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OPC Foundation opened a North American Certification Test Lab to validate and certify OPC products.

Twelve major OPC vendors participated, submitting fifteen OPC Servers and seventeen OPC Clients for open interoperability testing which took place March 2nd through March 6th in Boca Raton, Florida.

Testing verified WALL-NUTS contact continuity (no current interruptions during testing) and housing integrity (no physical damage) under extreme conditions.

By Fulvio Roveta, Integration Objects Article discusses some of the options available for integrating automation islands and for distributing information at any level in the organization. In particular, two main players in the system integration arena will be examined: OLE for Process Control (OPC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

By Greg Millinger and Alicia Bowers, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms By maintaining automated control over a process with Work Process Management, companies can have a much better chance of reducing waste for the longer term. Includes Lean Six Sigma glossary.

This self-paced, interactive Robotics Technician Certificate training program offers an easy-to-use home study format that requires a computer and internet connection to complete. The CD-ROM based multimedia program is divided into 13 modules, each consisting of about ten sections, or major topics.

Automation Tooling Systems is reducing its Cambridge workforce by approximately 80 full-time employees and its Photowatt France workforce by approximately 160 temporary workers.

PLCopen certified B&R's SafeDESIGNER product, version 2.58.

PLCopen certified SSS for Motion Control Compliance (part 1 and 2).

By Steve Lankford, Diamond Phoenix There are many things to consider when taking on a material handling project. It's in your best interest to have a systems integrator take responsibility for delivering a system that meets your expectations and goals.

The Siemens Retrofit Business Development group is based in Lebanon, Ohio.

ODVA changed the legal name of the company from “Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.” to “ODVA, Inc.”

Specs for certification of IEC 61131-3 editors have been updated for the first time since 1998.

By Don Frieden, Wonderware An organization can reduce their energy consumption in two primary ways. First, they can reduce their level of production. The second is retrofitting existing assets and modifying current work processes.

Energy Harvesting will be featured through a Pavilion in the Expo Hall and several conference sessions specific to the topic at The Sensors Expo & Conference.

Parvalux relocated of EMD Drive Systems’ manufacturing and administrative operations from Halstead to the company’s main site at Wallisdown in Bournemouth.

The market for AC Drives, PLCs, motion controls, CNC, and machine safeguarding was $18.0 billion in 2008 and is forecast to be over $21.2 billion in 2013.

Munich Regional Court in Germany approved an agreement that settles a lawsuit by Autodesk against Torsten Moses for copyright infringement of AutoCAD.