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The negative impact from the decline of oil and gas prices will continue to perpetuate the global centrifugal pump market’s low growth and even contraction.

By Wim Pessemier, KU Leuven Information modeling, or the ability to express not only data but also the meaning of data, is a key concept in the quest to make systems more intelligent, more autonomous and more evolvable.

By John Mitchell, CP Automation Common symptoms of high harmonics levels include motor vibration, voltage notching, electromagnetic interference and overheating, all of which are harmful for equipment and result in heat loss and increased maintenance and energy costs.

By Bob Jones, Integrated Systems Design One of the principal challenges any organization encounters is how to know when it may be strategically beneficial to push the envelope on an internal logistics system automation project. First you need to ask yourself and your organization some tough questions. Here we will focus on the top five questions to ask.

ZigBee and EnOcean will combine EnOcean energy harvesting wireless solutions with ZigBee 3.0.

The Executive Board of the IFR has elected Joseph Gemma (KUKA Robotics Corporation US) as its new President.

This specification describes the mapping of the Sercos information model to OPC UA so that functions and data of Sercos devices are made available and accessible via OPC UA.

Orders for manufacturing technology in October 2015 were down 0.3% from September and down 17.4% compared to the same point in 2014.

The openROBOTICS program combines COMAU robots with B&R automation systems.

Dr Irwin has experience in creating products and solutions for the wireless market, in the space of IoT, applications, experience management, self-organizing networks and location awareness.

By Bob Love, Schaeffler UK Linear systems are a key part of production machinery and plant automation. If your linear systems are not providing the low friction movements they should be, you will strain your motors and drive systems, which will increase bearing loads and reduces component life.

By Robert Holloway, EU Automation This article discusses the potential of continuous manufacturing compared to its isolated, batch manufacturing alternative, in relation to pharmaceutical manufacturing.

By Manuel Terranova, Peaxy Inc. One critical business imperative of this decade is making good use of data assets. A comprehensive digital dossier, which aggregates such data, is incredibly useful for predictive maintenance initiatives, design processes and other business-critical applications.

The report predicts that it will take until 2019 for world sales revenues to recover to their 2014 level. Figure 1 shows a comparison between the three major regions of the world from 2014 to 2020.

Among all stringent safety regulations and conforming pressure sensor standard will likely to boost the industry in terms of value and volume across end verticals as all end user industry will follow the conforming standards.

This new outlook, which draws heavily from planned utility budgets, represents an almost 28% increase over capital expenditures during the last ten years.

The EASY Product Finder is designed for machine designers and engineers to explore and specify Lenze engineered power drive, automation and motion control solutions.

As Comark's CTO, Mr. Shah is responsible for the company's technology vision and strategy as well as the development of products and solutions to support Comark's "Smarter Automation" strategy.

First congatec SMARC 2.0 modules as well as carrier boards and starter kits including extensive software, driver and BIOS support will be available in August.

The test involved repeated 50,000 V/m nanosecond EMP strikes to emulate the energy of a High Altitude Electromechanical Pulse (HEMP), as would be created by an atmospheric nuclear detonation