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The entire auto seat assembly process is managed by an Integrated Systems Design (ISD) PC-based quality assurance system that improves overall seat quality by monitoring the seat assembly and sequencing process.

The 48,000-square-foot building is expected to be completed in March 2014, and will be a state-of-the art customer support, training, and sales and marketing center.

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Manufacturing in America Symposium, hosted by Siemens and Electro-Matic, automation professionals from Ford and General Motors shared their perspectives on a number of automation issues including the lack of engineers, data connectivity, integrated safety, demands on global suppliers, and much more.

Software PDLP simplifies functional safety software project management. Three training courses are scheduled.

Topics of focus include a variety of new technologies and processing techniques for improved speed, accuracy and quality in die/mold and job-shop environments.

The Ubisense Smart Factory System solution for automotive assembly lines has achieved the pilot acceptance in Daimler’s project to equip the assembly line for the Mercedes S Class premium cars in Germany.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank announced that Michael Laszkiewicz, Vice President and General Manager, Rockwell Automation, will Chair the Manufacturing Council.

More industry clients are requesting certification for control system integrators as they consider the pool of candidates for industrial automation projects, according CSIA.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Manufacturing automation has been doing the heavy lifting to improve productivity in the United States while the country’s educational systems continue to have disturbingly low productivity. After talking with management of many manufacturing companies, reviewing surveys and statistics, it is obvious to me that this situation is dramatically out of control.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Spring is a time of new beginnings and new life. So why can’t we breathe new life into our automation systems? It’s a good time for automation engineers to consider new innovative automation applications to improve production.

By Reid Paquin, Aberdeen Group In December 2012, Aberdeen conducted research into the state of the engineering and technical workforce and found out that a majority of the 562 companies polled (over 60%) feel that they are understaffed in their engineering positions. Aberdeen looked into the challenges behind hiring and retaining engineering talent and uncovered what the industry leaders do to combat this problem.

ARC says the total control valve, actuator and positioner market in India will grow by 7.5 percent by 2016.

ARC says the worldwide flow meter market has rebounded strongly, growing at double digit rates through 2011 and 2012 as suppliers fulfilled pent up demand in the power, mining, and oil & gas industries.

The program establishes a perpetual $250,000 endowment fund providing scholarships to students seeking a career in the industrial automation profession.

IP training for security integrators will be available in seven cities nationwide, including San Jose, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Teterboro, Forest Park, Houston and Philadelphia.

The Stadtwerke Groß-Gerau Versorgungs-GmbH (GGV) municipal utility company installed the ORC and increased the power to heat ratio of its cogeneration units (CHP).

MEAN provides power supply, transmission and related services to more than 60 communities, one public power district and one joint-action agency in four states: Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming.

At Sanico's site in Turnhout, Belgium, PAS-X will replace the existing third party manufacturing execution system (MES) and the warehouse management system.

IMS Research says the growth rate for new motor control Ethernet nodes--including PROFINET, Ethernet/IP, POWERLINK and EtherCAT--is projected to be the highest across the whole industrial space at nearly 30%.

Training program makes available several of ISA’s technical training courses to a majority of cities in the US where expert-led ISA instruction has not previously been offered.