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  • ABB appoints Greg Scheu to head of acquisition integration

    Scheu joined ABB in 2001 and has 29 years of experience in the power and automation industry, with a strong focus on North America. He previously worked for Rockwell Automation and Westinghouse Electric.
    22 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Siemens Automates high-bay warehouse at Audi

    Siemens developed the controller of the storage and retrieval machines and the conveyor system for the body buffer on the basis of its Simatic S7 controllers.
    22 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • 10 companies join Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork Program

    Eight product suppliers in the Americas and two companies in the EMEA region joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass program.
    21 October, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • "As Built" Documentation Goes Real-Time, Supports Cyber Security & Greater Efficiency

    By Bill Lydon, Editor PAS has developed a new product to sync "as built" documentation with the current installed system, eliminating wasted man-hours, decreasing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), and aiding with cyber security requirements and regulations.
    21 October, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Beckhoff Automation hires five engineers

    The engineers include Jeffrey Anderson, Calvin Anderson, Cameron Johnson, Martin Tato and Tristan McCormick.
    18 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • PcVue to resell Canary Labs software

    PcVue will make Canary Labs’ Historian software available as part of its HMI/SCADA software.
    18 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Moxa Achieves IRIS Certification for Railroads

    The IRIS standard is formulated by Union of the European Railway Industries (UNIFE) and combines the general quality requirements of ISO 9001 with stringent process and railway-specific requirements.
    18 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • EPLAN added to Rockwell Automation Encompass Products

    Rockwell Automation has added EPLAN´s Fluid and Harness proD to their approved Encompass products.
    15 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Progea appoints Raffaele Cefalo Global Sales Manager

    Raffaele Cefalo, 48, has 25 years of progressive experience in the field of automation and has held several managerial positions in major companies in the industrial software industry.
    17 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Rockwell Automation enhances free machine control software tools

    Rockwell Automation enhanced Connected Components Accelerator Toolkit (CCAT) and Connected Components Workbench software tools.
    17 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ABB Wireless Network Improves Efficiency for Potash Mine

    The outdoor broadband network transports telemetry data from mining and process equipment to the White Springs Agricultural Chemicals' operations center.
    16 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Geothermal Power Plant in Indonesia

    Yokogawa will supply the control system that will renovate the first of four 20 MW power generation units at the Lahendong geothermal power plant, which is located in the Lahendong district on Sulawesi Island.
    15 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Paradox Engineering signs NEC Europe as reseller

    NEC Europe will resell Paradox Engineering’s PE.AMI Smart City solution. The two Companies will work together on joint promotion activities, trade shows, end user and customers’ seminars.
    15 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Exida certifies Cameron’s TK trunnion mounted ball valves

    The certification ensures that the valves meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.
    15 October, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Metso to supply 4,000 valve controllers to China

    Metso will supply standard, intrinsically safe, and explosion-proof valve controllers to Sino-Venezuela Guangdong Petrochemical Company for its heavy crude processing project in Guangdong, China.
    14 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • August manufacturing technology orders up 4.9%

    Orders were up 4.9% from July but down 18.1% when compared with the total of $454.19 million reported for August 2012. 2013 is down 8.0% compared with 2012.
    14 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • U.S. Cutting Tool Consumption up 1.3% in August

    August U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $161.7 million, up 1.3 percent from July’s total but down 13.2 percent from August 2012.
    10 October, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Coriolis flowmeters help RHI Normag meet regulatory requirements

    An RHI Normag plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, has reduced maintenance costs, minimized plant downtime and improved the accuracy of energy-use measurement by using Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters from Emerson Process Management.
    11 October, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Rotork acquires Renfro Associates

    Renfro Associates provides valve automation packages encompassing actuators, gearboxes, instrumentation and fabricated adaptation for flow control applications.
    10 October, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Profibus and Modbus: a comparison

    This article provides an overview of both protocols and discusses their key strengths and applications. It also discusses which one works best in which applications – although there is some overlap in what each can do. What’s more, they can complement each other in joint applications.
    By: James Powell
    13 October, 2013 | 9 minutes
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