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  • Colman Roche Named Executive VP at Sapient Automation

    Roche holds a B. Sc from Trinity College, a Dip. Eng. from Dublin Institute of Technology, an MBA from Rutgers and Executive Education' Certificate from Harvard Business School.
    16 November, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • ODVA updates specifications with new energy object

    Updates to EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet specs include an energy object that will be used to report energy for all energy and resource types.
    16 November, 2011 | 3 minutes
  • Automated Facility Solutions acquires Joyner’s Mechanical

    Joyner’s Mechanical has offices in both Richmond and Chesapeake, Virginia.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minute
  • ACS Control Systems signs Paralan as distributor

    Paralan will distribute ACS industrial and process control instrumentation in the US, Canada and Mexico.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Alternative Vision announces online store

    Site offers image sensors, frame grabbers, cameras, lenses, industrial computers, cables and enclosures.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minute
  • HayssenSandiacre Acquires Simionato Integrated Packaging

    Simionato is a manufacturer of integrated flexible packaging systems based in Mestrino, Italy.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Semaphore signs Process Control Dynamics as distributor

    Process Control Dynamics is a Semaphore authorized distributor for customers in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Trebing + Himstedt signs WESCO as distributor

    WESCO will distribute T+H Industrial Communication Solutions and Services for Fieldbus and Ethernet networks in Virginia.
    15 November, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Must Industry Choose Between Security or Efficiency?

    Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?
    14 November, 2011 | 5 minutes
  • Manufacturing Technology Orders Up 91.9% in 2011

    September U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $606.56 million, up 22.9% from August and up 51.9% when compared with the total of $399.32 million reported for September 2010.
    14 November, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • PLCs close in on DCS market

    The distinction between PLCs and distributed control systems is narrowing, but their combined market in Europe will hit €6.45 billion in 2017.
    14 November, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • SEMI accepts ODVA networks as international standards

    The Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) organization has renewed EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet as standards in its sensor bus network communications activities.
    14 November, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • RFID use in Russia Growing

    Security is high on the agenda and Russia has somewhat different priorities from the rest in its extensive use of RFID for public transport.
    13 November, 2011 | 4 minutes
  • Avoid the Crisis - Achieve Zero Downtime

    Automation.com, November 2011 By Roy Kok In the terms of Automation, a crisis can be characterized as a loss of production (downtime), possibly of a simple piece of equipment, or it can be extensive, affecting major portions of the plant. Are we giving enough focus to the right areas, not focusing on the level of a "worst case scenario" type of crisis?
    10 November, 2011 | 7 minutes
  • CIMdata Announces 2012 CIMdata PLM Certificate schedule

    CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation.
    10 November, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • Changing the way we think about Security

    Automation.com, November 2011 By Rick Kaun, Honeywell Process Solutions Security is thought of as physical protection against intrusion or the detection of hackers when, in fact, little thought is given to the security threats that exist inside the fences of any given facility.
    10 November, 2011 | 5 minutes
  • Calling All Engineering Professionals

    NCEES needs your help to ensure that the questions on the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination are accurately testing the relevant areas of knowledge required to enter into an engineering internship. How can you help? Take the FE Exam Content Review Survey
    10 November, 2011 | 1 minute
  • MESA reveals preliminary results of Plant Operations Metrics study

    Preliminary findings show that one reason few companies can show employees’ performance results quickly enough is that nearly two-thirds find it necessary to have an analyst cleanse the data.
    10 November, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • Rice University wins Latest Cool Idea! award with robot project

    Rice University has been awarded prototyping and production services to help launch a group of robots designed for undergraduate engineering students.
    10 November, 2011 | 2 minutes
  • WAGO Power Supplies Earn GL Approval

    EPSITRON COMPACT Power Supply family has earned Germanischer Lloyd (GL) approvals and has passed Environmental Category C and EMC2 testing.
    10 November, 2011 | 1 minute
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