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Free software guides specifiers through selecting the right control valve for any project.

The team will use Xylon’s X-Ray system for inspection tasks, including structural analyses of various materials, including fiber composites, damage analyses and nominal/actual comparisons to CAD data.

Motion Control Association is now Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) after merger with SMMA.

The app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The need to improve manufacturing operations and maintenance using real-time data is creating a greater need to efficiently link larger volumes of data from controllers to the enterprise. Connecting real-time information from disparate control devices to operations, maintenance, and enterprise systems is not an easy task. Here's one solution that may help.

By Intertec Glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) composite material for protective enclosures is electromagnetically transparent, making it easier to deploy wireless instrumentation.

Steinbichler Optotechnik is a provider of systems for digitization with optical 3D sensors and in surface inspection on car body and sheet metal parts.

Italian company is also relocating its headquarters to Silicon Valley in California.

VDMA says worries about a future where robots snatch people’s jobs away are unfounded, and it refutes studies that say otherwise.

LOGIIC report studies the possible use of remote connectivity to systems in the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) environment for the purposes of monitoring and diagnostics.

April U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $183.5 million, down 7.9% from March’s total and down 4.6% from April 2014.

Salvagnini is using distributed servo amplifiers for positioning, instead of keeping drives installed centrally in the control cabinet.

CIMdata projects that in 2015 growth in manufacturing will continue and end-user payments for NC software will increase by 6.7% to $1.88 billion.

NEMA ICS 4-2015 updates technical references to IEC 60947-7 series and ANSI/UL standards.

The program has a sensors element library, which allows non-RF and non-software savvy customers to develop wirelessly connected products.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

BJ-Gear in Denmark uses collaborative robots from Universal Robots to automate their production of gear wheels. This ushered in substantial cost savings on machinery, optimized work flows, and created a more varied and rewarding work environment.

Unlike the world market, the oil and gas sector is relatively small in China while the power and chemical sectors are especially large.