Beamex releases its MC6 advanced field calibrator and communicator to address the increasing demands placed on maintenance and operations engineers in the process industries.
During my annual trip to the ARC Forum, one meeting I always anticipate is with Alan Johnston, President and CEO of MIMOSA and Cliff Pedersen, CIO of North West Redwater Partnership. MIMOSA is an alliance of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) solution providers and end-user companies who are focused on developing consensus-driven open data standards to enable Open Standards-based O&M Interoperability. Johnston has been spearheading this initiative for years. Pedersen represents the interests of owner/operators in the group.
Agreement means Schneider Electric will be able to offer its industrial customers access to AssetPoint’s EAM/CMMS solution to monitor and manage assets across their control systems.
Some of the industry segments and applications that can benefit from Arc Guard include substations; critical power facilities such as hospitals and data centers; yachts; cruise and refrigerated contai
Gary Mintchell, Co-founder and Editor in Chief, previews feature articles for the upcoming April issue. The first feature provides an update on security and, specifically, Stuxnet. How have things changes on the plant floor since Stuxnet?
A new line of media converters for industrial applications features real-time compatibility for reliable and robust data exchange between copper and fiber optic media.
One of the more interesting discoveries to come out of the Automation World Alarm Management Survey 2012 was to learn how few operators are involved in the process of identifying and specifying alarms
On July 22, four months after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami struck the Pacific Coast side of eastern Japan, Japanese engineers from various process and other industries gathered in Tokyo to
First in a new family of COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) turnkey high-speed digital recorders, the Talon RTS 2715 can continuously record up to two 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) data streams with zero d
Critical Vessel Monitoring System from Land Instruments International measures surface temperature more than 15 times as often as typical thermocouple-based systems.
The iTHX-SD transmitter lets users view virtual charts and record temperature, relative humidity and dew point over an Ethernet network or the Internet with no special software—just a Web browser.
The Micro Motion ProLink III, a Microsoft Windows-based configuration and service tool for Micro Motion Coriolis flow and density transmitters, is a configuration, data-logging, and troubleshooting to
Engineers know that Ethernet is a stable and well-known industrial network, but building determinism into the network to enable control has been an issue that is now solvable.