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The Business of Wireless

With increasing investment by big players and more momentum in wireless standards, the business case for wire-free industrial solutions is becoming clearer, says Madanmohan Rao.

The process manufacturing sector is a prime example of the promising new world of wireless. Within five years, spending on industrial wireless techn...

The new normal

Bob Gill, Group Editor

After a while, new technology becomes familiar and it’s not so new anymore. The new becomes the “new normal” and it is the old that becomes unfamili...

Troubleshooting the Loop

By Fluke Corp.

How to diagnose the control loop without interrupting the process and creating costly production downtime.

An ethanol production plant is a storehouse of process control technologies and a great venue for illustrating the enduring benefits of 4-20 mA t...

Schneider stresses energy efficiency

Organized by Schneider Electric, a two-day technical symposium, “Inspiration 2008: Energy Efficiency with Power and Automation”, held in Singapo...

Siemens acquires innotec to enhance software portfolio

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of industrial software with an agreement to acquire innotec of Germany, a supplier of digital engineering software and services for the process industry. The ...

Invensys wins multi-million dollar nuclear upgrade contract

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has signed a “multi-million dollar” deal with state-owned Taiwan Power Company (TPC) to provide critical upgrades to the Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in no...

Healthy outlook for high power AC drives

The worldwide market for high power AC drives is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 11 percent over the next fi...

Automation unit chief quits Carlo Gavazzi

After 24 years of service for the Carlo Gavazzi Group, the last 11 years as CEO of the Automation Components Business Unit, Dino Masili, 61, ...

Wonderware acquires SAT Corp for mobile solutions

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, has acquired Houstonbased SAT Corporation to offer mobile solutions that will help drive operational excellence for its customers. Wonderware plans to fo...

Beckhoff on show across Southeast Asia

In a joint event, TDS Technology and Beckhoff Automation hosted the Beckhoff South- East Asia Seminar 2008 across five different cities – Kual...

Ravi Uppal to leave ABB

Ravi Uppal, President of Global Markets and a member of the ABB Group Executive Committee since July 2007, has decided to relinquish his posi...

Name change for Total Automation

Wärtsilä Cor poration’s subsidiary in Singapore, Total Automation, has been renamed Wärtsilä Automation Services Singapore. The change came into effect on September 1.Total Automation c...

Mitsubishi Electric accelerates solar spending

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced plans to will expand annual production capacity of photovoltaic (PV) cells in response to a sharp increase in demand for solar power generation sy...

Website relaunch for Pepperl+Fuchs

A brand new look-and-feel plus a powerful search engine are promised for visitors of Pepperl+Fuchs’ redesigned website, www.pepperl-fuchs.com.A...

NI recognizes innovative applications

National Instruments recognized more than 20 innovative applications developed by engineers and scientists from around the world at its Graphical ...

Getting a Good Start

Mark Hoske explains how soft starters provide useful protection for motors and describes the various design options.

High inrush currents and mechanical wear and tear are two principal causes of motor damage. Drives can protect attached mechanical components from wear and tear by slowly starting and stopping ...

Between the Lines

Compared to conventional computer-aided design packages, today’s electrical CAD (eCAD) software is capable of delivering large productivity improvements for control systems design activities. Renee Robbins explains how.

Troy Schmidtke is passionate about software and the role it can play in a manufacturer’s competitiveness. His passion, however, is not focused on...

Low-power PC/104 module

With the launch of the PFM-800P, industrial PC manufacturer AAEON completes its PC/104 CPU module series. This model aims to be a low-power con...

Flow measurement for wet gas

Process and plant engineers in rugged industries who must frequently measure various hydrocarbon-based gases with wet particulates are target c...

First fully metal ultrasonic sensor

Turck is claiming a world first with the M25U ultrasonic barrier sensor The fully encapsulated device, developed by Turck partner Banner, is c...

Submersible transmitter for level measurement

The submersible pressure transmitters of the PS3 series from ifm electronic are used for level measurement in containers, tanks, wells, streamin...

High-speed image acquisition

From ADLINK Technology comes the PCIe-GIE62, a PCI Express GigE Vision frame grabber designed specifically for alignment, measurement, and ...

PC power for fieldbus

The FieldConnex USB Power Supply from Pepperl+Fuchs offers technicians a productivity - enhancing way to communicate with Foundation Fieldb...

Supporting wind power standards

Beckhoff announces a PLC library, TwinCAT PLC IEC 61400-25, for its TwinCAT automation suite. The IEC 61400-25 standard defi nes communication f...

Multi-channel temperature transmitter

The TCS Temperature Concentrator System from Moore Industries reduces the cost of transmitting multiple temperature sensor measurements by co...

Photovoltaic surge protection

To guarantee high levels of availability of inverters and electrical components utilized in photovoltaic systems it is necessary to protect them...

Getting Motion in Control

Charlie Masi explores how the convergence of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering is changing the face of motion control design and development.

Based on his experience with traditional machine building, says John Pritchard, Product Marketing Manager for the Kinetix Motion Control Business at Rockwell Automation, “individual mechanical,...

Asia Pacific Awards Night

The region’s top automation companies were among those honored at the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards night.

Introduced in 2006, the Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards seek to acknowledge best practices in various industrial technologies across the Asia Pacific region. This y...

From Plants to Power

By Alexandre Bouriant and Nico Hees.

The latest process automation systems can make a considerable contribution towards efficient production and optimization of biogas installations.

The finite life and environmental impacts of conventional fossil fuel sources have put the spotlight on alternative forms of energy such as bioga...