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By Bill Lydon, Editor The Iron Bridge plant was originally built in the 1980s to treat about 5 million gallons of wastewater per day. After several modifications and upgrades, it can now treat and reclaim up to 40 million gallons in that same 24-hour period. The facilities standardized on Siemens controls, drives, power distribution, and Profibus and PROFINET communications network.

Siemens Ruggedcom RS950G achieved a transmission rate of 1 Gbps during an interoperability demonstration by the UCA International Users Group (UCAlug).

The awards are open to manufacturers, machine builders (OEMs) or system integrators, as long as they demonstrate a true commitment to safety. Nominations are due Sept. 15, 2014,

Since the establishment of their Sales and Marketing headquarters in Brea, California, Moxa has become increasingly active in industry associations and standards organizations.

ABB will supply an 800xA control system for K+S Potash Canada’s greenfield potash mine in Saskatchewan.

Automation and Power World will be held in Mexico City on August 21 and 22.

The system is a replacement of the original ABB QCS that had been in place for the last 25 years. The new system was commissioned in April 2014.

By Stewart Thompson, CAS DataLoggers Power Factor (PF) is the ratio of real power to the apparent power flowing to the load from the source. From a business standpoint it’s important to understand how having a low Power Factor raises your plant or factory’s power bill.

Yogawa will supply a CENTUM VP integrated production control system, InsightSuite AE plant asset effectiveness optimization services, PRM plant resource manager, Exaquantum plant information management system, and a plant operation training simulator.

The centers provide ABB customers with in-country dedicated and competent functional safety resources for safety instrumented system (SIS) project execution, design, engineering, modification and maintenance.

Decathlon for Data Centers software enables data center staff to evaluate Decathlon’s capabilities for monitoring their critical power path at no cost.

The toolkit allows for easy integration and application development of 3DPIXA stereo camera within the National Instruments LabVIEW environment.

An HMI from InduSoft improves productivity through automated monitoring and tracking of operations at Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee in Fort Worth, Texas.

Metso will supply 140 actuated on-off and emergency shutdown (ESD) ball and butterfly valves to the PETRONAS Gas Berhad's gas processing plant modernization project in Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Upgrades to Proficy Mobile allow managers to view and execute workflows, facilitates a tight integration with SCADA systems, and enables geo-intelligence capabilities which can be used with Google Maps.

Niagara Tools of St. Catharines, Ontario, is a specialty cutting tool manufacturer.

Yokogawa Electric's confocal image single-cell drug discovery support system has been selected for the Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) next-generation technology transfer program (NexTEP).

Hoffer will supply turbine flowmeters used for critical cooling flow measurement systems for the new lead ship of the DDG-1000 class, the USS Zumwalt.

In spite of cold as low as -70F, Honeywell will upgrade process control with an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and Foundation Fieldbus at the Molikpaq platform on the Sakhalin shelf, Russia.

Siemens Energy will perform service and maintenance for three Siemens (SGT6-5000F) gas turbines that will be installed at Shell Canada's Carmon Creek project.