Safety Relay Module - The SRM Safety Relay Module is a versatile relay repeater module launched by Moore Industries that has been certified by exida for single use in Safety Instrumented Systems up to SIL 2.

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31 August 2012

Indussorf e-news
Pharma Web watcher
Control Buzz
The Engineer Weekly Review Source Electronics Production World
Automation Leaders
Automation Focus
Building Automation UpDate
Control UpDate
Test & Measurement Digest
Automation Weekly
Process Engineering
Control Review
Control Engineering Europe
Yokogawa Buzz
Fieldbus Networks UpDate
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Design, configuration and virtual assembly of control cabinets & busbar connections - The new "Copper" add-on module for EPLAN Pro Panel Professional allows free design, configuration and virtual assembly of control cabinets and the necessary busbar systems.

How good is your gas? - This new transportable hydrocarbon dew-point analyser from Michell makes investigations of natural gas quality easier to perform

Fighting sunlight! - I suppose one could argue that this isn't strictly speaking automation but the number of times I have been unable to read screens in and out of the plant environment because of sunshine or glare makes this is something that interests me. I hope it will interest you too!

Secure cabling! - The Harting Ha-VIS preLink® interconnection technology forms the heart of a secure cabling system that can be deployed in IT centres as well as industrial machinery and plant automation systems.

Portable NDT instruments - Expanding its non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques and complementing its existing array of advanced instruments, Keighley Laboratories has invested in a portable conductivity meter, which measures the electrical conductivity of non-ferrous metals employing the eddy current method, and a pocket instrument for convenient and fast coating thickness measurement, using magnetic induction and eddy current technologies.

Air-to-air heat exchangers - Rittal's Air-to-air heat exchangers have only two moving parts, an internal fan and an external fan, which draw air through separate circuits of a heat exchanger, ensuring that the ambient air, which may be aggressive, or any debris or contaminants present in it, are not permitted ingress into the enclosure.

Tour to US Process Automation - This October, PACTware experts will be travelling to the US to broaden the scope and awareness of PACTware. The seminars will focus on the benefits of PACTware, the group will showcase how the frame application will enhance device operation through the entire life cycle of a device.

Broadcasting vibration safely! - Emerson Process Management has expanded the application of its CSI 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter with intrinsic safety ratings to European, US and Canadian standards. With ATEX Zone 0 and Class I, Div 1 ratings.

Reliable Power-over-Ethernet networks on the train! - To meet the growing demand for communication networks on-board railway rolling stock, Westermo has introduced two compact and rugged Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switches that support video, LCDs and wireless LAN access points

The need to adapt to the changing automation market - We've reported on this event before but this is the ISA's own release! Attendees of ISA's 7th Marketing and Sales Summit learn that adapting to the changing automation marketplace is critical to meeting customer needs

Maximum uptime realised through in-line turbidity at Waterworks - Dr Patsy Rigby, Hach Lange UK discusses a water treatment application at a Preston in North West England

New amplifier product range! - Milmega, a Teseq company and a leading designer and manufacturer of high power microwave and RF amplifiers, has introduced the new AS0728 product range.

Automated test throughput and flexibility - National Instruments has introduced NI TestStand 2012, the latest version of its automated test management software.

Newsletters received in week ending:
23 August 2012

T&M World Feature Friday
Pharma WebWatcher
Control Buzz
Electronnics Production World
Product InSights
Product InSights
OPC UpDate
Automation
Control UpDate
Automation News InSights
ControlEngineering Europe
Automation Weekly
Process Engineering
Control Review
IEN Europe
HazardEX
Electronic Components World
EtherNet/IP UpDate
Process News
Process News
WINA News Brief
AAES Summer2012 Newsletter
Control UpDate
DPA Direct
Lean CEO
Control Jobs Central

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Collaboration solves vision challenge - Leading Vision Systems Integrator, Olmec-UK has worked in close collaboration with the Italian packaging machine specialist, Marchesini, to develop a vision system to solve a complex packaging inspection problem for a customer in the healthcare industry.

Pumps get testing time! - Having for many years used one of Sensor Technology's novel TorqSense non-contact torque sensors as an aid to product development, Watson-Marlow Pumps Group, the world's leading specialist in peristaltic pumping, has now chosen another of these versatile and dependable sensors for production-line testing of its most critical products.

Automation For materials testing machines - The powerful combination of NEXYGENPlus control and data analysis software and National Instruments data acquisition cards allows Lloyd Instruments' range of single column and twin column universal materials testing machines to communicate with a wide range of external equipment.

Russia named as 2013 partner! - The partnership of Russia and the Hannover Fair was announced in August by Deutsche Messe and the Russian Federation's Ministry of Industry and Trade for the 2013 event.

Testing aids technological breakthrough! - Load cells and Indicators supplied by RDP Electronics have been used to develop, test and demonstrate the capability of a new tension control washer.

Cybersecurity assured! - Two additional Honeywell Process Solutions have earned ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

Customisable Monitoring and Control Systems - National Instruments has released the 8-slot NI 9154 MXI-Express RIO expansion chassis and the 4-slot NI 9146 Ethernet RIO expansion chassis.

Focus on quality of monitoring - Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM12) conference and exhibition in November will have the latest monitoring techniques, regulations and methods.

3-D Vision for seamless hardware and software integration - National Instruments has announced 3-D vision capabilities in LabVIEW with the new NI Vision Development Module 2012.

Collaboration in cybersecurity! - The Linking the Oil & Gas Industry to Improve Cybersecurity (LOGIIC) consortium receives USDHS S&T Under Secretary's Award for Outstanding Collaboration in Science and Technology.

Segment design tool updated! - The Fieldbus Foundation has updated its DesignMATE™ software tool, a software download that allows plant automation professionals to audit segment layouts.

Publications and Standards Awards - Authors and educationists in automation to be honoured at a special ceremony at this years ISA Automation Week in Orlando (FL USA)

Social tweeting at marketing summit! -

Packaging conveyance without any gaps - With SCATEC-2 Box Baumer is offering a new version of the world's most successful copy counter SCATEC specifically for the packaging industry. With this new model, efficiency during packaging conveyance is noticeably increased.

Coriolis mass flow transmitter for food, life sciences etc - Industry-optimised sensors let users customize the Promass 100 from Endress + Hauser for food, beverage, life sciences, pharmaceutical, chemical and other industries.

New automation product suites! - This year the focus at Iconics has been on creating products that have a rich set of features and capabilities for the energy and sustainability markets, including expanded scalability and interoperability. These have led to several industry awards and important large projects with end-customer standardisations.

Lift control - The CANopen Lift demonstrator comprises three independent control systems and is used to prove the interoperability of devices from different manufacturers CiA (CAN in Automation) has released version 2.1 of the CiA 417 CANopen application profile for lift control systems.

Oxygen analysers for use in North American hazardous areas - Michell Instruments has attained CCSAUS certification for its XTP601 Oxygen Analyser, making it approved for use in hazardous areas in the US and Canada.

Newsletters received in week ending:
17 August 2012

Pharma WebWatcher
Control Buzz
Electronics Production World
Product Insights
Pharma Manuf enews
Control UpDate
Test & Measurement Digest
Automation Weekly
Process Engineering
ProfiNews UK Control Review
Hazerdous Area Equipment enewsletter
Control Engineering Europe
Electronic Components World
Programmable Controls UpDate
Control UpDate
DPA Direct
Industrila Networking UpDate

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Wireless telemetry Modbus gateway - Instrumentation specialists Mantracourt have announced the launch of their T24-GW1 Modbus Gateway as a further addition to their acclaimed T24 wireless instrumentation range.

Straight D-Sub surface-mount connectors - Harting has announced the launch of a range of straight D-Sub surface-mount connectors to complement its established angled product portfolio.

New HDMI video & audio capture card - Adlink Technology has released its new Full HD HDMI video and audio capture card, the HDV62A, enabling one-card acquisition of full analog/digital video and digital audio input.

Poster sessions abstracts - Poster sessions at ISA Automation Week 2012 are focused on six key automation and control topics. This Technology and Solutions Event takes place 24-27 September 2012 in Orlando (FL USA)

New heavy duty linear axis gives accurate positioning - Festo has launched a new cost-effective linear drive which has the highest load capacity for its size in the market.

In-pipe monitors turn dreams into reality - The quality of tap water has improved enormously in recent decades, but for largely technological reasons, until recently, knowledge of water quality between the treatment works and the tap has been an almost impossible dream for water treatment and distribution network managers. In this article, Jo Cooper, Product Specialist at Intellitect Water, will look at the ways in which the challenges have been overcome in order to turn that dream into reality.

IR support - NDC Infrared Engineering has announced a new remote support and optimisation capability for its MM710e range of Ethernet-enabled on-line NIR gauges.

Facilitating factory-wide quality strategy. - tbp electronics has purchased a complete factory-wide Aegis MES system for their facilities in Dirksland and Eersel (NL). tbp is a high-end EMS manufacturer supplying semi-conductor, healthcare, aviation, defence, petrochemical and other markets.

Silent power! - Excelsys Technologies has announced the latest Ultra-Quiet products from their market leading Xgen platform of user configurable power supplies.

Customer service connects! - Intelliconnect offers its customers a level of customer service which sets it apart from its competitors making it an ideal partner for all connector supplies.

Packaging awards - The judging for the PPMA Group Industry Awards has now been completed and the finalists announced.

New Standards Committee on Intelligent Device Management - A new standards committee, ISA108, Intelligent Device Management will define standard templates of best practices and work processes for design, development, installation and use of diagnostic and other information provided by intelligent field devices in the process industries.

Smallest dual bent-tube meter - The ROTAMASS LR, the world's smallest dual bent-tube Coriolis mass flowmeter has been launched by Yokogawa.

Thin film backlighting - IGT Industries is offering to demonstrate their market leading and patented thin-film backlighting technology at customer premises.

Power quality gains Silver! - The Fluke® 430 Series II Three-Phase Power Quality Analysers have been named the EC&M 2012 Silver Product of the Year. The Silver winner is chosen by the readers of the US magazine, EC&M, from the Product of the Year category winners, which were announced in March.

Loop checks standard! - An ISA standard, ANSI/ISA-62382-2012 (IEC 62382 Modified), Automation Systems in the Process Industry-Electrical and Instrumentation Loop Check, has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and is now available.

Programme for for suppliers developing fieldbus products - The Fieldbus Foundation has announced that Fieldbus Inc. has qualified under its FOUNDATION Development Services Provider (DSP) programme.

Air gauges! - A new book 'Air Gauges: Static and Dynamic Characteristics' has been published by IFSA Publishing. It presents results of the researches and theoretical investigations on the air gauges performed mostly in the Division of Metrology and Measurement Systems, Poznan University of Technology, (PL)

Cement in India - An order worth $18 million (€14.5m) in India to design, engineer and supply integrated automation and modern electrification systems for Century Cement's Manikgarh Cement plant in central India has been finalised with ABB.

Donation aids automation skills - Emerson Process Management has donated automation technology worth over #650,000 ([euro]830,000) to the newly opened ASET International Oil and Gas Training Academy in Aberdeen (GB), helping to train the next generation of operators in the oil and gas industry.

Static grounding reels - A range of ATEX certified retractable static grounding reels that prevent the discharge of incendive electrostatic sparks within combustible flammable and dust atmospheres has been released by Newson Gale.

Low running costs for TOC - Improvements in combustion technology have further reduced day-to-day running costs for the multi N/C® TOC analyzer from Analytik Jena.

"No limits, no wires!" - Honeywell has released the new Limitless™ Wireless Operator Interface, WOI Series, which expands Honeywell's Limitless™ wireless switch and receiver portfolio by providing a packaged pushbutton controller for manufacturers and OEMs.

Power Monitor with Ethernet and RCM - "Awesome!" - Janitza is expanding its measurement device range UMG 96 rapidly and "proves once again its innovative strength" when dealing with the issue of energy management and energy measurement technology.

Excelsys Technologies has appointed Kevin Parmenter as Vice President Applications Engineering, USA.

Automation in Turkey! -

EFT Testing - New 3-phase burst pulse CDN for EFT testing from Teseq is ideal for high current, high power testing of large machines, appliances and smart grid applications

The System Approach to the perfect enclosure solution - Rittal's system concept provides an intelligent modular infrastructure from a single source. Enclosure technology, power distribution, system climate control and electronics, together with engineering tools that have been purposely designed for efficient planning processes, are pivotal to this concept.

Thrilling results for nutrient monitors! - Commenting on the results of a 4 month trial of nutrient monitors, Hach Lange's John Moroney says he is "absolutely thrilled" with the report on his company's instruments which outperformed the competition in almost every measure.

Flexibility for board connectors - The Harting range of M12 circuit board connectors are now available in a range of custom bodies, offering new flexibility for integration into industrial housings in the automation environment.

Newsletters received in week ending:
10 August 2012

Electronics Production World ezine
Manufacturing Intelligence Software
ISA InSights
PharmaManuf e-news
Control UpDate
Test & Neasurement Digest
BioManufacturing Brief
Automation Weekly
Control Review
IEN News
EIT News
HazardEX
Control Engineering Europe
Electronics Components World
Process News
Products InSight
Process Instruments UpDate
Connections
Euan Semple's Newsletter
Control UpDate
DPA Direct

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EMF for Water & Waste - The Proline Promag L 400 electromagnetic flowmeter from Endress + Hauser is for water and wastewater applications it combines tate-of-the-art web server technology along with the experience gained with 1.5 million magmeter installations worldwide

Revolutionising smart-grid power electronics commercialisation - National Instruments announced the NI Single-Board RIO GPIC, which provides a standard RIO architecture for smart, grid-tied power conversion systems with a comprehensive NI LabVIEW system design toolchain that significantly reduces the cost and risk of embedded system design.

Enhanced smart cameras with measuring capabilities - The LMI Gocator family of 3D smart cameras available from Stemmer Imaging has been upgraded with a host of new measurement capabilities, scripting and enhanced PLC interoperation for use across a wide range of manufacturing industries.

World's fastest EMI test receiver - The new R&S ESR test receiver is available in two different models for frequencies ranging from 10 Hz to 3 GHz or 7 GHz to meet the requirements of all users who perform EMC certification on commercial equipment.

DAQ system for high-performance embedded measurements and logging - National Instruments has announced the new stand-alone NI CompactDAQ system, a high-performance embedded measurement and logging platform with a built-in dual-core Intel processor for running data acquisition, online analysis and logging software.

Panel indicators - Marl International has added many multi-voltage LED panel indicators, providing universal options for applications in harsh and demanding environments.

Analyser for clean water applications - The System-C Online TOC Analyzer from Biotector safeguards sensitive processes in clean water applications. The lightweight and portable System-C analyzer is the low cost option for low range clean TOC analysis.

Position sensors offshore! - Oil Platforms, shipyards, construction and offshore engineering companies all have special requirements for sensors that can meet the tough and harsh environments that they have to work in. Sensor specialists ASM have engineered the WB100M Tape sensor for such applications.

Divisional directors appointed - Keighley Laboratories has appointed three of its long-serving managers to Divisional Directors, in recognition of their contribution to past performance and their key roles in future growth plans.

Hydrogen monitoring videos - The instrumentation company Quantitech has added a range of new videos to its YouTube channel demonstrating the different applications for its unique hydrogen monitoring technology.

RF redefined - National Instruments has introduced the world's first RF vector signal transceiver (VST), the NI PXIe-5644R, and with it, a new class of software-designed instrumentation.

Solinoid valves for KSA! - International System EST (ISE) has selected Emerson Industrial Automation to supply control cabinets for a utilities upgrade project at SABIC's Petrokemya Arabian Petrochemical site in Al Jubail, (KSA)

Security summit for London - Taking place from 10-11th October in London, the Advice Centre on end-user security challenges is one of the key features at Global Security Summit London and is open to all visitors across the two days.

Improving reliability and availability of fieldbus installations - The Fieldbus Foundation has announced the latest updates to its open, non-proprietary FOUNDATION™ fieldbus physical layer technology.

IR Temperature applications go digital - Raytek®, has a new digital publication Application Success Stories, an online collection of end-user case studies recapping the successful usage of Raytek IR temperature measurement instruments in a wide range of industrial applications.

AC and servo drives gain prominence over DC drives in the European material handling industry - The European material handling industry is demanding advanced alternating current (AC) drives with better product quality, ease of operation, enhanced efficiency, improved communication technology and process control.

One ton visitor on Mars! - NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Monday Morning (Irish time) to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation

Newsletters received in week ending:
3 August 2012

David Spitzer's ezine
Test & Measurement Feature Friday
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Control Buzz
Electronics Production World
Measurement Matters
Process Control UpDate
Pharma Manufacturing e-news
Control UpDate
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Test & Measurement Digest
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Automation Weekly
Imaging UpDate
Control Review
Control Engineering Europe
Electronic Components World
Industrial Ethernet Review
Wireless UpDate
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Automation Focus
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Improving FPGA design productivity - National Instruments has announced the LabVIEW FPGA IP Builder add-on, which uses leading Xilinx Vivado™ High-Level Synthesis technology to simplify high-performance field-programmable gate array (FPGA) algorithm design.

Technician Day - Details of the Technician Day Program at ISA Automation Week 2012: Technology and Solutions Event have been released.

Rendering landfill sites safe! - Part II A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (GB) sets the minimum standard for contamination when land is redeveloped - as a minimum, sites must not qualify as contaminated land once they have been developed. Gas analysers rented from Ashtead Technology are helping to ensure full compliance.

MMI/HMI distribution in Europe - IGT Industries (part of Acal plc). have announced a strategic distribution agreement which allows Acal BFi to become IGT Industries' first ever distributor.

Practical thermocouples.. - A new edition of Practical Thermocouple Thermometry, Second Edition, by Thomas W. Kerlin and Mitchell Johnson has just hit the shelves.

Fibre optic sensor gains medical approval - FBGS has gained EN60601 medical approval for its fibre optic interrogator FBG-Scan 804D.

Stuart Cohen has been appointed as new sales manager at Xenics USA.

Safe decentralised drive system - Metronix has launched safety-equipped versions of its unique decentralised drive solution DIS-2, which can be used as a smart drive or mounted on a servo to create a standalone smart motor.

Powerful, professional looking day-to-day reports facilitated - MatrikonOPC™ has expanded the functionality of its OPC Excel Reporter software by adding support for Microsoft™ Office 2010.

Production aids for SMEs - CLIFF Electronics manufactures a wide range of production aids suitable for SME's and micro-businesses.

Flow computer for Canada - Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that the STARDOM FCN autonomous controller has been certified for use as a flow computer by Measurement Canada. This certification is based on the determination that the STARDOM FCN autonomous controller has the same accuracy as a conventional flow computer.