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Emerson will be sponsoring speakers at several upcoming trade gatherings to educate the industry on the risks and issues associated with salvaged, remanufactured and surplus equipment. It will work with FM Approvals and others to spread the word that such equipment may not be entitled to bear the FM NRTL mark

Ethernet Direct is cooperating with KTS Optonics Co. Ltd., to set up Ethernet Direct Korea. KTS Optonics was established in 2001 as a fiber optic product supplier, and grown to be the leading supplier of fiber and networking products in Korea.

GE Fanuc signed a marketing agreement with SAP to jointly market GE Fanuc Production Management solutions and SAP applications, easing plant floor and enterprise integration. This relationship allows both companies to leverage each other’s strengths to meet the needs of customers in important Americas markets.

Devon Energy Corporation eas recognized for Innovation and Excellence in SCADA applications for Oil and Gas. The presentation was made during ISA Expo at the Control Microsystems booth.

To fulfill requirements for a wide variety of customers, Air Purity is achieved via incorporation of Oil-Free Rotary Screw, Oil-Less Scroll & Oil-Free Vortex Blower compressor technologies. Hitachi’s Air Technology Group Products are incorporated into many market applications such as medical, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, electronics, etc. With nearly 100 years of experience in air compression, Hitachi is able to provide the customer with proven, reliable and efficient options.

Thermo Electron will showcase its full complement of process control products in booth #1332 at the ISA Expo in Houston, Texas from October 17-19, 2006. At the ISA Expo, Thermo’s booth will feature process analyzers, air, gas and liquid flowmeters, density meters, and level sensors.

Verano expanded the worldwide distribution network for its security event management solution, Industrial Defender, with the addition of six new resellers in EMEA and Australia. New partners include ATGS in Russia, CSE-Uniserve in Australia, Emte Sistemas in Spain, Ferranti in Belgium, Qpit in the Netherlands and Vision Automation in Italy.

ICS Triplex has chosen the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety for its next generation of safety-rated, fault-tolerant control and safety systems. The Green Hills software allows ICS Triplex to design and deliver control systems that meet and exceed international safety standards.

Siemens will display its Totally Integrated Automation in all levels from Process Analytics and Process Instrumentation to Process Control. Siemens will also showcase the PCS 7 integrated control & safety system platform that has been selected by several major oil & gas and chemical companies for both new and modernization projects.

RTA-OSEK RTOS has been integrated with the MULTI integrated development environment (IDE). Developers of automotive ECU software can now reduce their development time, produce code with fewer bugs and lower their production cost.

Intermec's Oct. 24 60-minute live webcast webinar covers Engine and Component Tracking: Logistics and Error Proofing with RFID. It will be conducted by Tech Center President Chuck Boyles, Bradford Beale of Comtrol and Intermec's Mike Fisher.

Junot Systems and Loftware have signed a letter of intent to integrate Loftware’s Loftware Print Server (LPS) application with SAP® R/3® and mySAP® using Junot Systems’ patented NLINK® product suite with its SAP-certified interfaces.

Designed to make RF power measurements in both field and R&D lab environments, the compact Model 3500 provides the accuracy of a benchtop RF power meter with the convenience of a portable instrument at half the cost of competing products. With a wide frequency range of 10MHz to 6GHz, the Model 3500 is useful in a variety of applications, including test of mobile phone and cellular infrastructures, WLAN devices, RFID readers, WiMax devices, and wireless sensors.

Danaher Motion has signed two new Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) technology partners - the US group Jervis B. Webb Company (Farmington Hills, MI), and TTS Port Equipment AB from Sweden. Central to this strategic cooperative venture is Danaher Motion’s NDC8 control platform, to be used by both companies in their AGV solutions. AGVs that feature NDC8 technology are particularly easy to manage, maintain, reconfigure and expand, while reducing total cost of ownership.

Cirronet will show an end-to-end Condition-Based Operations (CBO) platform with Aleier, Inc., at booth #2370 at ISA EXPO 2006, October 17-19. The Cirronet/Aleier CBO platform streamlines integration of Cirronet's industrial wireless sensor networking with Aleier's Enterprise Asset Management system (EAM).

GMagnum OGP (Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals) hardened Ethernet Switches and Serial Media Converters meet both the UL 1604 Class 1 Division 2 certification for use in hazardous environments and IEEE PCIC draft specifications for 14-mil silicone-based conformal coating that protects equipment against even highly corrosive gases such as hydrogen sulfide and benzene.

Enhancements to Advanced Alarm Administrator (AAASuite) Version R1.20 include static alarm suppression, excluding suppressed alarms from analysis, and removing limitations of CENTUM CS Controller-dedicated Function. Once problems and issues have been identified and prioritized by Exaplog, AAASuite then optimizes and enhances alarming functions to pave the way to an effective alarm management practice.

Enhancements to Exaplog Event and Analysis Package version R3.10 software include: increase number of days of data the can be displayed to 31 days; increase the maximum number of events that can be displayed to 1,000,000; increase the maximum number of events per day that can be saved to 150,000; add Fieldbus related messages to the types of messages that can be saved and analyzed.

Alloy, an Australian manufacturer, wholesaler and distributor of computer networking, communications and associated products, has set up Global Ethernet Direct’s new base in the Pacific Rim to serve customers in that region.

RFID Gen 2 printers will be installed at check-in counters to further enhance the existing RFID baggage sorting system, which was first installed in 2005. HKIA is the first airport in the world to implement an end-to-end RFID baggage tagging/sorting system.