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EZ Trax new software provides a tool to manage bar code images as they are captured. It has an intuitive user interface for user-defined settings such as file naming and output mode options, and memory allocation for storage of image captures. The software works with Microscan's Easy Setup Program (ESP) to support and provide additional functionality for imager products. A free demo version is available for download on the website.

ML4.2 Photoelectric Sensors provide optimal background suppression sensing capabilities in a compact 14mm x 18mm x 33mm housing. Targets are precisely detected at ranges up to 80mm, while background objects just millimeters away are ignored. Color insensitivity is less than 10%, so targets are reliably detected regardless of color.

GRAMS 8.0 is a comprehensive update of the company’s multi-vendor spectroscopy software solution. Version 8 enhances workgroup and enterprise connectivity via a full client/server update to Spectral DB, and features the all-new Web-enabled Envision viewing and reporting tool.

Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. selected Invensys Process Systems to implement a new mesh network-based Foxboro I/A Series automation system for the electrolytic and melting plant processes at Teck Cominco's metallurgical operations at Trail, in southeast British Columbia, Canada.

Aluminum-based inlay (V730S-D13-P01)(HF ISO15693) achieves comparable performance with copper inlays, making it suitable for security and asset tracking applications such as library and access control. The new inlay caters to the needs of customers who prefer aluminum instead of copper inlays due to environmental concerns about disposal of copper waste.

FKI Logistex has been awarded a contract from Schenker AB, an international provider of air, sea freight, and logistics services, for a parcel sorting system at its distribution center in Stockholm, Sweden.

Keithley's Metrology Services Group is now accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005, the single most important metrology standard for test and measurement, by the A2LA (American Association for Laboratory Accreditation).

The Schneider Electric Motion Competency Center in Plymouth, Mich. brings together a team of motion control experts from multiple disciplines, including application engineers, quote and application specialists, design engineers and project managers to provide customers with complete motion solutions. The center will offer customers increased proficiency, superior product knowledge and custom solutions in one location.

Control Design magazine’s Reader’s Choice awards are the result of an unaided survey of subscribers who have authority to specify, recommend or purchase industrial automation and control products. Hardware and software categories are listed without any list of vendors, and participants are asked to indicate the single best vendor for the products he or she has experience with.

Napac designs, builds and markets a comprehensive portfolio of software and equipment to deliver end-to-end remote management solutions, comprising dedicated PLCs, SCADA software and web interfaces for a wide variety of customer applications, such as gas and fluids storage, water networks, refrigerated warehouses, control room management, power generation and HVAC engineering. It reported nearly €6 million in revenue in 2005.

To celebrate the introduction of its new low cost, high performance EPSON Micro PowerDrive controller, EPSON Robots will be giving away one (1) free Micro PowerDrive controller with one high performance E2 SCARA robots in the first ever North American Robot Giveaway.

The Moerdijk QRC is a fully equipped, regional sales and service center that provides complete sealing solutions and localized customer support. The new Moerdijk QRC offers mechanical seal manufacturing, repair, failure analysis, and inventory backup for quick response to Flowserve customers in the Netherlands and throughout northern Europe.

The 14th annual BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) Robotics Competition kicks off this month at BEST hub locations nationwide. This year's competition marks the second year for igus as the sole nationwide product sponsor for the event. BEST, a non-profit, volunteer organization, aims to inspire middle and high school students to pursue careers in engineering, science and technology through participation in science- and engineering-based robotics competition

Invensys Process Systems' Foxboro, Massachusetts-based Global Product Support group has achieved certification under the Support Center Practices (SCP) certification program for the fourth consecutive year. SCP certification quantifies the effectiveness of customer support based upon a stringent set of performance standards representing best practices in the industry.

Powerpact R-frame UL 489 listed molded case circuit breakers can replace bulkier, more expensive, insulated case breakers. For panel builders and electrical distribution equipment manufacturers, the unit-mounted breakers can fit applications including main service, feeders and high-current branches. They are also ideal for panels and equipment requiring high currents, such as back-up power, generators and HVAC.

Junot Systems and Inexcon Technologies have signed a letter of intent to integrate ITI'S Ekho application with SAP R/3 and mySAP using Junot Systems' NLINK product suite and SAP-certified interfaces.

More than 200 prospects and customers attended the second day of "Results-Driven Power Control" ABB Low Voltage Products Roadshow, held at the Ritz Carlton on June 23 - 24. "They arrived early and expressed enormous interest in the workshops and exhibits," said John Fahey, a principal of En-Sync, a manufacturer's representative for the district.

The Joint Venture company has its headquarters in Yuyao to the South of Shanghai and carries the name Ningbo Hirschmann Electronics Co., Ltd. It will produce Hirschmann standard versions of different connector series in large quantities. Customized versions and special versions will still be manufactured at the Hirschmann sites in Békéscsaba/Hungary or Neckartenzlingen.

The Honeywell system will enable the Datong Coal Mine Group to increase mine safety and improve the operating efficiency of its mining operation. The contract is valued at $2.5 million and includes design, engineering, commissioning, testing and maintenance services.

Actual solutions and success stories from many different applications are featured on the website. It shows how the Ethernet network infrastructure fits into the four main industries of machine building, metals, petrochemicals, and semiconductors.