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Telemecanique® Automation and Control Repair Services can maintain more than 120,000 products from more than 2,500 manufacturers. Customers now have a single source to repair or replace their entire automation and control equipment line, regardless of the manufacturer.

The flowmeter selection chart shows the technology that provides best value in a typical application of a fluid. The chart also compares various technologies and fluids on the basis of cost, accuracy, installation requirements, output type, on-unit display availability, power requirements, flow switching availability, rangability, fluid conductivity and response time.

ABB has signed an agreement with Cooper Tire and Rubber Company to manage maintenance operations at Cooper's Albany, Georgia plant in the United States.

FKI Logistex has won a contract from Hamburg Library (Hamburger Öffentliche Bücherhallen (HÖB)) in Germany to deliver a fully automated RFID-based item-handling and sorting system for the Hamburg central library and 17 city libraries.

An online catalog of 2D and 3D configurable product models using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET allows customers to configure, view and download 2D and 3D CAD drawings directly into their designs to check for fit and function. SolidWorks product models are available for SICK STEGMANN’s absolute and incremental encoders, length measuring systems, and motor feedback systems.

Yokogawa has entered into a formal agreement with Dresser-Masoneilan, Flowserve, Metso Automation, and Samson AG for standards-based interoperability in control systems, sensors, and control valves in the process automation field. The agreement ensures that Yokogawa's PRM asset management system and CENTUM series production control system are interoperable with their control valves.

ABB won a contract worth $36 million from ThyssenKrupp for engineering and power equipment at a new steel plant in Brazil. ABB will carry out extensive engineering work and supply power equipment, including a 138-kilovolt (kV) substation, high- and medium-voltage switchgear, transformers and power cables.

To increase sales and engineering support for customers in South America, Beckhoff Automation has opened its newest subsidiary in Brazil. Together with distribution partners in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, Beckhoff is now represented in four countries on the South American continent.

JetNet 5010G and 3010G/3010GT Gigabit switches are suitable for a high bandwidth media networking environment, or a gradual migration to Gigabit speeds for industrial automation.

Honeywell will install an extension to its existing Printa Press Control System in Harmsworth Quays Printing's plant in Surrey Quays, London. HQP is a subsidiary of UK publishing group Associated Newspapers. The system extension is part of HQP's expansion of its Koenig & Bauer printing presses and will significantly speed up the printing process.

Chris Curtis, president of Schneider Electric USA, has been honored as a pioneer of sales and marketing with a 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from Frost & Sullivan.

These spring clamp blocks come as small as 4 mm wide for a 16 AWG wire, all the way up to a 16 mm wide terminal that will handle a 2 AWG wire. They carry ratings from 15 amps at 300 volts up to 115 amps at 600 volts.

NI application software, including LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio and SignalExpress, as well as NI hardware drivers for PCI Express, PCI, PXI and USB devices, will be available for use with Windows Vista shortly after Microsoft releases the operating system to the general public.

Microsoft has awarded Beckhoff the status of Gold Partner in the Windows Embedded Partner program. To qualify as Microsoft Windows Embedded Gold Partners, companies must demonstrate first rate embedded technology knowledge.

OST was appointed an Integration Partner for the Sick/IVP range of high speed line scan cameras and profiling systems. Currently OST is installing a multiple camera system at a leading vehicle manufacturer.

KMT has acquired Robotic Production Technology, a robotic trimming solutions provider, as well as H2O Jet, a manufacturer and distributor of pumps, spare parts and components for waterjet equipment including diamond nozzles. The combined annual revenue of the acquired companies amounts to approximately SEK 300 million. Both companies will be consolidated in the KMT Group as of 1 December 2006 as part of the Waterjet Product Area.

MOXA has received Vista certification for its multiport serial board and serial device server products from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Laboratories (WHQL) for Windows Vista x86 and x64 editions

PAS integrated Intergraph's SmartPlant Instrumentation with PAS' Integrity Automation Configuration Management (ACM) software to provide Configuration Visualization, Change Management Reporting, and Configuration Integrity Checks. As a result, customers may track signal flow from any instrument through all automation assets and advanced applications used in process plants.

Both located in Münster, Germany, Embedded-Logic Design & More GmbH (ELDM) and BeDeHa GmbH are developers of Embedded PC technology. ELDM specializes in the development of PC motherboards while BeDeHa distributes and adapts BIOS software. The two companies will remain based at their current locations and will continue to act independently in the market.

Cimetrix says its CIMPortal software product has been selected for Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International's (SEMI) Interface A standards compliance by 50 percent of the top 20 largest semiconductor equipment suppliers in the world.