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By Mike Hughes, Schaeffler Specifying linear motion systems isn’t the black art many engineers think it is. Here are some useful tips on how to select suitable linear actuators for single and multi-axis positioning systems.

In 1977, FANUC USA was founded with headquarters originally in Elk Grove Village, IL, to provide service & support for imported machine tools.

Lenze Americas donated $10,000 to the American Red Cross to assist with disaster relief and rebuilding efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

ZigBee Input Device is the global standard for greener, innovative and easy-to-use mice, keyboards, wands, touchpads and other input devices used with computers and CE devices.

Williamsport Area High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, requested that the AF provide technical guidance in enhancing its automation and controls course for students in grades 10-12

ODVA appointed director Cyril Perducat chairman of the board, director Frank Kulaszewicz as treasurer, and Richard Harwell as chief technology officer (CTO).

Gateways from Yokogawa, Honeywell and Nivis successfully demonstrated interoperability with a WCI test client.

September 2012 U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $667.47 million, up 40.7% from August and up 13.4% from September 2011.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Homeland Security's Lisa Kaiser gave a sobering presentation on cyber security issues and attacks. Kaiser emphasized that we are playing catch-up, noting that Foreign Cyber Espionage in the USA has been more intense in the last few years with a large black market for buying and selling information.

An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.

Industrial Automation (8-12 April 2013) focuses on the efficient use of energy and resources, including smart production systems and processes.

By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An OPC toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of OPC applications for programmers by providing standard functions for reading and writing OPC items, browsing and managing the OPC address space, and much more.

ISA and NAMUR have identified five common working groups that offer immediate collaborative opportunities.

CABA and AEE will establish forums about energy and intelligent buildings for regulatory organizations, energy service providers, and building automation vendors.

Prior to joining the Leicester based company, Moore spent about 20 years implementing lean manufacturing tools for an electrical products manufacturer.

Visitors to ComVac from April 8 to 12, 2013 can look forward to a complete overview of the state of the art in compressed air and vacuum technology.

Liberty Property Trust owns 79 million square feet of office and industrial space throughout the US and the UK. eSight manages them all.

ARC clients can now make use of ARC’s supplier selection process for Advanced Process Control (APC), Analytics, Batch Control, CPM/MES and Distributed Control Systems (DCS).

Five online condition monitoring systems were installed on wind turbines at the Crystal Rig wind farm in Scotland. 20 more are expected to be installed later this year.

With a total screen surface of 40 m by 8.4 m, Airtel’s LED video wall is probably the world’s largest suspended LED video wall.