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    Online-tool for system integrators - Thomson has enhanced its customer support with the addition of innovative product selection, configuration and sizing tools to its website.
17/12/2010 16/12/2010
    NEWS Environmental management system certified - GreenPeak Technologies has announced that its environmental management system received ISO 14001:2004 certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance.

    PRODUCT Fully scalable tank gauging system - Emerson Process Management’s new Raptor tank gauging system makes it easy to install the devices needed today and add or replace units in the future.

    PRODUCT Added value & Performance to automated test and control applications - National Instruments has two new PXI Express chassis that deliver added value and performance to automated test and control applications at the same price as similar PXI chassis.

    NEWS Major design award - At this year’s International Forum Design (iF) competition the international jury bestowed the iF product design award 2011 (in the "industry + skilled trades" category) on the Han-Yellock® by the Harting Technology Group.

    STANDARDS Radar level transmitters certified IEC 61508 - K-TEK, (we love the intro on their home page!), which is part of ABB, has announced that the company's MT5000 Series of Guided Wave Radar Transmitters has been certified for use in SIL2/3 (Safety Integrity Levels 2 and 3) applications.

    NEWS Oil & gas power infrastructure contracts in Brazil - ABB has won several orders collectively worth $42 million to provide power supply infrastructure and equipment for several floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. The vessels will produce crude oil off the coast of Brazil; they will be operated by several oil and gas producers, with Petrobras as the end customer.

    PRODUCT Panel PCs for hazardous areas - Polaris Touch Panel PCs with LED technology from Bartec are an innovative enhancement of the existing POLARIS Panel PCs.

15/12/2010
    Training Recovery and fierce competition in I/O marketBLOG - The IO module market is driven by fierce competition, which lead to a rapid price drop across all segments of the market, and the economic recovery, which is at full speed according to a recent report from ARC Advisory Group.

    STANDARDS Radar level transmitter conforms to German norms - The Rosemount® 5300 Guided Wave Radar (GWR) and 5400 Non-Contacting Radar level transmitters from Emerson Process Management are now available with approvals to the German Federal Water Act (WHG) regulations for overfill protection.

    PRODUCT Battery powered, handheld load cell Iindicator – free calibration available - The TR150 handheld load indicator from LCM Systems is a versatile and intuitive precision instrument, ideal for use by both OEMs and end users alike.

    PRODUCT 3d Design - EPLAN now has a 3D module, EPLAN Pro Panel, for efficient layout planning in electrical engineering and fluid power.

    PRODUCT Video system upgrade - Enhancements and upgrades in the Longwatch Video System Version 5.2 include a Value Edition of the Console Recorder, a low-power XLP version of the Video System that delivers surveillance in remote areas with limited power budgets, and improved database functions.

    PRODUCT Energy saving lighting - LPRS has established itself as a major supplier of transducers used in energy saving lighting systems manufactured by Ex-Or Ltd.

    EVENTS Water & Waste event success - November saw the most successful WWEM event since its inception in 2005 with visitor numbers continuing to grow and exhibitors jostling to reserve the best places for WWEM 2012.

14/12/2010
    PUBLICATIONS Alarm management - again! - The International Society of Automation (ISA) has published Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition, by Bill Hollifield and Eddie Habibi. . It is based on hundreds of person-years of extensive experience working with industrial control and alarm systems in almost every industry. All manner of practices make up the background information used in producing this book—the good and the bad, the best and the worst.

    PRODUCT Migration solution - Invensys Operations Management has introduced a new HART-enabled plug-in migration solution for Fisher PROVOX® Series 20 distributed control systems (DCS). Users can now easily upgrade to the advanced Foxboro® I/A Series® DCS, taking advantage of HART® field communications functionality, along with InFusion™ enterprise control system (ECS) technologies to achieve control excellence, without the need for rewiring.

    Training BLOGGrowth in World SCADA market - New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic Analysis of the World SCADA Market, finds that the market earned revenues of us$4,584.5 million in 2009 and estimates this to reach us$6,902.4 million in 2016.

    PRODUCT Low-cost data logger - MadgeTech has released the Pulse101A, a low-cost data logger which senses pulse inputs or contact closures from external sources such as transducers and/or pulse initiators.

13/12/2010 10/12/2010 9/12/2010
    NEWS Merger completed! - Keithley Instruments has announced completion of the merger of Aegean Acquisition Corporation, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, into Keithley pursuant to the previously announced Merger Agreement dated September 29, 2010 among Danaher Corporation, Aegean Acquisition Corporation and Keithley.

    NEWS Automation systems for Indian metal plant - ABB has won an order valued at €17million to provide integrated automation systems and related services to modernize the plate mill at the Rourkela Steel plant in India.

    APPLICATION Good connections in space! - Souriau has obtained the qualification of the European Space Agency (ESA) for its rectangular miniature range: microComp®. The microComp® connector is the perfect replacement for ESA/ESCC D-Sub connector, which is widely used today in satellite payloads.

    People Safety and security strengthened by appointment - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Schiller is to take over the position of Scientific Project Manager in the Safety and Security Division of Beckhoff Automation with effect from 1st March 2011.

    PRODUCT New 4-channel ScopeMeters - Fluke has two new models, the Fluke 190-204 and the Fluke 190-104, to its highly successful range of rugged, handheld portable oscilloscopes.

    PRODUCT 1st Industrial PC with MS Windows XP Pro operating system - Schneider Electric has announced the Magelis™ Smart+ iPC, the first industrial PC with Microsoft® Windows XP® Pro that does not require maintenance or contain any rotating parts (no hard disk or fan).

    APPLICATION Direct-drive solution for cooling tower fans - Baldor has extended the range of its novel direct drive technology for controlling cooling tower fans to higher power ratings that can handle very large applications in power generating plants and heavy processing industry.

8/12/2010 7/12/2010 6/12/2010
    NEWS Vietnamese thermal power - Yokogawa has received an order from Marubeni Corporation to supply the control system for the Nghi Son 1 thermal power plant (two 300 MW units) being built by Vietnam Electricity (EVN) in the Nghi Son district of Thanh Hoa Province, in the northern part of the country.

    PRODUCT A first in temp transmitters - Status Instruments' new HTR integrated head temperature transmitter is believed to be the first complete transmitter that fits into the miniature MAA connection head. Due to space constraints, the head is usually only used with a connection block, requiring the transmitter to be mounted some distance away from the sensor.

    PRODUCT Smart soft starters optimise energy use - Carlo Gavazzi is introducing three new ranges of soft-starters designed to optimise energy consumption in industrial applications.

    NEWS Software & IT expansion in Ireland - Aspect, a global provider of unified communications and collaboration services and software, today announced it is opening two new facilities in Galway (IRL) in December.

    APPLICATION Cool enclosure - When using Rittal TopTherm-Plus roof mounted cooling units it is advisable to use the air duct system to ensure proper routing of the chilled air within the enclosure.

3/12/2010 2/12/2010
    PRODUCT A completely new Generic HART® DTM for FDT frame applications - A significantly more advanced Generic HART DTM Rel. 5 is now available for free downloading from ICS. Users no longer require a test license but can commence immediately with their work.

    PRODUCT Wireless shackle load cells allow versatility for a wide range of industrial applications - Shackle load cells are used widely in lifting and weighing applications and LCM Systems has seen a recent surge in the demand for its recently launched TELSHACK range of wireless shackle cells.

    PRODUCT Industrial radio range - A few months after the launch of its first industrial class IEEE 802.11n RadioLinx® modules, ProSoft Technology is enlarging its most recent family of industrial wireless solutions with a single-radio IP67 version.

    NEWS Controls for Brazilian cement company. - GE Intelligent Platforms has received a $4.5 million order from Cimentos Liz, a leading cement company in Brazil, for the company’s breakthrough process solution Proficy® Process Systems.

    WEBSITE New measurement and control resource - Acromag has created a new Technology Community Page focused on advanced measurement and control solutions.

    PRODUCT New installation testers - Fluke has introduced two new models, the Fluke 1654B and the Fluke 1652C, to its highly successful range of rugged, easy-to-use Fluke 1650B Series of Installation Testers.

    EVENTS Exhibition almost full - Organisers of major British environmental monitoring event MCERTS 2011, which takes place on 6th and 7th April in Bretby, near Burton on Trent, have warned that exhibition space is almost fully booked with only a few stands remaining.

    APPLICATION Remote wind turbine monitoring in China - Guohua wind turbines choose for SKF remote monitoring. "The most reliable and experienced way to determine the health of his turbines in the fastest and most effective way."

1/12/2010
    PRODUCT Monitor is good value! - The new X-Y monitoring system from Kistler for manufacturing process monitoring and product testing offers high performance, flexibility and a colour touchscreen user interface all for a starting price of around #1,200 which is excellent value for money.

    APPLICATION Monitoring power and air conditioning - Systems integrator ETDE has chosen PcVue 9.0 from ARC Informatique to monitor the electricity distribution and air conditioning systems for the entire range of installations at TelecityGroup's new Data Centre in the Paris region.


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