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The office provides industrial automation and control solutions for customers in the Osaka, Sakai and Wakayama areas.

The highway span is raised and lowered 20 times a day, and the cable that controls it is unwound and rewound as many times.

Talvivaara Mining Company is constructing Europe’s largest nickel mine at Talvivaara in the Sotkamo region of Finland.

The General Industry Group will provide programming, software, vision, mechanical design, controls, simulation and training.

Schneider Electric's Initi@tive 2006 trade exposition in the United States, to be held September 28-30 in Orlando, will include seminars on automation and control, electrical distribution and energy efficiency.

ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. today announced the launch of a significant reorganization of its Automation Systems Group (ASG) as part of the continuing implementation of its strategic plan and improvement initiatives.

Jason Klann has been promoted to senior vice president, business development and strategy. In this role, Klann and his team will continue to drive external growth through acquisitions, as well as working with the North American Operating Division business leaders to continually develop and grow Schneider Electric business strategies in a competitive and changing marketplace.

Emerson Process Management received a contract to modernize the instrumentation and control systems for Unit 3 of the Karlshamn power plant in Sweden. The contract, which calls for the installation of Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture with the Ovation expert control system, was awarded by Karlshamn Kraft AB, a company within E.ON Nordic and partly owned also by Fortum Generation.

Ethernet Direct will sponsor a worldwide Industrial Ethernet Survey being developed by Network Vision. To better understand how companies look at and approach industrial Ethernet technology, Network vision has developed the Worldwide Industrial Ethernet Survey to help recognize key issues and how companies are addressing them.

During this two-day, hands-on course, attendees will learn how to assemble and configure instruments from a variety of vendors into an efficient test setup, and control all of them from a single software interface. Attendees will be able to avoid costly delays by learning how to recognize common test system data communication issues and to steer clear of measurement errors by learning how to coordinate the operation of multiple instruments.

Seminars in multiple locations around the world in September and October illustrate how PAT and other technologies can help today's pharmaceutical manufacturers drive manufacturing excellence. The first seminar is September 19 in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Engineering Procurement Contractor, GSEC of Seoul, Korea, has awarded Invensys Process Systems a multimillion dollar automation contract to provide an integrated process control, safety, asset management, and plant information system solution for the grassroots Laffan Refinery under construction at the Ras Laffan City in Qatar.

Under the agreement, the companies will co-market dcLINK, DSI’s automated data capture (ADC) and RFID solution, to Lawson customers worldwide. DSI will also be a one-stop source for Lawson customers to purchase handheld and vehicle-mounted data collection devices, RFID portals and interrogators, labels, tags, implementation services, and support.

ABB, the leading power and automation technology company, announced it has acquired the assets of the manufacturing and industrial contracting units of Raffin Electric Company Ltd., in Canada. Based in Calgary, Raffin Electric is a leader in custom pre-manufactured Power Distribution Centers and other electrical distribution equipment used primarily in harsh outdoor environments.

Emerson Process Management won a contract to install its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with the Ovation expert control system at We Energies Oak Creek Expansion Project.

Free machine vision seminars for manufacturing professionals run from August through December and are held in major cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. These popular half-day events show how machine vision can be applied to improve quality and reduce costs.

Siemens' Annual Industrial Ethernet Symposium will be held for the first time in the U.S. this fall. Scheduled for Oct. 3-4, 2006, the symposium will be held at the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel in downtown Chicago.

Blazer Industries will implement a DEACOM ERP system to fully integrate manufacturing operations and reduce procedural inefficiencies, including duplicate entries and manual processes. Blazer Industries was hindered by separate software systems and a number of labor-intensive procedures that slowed productivity.

As the main automation contractor, Honeywell will supply Qatar Shell GTL Ltd. with some of its highest profile solutions – the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) Release 300 platform, UniSim process simulation solution, the Safety Manager instrumented protection and fire & gas systems – to enable a smooth startup and safe and reliable operations for the Pearl GTL project. Last year, Qatar Shell GTL awarded Honeywell a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract to conduct preliminary engineering for the site.

Allied Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Panduit, a leading manufacturer of wiring and communication products. Allied will distribute Panduit’s entire line of products, greatly expanding Allied’s current offering of wiring and cable accessories.