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  • Fossil Fuels Lose Steam in Power Generator Markets

    The share of new generator sales that use fossil fuels is forecast to decline as growth in the renewables and nuclear sectors ramps up.
    12 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA to develop Mission-Critical Professional certification program

    ISA will begin developing a certification program as part of a $23 million federal grant to fund two-year degree programs in “Mission Critical Operations” at five North Carolina colleges.
    11 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • FANUC merges it all together

    FANUC merged all of its operations in the Americas into a single company named FANUC America , headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan.
    11 December, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Sercos International SPS IPC Drives show report

    At the SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremberg, Sercos International displayed twelve demo points from different manufacturing companies as well as exhibits from more than twenty companies.
    11 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • American Midstream installs FLOWCAL software

    American Midstream is using the software to handle both their regulated and non-regulated pipeline data in the same database by creating multiple secure environments with independent configuration.
    11 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • PROFI Network Updates from the General Assembly Meeting

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Four North American members presented why they support PI standards and are members of the board. User presentations further highlighted that existing plants have many types of networks that can benefit from efficient gateways and proxies to further enhance automation with new controls and instruments.
    11 December, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • October manufacturing technology orders up 10.2%

    October U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $435.02 million, up 10.2% from September but down 3.2% when compared with the total of $449.44 million reported for October 2012.
    10 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Medium Voltage Drive sales still up

    MV drive sales are predicted to increase by 8% in 2013, with widely diverging growth rates by region.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ASM publishes 2nd Edition of HMI Design Guidelines

    The ASM Consortium revised the display design guidelines after 5 years, following its first ‘Effective Operator Display Design Guidelines’ published in 2008.
    10 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Strothmann to automate tandem press line in China

    Strothmann will supply complete parts handling consisting of a blank loader with fully automated tooling change, High Speed Transfer (HST), and parts unloading at the end of a new tandem press line being built by Shanghai Superior Die Technology Co.
    10 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • AVEVA supplies Everything3D design software to EMS-CHEMIE

    EMS-CHEMIE moved to the Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) software for design of its chemical facilities right in the middle of an ongoing project.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Fieldbus Foundation updates Foundation Fieldbus Technical Specifications

    The updated specification includes additional support for fieldbus device replacement and backwards compatibility, Device Description (DD) templates, field diagnostics and alarm/alert integration.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Hannover Messe to host Investment Lounge

    The Global Business & Markets platform in Hall 13 at next year’s Hannover Messe will host an Investment Lounge to help SMEs develop international markets.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Franklin Control Systems signs Lynxspring as distributor

    Lynxspring will distribute Franklin Control System’s VFDs, Building Automation and Energy Management Starter products.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • RENEX South America report

    RENEX South America, November 27–29, 2013 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, will lead to $44 million of new business in the South American renewable energy market during the next 12 months.
    10 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ISA book says automation can prevent nuclear power plant disasters

    ISA publishes a book that declares that another Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like catastrophe is inevitable unless nuclear power plants across the world adopt fully automated safety systems.
    06 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • EtherCAT celebrates 10th anniversary

    It has now been 10 years since the organization first began its activities at the 2003 SPS IPC Drives show with 33 official founding members.
    06 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Hannover Fairs USA partners with Canadian Wind Energy Association

    The CanWEA hosts an Annual Conference and Exhibition, Canada’s largest wind energy conference. HFUSA will promote the show to a global network of exhibitors, delegates and attendees.
    05 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Industrial Ethernet growing in China

    The usage of Fieldbus is not as common in China as in Germany or the United States. This is mainly because Chinese customers are encountering networking technology much later.
    05 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Most ERP Inadequate for Global, Complex Business

    A study by IFS reveals that the overwhelming majority of manufacturers are running multiple manufacturing modes from multiple locations, and that their ERP software is not well equipped to handle it.
    04 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
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