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Striking Opportunities

G Venkatesh reports.

Increasing productivity, asset optimization, compliance with safety and environmental regulations – just some of the reasons why automation expenditure in the oil & gas sector is set to continue apace.

It has become increasingly mandatory over the years to shape up and adjust to make the most of, while wending one’s way deftly through, the mazes of all sorts of regulations, concerns of ...

Time passages

Bob Gill, Group Editor

There’s this unofficial theory about time – that its perceived duration is inversely proportional to your age. Certainly, if you think back ...

The Lean Advantage

Filippo Focacci and David Simchi-Levi discuss how the process and hybrid industries can benefit from the implementation of lean manufacturing principles.

Lean manufacturing is one of most important business processes in manufacturing today. Started in the mid 1940s as Toyota was trying to catch up with US car manufacturing companies, it wa...

Inaugural ProcessCEM show

The first ever ProcessCEM Asia conference and exhibition, which took place over three days in Singapore, October 22- 24, attracted over 1...

Beckhoff recognized for embedded excellence

Beckhoff has received the 2008 Windows Embedded Partner Excellence Award in recognition of innovative and creative application of Windows Embedded technology. The award was offi cially ...

National Instruments invests US$80 million in Malaysia

National Instruments (NI) has announced plans to open a new R&D and operations facility in Malaysia in 2010. With an US$80 million ca...

Turck on track for double-digit growth

For the 2008 financial year, connectivity and sensor specialists Turck is anticipating a consolidated sales growth of more than 11 percen...

IPS announces marine metering innovation

October’s SIBCON conference in Singapore, the world’s largest bunkering port, was an appropriate venue for the international launch of a n...

Automation trade fair set for Dubai

The general economic and industrial boom in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and consequent increased demand for automation technologies a...

EDDL on show at ISA Expo 2008

ISA Expo 2008, held in Houston, October 14-16, provided an opportunity to create awareness of the enhancements made to the EDDL standard...

Pepperl+Fuchs buys US display maker

Pepperl+Fuchs has announced the acquisition of Christensen Display Products, designer and manufacturer of ruggedized, industrial-grade, flat-panel monitors for the process and industrial c...

Advantech makes it into Taiwan’s top 10.

Advantech won 10th place in the just-released 2008 Top Taiwan Global Brands survey, with a brand value of US$299 million. The company was also recognized for its six straight years of stea...

The Adaptive Approach

By Peter Dickin.

Capable of providing a real boost to manufacturing productivity, adaptive machining techniques use in-process measurement to close information gaps in the process chain.

The main challenge for manufacturers today is developing the ability to produce high-quality products on a consistent basis. Both business and domestic customers are demanding better appe...

Enforcing Modbus TCP/IP security

In conventional practice, Modbus traffic is usually allowed or blocked by a standard firewall, with fine-grained control being imposs...

Analytical sensors with condition monitoring

The Digital ISM series from Mettler Toledo comprises a new line of pH and oxygen measurement loop...

Dual bus support on halfsize CPU card

IEI Technology Corp announces the launch of the PICOe-GM45A half-size CPU card, a 45 nm Intel Core 2 D...

All-in-one actuator

The actuators in the DFPI series from Festo enable precise regulation of gate valves, but with the nec...

(Dr) T for Technology

Together with co-founders Jeff Kodosky and Bill Nowlin, Dr James Truchard started National Instruments (NI) in a proverbial garage, in A...

Taking the IP Route

Madanmohan Rao reports.

The push to extend wireless networking is making strides, thanks to moves in the IP networking and ZigBee space.

A consortium of suppliers, the IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, is pushing the wireless networking drive to small devices such as li...

(Ex)Change in Washington

Bob Gill reports from Washington DC.

Leadership change was just one the items on the agenda at the 2008 Emerson Global Users Exchange.

Washington DC in the last week of September. The financial crisis that has been on slow burn for the last 12 months is exploding. Hank Paulson begs Congress for a US$700 billion bail-out ...