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Automation.com, February 2011 The MGM Grand Hotel and Casino Macau is a $1.6 billion property about three years old located on prime water front land in Macau. Their power bills were $1.6 million per month. The CFO called in John Leslie and his team to make some changes that saved $3.1 million in energy bills in the first 11 months.

Thanks to a large-scale PROFINET network the new Audi A1 manufacturing line at Brussels in Belgium is the newest and most modern Audi plant in Europe.

The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) 2011 Executive Conference will be April 27 – 30 in Orlando, Fla., at Universal Studio’s Portofino Bay Hotel.

CSIA announces that Combined Technologies, Hamilton, New Zealand, and CoNet, Zaandam, Netherlands, became Certified Control System Integrators.

The Standard-Knapp solution has enabled AriZona to significantly increase case packing speeds. For 12-packs of both 16-ounce and 20-ounce glass bottles, packaging speed has increased by 20 percent.

This enables WAGO to offer more than 150 marine and offshore products with multiple marine ratings including ABS, BV and DNV.

The website provides comprehensive information on Tritech’s investment casting and machining services.

ATEX control panel certification allows Adalet to eliminate the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories.

With the FLOWCAL Enterprise system, WAPCo is able to identify and correct key anomalies from both a volumetric and gas quality perspective.

Emerson Process Management, SGS Malaysia, and Bureau Veritas join the Meridium Certified Services Provider Program.

Offices in Singapore and Bejing will supply service, sales, after-sale support, training, and spare parts fot its online Near InfraRed (NIR) analyzers.

The connector and chip technologies to enable 25 Gb/s lanes over copper backplane links are essential to accomplish narrower 4 x 25 Gb/s implementations of 100 Gb/s links for Ethernet.

Fluke, GE Energy, Honeywell Process Solutions and OSIsoft joined the ISA Corporate Partnerships Program.

Online CAD Library has more than 2,300 electrical conduit and fittings products in computer-aided design (CAD) formats.

IPSO Alliance added BII Group, AvaLAN Wireless Systems, Tritech, Synapse Wireless and Ubilogix, bringing its total membership to 57 companies.

The National Conference of Weights and Measures has stipulated that all manufacturers producing NTEP-conforming products must also gain the VCAP standard.

ODVA's energy approach will simplify the ability to understand energy consumption and enable control methodologies to optimize energy usage throughout the industrial ecosystem from the plantfloor to the grid.

In 2010 there were more jobs added in manufacturing than were lost – 130,000 of them. This is the first time this has happened since 1997.

The MOL Plc Danube Refinery located in Százhalombatta, Hungary, is the 2010 HART Plant of the Year.

Deflagration Flame Arresters are a positive flame stop on low pressure tanks or piping systems containing flammable liquids or solvents having a low flash point.