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Hermetic Switch will immediately begin operating under a new name: HSI Sensing.

Schneider Packaging Equipment is celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary as a privately owned family business, with three generations of Schneiders in active roles in the company.

Barry-Wehmiller appointed Chris Hric Business Development Manager for Global Engineering Solutions. An 11-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Hric commanded troops during Operations Desert Shield/Storm.

The economic downturn has impacted the market growth but there are increasing signs of recovery, starting this year, according to ARC.

DCS manufacturers will have to be wary of competition from SCADA systems, which use PC-based software to integrate programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on a network to replicate the functions of DCS.

This valuable resource—the top purchasing guide in the automation field—is available to ISA’s members from a link on the ISA homepage.

The catalog contains information on PackTrak maglev technology for controlling tools and end effectors.

Asia-Pacific sales director Masao “Mac” Watabe has been appointed to the position of CEO for JAI Japan.

OPTIPACT motion sensors measure velocity by calculating the rate at which an image of a moving surface travels across an optical sensor.

SST designs, manufactures and markets a range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets.

Proficonn - the smallest PROFIBUS-DP Interface module worldwide - of profichip GmbH in Herzogenaurach received the Innovation prize 2010 as part of the Initiative Mittelstand in the hardware category.

Weston will work from the Ames, Iowa, location and is replacing Tim Hanson, who has been serving as interim Executive Vice President and CMO and will retire later this year.

By Manny Mandrusiak, OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation has been receiving a lot of email lately regarding the different technologies that are now offered in the OPC portfolio in 2010. It is very easy to see where individuals could become overwhelmed with the number of options that now exist. Here at the OPC Foundation we have taken steps to bring some clarity to the marketplace by simplifying the OPC message regarding the three core OPC technologies: OPC Classic, OPC Xi, and OPC UA.

By Software Toolbox TOP Server BACnet OPC Server software provides access to full diagnostics of alarms and monitoring of the cooling systems from the control room

ZigBee Smart Energy version 2.0 Technical Requirements Document (TRD) is available for public comment by the Smart Grid community at large, opening it beyond those who have been active in its creation.

Open standards, more powerful desktop computers, and lower cost software are making design, modeling, and automatic code generation for PLCs and PACs practical for improving automation.

The on-line tool utilizes data collected and analyzed from more than two hundred manufacturing organizations participating in Aberdeen's primary research.

Catalog includes 300 off-the-shelf lenses, mirrors, windows, filters, polarizers, beamsplitters and prisms specifically designed for mid wave (MWIR) and long wave (LWIR) infrared spectra applications.

Speakers at the WBF conference, May 24-26, will include Patrick Kennedy of OSIsoft and Thomas F. Edgar of UT Austin.

Report observes a decline in the incident rate in the petroleum and chemical industries, but an increase in the incident rate in the water & wastewater and the power & utilities industries.