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Sensing at the Nano Level

By Jeanine Katzel.

Development of sensors that harness the power of nanotechnology is progressing, although hurdles remain to manufacturing and commercializing products for general application.

At least once in every episode of the popular TV medical drama “House”, we are treated to a brief but beautiful journey through the human body, traveling with a virus or cell awaiting discovery by t...

East nor West

Bob Gill/ Group Editor

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Words written over a hundred years ago during the high noon of Britain’s colonial empire by Rudyard Kipling. It’s just the first lin...

Ties for Temperature

Rapid thermal response, accuracy and surface-mount simplicity are some of the benefits of using thermal-ribbons as piped-liquid temperature measurement devices.

Accurate temperature sensing of liquids flowing in pipes is essential to process control and energy management systems. The traditional approach is to use probe-style sensors and thermowells inserte...

GE on show for a day

General Electric chose October 1 to the launch the very first “GE Day” in Singapore. For the industrial conglomerate, it was an opportunity to showcase the diversity of its products and services as we...

Temperature sensor giveaway from Moore Industries

Moore Industries is offering a free WORM flexible RTD or thermocouple sensor to any qualified user that wants one. The offer includes a choice of a thermocouple or RTD sensor, extension wire, and an i...

Mitsubishi product launch

The official launch of Mitsubishi Electric’s Safety PLC for Building Application and E700 All Round Inverter was just one item on the menu at the company’s Annual Dinner 2007. It was also an opportuni...

Speak about safety

IDC Technologies is looking for industrial safety professionals to present papers at the Safety Control & Instrumentation Systems Conference taking place next year in Singapore, March 12-13. Of partic...

Robot focus at Hannover Fair 2008

Robotics will be a highlight at HANNOVER MESSE from 21 to 25 April 2008, at Hall 25, says show organizer Deutsche Messe. Mobile robots and intelligent systems will be presented in three clusters geare...

Motion, Drive and Automation Fair heads for India

Power transmission and control fair MDA will be making its debut in Bangalore, India this December (4 to 7). The event is being held at the same time and venue as Industrial Automation INDIA and CeMAT...

Singapore launches process industry initiatives

Singapore’s Association of Process Industry (ASPRI) has signed a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) memorandum of understanding (MOU) with several key government agencies and institutes of higher learni...

Rockwell continues process push

Further expanding its process automation software offerings, Rockwell Automation is buying Pavilion Technologies, a major player in advanced process control (APC), production optimization and environm...

NI looks to renewables

A chance to find out how NI’s virtual i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n technology is being used for measurement, analysis and control in the rapidly expanding renewable energy industry attracted some 80 ...

Standards bodies establish cooperative forum

ISA, MIMOSA, the OPC Foundation, the Open Applications Group, and WBF have established OpenO&M, a cooperative forum where members can work together to solve automation challenges through standardizati...

Water & Wastewater SCADA to exceed U$275 million

The worldwide market for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for the water & wastewater industries is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.4 percent over the next five years. The marke...

Pepperl+Fuchs’ fieldbus selected for PETRORabigh

Pepperl+Fuchs with its FieldConnex range of fieldbus interface solutions has been selected as the main FOUNDATION fieldbus supplier to Yokogawa, the global EPC for the project. Pepperl+Fuchs will offe...

Food and farming to be largest RFID market, says report

RFID for Animals, Food and Farming will become the largest RFID market of all because it will benefit the food supply chain in a huge number of ways including livestock disease control and merchandisi...

Siemens displays solutions for plastics industry

Automation solutions for injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion and handling of plastics were exhibited by Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) at the K 2007 trade fair in Düsseldorf...

Name change for GE Fanuc

“We are no longer GE Fanuc Automation, CNC or Embedded Systems. Together, we are now something more: GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms,” read the announcement from the auto-mation company formed more tha...

One World. One Dream

In Shanghai for Advantech’s third World Partner Conference, Bob Gill finds an ambitious Asian company all set to take globalization to the next level.

This is the largest gathering of solution partners in the company’s history, announced Chaney Ho, General Manager, Greater China, as he launched the 2007 Advantech World Partner Conference (WPC). In...

Showcase of Solutions

All Advantech business units were given the opportunity to display and explain their latest offerings at the World Partner Conference. Here is a selection.

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Looking to a Bright Future

In Shanghai, David Soon, Managing Director, Advantech South Asia Pacific, took some time out to talk with CE Asia.

CEA: What are the main objectives of this World Partner Conference? Soon: This event, which we hold every two years, is an important one and all Advantech partners are invited to come along...

The Dawn of Digital Manufacturing

Frank Smith explains why.

The latest advances in product lifecycle management (PLM) software will directly impact control engineers.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) software could be coming to a control system near you. Maybe not tomorrow, but given recent developments, sooner than you might suspect. The link from PLM directly...

HMI breakthrough experience

Wonderware says that its InTouch 10.0 software represents the next breakthrough generation of its 20-year old HMI software. ArchestrA graphics capability along with direct support for Microsoft...

Stormwater flow measurement

McCrometer is targeting facility and infrastructure engineers responsible for pollution and fl ood control with its Marsh Multi-Mag Flowmeter. Stormwater run-off is a public environmental conce...

Range of flowmeter technologies

Manufactured by Krohne, the VersaFlow line represents Honeywell’s entry into the flowmeter market and the strategic expansion of its field device portfolio. All devices are distributed and supp...

Taking Ethernet into the Ex-Zone

With its intrinsically safe Ethernet Isolator, Pepperl+Fuchs offers a solution to extend the Ethernet network all the way into the Ex-Zone 1. The galvanic isolator takes care of separation from...

Making the Connection

Shane Parr is in charge of German connectivity specialists Pepperl+Fuchs’ process automation business in Asia Pacific. He talks to CE Asia.

CEA: How active is Pepperl+Fuchs in Asia? Parr: Singapore is the headquarters for Asia Pacific Process Automation (PA) division, which I head up, while Shanghai, China, is the regional headqua...

Found in Translation

Its technology is evidently translating very well, as this UK product design and manufacturing software company now has a presence in some 60 countries around the world. Bob Gill reports from the Delcam Asian Technical Summit 2007.

They may be thousands of miles away from each other, but there is a common thread that links the two cities of Nagoya, Japan, and Birmingham, UK: manufacturing, or monozukuri, if you want to make the ...

Standards & Successes Emerge

Madanmohan Rao kicks off a new regular feature that delves into the brave new world of industrial wireless technology.

A number of case studies of successful industrial automation design and implementation are emerging in the fi eld of intelligent embedded wireless sensor network (WSN) solutions. The push of wire...