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F C Lane Electronics  a market-leading franchised distributor for many of the industry’s major electrical, electronic and optical connector manufacturers, is celebrating 60 years of trading since their foundation on April 12, 1966.

Industrial automation in clean energy is transforming how electricity is produced, stored and delivered.

Let's dive deep into what ATE is, how it applies in the real world and how it transforms modern production lines.

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SEMI Talent Forum connects students, young professionals with semiconductor companies to help build talent pipeline.

The company will host a wide variety of activities, giveaways and resources during the show at booth 4A-633.

The retired head of Instrumentation, Control & Electrical professionals within ExxonMobil Upstream makes the case for open systems development for automation projects. This feature originally appeared in the April issue of InTech magazine.

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com Given the number of vendors that have introduced electronic marshalling products, the value of electronic marshalling is clear. With Siemens’ entry into the world of open automation solutions, the value of these solutions should become increasingly clear as well.

By Moazzam Shamsi, Emerson Process Management Wireless instrumentation can be used to quickly cut operating expenses with minimal required capital expenditures, aiding project justification in process plants. This article will compare wired to wireless installations, and show how wireless provides advantages in many instances.

By Bill Lydon, Editor In an article titled 'Is it time for a new automation architecture?' I posed a question that stemmed from a number of discussions with users who believe our industry is stagnant. Many users voiced their opinions in an open discussion forum. They are frustrated with debates about which existing, outdated architectures are better. Many believe it’s time for a NEW architecture.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Honeywell Process Solutions recently introduced a new program called LEAP, which stands for Lean Execution of Automation Projects. LEAP changes the way projects are executed. LEAP leverages a number of Honeywell hardware and software developments to improve the efficiency of project execution, including virtualization, Experion Universal Process I/O and cloud engineering.

LEAP represents a departure from the way plants are typically designed and built by using parallel workflows to keep automation systems off critical implementation paths.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Exxon is improving the execution of automation projects. They are challenging automation suppliers to develop products that make installation, operations, and maintenance more efficient. Here's a summary of Exxon's initiative.

exida issued a functional safety certification per the IEC 61508 and several application standards for the Emerson Process Management DeltaV CHARMS SIS product line.

Up to 150 Honeywell and third-party engineers will be working at this facility, which enables testing of systems destined for the Shah sour gas field.

Solvay’s Tavaux plant faces the task of managing a collection of control systems from multiple suppliers. This includes DCSs, PLCs, relay-based systems, pneumatic systems, and emergency shutdown systems (ESD).

The existing distributed control system will be replaced at Perstorp's plant in Sweden The project will be Europe’s first installation of version 11 of DeltaV.

By Invensys Process Systems Two companies--Dakota Gasification and Teck Cominco—upgraded their control systems to use HART communications. In both cases, the companies had HART instrumentation that had been installed years earlier, but were not using the HART data because their old control systems didn’t support it. IPS solved the problem.

IPS will provide distributed control systems (DCS) and automation solutions to power plants located in Banten, Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah and Jawa Timur.

Pepperl+Fuchs Systems & Solutions Business Unit recently received UL508A, UL698A and UL698B accreditation from the Underwriters Laboratories Inc. for the manufacture and certification of general purpose and hazardous location control panels.