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  • Aware Technology formed to deliver Process Data Monitor automated learning solution

    Process Data Monitor (PDM) learns from the day to day operation of your systems and automatically generates an experience database. It then generates confidence metrics for usual behavior and delivers notification on unusual behavior.
    08 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • AVEVA publishes Operations Integrity Management paper

    Exploring critical business areas for both project and asset performance, the paper seeks to identify how Owner Operators can reduce operational cost and risk through an optimised information management strategy.
    08 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • ASHRAE funds research to improve building operations

    Research Project 1633, "Data and Interfaces for Advanced Building Maintenance and Operation," will result in development of a set of standard data-driven metrics, interfaces and dashboards for advanced building operation and management.
    07 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Online Development names Mark Knebusch VP of Operations

    In this expanded role, Knebusch will lead the company's business operations for all product development and will continue to focus on new business expansion.
    07 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Hexagon Metrology supplies measuring system to Milwaukee Machine Works

    The Leitz measuring machine has a supersized measuring capacity of three meters wide by four meters long, and two and a half meters high, tailor made for the large scale machined components.
    07 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • PMMI to help OMAC grow membership and develop standards

    PMMI’s support will enable OMAC’s volunteer leadership to expand its membership domestically and internationally, plus engage customer and supplier teams in further developing OMAC standards, including PackML.
    06 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Absolute positioning on a budget

    When the Rock-Tenn paperboard mill in Aurora IL wanted to automate the positioning and tensioning of the belts on its paperboard dryer conveyor system, it took an innovative combination of high-end, absolute encoders and basic, low-end control and drive technology to get the job done.
    06 March, 2011 | 3 minutes
  • AutomationDirect Technical Product Reference

    AutomationDirect’s volume 14 catalog offers thousands of industrial automation products for a wide range of applications. The latest edition features product descriptions, technical data, and photos for PLCs, touch screen monitors, AC and DC motors, sensors, switches, drives and more.
    04 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • DSPRobotics & LynxMotion launch ‘FlowArm’ robot software for education

    FlowArm open source robot arm control software was produced with the revolutionary new graphical programming language for Mechatronics called FlowStone.
    03 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • ISA99 launches Cyber Threat Gap Analysis Task Group

    The task force will determine if companies following the ISA99 standards would have been protected from such sophisticated attacks and to identify changes needed, if any, to the standards being developed by the ISA99 committee.
    03 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • ODVA publishes white paper on industrial energy optimization

    ODVA plans to raise awareness of energy consumption and offer control strategies that can optimize energy usage throughout the industrial ecosystem from the plantfloor to the grid.
    03 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Security Incidents Organization publishes report on Control System Malware Incidents

    The report documents 60 incidents that have taken place between 1999 and 2010 that involved lost time, destruction of property and even fatalities.
    02 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Comark Corporation launches e-commerce site

    Comark’s online store offers a wide variety of their most popular products for the Industrial, Marine, Kiosk and Digital Signage market segments.
    02 March, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Material Handling Automation

    Automation.com, March 2011 The largest material handling event of the year will take place later this month in Chicago, ProMat 2011. New automation solutions will be on display. Perhaps the automation solutions for material handling in the food sector carries the most unique requirements for palletizing robots, stretch wrapping equipment, labeling systems, pallet control systems and laser-guided automatic vehicles.
    01 March, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Mustang Appoints Curt Watson Senior Vice President

    Watson has over 30 years of engineering and construction expertise in the oil, gas and chemicals industries and recently served as VP, projects, in the Oil, Gas and Chemicals Division of URS Corporation.
    01 March, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • HART Seeks Nominees for Plant of the Year Award

    The HART Plant of the Year is presented to end user companies in the process automation industry to recognize the exceptional application of HART Communication technology.
    21 April, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Parker Opens Complete Piping Solutions Center

    Utilizing Parker's innovative Parflange F37 non-welded technology, the center houses consultation, design, prefabricated pipe assemblies and installation services under one roof to minimize the total installed cost of piping projects.
    21 April, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • DelSolar installs solar power at Foodservice Facility

    The solar system installed at U.S. Foodservice will generate 1,380,227kWh/year, equivalent to an annual energy consumption of about 194 homes in California.
    20 April, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Reducing Servomotor Instability

    By Marcus Schick, Siemens Excessive speed controller gain causes instability in a servo system. However, lowering this gain is often not a viable option, so a systematic approach should be used to determine the best remedy of the instability.
    19 April, 2011 | 10 minutes
  • Effective OPC Security for Control Systems

    By Eric Byres, Byres Security, and Darek Kominek, MatrikonOPC White Paper explains the security advantages of limiting network interfaces and protocols, and recommends using OPC as a communications standard because of its ease of use and its widespread deployment. Registration required to view paper.
    19 April, 2011 | 3 minutes
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