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The Manufacturing Institute and its partners, including ISA, plans to award 500,000 credentials to individuals, positioning them for employment and advancement in manufacturing jobs.

Linear actuators are playing a vital role in helping Kluth, a manufacturer of roof panels, to eliminate virtually all sources of defects in its machining processes.

Automation.com, May 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Hannover Messe was again an impressive event that brings together people from the many isolated "silos" in manufacturing to one event for learning and sharing. China was the partner country this year providing yet another dimension to the event.

The website is a hub of information about robotic solutions for customers in diverse industries engaged in a variety of processes.

By P. Jason Ward, RSR Partners The US economy exhibits all of the attributes of an underpowered engine struggling to push a heavily laden truck up a long, low grade.

Automation.com, May 2012 By J Timothy Shea, Senior Analyst Due to expected increasing demand for level measurement and inventory tank gauging technologies as tools to help companies to continue to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, gain greater control over inventories and enhanced accuracy, VDC is forecasting a 5.2% CAGR through 2016.

DARPA will use aPriori as an automated back-end solution for optimizing manufacturing cycle time and product costs for the Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program.

PI views the announcement by Emerson Process Management that it is expanding its AMS Suite to include connectivity to PROFIBUS PA as good news.

By Mark Howard, Zettlex Inductive sensor terminology and techniques can be confusing. This article explains the various types and operating principles, as well as their consequent strengths and weaknesses.

PROFINET functions for process automation include CiR, redundancy, time synchronization, and time stamping.

Automation.com, December 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Emerson is expanding their role of providing lifecycle services and achieving the "trusted advisor" status with customers. With the addition of new employees and products, they are positioning themselves to better serve process automation users.

"Advanced Control Foundation: Tools, Techniques, and Applications" by Terry Blevins, et al, provides a more thorough understanding of the concepts and capabilities of advanced control products and solutions.

Study says over the next five years, the United States, Germany and Japan will be challenged to maintain their competitive edge against China, India and Brazil.

The PC-based software tool emulates complete Sercos networks and the connected Sercos slave devices.

The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has attracted more than 2,200 member companies from 56 countries.

The Semiconductor Technical Working Group of the EtherCAT Technology Group published 12 comprehensive profile documents since October 2011.

Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor The automation industry has been centered on a five layer hierarchical architecture for years but new technology is making it possible to streamline this model to eliminate layers, increase performance, and lower software maintenance costs.

The organizations will work on the interface between BACnet (ANSI ASHRAE 135 / ISO 16484-5) and OPC-UA (IEC 62541).

Illinois companies involved in green technologies and advanced manufacturing are invited to join a trade mission to Turkey in June 2013.

Now users can incorporate HART, WirelessHART and FOUNDATION fieldbus information into one standard environment for data and device management.