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Honeywell will install an Experion R300 PKS and other equipment valued at $3.7 million at Huntsman’s new polyethylene plant in Wilton, UK, due to open in 2007. The single plant-wide automation system will be provided through engineering contractor Simon Carves Limited and will include Honeywell C300 controllers, integrated safety systems and process field device integration.

Festo now offers individual services to customers wishing to achieve more efficient use of compressed air. The Energy Saving Service covers everything from consumption and leakage measurements to machine inspection and final analysis.

Rexroth catalog SC-400.10 features 128 pages of technical and ordering information and an overview section on Series QR1 pneumatic push-in fittings.

This announcement endorses the longstanding alliance relationship that DuPont and Rockwell Automation have shared over the last 15 years for PLC-based control systems. It now expands the relationship to leverage Rockwell Automation’s process system capability.

To date, the company has been selected to install its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with the Ovation expert control system at seven new coal-fired power plants, all slated to go into commercial operation within the next five years. These new plants represent an additional 5,505 MW of new generating capacity.

Gordon McFarland, senior power plant performance analyst with Emerson's North American Power & Water solutions division, has received the ISA's Standards & Practices Award. The award recognizes McFarland for his leadership in the initial development of fossil power plant standards, and for 25 years of continuous support and direction of those standards.

Emerson will install its PlantWeb digital plant architecture and an Ovation expert control system at Xcel Energy's new Comanche Power Station Unit 3, located near Pueblo, Colo. The 750-MW, supercritical plant is Xcel Energy's first new coal-fired electric generation unit in nearly 30 years.

The Ovation system has a bus platform that supports Foundation fieldbus, DeviceNet and PROFIBUS DP industry standard communications protocols. The bus platform also has the capability to incorporate emerging protocols, such as PROFINET and EtherNet/IP.

This achievement in the Kingdom is being celebrated with a gala dinner for customers and partners at the Sunset Beach Resort, Al Khobar.

Roberto Tunioli, Vice Chairman and CEO of Datalogic, is the winner of the 10th Italian edition of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, which is given to business leaders who have distinguished themselves for their talent, initiative, commitment and contribution to the socio-economic growth of their country.

AMT is staffed and ready to provide a full range of programming, training and support services for Behr EcoRP6 robots, Behr fixed automation systems and Behr’s 3D-Onsite computer simulation software.

This desktop reference guide offers details and specifications on Keithley's general-purpose and sensitive sourcing and measurement products, DC switching, RF switching and measurement, data acquisition solutions, semiconductor test systems, and optoelectronics test hardware. Tutorials simplify choosing solutions for specific applications.

The BiSS webinar on December 6 is part of a campaign launched recently by Danaher called the "Campaign for Absolute Freedom," which seeks to accelerate the adoption of BiSS and encourages engineers to petition drive manufacturers to support the BiSS protocol on their drives.

The GRF has been re-engineered to make it last longer. GRF is a pneumatically controlled spring return gripper which is used to secure difficult parts with more force by positioning of the gripper finger. Gripper components are available with three different angles of rotation: 35, 90 and 95 degrees, depending on the grip required.

This new agreement expands Emerson's current use of Intergraph's lifecycle instrumentation engineering software and enhances interoperability and efficiency between Emerson's DeltaV digital automation system, a core component of the company's PlantWeb digital plant architecture, and Intergraph's SmartPlant Instrumentation software.

Rockwell Automation honored its most accomplished engineers at the 24th annual Patent and Innovation awards celebrations Nov. 14 in Milwaukee, and Nov. 16 in Cleveland, Ohio. Keith Nosbusch, chairman and CEO, and Sujeet Chand, senior vice president and chief technology officer, presented the company’s two most prestigious recognitions, the Odo J. Struger Automation Award and the Engineer of the Year award.

Ethernet Direct Asia Pacific has offices in Vietnam and agents in Singapore, Thailand and Middle East.

This 150-page guide provides complete technical information, features, benefits and an easy-to-use selection guide for RFID and barcode products, including a new family of barcode imaging cameras.

Leading Edge Controls, San Antonio, specializes in industrial control systems. Stephen Horras, founder of Leading Edge Controls, will direct the new location. The San Antonio location will also support the needs of established JMP clients, especially Toyota and their new 2000 acre truck manufacturing plant opening later this year.

Matrikon's Australian division will supply a Process Information Management System (PIMS) to Xstrata’s Australian copper and zinc-lead-silver operation, Mount Isa Mines. The solution will allow Mount Isa Mines to optimize metallurgical operations and increase production and processing performance through the web-based access to real-time and historical operations data.