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29/4/2022
    NEWS Calibration fleet expanded in U.S.A. - The U.S. on-site calibration offerings of Endress+Hauser has been increased with three additional mobile calibration rigs to the existing fleet, making a total of 19 rigs that service Endress+Hauser and third-party instrumentation including flow, pressure, and temperature. All Endress+Hauser authorized sales and service representatives across the U.S. are equipped with mobile calibration capabilities, with over 60 trained and certified calibration technicians.

    PRODUCT Pre-owned test equipment easily obtained on-line. - Electro Rent has launched a new e-commerce feature to its website in France and Britain. This user-friendly feature provides current and new customers with the ability to purchase certified pre-owned (CPO) test equipment directly online. Supporting the company’s reputation as an easy trading partner, the customer purchasing experience just became even more efficient and effective.

    APPLICATION Remote intelligence enables many-to-many solutions. - Significant and permanent changes to the workforce are requiring companies to accelerate adoption of remote access technologies in general and improved remote intelligence in particular. Traditional remote solutions were adopted out of necessity due to geographically distributed industrial assets, but today the workforce is increasingly geographically dispersed due to the social and business impacts of COVID-19. (Control Engineering)

    PRODUCT Furthering agile Innovation and Intelligent adaptability. - Aegis Software is providing new capabilities in their latest FactoryLogix® 2022.1 and 2022.2 releases. Thse capabilities offer advanced capabilities to eliminate redundancies, streamline error-prone processes, promote agility, increase quality, and reduce waste.

28/4/2022 Today is Automation Professionals Day - 28th April 2022
    NEWS Monumental registration achievement. - Emerson's AMS Device Manager has successfully completed conformance requirements testing under FieldComm Group's FDI Technology Host Registration Policy. Thus, AMS Device Manager became the first FDI host system to earn the right to display the FDI registration logo in product marketing materials.

    Research What else can condition monitoring sensors tell us? - Condition monitoring using sensors and other equipment — designed to proactively alert users to potential problems so that unplanned downtime can be prevented — offers advantages to help users make their operations run more effectively and reliably. (Vijay Anand in Process Instrumentation).

    PRODUCT Testing of commercial and prototype eSIM devices. - Anritsu Corporation and Comprion have announced the availability of downloadable 5G and 4G eSIM test profiles for use with Anritsu's MT8000A Radio Communications Test Station and Rapid Test Designer (RTD) application software.

27/4/2022
    PRODUCT New development chassis. - The new DEVPX3 development chassis, from AMETEK Abaco Systems, is aligned to both OpenVPX and SOSA™ standards, providing a flexible, cost-effective platform for open-standards-based application development, integration, and testing. The chassis helps you maintain a robust, fast-paced development program by being able to quickly demonstrate and prove the end capability of your 3U VPX solutions at a system or board level.

    PRODUCT Patent granted for remote resetting. - Antaira Technologies has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its innovative Power Remote Reset Technology (PRRT) that allows IT staff to remotely reboot and reset a connected powered device through a local Antaira copper-to-fiber media converter.

    Research No design without reason and no place for gimmicks. - Buttonwood's Graham Meller recently interviewed Sauli Laitinen, who has worked in Vaisala's 'ideas factory' in Helsinki for 14 years, to discover what role R&D plays in protecting and enhancing a company's brand. This is what he learned.

26/4/2022
    APPLICATION >Cybersecurity Maturity Across the Automation System Lifecycle. - Improving the cybersecurity maturity of automation systems remains a topic of considerable interest for suppliers, end users, government agencies, and other stakeholders.(Eric Cosman - ARC ADvisory)

    PRODUCT Medical thermister. - Expanding its comprehensive range of temperature sensors, Variohm EuroSensor has developed a new NTC thermistor especially designed for medical equipment use and particularly aimed at sensing small temperature changes in body and ambient medical area temperatures.

    APPLICATION Electrical maintenance inspections with partial discharge detection. - Kenter, a leading Dutch energy metering and management company with more than 30,000 customers, has transformed maintenance inspections through the fast and safe detection of partial discharge. Left undetected partial discharge can cause degradation of medium voltage installations which pose significant safety, efficiency and financial risks that are critical considerations in maintenance inspections. The company's team of 300 maintenance specialists have greatly improved the speed and accuracy of scheduled maintenance inspections using an innovative handheld tool, the ii910 Precision Acoustic Imager from Fluke.

    APPLICATION Base station simulators. - Anritsu Corporation has announced that Bundesnetzagentur (German Federal Network Agency - Bnetza) has adopted Anritsu's Base Station Simulators for 5G/4G/IoT technologies as well as Bluetooth®/WLAN testers for EMC tests.

25/4/2022
    APPLICATION What's Next for IIoT Device Connectivity? - Are your devices ready to provide connectivity for large-scale and highly distributed applications in an increasingly interconnected world? In this article, Moxa provides three expert tips to keep in mind for selecting device connectivity solutions that can meet the demanding requirements of large-scale and highly distributed IIoT applications in the connected world.

    Standards Coping with latest wiring Regulations. - Schneider Electric has launched a new 18th Edition e-book that includes vital information as well as the latest products to help installers comply with new changes to regulations.

22/4/2022
    PRODUCT Industrial spectrometer. - Process Insights has expanded its industrial mass spectrometer range with the new Extrel MAX300-RTG 2.0 with touchscreen for process applications. With the ability to report the complete stream composition and multi-port stream selector for up to 160 samples, the MAX300-RTG 2.0 offers fast analysis for a range of industries including oil refineries, syngas plants, polymer plants, renewable gas, steel, pharmaceuticals, and government/university laboratories.

    Events Virtul fair. - The EPLAN Virtual Fair is taking place for the seventh time running – this time in the run up to the Hannover Messe on 4 & 5 May 2022. Collaboration is everything. How can people collaborate better, work together more efficiently and remain competitive in the ecosystem of industrial automation? This year's 2022 Eplan Virtual Fair gets to the bottom of these questions.

    PRODUCT Tubeskin measurement. - Inaccurate temperature measurements can cost the process industry significant time and money. Looking for a solution, WIKA engineers have designed a system that more accurately measures process furnace tubeskin temperature. Backed by rigorous testing at the WIKA R&D centre in Houston (TX USA), their new TEFRACTO-PAD® (TC59-T) will allow users to meet production targets while protecting the furnace and maintaining tube integrity.

    APPLICATION Saving time and cost for machine builders. - Suitable for all compatible T-slot cylinder grooves, the SDBT-MSX is the first auto-teach cylinder switch that learns the required switching position simply by cycling the machine four times during set-up. No in-situ adjustment is required: instead the switch is simply dropped into place in the approximate required position.

    APPLICATION To guarantee valve actuator performance. - Rotork Controls has established a global reputation for robust and reliable valve actuators, operating in some of the world's most demanding and critical applications. Thorough testing of the motors used in the actuators is one of the keys to this assured performance, with TorqSense transducers from Sensor Technology playing a vital role in the test process.

20/4/2022
    APPLICATION Combatting drunk/drug driving and criminal activity. - Autoscribe Informatics has announced a new case study highlighting the work of the University of Iceland's forensic toxicology laboratory. The Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (RLE) configured the Matrix Gemini LIMS themselves, to meet their own unique needs. RLE is now using the LIMS to analyze drug and alcohol samples to support the police and the judiciary in Iceland.

    StandardsAn automated, standards-based documentation process saves time and cost. - The production of design and engineering documents for automation projects is expensive and time consuming, and the output quality can vary considerably, because often the processes are mostly manual. However, many tools are available that can reduce time and cost, while increasing documentation quality. Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, instrumentation engineers, consultants, and others use these tools in projects, and educational institutions use them to train the next generation of users. (ISA InTech+)

19/4/2022
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    PIUK has elected Chris McComb as new Chairman, following the retirement of Bob Squirrell after almost 30 years.
    PRODUCT Monitoring asset health. - A new IQ platform that makes it easy to deploy asset health monitoring to prevent unplanned downtime within manufacturing environments has been announced by Sensata Technologies.

    NEWS Supply chain award for connectors and cable harness assemblies. - Intelliconnect has achieved the SC21 Silver Performance Standard Award for the fourth consecutive year. This prestigious award is granted by the SC21 Board of ADS, the trade organisation for the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space Industry Supply Chain Programme and is designed to accelerate the competitiveness of the industry by raising the performance of its supply chains.

    NEWS Why Established Corporations Should Work with Startups - Startup companies are mushrooming across the globe. Many industrial giants are taking a key interest in these startups to add value to their portfolio by acquiring or investing in these ventures either through capital means or partnerships. Corporations want to work with these startups since a startup is more agile in tailoring the needs of their customers and delivering value at a quicker pace compared to large multinationals. It is a strategic move for corporations to identify new ideas at an early stage so they can partner with entrepreneurs, ensuring that both parties bring their best team for this process and purpose of collaboration. This arrangement would harness and streamline appropriate strategies and processes.(ARC Advisory)

    Pieter Feenstra
    Addverb Technologies has appointed Pieter Feenstra as the CEO of the EMEA region.

    PRODUCT Ruggedized GNSS receiver. - The AsteRx-U3 is the successor of the popular Septentrio AsteRx-U multi-frequency GNSS receiver for construction, mining and other machine control applications. The new product combines the company's latest triple-band precise positioning GNSS core with extended wireless communication features including Wi-Fi, UHF and 4G LTE.

15/4/2022
    APPLICATION Extending the Life of Legacy Devices - Keeping serial devices alive protects valuable investments by maintaining and enhancing the devices' capabilities. A variety of serial connectivity solutions are available now that allow for simple and affordable upgrades to bridge serial devices into today's networking. This is especially important since the majority of today's production machinery and monitoring sensors are modernized with Ethernet interfaces. To help managers, Moxa highlights here three major challenges faced when enabling serial connectivity between legacy devices and modern systems and protocols.
14/4/2022
    APPLICATION Water energy reclamation for process facilities. - There is an effective way to reclaim energy and reuse gray water (clean or partially clean wastewater after a process) from a process that uses elevated water temperatures for a research application. In addition to being placed back into the process water system, the heat can also be distributed to other hot water systems in the building. Where the specific application permits, the gray water is reclaimed and reused in the process research water loop. (Control Engineering)
13/4/2022
    PRODUCT Enabling holistic condition monitoring programmes for critical assets. - Emerson is updating its machinery health platform to enable customers to migrate to a more holistic, modern interface for condition monitoring. New support brings data from edge analytics devices directly to key personnel inside and outside the control room to help them more quickly identify and address a wide range of common equipment faults before they impact plant availability. In some industries, Emerson estimates every 1% gain in availability is worth approximately $8.4 million of additional profit margin per year.

    APPLICATION Reduce emissions & increasing capacity in polyester plant. - INEOS Aromatics Indonesia has completed $70 million of upgrades at its facilities in Indonesia, to significantly reduce emissions and increase capacity, which includes the installation of two vent gas analyzer systems from Servomex. These were designed in conjunction with INEOS to deliver enhanced safety and control of the oxidation reactor.

    NEWS Gas measurement quality approval. - Qmicro by Sensirion has congratulated MeterQ on their achievement of the approval from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany's national metrology institute, for two of their gas quality measurement systems for custody transfer.

11/4/2022
    Events Advanced automation software drives digital transformation of operations. - Emerson is hosting a series of Innovation Days to provide process industry and manufacturing companies with valuable insights into how advanced automation software solutions can help maximise environmental sustainability and business performance. The free of charge events, being held across Europe throughout 2022, will demonstrate how the latest industrial software and systems can drive the digital transformation of operations, leading to increased operational efficiency, uptime, safety and profitability.
  • The Innovation Days will be held in Great Britain and Ireland from June 7th to 23rd 2022.

    PRODUCT Pressure transmitter. - Moore Industries' durable PIH Pressure-to-Current Transmitter provides an economical solution for any process that requires a rugged instrument capable of interfacing a pneumatic device with a data acquisition/control system, controller, recorder, or other electronic instruments.

    White Paper The Right Approach to Zero Trust for IoT Devices - The need to adopt a Zero Trust approach as a strategy to security is undeniable. The increase in the number of IoT devices and an increase in IoT attacks requires organizations to reassess their risk management strategy and move towards adopting a Zero Trust approach to include securing IoT devices. (Palo Alto Networks)

    APPLICATION Efficient container loading. - Combilift in Monaghan (IRL), is the largest global manufacturer of multi-directional forklifts and an innovator and leader in long-load handling solutions. Its recently launched Combi-CSS (Container Slip-Sheet) enables fast and efficient freight container loading for the transportation of timber, flat-packed furniture, panel products and similar goods. Significantly reducing the full load loading time to as little as 6 minutes and ensuring safety and simplifying the loading process, the Combi-CSS control system relies on SGJ series cable extension transducers (CETs) from Variohm EuroSensor to monitor the slip-sheet's position over CAN SAE 1939 for the loading and retracting procedure.

8/4/2022
    PRODUCT IO-Link via modular principle. - The new IO-Link function modules from Leuze simplify the integration of device data into PLC programs. This saves the users time and enables error-free installation.

    PRODUCT Fittings for high pressure. - A new series of fittings and accessories for high pressure instrumentation is now provided by WIKA. The fittings, using the model designation HPFA, are designed for pressures from 15,000 to 60,000 psi (1,034 to 4,136 bar).

    NEWS European climate leaders. - Financial Times has listed European Climate Leaders 2022. The list includes European companies that achieved the greatest reduction in their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2015 and 2020. Vaisala has been listed in the top 5 of the list, increasing its ranking from place 14 the previous year.

    PRODUCT PSU expanded range. - SL Power Electronics SLPE has expanded their next generation range of dual certified internal power supplies with the introduction of the GB Series 10, 20-, 30-, 40-, 60 and 130-Watt families. The GB Series has been designed to offer superior performance and minimise the effort required for system integration across many markets and applications including test and measurement, medical, lighting, and industrial.

    PRODUCT Revolutionary geared motor technology. - Two become one: The fewer interfaces, the higher the system efficiency – based on this maxim, NORD DRIVESYSTEMS introduced a revolutionary geared motor in a hygienic wash-down design one year ago, where the especially energy-efficient IE5+ permanent magnet synchronous motor and a single-stage helical gear unit are installed in one single housing.

7/4/2022
    PRODUCT Three-Way miniature solenoid valve. - Emerson has expanded its ASCO™ Series 090 line of miniature solenoid valves, adding a new three-way Series 090 valve configuration to enable lighter, more space-efficient solutions for gas control in oxygen therapy, compression therapy and gas analyzer devices.

    Events Accelerating industrial digital transformation and sustainability. - ARC Advisory Group has scheduled its European Industry Forum on May 17-18, 2022 as a virtual event. The forum is part of ARC's successful series of worldwide conferences in the USA, India, China and Japan. In 2020 and 2021 ARC Europe hosted highly successful virtual events with over 900 registrations. (Diese Nachricht auf Deutsch.)

6/4/2022
    APPLICATION OT/IT - reducing network security concerns. - When integrating OT and IT systems from traditionally closed to open data systems, problems arise when unwanted access is given to an organization's private operation data. To safely integrate unconnected legacy systems, these 10 tips from Moxa should help to reduce network security concerns.

    publicationsCritical gas analysis for process. - . Servomex has made available a comprehensive set of expert resources to educate and inform customers about all aspects of gas analysis, Servomex analyzers and solutions, key applications, and support services.

    PRODUCT Environmental sensor node. - The SEN50 and SEN55 environmental sensing solutions for measuring relevant environmental parameters have been introduced by Sensirion. The SEN50 and SEN55 environmental sensor nodes serve as a straightforward sensor solution platform.

    PRODUCT Seven inch display modules. - Review Display Systems (RDS) has announced the availability of a comprehensive range of industrial specification, wide aspect ratio 7.0-inch TFT display modules. They source, supply and support an extensive line-up of cost effective, industry standard 7.0-inch TFT display modules that are suitable for use in a broad range of industry sectors, applications, and operating environments.

5/4/2022
    PRODUCT Communication solutions for BESS. - HMS Networks is now presenting several communication solutions for the rapidly expanding battery market. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) require communication capabilities to connect to batteries and peripheral components, communicate with the power grid, monitor systems remotely and much more.

    Research Automation Market Update. - ARC Advisory Group publishes the latest Automation Index as a Special Report in PowerPoint format. This concise report focuses on the quantitative rather than qualitative aspects.

    PRODUCT Sensitive longwave infrared thermal camera. - The Boson+ has been announced by Teledyne FLIR. Its thermal sensitivity of 20 millikelvin (mK) or less, makes it the most sensitive longwave infrared (LWIR) camera in the market. It shares the industry-leading SWaP of the widely deployed and real-world-proven Boson thermal camera module. With identical mechanical, electrical, and optical interfaces, the Boson+ is a drop-in upgrade that also includes updated image processing to deliver enhanced sharpness and contrast for defense and commercial applications.

    PRODUCT Signal conditioners and switches for vibration. - Metrix has recently announced its new 5580 series smart vibration signal conditioners and switches. The new units provide a 4-20 mA output proportional to the measured variable from accelerometers, velocity or position sensors for preventative maintenance and safety tasks on industrial fans, compressors, generators, pumps, and other large shaft-equipped machines where probe systems are essential.

    APPLICATION DCS system upgrades cement plant. - ABB Ability™ System 800xA®, the distributed control system (DCS) automation platform, has been installed to upgrade three grinding units at Star Super Cement in Dubai, UAE, and ensure optimized operations with the Star Cement clinkerization plant in Ras Al Khaimah.

4/4/2022
    NEWS Secure remote access. - Red Lion Controls has acquired MB connect line GmbH, a leading provider of secure connection of machines and plants for remote access, data collection, and M2M-communication. The addition of MB connect line supports Red Lion's strategy to deliver secure, easy-to-use edge connectivity solutions - enabling organizations worldwide to gain secure real-time data visibility that drives productivity.
1/4/2022
    PRODUCT Optical connections. - ODU Fiber Optic technologies ensure the high quality and stability that is needed for optical connections. They offer system solutions with Expanded Beam technology for harsh environments and a high number of mating cycles. The range also includes reliable physical contact technology with low insertion loss for up to 1,000 mating cycles. For short transmission distances, ODU also offers POF (Polymer Optical Fiber) system solutions for cost-efficient optical connections.
    Reto Haering
    Dr. Reto Häring has been appointed Senior VP of Research and Development at TOPTICA Photonics AG.

    NEWS EV Testing capability. - NI has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the test systems business of Kratzer Automation AG, a European leader in providing holistic customer solutions for electrification (EV). This agreement further expands NI's investment in the high growth area of vehicle electrification and enhances customer connections with key original equipment manufacturers (OEM).

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