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By Milton Coleman, Bosch Rexroth With investments ranging from tens of thousands to potentially millions of dollars, it’s critical to make the right choice the first time, and to avoid common mistakes that could add substantial unnecessary cost or result in project delays. Here are the top ten robotics application mistakes.

Equipment includes re-instrumentation of existing gas treatment plants, an 800xA control system, and medium- and low-voltage switchgear and transformers.

By Milton Coleman, Bosch Rexroth Buying a piece of automation can be a very long and difficult process. Here is a list of the 10 most common mistakes made when purchasing automation equipment. This list was composed by a number of individuals who have both purchased and sold automation equipment.

The automation and control solution services market is set to experience a compound annual growth rate of 9.58% to reach $8416.41 million by 2015.

Smart Grid Standards covered at Connectivity Week On June 10, Mark Maddox, a federal energy policy expert with more than 25 years experience, will address a breakout session of the convention on the topic of industry efforts to accelerate smart grid standards.

The total worldwide market for services expanded to close to $17.3 billion at the end of 2008, and will increase by a compound annual growth rate of 7% over the next five years.

The integration of ESRI’s GIS capabilities will provide information that will help customers manage distributed assets more efficiently and effectively.

Dresser Masoneilan will supply more than 400 control valves to the Qafco industrial complex in Doha, Qatar, which is growing into the world’s largest ammonia and urea production site.

With XVL, engineers can perform design review, simulate assembly processes, automate creation of 3D parts lists and create animations with even the largest 3D assemblies.

Alberta’s top electrician apprentices converged at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Polytechnic (SAIT) for the 2009 Alberta Skills Competition, May 13 and 14.

From June 8-10, thousands of engineers, scientists and technology industry professionals will convene for the Sensors Expo & Conference at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

Telvent integrated the Longwatch Surveillance System with its OASyS DNA SCADA system. This lets oil, gas, electric, and water network operators monitor video via an OASyS SCADA system.

By Cincinnati Automation As machine vision inspection cameras and laser gaging sensors have become more cost effective, many companies are implementing automated inspection & gaging systems in their facilities. These systems can be as simple as standalone cameras or sensors integrated into existing machinery or as specialized as custom designed and built turnkey automated inspection machines.

By Markus Witte, HARTING Channel characterization has become a major signal integrity issue, and is requiring connector manufacturers of high-speed components to provide comprehensive and empirical SI test data proving that their equipment performs as specified.

As an engineer, you may not think you could learn anything about innovation from a former travel agent. But this former travel agent was the founder of Travelocity.com, one of the few profitable dotcoms during the dotcom bust. Jones referred to Wikipedia's definition of the word innovation - a new way of doing something that ultimately creates value to a producer or customer.

Adalet eliminates the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories for final equipment certification saving customers considerable amounts of time and money.

The electric drives market is anticipated to sustain its growth rates due to the need for infrastructural changes in chemical plants, especially across Eastern Europe.

The GS S1 Certificate demonstrates full compliance with both the German Equipment Safety Act and the Low Voltage Directive (LVD), a minimum EU requirement.

The worldwide market for supplier provided automation services will grow at a rate of close to 7 percent over the next five years.

Accreditation is a formal recognition that a test laboratory is competent to carry out specific tests in compliance with the PLCopen guideline “Compliance Testing & Certification.”