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The State of Safety

With machine safeguarding now the fastest growing segment of the discrete manufacturing automation market, G Venkatesh examines how far industrial safety has moved up corporate responsibility checklist.

For every dollar invested in workplace safety, three dollars are saved. That’s a quote from Joe Lazzara, CEO of Omron STI, the largest provider of machine safeguardingsolutions in North America....

Tech and touch

Bob Gill/Group Editor

Everybody’s talking to computers. They’re all dancing to a drum machine. I’m so cool and calculated alone in the modern world. I sit so snug and isolated alone in the modern world. We all need th...

GE Fanuc acquires MTL division for process safety

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms and MTL Instruments have announced the signing of an agreement for GE Fanuc to acquire the assets of the MTL Open Systems Technology (MOST) product lines, which ...

Invensys provides InFusion to Thai petrochemical plant

Invensys Process Systems has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Simon Carves to provide an InFusion Enterprise Control System through an engineering, procurement and construction ...

ABB technology wins energy efficiency award

An ABB technology that helps cement makers reduce their energy consumption by controlling a range of processes in their plants was picked as the “most innovative technology for electrical energy...

Omron offers online access to product datasheets

Omron Corporation’s Industrial Automation Business (IAB) has begun provision of English language specifications for individual products on its global website in order to offer quicker order proc...

Check Point launches single agent for PC security

Designed to protect company laptops and PCs against malware, data loss and theft and other threats while enabling secure remote access to the corporate network, Check Point Endpoint Security...

ICA & LAB shows coming to KL

The 9th Inter nat i o n a l Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA) and Laboratory (LAB) events will be held from June 10- 13, at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC), Malaysia. As ...

Fieldbus Foundation announces latest plans for safety

The Fieldbus Foundation, at its 2008 General Assembly in Antwerp, Belgium, announced plans for Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) demonstrations at multiple end user sites arou...

Emerson starts shipping WirelessHart

Em e rson Pro c e s s Management has announced it is the first process automation supplier to begin taking orders for WirelessHart enabled products, based on the recently approved open stand...

Belden appoints Steve Biegacki to executive team

Belden has appointed Steven Biegacki as Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, effective March 31, 2008. Biegacki, 49, was previously Vice President, Marketing, Rockwell Automation, where he...

Wonderware hits half a million software licenses

Automation software supplier Wonderware has announced the achievement of a “significant milestone” by having its customers actively deploying more than 500,000 software licenses in 100,000facili...

NXP Supplies RFID Smart Label ICs to Metro Group

NXP Semiconductors has announced that retailing company Metro Group has selected smart labels using NXP’s UCODE G2XL RFID chips without user memory for supply chain management. The retailer wi...

Profibus on show in Vietnam

For the first time, Profibus South East Asia, the regional association for the industrial network, had the opportunity to show offtechnology and developments at an exhibition in Vietnam. Th...

LonMark completes worldwide seminar tour

LonMark International (LMI) has announced the successful completion of its worldwide seminar tour. Spanning nearly 11 months, the tour visited 52 cities around the world in North America, Asia...

The Year of .... OPC-UA

The Chinese Year of the Rat also spells launch time for the long awaited OPC-UA specification, and according to Eric Murphy, the furry rodent actually has a lot in common with the latest version of the automation system interface standard.

According to Chinese astrology the future can be divined from one’s birth date. Although work on the OPC-UA (Unified Architecture) specifications began several years ago and several parts have ...

OPC Made Easy

EDDL can save numerous man-hours of OPC server configuration and speed up project completion, says Jonas Berge.

OPC is an o p e n standard method for transferring data between software applications, used for example to obtain data from devices. Once an OPC server is configured, external software i...

Even Better Than the Real Thing

By Bob Erickson.

OPC connectivity enables a legacy DCS to take its rightful place as the cornerstone of a unified plant control structure.

If the process control vendor world was one great big outdoor rock concert, Honeywell would have to be U2. Both are absolutely huge and supremely confident, almost everyone is familiar with thei...

Temperature measurement for fast processes

With a scan speed up to 150 Hz, three times faster than its predecessor, the MP150 High Speed Infrared Linescanner from Raytek is able to gather complete data f...

Quick-set temperature switch

ifm electronic has added the TK temperature switch to its repertoire of products, one that offers little installation complexity and maximum reliability. This...

Telecontrol for process plants

The Simatic PCS 7 process control system from Siemens Industry Automation Division now comes with telecontrol functions. Simatic PCS 7 TeleControl connects distant substations to the central ...

Dynamic connection to the Internet

The IE-ARM-EOSPF (Ethernet) and IE-ARM-UOSPF (RS232) mini routers from Weidmüller make it possible to establish a simple connection between...

Humidity plus temp plus Hart

The HTZ Smart HART Humidity and Temperature Transmitter f rom Moore Industries targets processes that require extremely close monitoring of humidity, temp...

Onto the Machine

Charlie Masi explores how improved environmental ruggedness is opening up more applications for on-machine control options.

Installing machine controls on the actual machine is not a new idea. Mechanical control systems, of course, installed right on the machines they controlled. They had to be, because controls wer...

Beyond the Core

It may not be the most glamorous equipment in the plant, but without the right cable all those signals from the field would not get very far. Nigel Christopher, President, Dekoron Wire & Cable talks to CE Asia.

CEA: Dekoron recently set up its first office in Asia. The reasonbehind this move? NC: Dekoron had been doing business in the region for many years, but with somewhat in...

Ingredients for Success

Jim Ricigliano explores how the convergence of manufacturing and IT can present acute challenges but also wonderful opportunities for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

The same changes in information technologies that have transformed the way we live have affected manufacturing systems. In all areas of manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies particularly, ...