Ethernet switch allows creation of manageable next-generation networks - Harting has extended the capability of its Ha-VIS mCon 3000 range of managed industrial Ethernet switches to allow the creation of convergent and manageable next-generation networks.

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High-tech prize winner! - The jurors selected the KMU TESEQ AG, founded in 2006, as winner in the category high-tech/biotech section of the "Swiss Economic Award" for its excellent corporate achievements. A beaming CEO Johannes Schmid accepted the major prize in front of over 1,200 public figures. His message to the audience: "We will keep on growing".

High pressure reducing regulator! - The new high-capacity, pressure reducing Tartarini DN 250 (10") Type FL regulator has been released by Emerson Process Management.

Healthcare Packaging Vision System - Olmec has designed and installed a machine vision system to determine the integrity of droppers for products such as ear drops at the final packaging stage.

Asia to be the new magnet for sensor manufacturers! - Due to the rising sophistication in manufacturing processes, end-users are demanding more functionality from proximity sensors. Advanced network technologies (CompoNet and IO-Link) and diagnostic capabilities are some of the technical advancements that are also anticipated to boost market prospects.

Diaphragm valves help prevent ink contamination on cartridge filling machine - ASCO Numatics has supplied custom engineered aseptic diaphragm valves to filling machinery manufacturer Sneyders Machineconstructie in Belgium.

Large magmeter added to range - Yokogawa, in a continual effort to expand their line-up of ADMAG series magnetic flow meters has released the AXW large size magnetic flow meter

Power station vibrations - Monitoring vibration of power station turbines to provide essential data, calls for transducers such as RDP Electronics PY series that are fully up to the task of operating in such high temperature environments.

Maximum protection for LED lighting systems - MTL Instruments has announced the LS10 (serial) and LS12 (parallel) Series of surge protectors purpose-built to protect LED lighting from transients and surges generated by lightning and switching transients.

Free online tool to aid wireless network planning - Emerson Process Management now offers an online planning tool to help process industry facilities get started with wireless.

Image sensor family - CMOSIS broadens its current CMV portfolio of high-performing global shutters CMOS image sensors addressing the high-resolution segment of the industrial vision applications as well

Pre-engineered wellhead control solution - The Production Wellhead solution, now available from from GE Intelligent Platforms, is a pre-engineered control solution that leverages their deep domain expertise in the Oil & Gas industry.

New differential pressure sensors! - Kistler Instruments has launched a range of small, versatile, high performance differential pressure sensor for use in harsh test environments where temperature extremes, high vibration and shock levels are present.

Rising demand and competition drives proximity sensor market - After the devastating recession in 2009, the market for proximity sensors recovered quickly in 2010 and marginally exceeded pre-crisis levels in 2011. In 2012, we see a slowdown in growth but positive momentum will continue to dominate the market developments from 2013 onwards. Overall ARC expects a CAGR of around 8 percent during the forecast

High performance oxygen analyser for demanding applications - Michell Instruments has a new compact oxygen analyser for applications in hazardous and safe areas within the process, power generation and marine industries.

New process control section - The newly launched process control section provides vital information on how Amplicon can help to engineer the right system for process control and automation applications.

Non-dispersive IR gas measurement - Providing sufficient background information and details, this new book 'Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Measurement,' is an excellent resource for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers, instrumentation engineers, applied physicists, chemists, material scientists in gas, chemical, biological, and medical sensors to have a comprehensive understanding of the development of non-dispersive infrared gas sensors and the trends for the future investigation.

Best practice for control system integration - A newly released version of the Control System Integrators Association's Best Practices and Benchmarks Manual includes a new section establishing best practices for service and support functions.

Efficient, long life relays address renewable energy systems - Omron Electronic Components Europe has re-engineered two relay families specifically to address the very specific low power and long term reliability characteristics required for grid-connected solar PV and wind turbine inverters, charge controllers, battery powered UPS back-up systems and similar applications.

Guarding the Hovercrafts' drivetrains! - Monitran is supplying Southampton-based Griffon Hoverwork with condition monitoring systems for 12 of its Griffon 8000TD hovercrafts, ordered by the Indian Coast Guard.

Ultrasonic biogas flowmeter - Endress+Hauser has introduced the Proline Prosonic B 200 ultrasonic flowmeter for measuring the flow rate and methane content of wet biogas, landfill or digester gas, and other types of low pressure, wet or contaminated gas.

Celebrating and recognising automation advances and achievement -

Co-operation gives advanced calibration and asset management package - Emerson Process Management has announced an integrated asset management and calibration solution that combines its AMS Suite predictive maintenance software application with Beamex CMX Calibration software. Early practitioner is GSK's Cork (Irl) plant.

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22 June 2012

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Positioners underwater! - ASM extends the magnetostrictive POSICHRON® range by the PCST27 rod-profile sensor for underwater use up to 15 bar

Registration now open! - Visitors to WWEM 2012 (Telford, GB, 7th/8th Nov) the Water Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring event, can now register for no charge.

Hach Lange launches new interactive website - Hach Lange has launched a completely new web site that, in addition to a new online shopping facility, now enables visitors to access a vast database of information on water quality testing in the laboratory, in the field and within industrial and municipal processes.

Robust emergency pull-wire switch for heavy duty applications - 0With the new ZS 91, .steute is expanding its range of emergency pull-wire switches to include a series which has been developed especially for heavy duty applications

BMS in historic Paris building - The Business Louvre in Paris (F) has selected ARC Informatique's PcVue supervisor to manage its building management system (BMS)

Acquisition to increase presence in the RF amplifier market - Teseq intends to acquire New York-based Instruments for Industry (IFI), a leading designer and manufacturer of solid state and traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifiers.

Industrial connectors - A number of new modules have been added to the Harting Han-Modular® industrial connector family: a flexible system which incorporates a multitude of options and allows users to create customised connectors to suit their applications.

Dust, moisture and drop protection IR Thermometer - Fluke has introduced the new Fluke 62 Max and 62 Max+ Infrared Thermometers. These rugged, accurate, easy-to-use test tools are dust, moisture and drop resistant, making them ideal for the harsh conditions faced by technicians in electrical, service, HVAC, process, industrial and facilities maintenance applications.

Accelerometers - The new PiezoBeam® accelerometers from Kistler Instruments are available in single axis and triaxial types both of which have high sensitivity, low noise and high dynamic ranges.

Analog & mixed signal semiconductor design centre in India - Intersil Corporation has opened a new design centre in Bangalore, India. This centre will help develop new integrated circuits, reference designs and provide system-level application support for the company.

One of the world's most technologically significant products - R&D Magazine has just announced that the Hyperspec® RECON™ hyperspectral sensor has been chosen as a recipient of a 2012 R&D 100 Award. The annual award competition is now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

North American indication! - A new series of UL certified LED panel indicators from Marl are designed specifically to address the needs of new and existing products for, and customers in the US and Canadian markets.

Data connectivity in Brazil - MatrikonOPC™ has opened an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This move will allow MatrikonOPC to support strong business growth while ensuring clients continue to enjoy the superior connectivity experience for which MatrikonOPC is known.

Fieldbus Foundation update ROM technology - The Fieldbus Foundation, conducted a press briefing at ACHEMA 2012 in Frankfurt, and announced that an updated version of its FOUNDATION™ technical specifications is now available for immediate implementation.

New connectivity! - A new NI LabVIEW element within the AWR Design Environment™ broadens signal processing and instrument connectivity for AWR Visual System Simulator™ (VSS) users.

Waterproof power supplies to IP67 with UL8750 and CE - Excelsys Technologies have introduced the latest models in their market leading Xled series of LED power supplies. The LDB 150 LED and LDB 200 power supplies provide 150 watts and 200 Watts of Constant Current/Constant Voltage power respectively in an IP67 rated, low profile, aluminium case measuring only 198 x 63 x 35 mm with UL8750 and CE marked

Power quality analyser for memory extension - New PM3000 Extended Memory Capabilities from Outram Research Speed Resolution of Power Quality Problems

Water quality is top priority at Brighton aquarium -

A Milestone for Automated Pharmaceutical Production - Werum Software & Systems AG and the Glatt Group, worldwide leading manufacturer of pharma equipment, have presented a new, jointly developed approach for setting up pharma production processes more easily.

Cabinets for shutdown valves protect against hydrocarbon fires for 90 minutes! - A novel new range of cabinets to protect critical process equipment in hazardous areas against very high temperature fires has been launched by the field equipment protection specialist Intertec.

Meets IS standards worldwide for safe measurements in dangerous environments - Fluke has introduced a new rugged, intrinsically-safe digital multimeter (DMM) that allows measurements both inside and outside of hazardous zones, without compromising measurement performance.

The new standard high performance flowmeter for the process industry - KROHNE is introducing the new OPTIMASS 6400 at Achema. Enhancing KROHNE's OPTIMASS portfolio of Coriolis mass flowmeters, the OPTIMASS 6400 is an all-new twin bent tube Coriolis mass flowmeter to meet standard liquid and gas applications in the chemical and petrochemical, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, energy & power industries.

The "highest density of power & intelligence"- The Gold Drum HV 100/800, Elmo Motion Control's latest super-compact servo drive, delivers up to 100 A and operates up to 800 VDC. This expands Elmo's "Any Power" coverage from 10 W - 60 KW of qualitative servo power.

Measuring plnt utility gases... - The t-mass 150 thermal mass flowmeter from Endress + Hauser, is suitable for measuring plant utility gases such as compressed air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and argon.

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Engine Control - National Instruments has released six Drivven C Series engine control modules, which provide engine researchers with rugged, modular engine-specific I/O for interfacing directly with internal combustion engine subsystems and actuators.

New Servo Press Module for clean room applications uses wireless - Suitability for use in cleanrooms to ISO standard and wireless telemetry of the force signal are just two of the outstanding attributes of the new Kistler Type 2157B NCFT electromechanical, servo press module.

Iconic pod for natural operators! - Be one of the first to experience being a "Natural Operator" of the future. ICONICS will be demonstrating it's advanced Natural User Interface at ACHEMA 2012 based on Microsoft Kinect, human skeletal recognition technology, originally developed for the gaming industry.

Truly international power symposium - The 55th Annual ISA Power Industry Division (POWID) Symposium celebrated another successful event in its 55-year history with attendees coming from as far away as Australia, the Netherlands and China and Hawaii.

Simplifying analysis and reporting of engineering data - National Instruments has announced DIAdem 2012, the latest version of the software tool specifically designed to help engineers and scientists interpret and share data.

Lifetime achievement in HR - Gary Steel, head of human resources at ABB, has received a lifetime award from the University of Michigan (USA), and US consulting company Linkage in recognition of his work to integrate human resources in the company's global business strategy

User conference for Nice - Yokogawa is calling for registrations for its 6th User Conference, scheduled to take place in Nice, France from 26th - 28th September 2012.

Back manufacturing and then? - Manufacturing is re-emerging as a leading economic growth engine after a rather quiet summer. However this sector alone is not big enough to pull the whole of the UK back into good times. Read Mark Ingham of Sensor Technology assessment.

A new standard in enclosures - Tried and tested a million times over, the Rittal TS 8 section is now the standard system enclosure solution platform, for both the reliable and bayable Rittal TS 8 and Rittal SE 8 enclosure systems.

One thousand companies network on motion! - The MMA is now the largest motion control networking group in Asia as MECHATROLINK becomes the de-facto motion network in Asian markets.

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8 June 2012

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Enhancement simplifies workflow - MatrikonOPC™ has expanded the functionality of its OPC Server for Allen Bradley by adding the support for Rockwell®'s EN2T communication card, bit writes, and revamped graphical user interface.

Automation grant in demand - The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) has reported that after the completion of the first year of the government funded Automating Manufacturing programme, 156 applications were received from British manufacturers to March 31 exceeding the best estimations by over 50%.

Precision motion control - A range of servo drives for precision motion control that can boost performance and slash system building costs in dozens of common industrial automation applications has been launched by Metronix.

Stainless steel Coriolis Transmitter - Emerson's Micro Motion 1700/2700 transmitters are now available in 316L stainless steel housing for harsh environments.

Growth in data/video to boost European market for Ethernet test equipment - The gigabit Ethernet (GbE) market is growing rapidly, driven by maturing technologies and business models, and increasing market awareness of both the availability of such services and their specific benefits. The hype around cloud technologies has also contributed to the growing demand for GbE.

Communications in China - China is the latest area where The HART® Communication Foundation is expanding operations. This will serve the growing needs of industry users and suppliers.

Modular basic device for extractive gas analysis permits selection of very small measuring ranges - The Siprocess GA700 series from Siemens Industry Automation Division is a new extractive gas analyser family with an innovative platform concept.

Automation returns to Düsseldorf! - Emerson's first Global Users Exchange in Europe was a three-day event for existing and potential users of Emerson Process Management products and services. The event was held from 29-31 May 2012 in Düsseldorf (D) and Read-out was there!

Network-based control system enhanced - Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released an enhanced version of the STARDOM™network-based control system.

Modular basic device for extractive gas analysis permits selection of very small measuring range - The Siprocess GA700 series from Siemens Industry Automation Division is a new extractive gas analyzer family with an innovative platform concept

World's most compact Coriolis flow solution - The new generation of Coriolis flow measurement technology from Siemens Industry Automation Division is the most compact solution in the market.

Reducing complexity in safety instrumented system installation & operation - Emerson Process Management has transformed safety systems by combining the proven performance and reliability of the DeltaV™ Safety Instrumented System (SIS) with the installation flexibility and space savings of its CHARM I/O technology. (see launch of CHARMs in 2009.)

Free online video training - InduSoft has announced its new online video training series for its upcoming InduSoft Web Studio 7.1 HMI/SCADA software. The video training site currently offers two training modules that provide instruction on subjects ranging from alarms to trends.

Network-based control system enhanced - Yokogawa Electric Corporation has released an enhanced version of the STARDOM™network-based control system.

Acquisition expands wireless offering - ABB is to acquire Tropos Networks Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company that develops and markets wireless technologies and products for distribution area communication networks

Digital panel meters - The new Junior JR/JR20-P series digital panel meters is now available from sensing & instrumentation specialists Vydas International Marketing.

Engineering products provider joins wireless body - John Crane, the world-leading provider of engineered products and services for the major process industries, has joined ISA100 WCI as a supplier member.

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ZigBee, Wifi and Bluetooth sensors or actuators - Libelium's new multiprotocol router allows the connection of any sensor or actuator to the Cloud by accessing high speed 3G networks, opening a wide range of possibilities for the Internet of Things development.

Efficient access to device data via online configurator - The Siemens Industry Automation Division is expanding the functional scope of its Comos 10.0 engineering software solution to include the selection and configuration of field instruments and analytical products.

Automation technology & services for North Sea oil production - Emerson Process Management has been awarded a $23 million ([euro]18.7m) contract by BP to supply integrated control and safety systems for two new bridge-linked platforms for the Clair Ridge project. Clair Ridge is located in the North Sea to the west of the Shetland Islands, (GB).
This was announced during this weeks Emerson User Group Meeting in Dusseldorf (D) more news here!

Terminal binding post and recess plate availability! - Cliff Electronics has expanded its manufacturing capacity for Terminal Binding Posts and Recess Plates, with manufacturing industrial, pro-audio and safety versions available

User group for the Big Easy! - Online registration is now open for the 2012 Yokogawa Corporation of America Users Group Conference and Exhibition to be held Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2012 in New Orleans (LA USA).

Embedded computing co-operation! - A group of embedded computing manufacturers have formed a registered association to drive standardization of embedded computing technologies called The Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGET) e.V.

Collaboration on 5G mobile network research - National Instruments has announced its collaboration with TU-Dresden on the exploration of new technologies for 5G wireless systems using NI LabVIEW system design software.

Power usage monitoring made easy - Gemini Data Loggers has developed an Energy Logger, a safe and non-invasive tool for monitoring power usage of individual devices and complete premises/installations.

Is your equipment warm and dry? - Rittal enclosure heaters provide a high level of energy efficiency due to the incorporation of self-regulating positive temperature coefficient (PTC) technology. Developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the heaters provide superior heating performance whilst maintaining the physical dimensions of previous models.