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Automation.com, November 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Homeland Security's Lisa Kaiser gave a sobering presentation on cyber security issues and attacks. Kaiser emphasized that we are playing catch-up, noting that Foreign Cyber Espionage in the USA has been more intense in the last few years with a large black market for buying and selling information.

An old hot stamp press at American Label & Tag is brought back to life with AutomationDirect’s CLICK PLC and C-More touch panel.

Industrial Automation (8-12 April 2013) focuses on the efficient use of energy and resources, including smart production systems and processes.

By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing An OPC toolkit is a collection of libraries, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of OPC applications for programmers by providing standard functions for reading and writing OPC items, browsing and managing the OPC address space, and much more.

ISA and NAMUR have identified five common working groups that offer immediate collaborative opportunities.

CABA and AEE will establish forums about energy and intelligent buildings for regulatory organizations, energy service providers, and building automation vendors.

Prior to joining the Leicester based company, Moore spent about 20 years implementing lean manufacturing tools for an electrical products manufacturer.

Visitors to ComVac from April 8 to 12, 2013 can look forward to a complete overview of the state of the art in compressed air and vacuum technology.

Liberty Property Trust owns 79 million square feet of office and industrial space throughout the US and the UK. eSight manages them all.

ARC clients can now make use of ARC’s supplier selection process for Advanced Process Control (APC), Analytics, Batch Control, CPM/MES and Distributed Control Systems (DCS).

Five online condition monitoring systems were installed on wind turbines at the Crystal Rig wind farm in Scotland. 20 more are expected to be installed later this year.

With a total screen surface of 40 m by 8.4 m, Airtel’s LED video wall is probably the world’s largest suspended LED video wall.

PT-400 Pressure Transducers are ATEX and IECEx certified EX II 1G Ex ia IIB T4 Ga, for use in hazardous locations.

A true as-built model of the facility was not available, so laser scanning was used to generate an intelligent PDMS model.

The POSITAL Programmable Potentiometer has been added to the list of products referenced by the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork.

Wind 2013 will be held from 8 to 12 April at the Hannover Exhibition Center.

The CTAs recognize the heroes and superstars of the HVAC, Controls and Building Automation Industry.

The half day events will kick off with an overview of the technology, followed by user-oriented, vendor neutral workshops focusing on operation and maintenance benefits.

Model FT3 Thermal Mass Flow Meter & Temperature Transmitter obtained FM, FMc, ATEX, and IECEx approvals.

Autodesk appointed Oleg Shilovitsky as Senior Director of PLM and Data Management. Shilovitsky is a co-founder of Inforbix.