation Acquires ESC Services

    ESC Services is a hazardous energy control provider of lockout-tagout services and solutions.
    27 October, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson Wireless Steam Trap Monitors Increase Efficiency at Coffee Plant in Mexico

    By David Gustafson, Emerson Process Management It took only two weeks to install the first system, and already it’s saved $100,000 in maintenance costs and increased production by 5,000 tons per year.
    24 October, 2014 | 5 minutes
  • ISA Process Control & Safety Symposium report

    More than 200 process measurement and control professionals in chemical and energy processing and other process industry sectors attended the International Society of Automation’s (ISA’s) 2014 Process Control & Safety Symposium in Houston, Texas.
    16 October, 2014 | 6 minutes
  • ISA acquires Automation.com

    ISA will own Automation.com, including its website, intellectual property and all associated products, trademarks and copyrights. ISA will incorporate a new wholly-owned subsidiary called Automation.com, and Rick Zabel will remain the Publisher and Managing Director.
    13 October, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Waste-to-Energy Facility in Cornwall, U.K.

    Yokogawa will supply control systems and safety instrumented systems for a waste-to-energy facility being built for SITA Cornwall Ltd. in the U.K.
    09 October, 2014 | 2 minutes
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