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Advanced Control Systems (ACS) recently completed successful factory acceptance tests of new SCADA systems for Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation of Forest City, North Carolina, and Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. of Lenoir, NC. These successful tests are significant milestones in a plan to have four NC co-op systems fully operational by mid-2006.

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Tec Industries, LLC, a contract manufacturer of advanced carbon fiber composite products, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications™ business software. The company will deploy the IFS system at its headquarters and manufacturing and distribution facility in Orange City, Iowa, and Quatro engineering and development facility in Poway, California.

The German electric drives market is seeing growth in a variety of new, intelligent, multi-functional products, as end-users seem to be showing a preference for these units for space, cost saving and ease of installation reasons. Technology advancements reflect trends such as decentralisation of drives, higher safety and security and integration of Ethernet in the communication process.

Customers tell us that Product Quality Management software is available from a variety of vendors. The goal of this class is to show you how to implement such a system with the software you may already own.

A new release of GAGEpack EZ, with enhanced email capabilities and a visual catalogue system for gages, offers improved capabilities for meeting customers’ measurement systems requirements and conforming to standards. The program can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial from PQ Systems’ web site.

In addition to the higher output voltage, the IEEE802.3at committee agreed on a motion to increase the number of classification levels for the PD to up to 10 classes for 2-pair systems, including existing IEEE802.3af classes.

The development partnership will involve the integration of Pertinence's Rules Maker and Operations Advisor business intelligence products into Apriso's FlexNet® operations execution platform. The combined solution will provide customers with a new tool for capturing data and learning best practices from product and process history. Empowered with that on-line information, operators will be better able to reduce scrap and improve quality.

In a statement released today, Bob Rouleau said “The close of this acquisition combines CalAmp’s long, successful history of delivering cost-effective high quality solutions with Dataradio’s unparalleled portfolio of high performance wireless RF products. This combination is expected to energize future growth across both businesses. In addition to giving us the purchasing power to reduce our manufacturing costs, CalAmp brings some great technology to the combined company. There is a lot of synergy and I’m very excited about what we can do together.”

A new Indian electricity policy has set ambitious goals to bring access to the electricity to all Indian households. The emphasis is in rural electrification; 125,000 villages translating into over 25 million households. This demand is to be fully met by 2012. Viola's Arctic IEC-104 Gateway, a product specified together with ABB, helps power utilities save costs and improve distribution management.

Wavetrend, the world-leading manufacturer of active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, is pleased to announce two new board positions with the appointment of Ken Moss as Executive Chairman and Charles Cameron as a Non-Executive Director. In addition, Adrian Segens has been appointed as Head of Sales and Marketing for Europe. By strengthening the management team, Wavetrend plans to capitalize on the significant opportunities for growth in the active RFID market.

Les Machineries AutomaTech plans on using KUKA Robots in wood product manufacturing application cells designed to increase small and medium sized manufacturers' efficiency. Les Machineries AutomaTech Inc. is a leading engineering consulting firm specializing in industrial automation.

The system allows Atlas to offer value-added RFID services to clients that are progressively being required to meet RFID mandates of mass-merchandiser behemoths like Wal-Mart. "This project allowed us to extrapolate many of the best practices we discovered through our initial deployment at Sikeston [Missouri], and build yet another solid RFID infrastructure for Atlas [Cold Storage] here in Appleton, Wisconsin." says Arsalan Ahmed, Director of RFID Development at Ship2Save.

The D10 Series consists of three high-performance models that service a range of application demands. Models include the D10 Expert™ with Numeric Display, D10 Expert with Bargraph Display and D10 Discrete Output. The D10 Expert models also feature intuitive push-button TEACH that allows static, dynamic or single-point programming.

The SP100.14 working group will define wireless connectivity standards optimized for the unique performance and cost needs of a wide range of industrial monitoring, logging and alerting applications. The SP100.11 work group will define wireless connectivity standards addressing a wide range of applications optimized but not restricted to the unique performance needs of control applications ranging from closed loop regulatory control through open loop manual control.

The LXI Consortium’s fifth PlugFest event was the first to be held outside of North America. The event, which took place April 25-27 in Munich, Germany, had 69 registered attendees representing more than 25 different organizations -- manufacturers, system integrators, customers, universities and the press. LXI member Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) hosted the event at its local training center.

The ISA-95 standards help to reduce the costs, risks, and errors associated with implementing enterprise systems and manufacturing operations systems so that they interoperate and easily integrate. The standards may also be used to reduce the effort associated with implementing new product offerings.

Manufactured by OTC DAIHEN Corporation, an internationally recognized supplier of arc welding power supplies and industrial robots, the Almega robot is known for its high speeds and smooth movements which shorten production time. The robot incorporates version 4.20 of the powerful and easy-to-use ISaGRAF software and can be used in processes ranging from arc welding to plasma arc cutting.

The Global Outsourcing 100 list sets a precedent by providing the first industry-wide benchmark for overall outsourcing excellence. It includes companies in such areas as information technology and business process outsourcing, facility services, real estate and capital asset management, manufacturing, and logistics. ATS was ranked 30th out of the 100 companies listed.