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By scanning an existing upper and lower bowl assembly and modifying the CAD models to fit parts they already had tooling for, Aircraft Technologies substantially reduced the tooling cost.

Mitsubishi Electric will incorporate ICONICS’ SCADA software in factory and process automation solutions.

Automation.com, October 2011 By Jay Becker, Dunkermotor OEMs will benefit from not specifying and purchasing more control features and functionality than their applications require. This White Paper discusses seven distinct integral control topologies to enable OEM design engineers to choose what suits their application without over-specifying.

To manufacture near perfect flatness (0.001 in) and parallelism (0.0004 in) in its vises, Kurt uses its own gaging and workholoding systems. Both control the variables that occur in the machining, heat treating and grinding operations

Automation.com, October 2011 By David Collier, Pilz Why machine builders should resist the temptation to save money in the short term by using Category 2 architecture on machine guard safety circuits that require Performance Level d.

Founded exactly 90 years ago in Germany, Balluff now has worldwide subsidiaries in 54 countries on all continents.

The gas flow market is larger than anticipated, and appears to be growing faster than either the liquid or steam flow markets.

The Tokyo office provides users and Foundation member companies with application assistance, information and technical support on the HART Communication Protocol.

Automation.com, October 2011 By Jim McMahon Harlequin Distribution Center uses advanced conveying technology from Shuttleworth to minimize product damage and finishing downtime, and maximize throughput.

The worldwide market for Flowmeters declined in 2010 but is expected to strongly rebound in 2011, according to ARC, but they make no predictions--except that Asia is the biggest market.

Motion control suppliers who endured as much as 50 percent declines in business during the downturn reported a tremendous rebound in shipments. Asia leads, of course.

McLean was previously at Phoenix Contact where he served as the Group Leader of its Electronic Development, Global Products Department.

Heilind Electronics currently has 22 branches and five warehouses throughout North America.

Digital Factory Trade Fair for Integrated Processes and IT Solutions, is getting a new home at HANNOVER MESSE 2012. The new location in Hall 7 is close to the process automation themes covered by the Industrial Automation show.

Automation.com, October 2011 By Kevin Davenport, Cisco Systems This article shows how organizations are cutting the wire and deploying collaboration, security, cloud and sensor wireless and mobility technologies to achieve operational and production excellence throughout their entire corporate value chain.

Booth #814 will present device/system interoperability, ease of setup and configuration, innovative diagnostics and standardization to IEC 62453 and ISA103 in a multi-vendor environment.

Share your ISA Automation Week 2012 experiences with other attendees and to the rest of the world via Twitter. During ISA Automation Week 2012, a Twitter feed will be displayed on the concourse by the technical session rooms. Learn how to join the conversation.

OMS engineers internally inspected Serimax welds on subsea pipes that were destined for use on BP’s Devenick high pressure, high temperature gas project.

Automation.com, October 2011 By ICP DAS The Inner Mongolia Wind Farms Project uses large inverters and PLCs with ICP DAS TCP Server / RTU Slave to CANopen Master Gateway, RS-232 to RS-485 Converter and Industrial Ethernet Switch to monitor and control the wind turbines.

With the implementation of IFS ERP, Richco achieved a 25 percent reduction in inventory levels and reduced administrative time.