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IFS to supply ERP to Rhino Resource
Rhino produces metallurgical and steam coal in a variety of basins throughout the United States, leases coal through its Elk Horn subsidiary, and owns oil and gas acreage in the Utica and Cana Woodford areas. -
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Pump Customers Becoming Less “Centri-frugal”
Efficient technology design is now the name of the game, and centrifugal pump suppliers now face a flood of new competition says IMS. -
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ITA and ISA collaborate on Water/Wastewater Symposium
The Instrumentation Testing Association (ITA) and the International Society of Automation (ISA) are teaming up to co-promote the 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium. -
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IDS camera Helps Brew Perfect Cup of Coffee
Optima Group Consumer, a German manufacturer of coffee capsule filling stations, is using an IDS camera to check the quality of coffee packets. -
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Aligning Business and Manufacturing Objectives: A Quick Guide
By Mark Davidson, LNS Research Largely due to the misalignment of goals and objectives, a considerable number of organizations struggle to realize the full business value that manufacturing can generate. There are several steps all organizations that utilize manufacturing can take to properly and optimally align goals. -
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RTU as an Intelligent Remote Gateway
By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems. -
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The Technical Advantages of Polyamide Cable Protection Systems
For the past several decades, most industries within the US market have been dominated by the use of PVC jacketed metallic conduits. In Europe, they use polyamide conduits and fittings. What's the difference? -
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NIST says MTConnect works with robots
In the test at NIST, MTConnect enabled a robot conversant in ROS-Industrial to load and unload parts into an MTConnect-conversant lathe for cutting, precisely when the machine tool was ready to perform the task. -
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Machine tools demand growing from Auto, Aerospace and Defense
Frost & Sullivan says the Global Machine Tools and Cutting Tools Market earned revenues of $15.72 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $21.18 billion in 2017. -
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World Relays Market Fell in 2012
After two years of double-digit growth, the world market for electro-mechanical and solid-state relays contracted by $125 million, or 3.6 percent, to approximately $3.35 billion in 2012. -
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Multi-Tenant vs. Hosted Cloud ERP – Pros and Cons
By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock There is a general consensus that, by 2023, most of the installed MFG ERP systems will be Cloud-based. But, will they be multi-tenant or hosted? There are arguments for both. -
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Process Automation I/O Market Driven by Safety
The market for process I/O modules is mainly driven by two forces: an increasing need for intrinsically safe I/O modules and the increasing demand from the Middle East and the BRIC countries. -
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Manufacturing technology orders level off for April
$372.50 million in orders were down 26.6% from March and down 12.6% when compared with the total of $426.44 million reported for April 2012. -
Case Study
Improving Equipment Utilization with vimana
By Thomas R. Cutler Curtiss Wright Controls in Shelby, NC used vimana to improve equipment utilization on a production cell with 4 high-end CNC-based Horizontal Milling machine tools by over 20% in just ten weeks. -
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Open Source Building Automation
By Bill Lydon, Editor The inaugural Haystack Connect event introduced a movement that has the potential to be the next big wave in building automation by fostering an entirely new open system in the industry that goes beyond open protocols to encompass system software. -
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Honda gives Grant for STEM Education
Honda of America has committed $75,000 to support the SME Education Foundation’s PRIME program over the next three years. -
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ISA Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium report
More than 200 plant and refinery professionals responsible for maintaining leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs attended ISA’s 13th annual Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium held 21-23 May 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. -
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Study says 75% of EAM Software Users have No Mobile Access
Users of enterprise asset management (EAM) and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software report low levels of access to these systems through handheld mobile devices. -
Case Study
Fairbanks Scales uses IFS Metrix Service Management
Fairbanks Scales is now running IFS Metrix Service Management, encompassing service functions ranging from work orders, service inventories, contract management and mobility. -
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China's Motion Control Market Falls by Nearly 20 Percent in 2012
The country’s economic slowdown impacted multiple markets that use the devices, including appliances, automotive and housing. But they'll be back.