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  • Reducing Barriers and Opening Doors for Building Automation Products in the Industrial Internet of Things

    By Bob Dolin, Echelon The emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) represents the next generation of control networks for building automation. But unlike the consumer Internet of Things, the IIoT isn’t starting from scratch.
    12 June, 2014 | 5 minutes
  • China PLM Market growing

    While the global PLM market slowed in the second half of 2013, China had another strong year, with nearly 13% growth to US$845 million.
    12 June, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • SKF releases Mobile Bearing and Seals Apps

    SKF Mobile Apps can be downloaded free to smartphones and tablets from the Apple app store and the Google Play store for use anywhere and anytime.
    12 June, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • ISA’s Power Industry Division Symposium report

    The 57th ISA Power Industry Division (POWID) Symposium attracted almost 200 attendees and 18 exhibiting companies.
    11 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • OSIsoft to supply PI System to Metrix SETPOINT

    SETPOINT CMS software will use OSIsoft’s PI System technology for its underlying real-time data infrastructure.
    11 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Global robotics sales set new record

    In 2013, about 179,000 industrial robots were sold worldwide, an all-time high and 12 percent more than in 2012. China, of course, is by far the biggest robot market in the world regarding annual sales.
    11 June, 2014 | 5 minutes
  • Why A Manufacturing ERP Needs Lot Serial Control

    By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock In our litigious society, the day is quickly coming when any manufacturer better be able to trace the history of anything they make. Where the law requires you to maintain accurate records for each unique Lot and/or Serial Number purchase and sale, you need Lot Serial Control.
    10 June, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Texas Instruments releases free WEBENCH PCB tool

    WEBENCH PCB Export lets engineers create a power supply printed circuit board (PCB) layout and export it to computer-aided design (CAD) development platforms.
    10 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Crude Oil Is Getting Sour

    There is more hydrogen sulfide in our crude oil input than ever before. The H2S concentration in crude oil is of great concern to anyone transporting oil in their pipelines, buying oil, or receiving oil as feed to a refinery.
    10 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Kuka installs mobile robot cell at Siemens

    Siemens is using a mobile robot cell in its Bad Neustadt production facility for electric motors.
    10 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • KUKA at Beijing Essen Welding & Cutting Exposition

    KUKA will be demonstrating its welding competence at the 19th Beijing Essen Welding & Cutting Exhibition from June 10-13.
    10 June, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Automated barrier doors protect employees at Rubbermaid Commercial Products shipping facility

    Although it was a more costly option initially, the automated barrier door was clearly the best choice for protecting employees, minimizing downtime and keeping long-term maintenance costs low.
    09 June, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Opening Doors to Automation

    By Keith Schmitz, Rytec High Performance Doors At MINOR’S food processing plant in Cleveland a forklift picks up a bin of their product and carries it into the next room. Unlike most facilities the forklifts here never take a break because there is no one sitting in the driver’s seat.
    09 June, 2014 | 6 minutes
  • Ultrasonic Flowmeter Market Exceeds $600 Million

    Growth in this market is driven by the use of ultrasonic flowmeters for custody transfer applications and the resulting product development of multipath meters. Inline ultrasonic meters account for two-thirds of revenues, with the remainder divided between clamp-on and insertion meters.
    06 June, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Mencom publishes industrial connectors brochure

    This 12-page brochure contains detailed information of Mencom industrial connectors.
    06 June, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Internet of Things (IoT) device market to explode

    The next five years will be extremely fruitful for device makers; the market should reach $70B by 2018, before decreasing.
    05 June, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Deutsche Messe reports a successful 2013

    Deutsche Messe had consolidated revenues of more than €312 million and a net profit of €13.4 million, its second best result since 2001.
    05 June, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • ISA Process Control & Safety Symposium Agenda

    ISA announced the training courses and preliminary technical program for its 2014 Process Control & Safety Symposium, to be held 7-9 October 2014 in Houston, Texas.
    05 June, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • ISA Analysis Division Symposium report

    12 technical sessions and 35 technical papers covered leading-edge topics in sampling, chromatography, spectroscopy, chemiluminescence and other analytical techniques.
    04 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • XMOS releases motion control kits

    Based on xCORE microcontrollers from XMOS and Synapticon’s SOMANET technology, the kits enable efficient, standards-compliant and safe motion control applications, ranging from simple single-axis solutions to distributed motion control systems.
    04 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
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