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The Eurozone economy and China’s decelerating economic growth will lead to a decline in precision geared product shipments in 2013.

AF leaders met with White House National Security experts, US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Energy, US Department of Labor and NIST.

STICorp has brewing expertise and SlimSoft provides packaging solutions.

The GMS team will become a part of AVEVA’s simulation development program to deliver 3D interactive virtual environments.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) refers to the growing trend of letting employees use their own devices as operator Interfaces for business and automation systems in the workplace.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The foundation of the Enterprise Control System (ECS) is an integration framework that ties applications together in an open Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) that allows systems to be deployed with standard components and minimizes customization.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The BIG-EU collaboration has the goal to optimize the data flow between systems utilizing BACnet communications (building automation) and industrial/process control systems.

IMS Research predicts that from 2011 to 2016, revenues from articulated robots with a payload of below 15kg will grow on average by 6 percent a year.

300 corporate and government officials, manufacturing representatives and consultants attended ISA's 2012 Automation Conference in Doha, Qatar.

More than 20 companies from a wide range of areas presented exhibits and product demonstrations at the user organization's joint booth, which attracted 40% more visitors than in the previous year.

By Steve Coulton, Kooltronic The primary purpose of electrical enclosures is to provide protection and safety for the components they house. Without proper cooling, components can be subject to damaging heat, shortening their longevity and reliability.

TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland certified CODESYS Safety products for SIL2 and SIL3 tasks according to IEC 61508.

By Mark Howard, Zettlex As the market demands ever more precise position and speed control, some traditional electrical control, actuation and sensing methods are being discarded and new techniques are emerging.

MESA’s next round of Global Education Program (GEP) classes start in January 2013 and can be found at various locations around the world.

Updates help automate device replacement and enable backwards compatibility among different revisions of FOUNDATION devices used in plant automation systems.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Maintenance strategy is becoming an important topic because of aging systems and the lack of experienced personnel. The goal of a maintenance strategy is to achieve the highest automation system availability consistent with the organization's safety, capital investment and profit goals.

The 2013 General Assembly will be held in Shanghai, China, on March 12-15, 2013.

AMT says with a year-to-date total of $4,753.68 million, 2012 is up 5.3% compared with 2011.

Despite the overall decline, certain machine vision components have enjoyed positive year-over-year growth through the first nine months of 2012.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Rebecca Guthrie, Dan O'Brien, et al. Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies approached Honeywell Process Solutions for assistance on a solution for a standard manufacturing execution system (MES) platform that would reduce total cost of ownership and take advantage of industry standards.