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PAS, a leading provider of advanced automation solutions, announced Cory Engel, Vice-President and senior executive at Matrikon, has joined the leadership team at PAS with immediate responsibilities for all of the Americas solutions sales. Mr. Engel brings tremendous experience in the sale and delivery of software solutions for the process industries, having established Matrikon in the US and eastern Canada – regions accounting for nearly half of all Matrikon’s global sales.

The company, Egypt's only manufacturer of carbon black, installed the new line to meet increased demand for its carbon black products which are used in the manufacture of tires, rubber products, plastics, inks, dyes and paints. The Alexandria Carbon Black Company is the fastest growing carbon black producer in the world with over 90% of production being exported to companies that include Goodyear, Michelin, Bridgestone, Pirelli, Dunlop and Continental Tire.

National Instruments Director of Product Marketing Eric Starkloff will deliver a keynote address to design engineers and industry experts at the D2M 2006 conference, co-located with the Embedded Systems Conference, in San Jose, Calif., on April 5. In his keynote address, “Making Test Disappear: Leading Examples of Transparency between Design and Test,” Starkloff outlines a vision of software-based virtual instrumentation that can drastically reduce test development time.

Emerson announced it has acquired Bristol Babcock from FKI plc of Loughborough, England, for $121 million.

For a limited time only, organizations that currently use a competitive EAM solution can trade in 50% of their existing EAM software seat licenses for Avantis.PRO licenses at no charge. This free license trade-in is coupled with an attractive fixed price implementation (including data migration), and a cost-effective support plan to provide a complete, low-risk solution.

This strategic partnership will enable PSI and Norpak to further penetrate the United Kingdom’s mail, catalog and internet order fulfillment markets with PSI’s patented packaging automation solutions: Autoslip, Print Feeder and Print Feeder DF in addition to patent pending systems: LC IN-Feeder 3000, PDFS, and APPS.

The Invensys implementation for Cheniere’s TOMS project will employ a system architecture that integrates Invensys and third-party software solutions to support the supervision and management of the Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal, with scalability to accommodate additional terminals. Invensys will provide consulting, software products, and a range of integration, implementation, testing and training services, all of which will leverage Invensys’ extensive expertise and experience in the global LNG industry.

Application Engineers from the many companies will be on hand to demonstrate their products and answer all your technical questions. The Automation Fair/Technology Expo is an open tabletop show format with individual Classroom Presentations. Individual appointments with specific suppliers can be arranged by calling ahead at TOLL FREE (877) 737-8698. Refreshments will be served throughout the day. See the following latest product technologies on display...

Intermec's IF5 RFID reader, which is being used in the METRO Group Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany, is the first production-scale integration of IBM's WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure software on an RFID reader. This potent combination of hardware and software provides early data filtering, to minimize network overload, correlate RFID events and integrate RFID event data with enterprise applications.

Green Hills Software, Inc. announced that CMC Electronics Inc. has selected the Green Hills Software Platform for Avionics, including the INTEGRITY-178B real-time operating system (RTOS), GSTART Ravenscar compliant Ada kernel and AdaMULTI development environment, for CMC’s Flight Management Control and Display (FMCDU) system. The Green Hills Platform for Avionics will also be utilized for the development of a CMC Electronics Aircraft Management System product line, featuring PCI open system architecture.

Intermec Inc. has joined Intel, Cisco Systems, Panasonic and Accela as a sponsor of a Digital Communities initiative to help municipalities take advantage of mobile and wireless computing systems to improve efficiency and responsiveness. The initial focus of the group's work is on six segments of the public sector where technology can provide significant benefits: criminal justice, public service and logistics, education, health services, first-alert response and public safety.

The company has eliminated cadmium as well as lead from all of its devices - and does not require the benefit of the period of grace that the EU has granted the industry on the use of cadmium in switch contacts.

The 2006 Canadian RFID Conference will be held in Markham, ON on April 4th and 5th, 2006, and will bring together some of the most experienced people in the industry, including R. Moroz Ltd. - RFID Canada, Intermec, TI, Philips, IBM, HP, Zebra, Datamax, Toshiba and many others.

Under the terms of the contract, Invensys is to supply its Triconex-brand TMR (triple modular redundant) TRICON controllers for safety instrumented system (SIS) applications on the new PE4, a Euro 200 million, 350,000 t/y linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant being built at Schwechat in Austria. LLDPE is used to manufacture plastic film products, such as packaging materials.

The recently approved IEEE 1650TM-2005 standard, known as “Standard Methods for Measurement of Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes,” gives the burgeoning nanotechnology industry one uniform and common set of recommended testing and data reporting procedures for evaluating the electrical properties of carbon nanotubes. The Model 4200 is a core measurement platform for engineers involved in nanotech materials research.

Silchester is one of the European high quality solution providers in Automation and Industrial Information. Silchester delivers turn-key Automation, Control, SCADA and Industrial Information solutions to GAMP, ISO, 21CFR and TickIT standards. For over 18 years our highly experienced application engineers have had extensive experience partnering many of our blue-chip multinational customers. Citect Integration Partners offer the highest standards in Citect integration services. Accredited by Citect, Silchester has the support and training to meet, and exceed end-user's expectations. A world-wide network of project consultants and engineers are available to provide project support and to assist Citect Integrators like Silchester in all phases of implementation.

Three business units within SPC are initially included in the agreement – oil refining, chemicals and terylene polyester production. Invensys Process Systems China will provide a combination of remote and on-site services including online patrol site device check, annual on-site device check, emergency hardware replacement, emergency/routine hardware repairs, emergency site technical support, site training and other services.

The 190-page handbook covers the fundamentals of the switching function in test and measurement applications and is available for no charge on the Keithley website. The handbook is divided into seven sections and discusses topics such as: Switching components; Issues in switch system design; Hardware implementation; Applications