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The International Society of Automation (ISA) announced members elevated to the distinguished membership grade of Fellow, and the Celebrating Excellence Award honorees for 2013, including Member’s Choice honorees chosen by their peers.

By Mark Howard, Zettlex The traditional approach is to measure angular position or speed indirectly – typically inferring the shaft’s position from measurements made elsewhere. It can also be done with inductive sensors.

Value added services, such as condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and advanced diagnostics, are fast gaining acceptance and will account for a significant portion of the pump market.

By Simon Dear, Cynergy3 Components When selecting a float switch for a liquid level sensing application, a number of factors need to be considered, including float switch and gasket materials, physical arrangement, electrical ratings and cable type.

During construction of the Linthal 2015 pumped storage hydroelectric power station, NORD gear units drive the conveyor belts that take rocks about 850 ft to the crushing plant and bring it back to a gravel plant.

SAB, a producer of high strength steel, standardized on Softing's PROFINET protocol software for use with its PC-based Proview control system in a new steel plant that was built in Mobile, Alabama.

Products include ControlLogix PAC Modules and Network cards for various computer buses and Rockwell Automation networks such as ControlNet.

The market for industrial automation equipment will grow 6.2 percent this year to approximately $170 billion, helped in part by the recovery of global manufacturing in the first quarter, according to IHS.

Production of agricultural machinery and industrial robotics in China is projected to expand at a strong rate in the coming years with average yearly growth of 18.1 percent and 18.8 percent, respectively.

Knowledge Edge is an online resource of manufacturing information with industry-validated content--in other words, a Wikipedia of accurate information for a change.

The company, based in Finland, expanded its USA presence with a new site located in San Diego.

Fieldbus Foundation conducted the first live demonstration of its FOUNDATION for Remote Operations Management (ROM) technology at the Petrobras research and development facility (Cenpes) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Powerit Solutions provides energy demand management automation for industrial businesses.

Web site contains info on 40,000-plus rotary encoder variants, over 200 inclinometer models and more than 900 linear sensor configurations.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Metropolitan Solutions, a showcase created by Deutsche Messe and run concurrently with the 2013 Hannover Messe, provided a focal point for learning about the application of technology to improve cities. Real-time automation and control technologies are the logical building blocks for cities to modernize, improve safety and reliability, and provide efficient environments for people to live.

32-page news magazine includes feature articles on control solutions using the sercos bus ranging from drive and controller-based controls to PC-based control systems.

200 professionals in the power-generation industry attended the International Society of Automation’s (ISA’s) 56th Power Industry Division (POWID) Symposium held in Orlando, Florida, June 2-7.

RefreshEng converts any of Cincinnati's 2-OM family of centerless grinder machines to the same precision machining available on new grinders - but for an outlay that is some 60% lower than a new machine.

SmartFactoryKL demonstration plant, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, uses CodeMeter as the security component for protecting the transport algorithms.

The Houston office will focus principally on ETAP Real-Time power management system solutions for the energy sector.