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Automation.com, July 2011 By Bill Lydon, Editor There is a continuing discussion about upgrading aging automation systems and TCO is one method used to make decisions. These investments should be analyzed as serious strategic business investments within a defined lifespan. There are a number of factors to consider in this analysis including business, technical, and operations.

Deutsche Messe expanded its office premises in Tokyo and signed a representative for Indonesia.

GSE Power Systems provides real-time simulation and training solutions for the electric power, oil and gas and chemical process industries.

By adopting "greentelligence" as its keynote theme, HANNOVER MESSE 2012 has put the spotlight squarely on green technologies as a central growth driver for industry.

Escalating energy prices across Europe are underlining the need to implement electric drives to minimise energy bills and achieve better efficiency.

The expansion more than doubles ATI's current manufacturing and inventory capacity while allowing 50 new employees to be hired.

ARC says the highest percentage of all industry Ethernet nodes shipped worldwide is for EtherNet/IP devices.

Updates in Version 6.2.0 of the motion system sizing and selection software include the company’s AKM, AKM8, and VLM servomotors.

Blog helps network professionals stay up-to-date on the latest advances, global standards updates, market intelligence and strategies in network infrastructure.

ISA is accepting applications for the 2012-2013 academic year for students who demonstrate potential in the fields of automation, instrumentation and control.

Roche holds a B. Sc from Trinity College, a Dip. Eng. from Dublin Institute of Technology, an MBA from Rutgers and Executive Education' Certificate from Harvard Business School.

Updates to EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet specs include an energy object that will be used to report energy for all energy and resource types.

Joyner’s Mechanical has offices in both Richmond and Chesapeake, Virginia.

Paralan will distribute ACS industrial and process control instrumentation in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Site offers image sensors, frame grabbers, cameras, lenses, industrial computers, cables and enclosures.

Simionato is a manufacturer of integrated flexible packaging systems based in Mestrino, Italy.

Process Control Dynamics is a Semaphore authorized distributor for customers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

WESCO will distribute T+H Industrial Communication Solutions and Services for Fieldbus and Ethernet networks in Virginia.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?

September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, up 22.9% from August and up 51.9% when compared with the total of $399.32 million reported for September 2010.