Excellent Automation leader! - Paul J. Galeski, CEO and Founder of Maverick Technologies, is to be presented with the ISA Excellence in Leadership Award during its 50th Annual ISA Honors and Awards Gala, 24 September 2012 in Orlando (FL USA).

Great place to work!- The Great Place to Work® Institute has named National Instruments number six among the top 25 best multinational workplaces in Europe.

LVDTs well suited to capture high speed and high frequency movement - Due to their fundamental design and mode of operation LVDT's are very suitable for measuring high speed and high frequency movements on mechanical structures.

Best in automation - Two WirelessHART® products have been named by industry users as the best among automation, control and instrumentation products introduced during 2011.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilities provide optimal connectivity and easy integration - GE Intelligent Platforms has announced the availability of its latest manufacturing software solution, Proficy® Plant Applications 6.1.

Technology excellence tracks- There will be two "Technology Excellence Tracks, Security Technology and Wireless Technology taking place at ISA Automation Week 2012: Technology and Solutions Event in September.

Practice for professionals -

Wire harness software - Solution provider Eplan has taken over the development and sales rights to Harness Expert, the established 3D/2D software for wire harness engineering. The contract between software developer Linius Technologies and Eplan Software & Service was signed recently. This extension to its range will allow Eplan to offer its customers even more comprehensive support for all aspects of cable project management.

In search of the Higgs particle - Since 2001 all technical processes at Cern have been monitored and controlled by a Scada system from the Simatic HMI family: Simatic WinCC Open Architecture (WinCC OA).

Torque test ensures reliability of steerable drills - Hydrocarbon drilling accuracy has been increased tenfold by using adapted advanced aerospace guidance systems. And an equally innovative torque sensor from Sensor Technology ensures efficiency during the equipment’s regular programmed maintenance.

COM express modules - GE Intelligent Platforms has added to the company’s growing range of COM Express modules with the launch of its highest performance offering to date, the rugged bCOM6-L140

The ARC Orlando Forum 2012 Interviews - Over 30 interviews with industry executives and ARC analysts were recorded, covering many of the issues addressed at ARC's Forum, including energy management, asset performance, reliability, cyber security, sustainability, safeguarding the supply chain, mobile devices, cloud computing, and analytics.

Newsletters received in week ending:
26 July 2012

Electronics Industry UpDate
T&M World Feature Friday
Automation
Pharma Webwatcher
ARC's Monthly Magazine
Electronics Production World
Flow Times
Product Insights
Datalogger e-news
Test & Measurement Digest
Machine Safety UpoDate
Lean CEO
Automation Weekly
Pharma QbD enews
News Insights
Control Review
HazardEX
Control Engineering Europe
DPA News
Process & Control
Industrial Automation North America
Process News
Global Edition
ProfiNews NA
Control Jobs Central

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Ethernet line extender - Westermo Ethernet Line Extender provides high-speed network connections over existing cabling Easy-to-use, compact device for mission critical railway, industrial and utility applications

British robot best ever year forecast - If it wasn't impressive enough with sales of robots from January to March 2012 outstripping sales in any other quarter to date, then sales for the first two quarters have now exceeded all previous full year sales on record!

Wireless and Ethernet compatibility - Emerson's Smart Wireless Gateway with EtherNet/IP output compatibility reduces the time and cost to establish a wireless field network with an EtherNet/IP PLC (programmable logic controller)

Extreme performance ATCA blade - The ADLINK aTCA-6250 incorporates the latest dual 8-core/16-thread Intel® Xeon® processors to provide robust computing power for high-end carrier-grade applications.

LCD distribution for Ireland & Britain - Ginsbury has announced a Britain and Ireland distribution agreement with LCD manufacturer Kyocera Display Corporation. Ginsbury will promote and support a wide range of Kyocera passive STN and active TFT LCD flat panel displays.

Test + Measurement races ahead! - The British subsidiary of Yokogawa's European Test & Measurement operation - has entered into a sponsorship deal with Oxfordshire-based (GB) Drayson Racing Technologies to support Drayson's pioneering development of electrically driven racing cars.

Another voice to advance automation! - The Measurement, Control & Automation Association (MCAA) signed a Memorandum of Membership with the Automation Federation (AF). As the newest member, MCAA has agreed to collaborate with the other member organisations to advance the automation profession.

Smart Wireless vibrating fork liquid level switch - The Rosemount 2160 IEC 62591 (WirelessHART®) vibrating fork liquid level switch has been enhanced with faster update rates and advanced broadcasting functions to improve its suitability for critical level control applications.

New smart position sensor - Honeywell is rounding out its SMART position sensor portfolio with the new Rotary Configuration that provides 360* non-contact angular position sensing.

Twenty years years comms! - The PROFIBUS UK Group was founded at the C&I Show in May 1993 (Remember C&I?). 20 years on, they're still going strong and celebrating with a one-day Conference to be held on 26th June 2013 at The Stratford Manor Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon (GB).

Your marks - on metal! - For the first time ever Weidmueller offers a marking system with which it is possible to print on markers made of metal.

Triple output power supply extends to 112 volts - Aim-TTi has extended its QL series of precision power supplies by adding a higher voltage triple output model.

Controller for nuclear power plants - Version 10 of Invensys's Triconex® Tricon® controller has been approved for use in safety-related nuclear power plant instrument and control applications by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Photoelectric sensors collapse and rebound! -

Chilled mirror hygrometer - Michell's new S8000 RS has been designed to provide fundamental, dependable measurements in a range of industrial applications where highest precision of the dry gas measurement is critical and the ease of use is essential. Roller gap separation - The measurement of the position of the roll bearing on the inside rollers is an essential requirement in a number of precision manufacturing processes and can be achieved simply and cost-effectively using an RDP E725 digital indicator in combination with an LVDT.

Two new faces! - Intellitect Water has announced the appointment of two new staff.

Mark Duckworth - Engineering Manager

Jo Cooper - Product/Market Specialist.

Pressure transmitters for gas, steam or liquids - Cerabar M PMC51 and PMP51 are new pressure transmitters from Endress + Hauser, suitable for accurate absolute and gauge pressure measurements in gases, steams or liquids, and for level, volume or mass measurements in liquids. They are designed to meet the needs of the food and beverage and life sciences industries.

Vision for non-visionaries! - Vision systems integrator, Olmec-UK, has developed a new, modular easy-to-use user interface that allows engineers to easily make adjustments to any Olmec production-line vision system without needing to be vision experts

Hectic exhibition season winds down - Eplan's season began at the Drives and Controls Exhibition, held at the Birmingham NEC (GB), where the team gathered a record number of contacts and new interest in their software solutions.

Phosphor characterisation - Edinburgh Instruments has helped one of its customers, Leuchtstoffwerk Breitungen GmbH, to better characterise its phosphor products.

Control system boot camp! - Control system integration firms that want to excel in business as well as technology are invited to enroll in the Control System Integrators Association Boot Camp, Sept. 27 - 28, in Orlando (FL USA)

Down from the air and on the rails! - First developed for the aerospace sector, Souriau's ELIO® contact combines excellent optical performance in demanding environments with very low signal losses even when subjected to the most violent vibrations or shocks.

Configurable CAN network components - Configurable CAN network components CiA (CAN in Automation) has released version 1.0 of the CiA 456 CANopen device profile for configurable network components.

Newsletters received in week ending:
19 July 2012

Pharma Webwatcher
Electronic Production World
Safety Automation InSights
Motion Control UpDate
The Shield
Instrument Technology Newsletter
Test & Measurement Digest
Prarma Manuf PAT/QbD
Automation Weekly
Control Engineering Europe
ProductInsight
HMI & OIT UpDate
Control UpDate
DPA Direct

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Factory design - Man and Machine, one of Britain's leading factory design experts, is working in association with the GTMA to run the first ever National Factory Design Conference on Wednesday 26th September 2012.

24/7 process support - PlantFloor24, the world's first full-service, platform-independent, 24/7 hardware, software and process support solution was launched recently by Maverick Technologies.

STA Safety trip alarm certified - The STA Safety Trip Alarm from Moore Industries has been certified by exida for Safety Instrumented Systems to IEC 61508:2010 for systematic integrity up to SIL 3 and for random integrity up to SIL 2.

Rocket science under test! - Europe's leading space technology company Astrium Limited, has employed a sophisticated portable FTIR gas analyser as part of a test programme for satellite launch systems. The analyser, a 'Gasmet DX4030', was supplied by instrumentation specialist Quantitech.

Control platform for the Industrial Internet - The PACSystems® RXi, GE Intelligent Platforms's revolutionary new control and computing platform designed for the needs of the Industrial Internet has just been announced!

Vacuum pump filter! - A new line of vacuum pump inlet and exhaust trap filter media for the adsorption and neutralization of chemical vapour process byproducts is being introduced by MV Products.

Control order for power plant - Yokogawa Kontrol (Malaysia) has received an order from the CTCI Consortium - consortium led by CTCI Corporation, the largest engineering firm in Taiwan and a supplier of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services to a variety of industries - to supply control systems and field devices for the Kimanis combined cycle power plant .

Operational excellence traks - The four Operational Excellence tracks at this years ISA Automation Week are: Control Performance, Asset Performance, Human Performance, and Safety and Environmental Performance.

A smart approach to vision inspection and code reading - Stemmer Imaging is to show a comprehensive range of vision systems at the PPMA Show. System capabilities will cover applications as diverse as 3D measurement of product volume to optimise packing and reduce packaging waste; product and packaging inspection and code and label reading and verification.

Process monitoring conference - '2012 Update on Regulation and Certification' is the theme of the process monitoring conference at the WWEM 2012 next november in Telford (GB), the presentations will be of interest to any municipal or industrial organisation with a discharge consent, in addition to consultants, contractors, instrument manufacturers, regulators, academia and researchers.

China leads the way in distribution automation! -

Reduce maintenance, increase productivity - Rosemount® 3051 pressure transmitter gives improved performance, advanced diagnostics, user-friendly interface, Selectable HART® Revisions, and SIL2 certification

Operator environment sub-systems practice! - CiA (CAN in Automation) has released version 1.0 of the CiA 852 CANopen recommended practice for CiA 401-based operator environment sub-systems

Chilling in industry! - Renowned more for their enclosure cooling equipment in the field of climate control, Rittal also supply chillers to the industrial market. The TopTherm range of packaged chillers, which is suitable for a cooling medium of water, are intended for internal applications and include wall-mounted, roof-mounted or floor-standing and modular variants.

Getting the job done! - Multiplex Engineering are a group of automation engineers who pride themselves on their ability to deliver an engineered solution rather than just being a box shifter.

Power products for North America - Intelligent Power has been appointed as a value added reseller for the North American market by Powerstax.

Resistance to industrial networking.comms devices - The promise is of improved efficiency and productivity to fuel uptake, yet, despite multiple benefits, lingering end-user conservatism about new technologies is hampering penetration rates according to Frost & Sullivan.

Newsletters received in week ending:
13 July 2012

Pharma WebWatcher Industrial Networking UpDate
ISA INsights
RTA's Best Darn Newsletter!
Electrical & Controls Update
Pharma Manuf e-news
The Source
T&M Digest
Automation Weekly
Control Engineering Europe
HazardEX
Automation News InSights
Electronics Components World
ProfiNet UpDate (USA)
ProfiNews (UK)
Siemens TIA
Control UpDate
Motion Control
DPA Direct

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Innovative speakers announced! - National Instruments has announced the keynote and summit presenters for the NIWeek 2012 worldwide graphical system design conference and exhibition on August 7-9 in Austin (TX USA).

Intelligent combination of RFID and sensors - The BIS-V RFID controller is Balluff's answer to the market's desire for a compact evaluation unit that enables the simultaneous connection of up to four read/write heads.

Scientific journal gains in ratings - ISA Transactions, the journal dedicated to the science and engineering of measurement and automation, has earned its highest impact factor rating to date. It has been published by ISA for the past forty years. Thomson Reuters released its impact factor ratings for scientific journals recently. This rated ISA Transactions 21% higher than the previous year.

Your piece of Conamara! -
Have you got a piece of Conamara in your pocket! Take a look at your eID passport or credentials.
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity has shipped over 150 million high-technology eID (electronic ID) solutions to governments for citizen IDs around the world. The company's management team and employees, along with local political and business officials, celebrated this milestone in a special ceremony today just down the road from the Read-out Offices in Conamara (IRL).

Additions to St St connectors - The Harting Han-INOX® industrial connector family - made from high-quality stainless steel to withstand harsh industrial environments - is being extended with a number of new additions to provide more application flexibility.

Operation dynamometers from a distance! - display for operating the dynamometer at safe and convenient distances.

Safety Relay - Weidmüller's safety relay 'SCS 24V DC SIL3' ensures functionally safe shutdown to EN 61508, SIL 3: reliably shuts down process industry plant and plant components in the event of an emergency

Control on your iPad! - Mobile extensions are now available for GE Intelligent Platforms' visualisation applications, Proficy® HMI/SCADA iFIX and CIMPLICITY, on the Apple iPad®.

About reed relays! - Pickering Electronics has published the Reed RelayMate, a new publication which looks in detail at Reed Relays.

Temperature in lime production! - The Tinytag Ultra 2 thermocouple data logger recently launched by Gemini Data Loggers is suitable for accurate temperature monitoring in a range of manufacturing applications across a variety of industries.

SMU family expanded - National Instruments has announced the expansion of its line of PXI SMUs for automated semiconductor test.

Industry's quietest modular PSUs - Excelsys Technologies have released the first Ultra-Quiet products from their market leading Xgen platform of user configurable power supplies; 400W output in 1U, 8 configurable isolated outputs - medical, laboratory, scientific, audio and broadcast applications

Push-pull connections - Intelliconnect offers one of the most complete range of push-pull connectors available to design, system and test engineers.

A "sensorble" conjunction! - A major exhibition organiser and a leading publishing house have joined forces to run the British national exhibition for sensors and instrumentation. The announcement of a partnership by Trident Exhibitions Ltd and Datateam Business Media Ltd brings together the expertise of two companies with years of experience in this field.

Board-mounted pressure sensors! - Honeywell has released its new Basic Board Mount Pressure Sensors, NBP Series, the newest offering in its board mount pressure sensor product portfolio. These are a cost-effective, basic performance, mV output, unamplified, uncompensated, high quality and high resolution solution for customers seeking high-volume, economical board mount pressure sensors.

SCADA anywhere! - Web Studio v7.1 is the latest version of the award-winning software from InduSoft. This newest version offers enhanced interface capabilities for use on a variety of smart phones and tablets, as well as revision control and intuitive project management.

Automation to rove on Mars - Siemens and NASA referenced the impending August 5 landing of the latest Mars Rover "Curiosity" - designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) using Siemens software - as a tangible example of how modern software technology is being employed to enhance competitiveness in the aerospace industry at a recent conference at Farnborough. Part of this ongoing transformation includes public-private partnerships and a constant drive to maximize productivity and shorten development times.

Low noise precision instrumentation amp - Intersil Corporation today announced a new 40V, low noise instrumentation amplifier that is the industry's first precision instrumentation amplifier with an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) level shifter and driver.

New webs site for control system integrators - A new, enhanced web site, designed to serve as a resource for clients of control system integrators, in addition to information for current and prospective members has been launched by the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA).

Automation author talks - Susan Colwell, of the Publication Department of International Society of Automation (ISA), works closely with Greg McMillan in the publishing of his work. Recently she sat down with him and discussed his work, wit and philosophy. He shares "I find an incredible release in expressing myself and being myself...."

Intelligence and "the ubiquitous Internet of Things!" -

Monitoring & control in water plant - The global water industry leader Veolia selected ARC Informatique PcVue Scada software as their solution to monitor and control services and operations at its Super Rimiez water treatment plant near Nice (F) - recognized as the one of the largest drinking water supply sites in Europe.

Integrated power distribution solution - At CeBIT (5-9 March 2012), Rittal and Siemens announced a power distribution solution that uses Siemens busbar distributor systems in Rittal's live data centres.

Multichannel transmitter! - The Liquiline CM44 Series from Endress + Hauser is a multichannel transmitter for monitoring and controlling processes in water & wastewater, chemical, power and other industries.

1000 delegates experience "by users, for users" event! - Emerson's first Global Users Exchange in Europe attracted over 1000 delegates for a mix of presentations, keynote speeches, industry forums and product technical sessions.

SMT cover for Switzerland - AdoptSMT Swiss AG has been founded as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AdoptSMT Europe GmbH. The Swiss market had already been supported by them and plays a key role in the sector of pre-owned placement machines for automated assembly of PCBs.

Newsletters received in week ending:
6 July 2012

Pharma Manf e-news
Test & Measureemnt Digest
Source IP&P
Control Engineering Europe
David Spitzer's E-zine
Factory Automation
Instrumentation
Control UpDate
DPA Direct

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Saved silver! - Hach Lange has presented the British National Laboratory Service (NLS) with a silver bar made from recycled chemical reagents, in recognition of the organisation's achievements in waste minimisation.

High-accuracy current measurement to electric vehicle battery packs - LEM has announced the CAB high-accuracy current transducer that enables makers of battery packs for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) to achieve a new level of precision when measuring current flow into and out of the battery.

Water industry embraces process optimisation - Andy Thornton, a wastewater treatment specialist at Hach Lange, reports outstanding levels of success from plants across Britain that have implemented the company's real-time monitoring and control system; W.T.O.S. (Wastewater Treatment Optimisation Solution).

Multi-colour backlighting panels - IGT Industries now offers innovative thin-film back-lighting on its range of scalable, vandal and water resistant custom capacitive touch panels.

Submersible pressure transducer - PVL has extended its range of pressure transducers with the TDH80 submersible device from Transducers Direct, providing a low cost yet industrial grade solution for accurate pressure measurement.

Extended wireless coverage - LCM Systems has launched the latest addition to the T24 wireless telemetry system for multiple data acquisition in real time.

Webcasts to help speed the development of all M & C systems - Father of Labview to introduce summer web seminar A keynote presentation from the "Father of LabVIEW" Jeff Kodosky will start a month long series of 16 interactive webcasts which will highlight how LabVIEW speeds the development of any measurement or control system.

A pragmatic visionary engineer! - "An entrepreneur must always be restless," is the motto that characterises the entire life's work of Dietmar Harting. His company celebrates 45 years under his leadership.

Communications, steady as she goes while Galway parties! - It is unusual for us to have an application on these pages right on our own doorstep. The Galway based European HQ of B&B Electronics gave us with an opportunity share with our visitors a momentous occasion in this part of the world. B&B Electronics Europe has provided an extensive fibre, cellular and wireless communications network for the Volvo Ocean Race Galway Grand Finale.

Rack mounted PSU - The A3600 series of power supplies from Powerstax (formerly APC), offers system builders a convenient and compact power source for applications including communications, industrial, instrumentation and test and measurement.

Software centre in Genoa consolodates - Siemens is pooling its Genoese (I) activities at the Technological District in Erzelli and establishing an Industry Software Center which is to host about 600 jobs from 2014.

Controlling solar gain - Rittal have a range of cooling units specifically designed for outdoor enclosure applications. If you want your electronic equipment to remain useful for longer when situated outdoors, then give it some air!

Accurate & efficient reliability analysis.. - Emerson Process Management has announced the latest release of its industry-leading asset management software, AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager.

Doubling LED output! - Marl International has invested £150,000 (ca €187,000) to double its manufacturing output at its site in Cumbria (GB), putting it in a prime position to benefit from the rapid growth of an emerging 'green' lighting technology.

Pharma backgrounder - A new backgrounder has been published containing up-to-date information and interesting facts about Siemens products, systems, solutions and services for the pharmaceutical industry.