Newsletters received in week ending: 30th July 2010 ControlDesign enews Phoenix e-news Control Matters FlowTimes Automation Weekly manufacturing Intelligence ControlEngineering EME HazardEx Process News ControlDesign newsletter Sensors UpDate ControlGlobal enews DPA Direct We only include e-mail Newsletters which are also in Web Format.

Pressure transmitter with SIL2 approval - Baumer’s pressure transmitter PFSX with SIL2 certification (Safety Integrity Level 2) has been developed according to the IEC 61508 standard.

Products for PXI & LXI on show - Pickering Interfaces has continued in 2010 to regularly release a steady flow of new products in both the LXI and the PXI platforms. Amongst a variety of products, these latest models deserve attention and will be shown at Autotestcon.

New cable brings Ethernet communication to 3B and 5B analog signal conditioning modules - Users of the popular 3B and 5B isolated signal conditioning modules can now connect to Acromag’s BusWorks® 958EN or several of their EtherStax® Ethernet analog I/O modules for an easy interface to remote control networks.

Machine safety - Pilz has enhanced its PAScal software tool, used to verify the functional safety of machinery

Increasing wind farm profitability by reducing gearbox maintenance costs with condition-based maintenance - As much as 25%-30% of wind farm operating and maintenance costs are associated with gearbox maintenance alone. Reducing these costs can help wind farms stay more profitable, efficient, and competitive, bringing clean energy wind farms to the forefront. GE Energy's Condition-Based Maintenance Solution reduces gearbox maintenance costs and provides wind farms with a greater competitive edge in the energy market.

New plug connector with enhanced contact reliability and reduced manufacturing costs - Harting has introduced a new version of its AdvancedMC plug connector with the card edge replaced by gold pads for AdvancedMC and MCH modules, resulting in a device with improved contact reliability and reduced manufacturing costs.

New sales VP PAS has appointed David Vinzant as Vice-President of Sales.

Facilitating fast, reproducible and automatic Nitrogen determination in soils and plants - Thermo Fisher Scientific has a new application note for providing rapid, automatic and reproducible quantitative determination of nitrogen in soils and plants with the Thermo Scientific FLASH 4000 nitrogen/protein analyzer.

Smart ultrasonic sensors - The new lower cost rugged MassaSonicT series M-300/150, M-320/150 (range 2.5M) and M-300/95, M-320/95 (range 4.5M) RoHS compliant smart ultrasonic sensors are now available from Vydas

New plant to give forty-fold increase in production capacity - Intellitect Water, the company that developed the Intellisonde™ water quality monitoring instruments, has outgrown its premises in Christchurch and moved to a much larger facility in Romsey (Hants GB).

Planning guideline - With its three-part Installation Guide, PI (ProfiBua & ProfiNet International) is providing support to plant manufacturers and operators for their planning, installation, and commissioning activities.

Drive for brushless DC servo motor motion control - New version of drag-and-drop flowchart programmed motion controller with integral servo drive opens market with low-cost brushless servo version from Rotalink.

Magnetostrictive linear position sensor - Gefran has launched its new ONP1-A magnetostrictive linear position sensor range that features the sensor and automation specialists recently patented ONDA magnetic sensitive element measurement system

Solid state replaces vacuum tubes in radar TX - A full line of highly reliable, solid-state radar transmitter systems to drive Klystrons, TWTs, IOTs, and magnetrons operating from UHF to W band is available from Diversified Technologies.

Keep it cool! - Rittal have introduced a range of cooling units specifically designed for outdoor enclosure applications. If you want your (electronic) kit to remain useful for longer when situated out of doors, then give it some air!

Canadian technology to aid banned substance detection - Quantitech has signed an agreement with the Canadian company TeknoScan Systems Inc to introduce a highly advanced technology for banned substance detection, to the British market

Action against Chinese patent infringers upheld! - Patent infringements and plagiarism represent major problems in China, especially for the manufacturers of brand products. The Harting Technology Group has taken resolute action against a Chinese company that had copied its connectors.

Wireless certification service - The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) announced the formal launch of ISA-100.11a certification services. With official testing of devices completed in late June 2010, participating suppliers can now offer ISA-100.11a-certified products.

Transducers can help measure reservoir levels - With the driest start to a year in Britain and much of Western Europe since 1929, monitoring falling reservoir levels assumes increased importance and can readily be accomplished using RDP transducers.

Five gallons of control in a three gallon book - Whether you are an experienced engineer, technician, project manager, or new to the field, this best-selling book should help you better understand how to assess, compare, select, and correctly implement the various methods of measurement and control for process automation.

New wireless telemetry system for strain gauge sensors - Applied Measurements Ltd has launched the T24 radio telemetry system to connect to any strain gauge based sensor for the measurement of load, pressure, torque and displacement as well as standard 0-10V & 4-20mA sensors.

Lab conference details now available - The organisers of WWEM 2010 "the world’s largest environmental monitoring event", have published details of their new Conference dedicated to the Laboratory sector.

New faces in Cleveland - Brennan Industries recently announced personnel changes to management at its headquarters in Cleveland

European wireless standard approvedWorker health and safety threatened by plant maintenance failures -

Newsletters received in week ending: 23rd July 2010 Training & Certification enews The world of Electronic Test Equipment The world of Robotic Systems Control Job Central ControlDesign News Product Insights What's Working in Marketing & e-Business Automation Weekly NewInsights The world of Test & Measurement Flow Control Newsletter Control Engineering EME HazardEX The world of Quality Control The world of Lab Equipment TestPatterns ControlGlobal enews ProfiNews (GB) DPA Direct We only include e-mail Newsletters which are also in Web Format.

Rugged power meters - TESEQ has introduced The PM 6006 power meter which has been specially designed to meet these demanding requirements.

Pulse and arbitrary function generator - TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) has launched a lower-cost version of the best-selling TG5011 function/arbitrary/pulse generator.

Solar inverter's shining efficiency - A report jointly issued by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and Bureau Veritas shows that AEG Power Solutions’ Protect PV.250 solar inverter offers remarkable efficiency. Energy conversion efficiency testing conducted according to European Standard EN 50530 yielded a very high efficiency grade of 98.7%.

New wireless router - Deeter Electronics has introduced a Wireless Router to increase the range and reliability of their recently launched Deeter Wireless Sensor System for industrial measurement and control.

Plastic replaces metal - The Binder 713 series M12 plastic connector is a female socket and a reliable, low-cost, direct replacement for metal-bodied versions.

Robots in hospital - SoftSols Group is helping a hospital in Scotland become the first in Britain to use a fleet of robots to carry out routine deliveries.

Environment Agency strengthens their Monitoring Certification Scheme policy - The British Environment Agency will outline a hardening policy on the use of MCERTS certified products at WWEM 2010 (Telford, GB, 10th and 11th November 2010).

Need more protection from EMC than you first imagined? - The Ripac Vario subrack from Rittal is for mounting multiple board electronic solutions in 19” (482.6mm) racks, as the range is easily upgraded from standard to EMC after it has been completed. This will provide over 40dB of shielding effectiveness at 1GHz, both for incoming and outgoing protection.

High resolution dual-channel ADC FMC Card - Mistral Solutions has announced the availability of the highest resolution FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) module from Curtiss Wright, the new ADC511, a 400MS/s 14-bit, dual channel ADC card

Worker health and safety threatened by plant maintenance failures -

Keeping swinning pools dry! - Michell’s WM33 and WM261 relative humidity sensors are used to keep thousands of swimming pools around Europe dry. Their use in effective climate control systems in indoor pools reduces risk of structural damage.

Sub-miniature, high performance "In-Cell" amplifier - By incorporating the second generation "in-cell" amplifier (ICA) from LCM Systems, engineers can convert a strain gauge input to a voltage or a current output.

Expanded sensor offering - Meggitt Sensing Systems has expanded the availability of its products through the company's San Juan Capistrano (CA US) facility, to include Meggitt's Endevco®, Sensorex, Vibro-Meter and Wilcoxon Research product lines, all offered under one umbrella.

10kV insulation testers - Fluke has introduced two insulation resistance testers offering digital insulation testing up to 10kV for testing a wide range of high voltage equipment including switchgear, motors, generators, transformers and cables.

Read-out: the June/July Issue - The issue highlighted flow instruments including instruments from various manufacturers, their facilities and many other items of interest to Irish automation users.

Security threat to the control system world! - Warning from Eric Byers of Byers Security on malware affecting Siemens WinCC and PCS7 products

New Advertiser on the Signpost - "Ever so often a product is created that defies the conventional!" so claims GT 85, a professional spray maintenance product originally created to meet the demands of British motor racing engineers for a tough, effective, long lasting spray maintenance product. "Where other products failed in this challenging environment, GT85 proved itself a champion." The product has become the choice for industrial, mechanical, sporting and home users everywhere. If you wish to advertise on the Read-out Instrumentation Signpost!

Slimline connector for interfacing up to 168 points in test systems - Now available exclusively in Britain from the Peak Group is the i2 Micro iCon connector from Virginia Panel Corporation.

Newsletters received in week ending: 16th July 2010 The world of Dispaly Technologies ControlDesign enews The world of Motion Control ComponentsControlGlobal enews Mackey's Musings Automation Weekly Control Engineering EME HazardEx eNewsletter SCADA & RTU Update The world of Sensors & Switches Instrumentation ControlGlobal enews ControlDesign enews ProfiNews (NA) DPA Direct We only include e-mail Newsletters which are also in Web Format.

Now with maximum power point tracking New firmware (Version 4.12) has been introduced for the Yokogawa WT3000 digital power analyser that enables the instrument to be used to carry out real-time dynamic measurements on maximum power point tracking (MPPT): a system used to optimise the power performance of solar or wind energy inverter systems under changing conditions.

Automation scholorships announced -

Data cable assemblies for ISO/IEC 11801 Categories 5, 6 and 7 - Harting can now supply a range of cable assemblies for data transmission in ISO/IEC 11801 Categories 5, 6 and 7 for a range of environmental conditions.

Automation in LNG facility - Emerson Process Management has been appointed by Technip Samsung Consortium to serve as Main Automation Contractor for the Shell "Prelude" project, which will potentially be the world's first Floating LNG (liquefied natural gas) development. (See short video of project)

Thermometer with clamp connection for hygienic applications - For temperature measurement in hygienic applications, Baumer offers the bimetal thermometer TBI with hygienic clamp process connections. It is especially suitable for the use in medical technology, pharmaceutical, and food & beverage industries.

High precision industrial positioning - Aerotech has launched a new 560 mm wide ball screw driven positioning stage as part of its PRO series hard top/side sealed precision table range.

New PXI power supply - Pickering Interfaces is expanding its range of PXI power supply products with the introduction of the 41-743.

Integrated enterprise software - Control Microsystems has released ClearSCADA 2010, the latest version of the powerful client-server enterprise software. This latest version provides improvements for remote control & telemetry, enhanced connectivity to modern databases, improved security and enhanced alarm handling.

Controls design software - EPLAN unveiled the new EPLAN Electric P8 2.0 electrical controls design software, in beta version at the Hanover Fair. Whether point wiring, active device protection or channel oriented PLC design, the software offers practical potential for more project reliability, functionality and speed.

Automation powerhouse blogger to share social media strategies - We mentioned recently that Award-winning blogger, Jim Cahill, with Emerson would be a keynote speaker at ISA's 2010 Marketing & Sales Summit with a keynote presentation on "Social Media - Should We, Should We Not, or Should We just Ignore the Whole Thing?"
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Into the Middle East - Applied Analytics and Aber Ahmed Equipment Est. have announced the establishment of Applied Analytics Middle East FZE. This new subsidiary expands and restructures AAI operations in the Gulf region, serving both as an administrative hub and as a high-capacity service facility for local customers. Noted physicist to deliver keynote - National Instruments has announced that Dr. Michio Kaku, best-selling author and professor at City College of New York, will deliver the closing keynote address at NIWeek 2010, the world's largest graphical system design conference and exhibition scheduled for Aug. 3-5 in Austin, (TX US)

Nanotechnology tutorials - Keithley Instruments has announced its new Nanotechnology Technical Test Library on CD.

Smoke detector application - The new A5303 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe is a low-current BiCMOS photoelectric smoke detector integrated circuit designed to be used with an infrared optical chamber to sense light scattered from smoke particles.

Network design seminar - Belden Inc. will present the Hirschmann™ 2010 Mission Critical Network Design Seminar, September 19-22, 2010 in Orlando, (FL US)

Increasing sales territorial range - Aegis Software has expanded their business relationship with Rich Sales Inc. Rich Sales representative territory now includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and the country of Mexico.

Voltage alert in hazardous areas - The Diversified Electronics division of Marsh Bellofram Corporation has announced that it has achieved hazardous area certifications (Class 1, Division 2, HAZ LOC, Groups A, B, C, D) for its UPA-130 series Universal Voltage Alert.

Acoustic measurements - Meggitt Sensing Systems has announced the new market introduction of the Endevco® model EM40PS, a low-profile surface microphone with integral ISOTRON® (IEPE-type) amplifier and TEDS, designed to facilitate simplified larger channel count acoustic measurements on typical planar and curved surfaces exposed to air slipstreams.

Coriolis range expanded - Emerson Process Management has expanded the range of applications for its proven 2-Wire Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters. The addition of the compact and drainable Micro Motion® F-Series sensors mean 2-wire technology can be applied to an even broader range of installations.

Outstanding contribution rewarded - GE Intelligent Platforms has announced that Mike Yost, (right) Operations Management Manufacturing Solutions Leader, and Alicia Bowers, Product Marketing Manager, Operations Management Infrastructure Solutions, were presented with the MESA Outstanding Contribution Award for 2010 at the organization's annual conference in Michigan (US).

Tidal turbine development in Ireland and Canada -

Newsletters received in week ending: 9th July 2010 WurldTech Industry Update David Spitzer's ezine Factory Automation Update The world of Drives ControlDesign enews The world of Scientific Instruments ProductInSights SuperFactory Newsletter Automation Weekly The world of Pneumatics Flow Control Automation Control Engineering E&ME HazardEX Mackey's Musings The world of Wireless Technology ControlGlobal e-news The world of Valve Technology Connections We only include e-mail Newsletters which are also in Web Format.

Wind turbine monitoring - An integrated condition-based monitoring system, Bently Nevada™ Advanced Distributed Architecture Platform Technology (ADAPT™.wind) from GE, enables operators to understand the condition of the asset without having to physically examine the machinery.

Connector gland - Rittal's new connector gland offers significantly less assembly work, a flexible sealing system for different cable diameters and simple entry of pre-assembled cables for easy routing.

Incremental Magnetic Ring Encoder - ASM has added new magnetic encoder rings, PMIR7 series, to the POSIROT® family. These incremental encoder magnetic rings are available in three sizes to accommodate different shaft sizes and yield up to 184,320 pulses per revolution in conjunction with the quadrature encoder read head, PMIS4 series. Both units were designed to operate in harsh environments.

Major innovator to speak at Automation Week - Dean Kamen, Founder of FIRST® and inventor of the Segway™, is ISA Automation Week 2010 opening keynote speaker.

Industrial automation desktop on the iPhone - Industrial Thinking Ltd have expanded their current Counterpoint desktop suite to include an exciting new trending package on the iPhone.

Gas detection at major show - The organisers of WWEM, "the world's largest environmental monitoring event," have announced a new Gas Detection zone at the 2010 conference and exhibition, signalling coverage of the workplace environment for the first time.

Strain gauge bonding - The design and manufacturing experience of precision strain gauges gives TSM a leading edge for customers requiring a strain gauge bonding service. Since 1959 TSM has installed countless strain gauges onto a wide range of components.

Instrument rental ensures safety during rig inspection - Hired mercury analysers from instrumentation specialist Ashtead Technology have helped to ensure the fast, effective safety inspection of an oil and gas platform 150 miles off the coast of Scotland.

Building diagnostics - Fluke has introduced a new entry-level Fluke TiS Thermal Imaging Scanner for Building Diagnostics. Specifically designed for building and home inspectors, electricians, energy auditors, HVAC/R professionals, insulators, roofers and window installers, the Fluke TiS is the perfect tool to identify hidden issues, find moisture intrusion, detect energy losses or missing insulation, spot overheating in electrical components, identify leaking ductwork, inspect steam traps and check compressors, motors and pumps.

SCADA for subway in China - Hollysys Automation Technologies has signed a US $11 million, or RMB 75.8 million contract with Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp to deliver its proprietary subway SCADA system for the Phase II of Beijing Subway Line 8.

Frame grabber - ADLINK Technology has released the HDV62, a PCI Express frame grabber offering uncompressed image acquisition and video streaming in full 1080p HD. 6/7/2010

New offering helps create renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions - Emerson Process Management is expanding its energy management portfolio with new technologies and services that help companies and municipalities convert low-cost waste and biomass into renewable energy more efficiently and reliably, with lower carbon emissions.

Moisture & humidity slide rule - Michell Instruments have produced a new humidity calculation slide chart. Updated to include new measurement parameters, the slide chart allows for easy calculations and conversions between units of moisture content in parts per million (ppm), dew point, relative humidity and moisture in liquid.

Versatile, high-performance IR thermometers offer lowest installation cost per measurement point - Raytek® has introduced the MI3 Series of infrared temperature measurement sensors. The MI3 Series represents a new generation of performance and innovation in noncontact temperature monitoring for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) applications and manufacturing processes.

New 4-Channel PoE Compact Image Station - Stemmer Imaging's new CVS Image Station Compact EOS-1000 is an embedded computer system for industrial imaging applications that combines high performance computing capability with four individual Gigabit Ethernet camera ports in a compact, robust housing. This system is ideal for any industrial automation application such as 3D vision robotic guidance and medical imaging.

Crane performs electronic acrobatics! - A crane control refurbishment project at Clydeport's Hunterston terminal (GB) relies on Parker SSD AC890 series system drives to deliver pinpoint control in the unloading of coal from vessels.

More on the wireless standard struggle "ISA100 is the standard that has been developed by the user community, and expresses the wishes of the users, rather than the approach imposed by vendors, as exemplified by WirelessHART," said Joost van Loon, Yokogawa Europe director of industrial automation. Read Andrew Bond's take on what he calls "quite a snub!" There are of course lots of other juicy news and in-depth comments throughout his excellent publication.

Newsletters received in week ending: 2nd July 2010 The world of Industrial Processing Equipment The world of Industrial Automation ControlDesign enews The world of shock, vibration & noise! The world of Motion Control Components Optics Pages Automation Weekly Sensing Technology (Expo) Manufacturing Intelligence Control Engineering EME HazardEX PhoenixContact e-news Industrial Communications UpDate Process News Kyocera solar news Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ControGlobal enews DPA Direct We only include e-mail Newsletters which are also in Web Format.

New Foundation Fieldbus engineering tool improves efficiency - Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released an enhanced version of the STARDOM™ network-based control system with upgraded engineering functionality.

Pressure transmitter for high media temperatures - Baumer's pressure transmitter ED701 is now available with a cooling neck for applications with high media temperatures of up to 300 °C.

Precision tracking for maximum capture of solar energy - Yokogawa Electric Corporation (which has been very busy these past few days!) has released the HXS10 controller: a new product that controls the actuation systems that move heliostats (reflectors) and photovoltaic panels.

Web based SCADA system - Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released version R9.03 of the FAST/TOOLS web-based SCADA system.

Gigabit Ethernet cabling system - The AMP NETCONNECT business unit of Tyco Electronics has announced the general availability of its reduced diameter MRJ21 Ultra Slim Gigabit Ethernet cabling system.

Intel processor tackles critical requirements of high speed processing, built in communications and large data storage - GE Intelligent Platforms has announced the availability of its latest and most powerful addition to the PACSystems RX3i family of CPUs.

New DC motors - Rotalink has launched a range of high-torque brushed DC motors with neodymium rare earth magnets.

Biofuel plants urged to monitor discharge levels to avoid fines - Instrumentation company Quantitech is urging biodiesel producers in Britain to take necessary environmental monitoring precautions to avoid fines resulting from inadvertent discharges into streams and waterways.

Company among top in Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application category - Invensys Operations Management has announced that Invensys Skelta has been selected a 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards Finalist in the Information Worker Solutions, Office Business Application category.

Nuclear motor brochure - Baldor has published a highly informative brochure detailing the extensive range of motors that it produces for nuclear applications.

Smallest IEPE-type triaxial accelerometer - Meggitt Sensing Systems has announced the new product launch of the Endevco® model 35A, the world's smallest ISOTRON® (IEPE-type) triaxial accelerometer with integral electronics, designed for high-precision vibration measurements in three orthogonal axes on very small objects.

Water-in-solvents analyser - The Applied Analytics Microspec is an excellent online, real-time, water-in-solvents analyser. In these economic times, it ought to be seriously considered and promoted, because it offers considerable savings over current methodologies in use.