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Column
 | May 13, 2012

Sustainability: Operational Risk Management by Any Other Name

Manufacturing companies and process plants need to proactively manage all areas of operations that may impact their “social license” to do business in a particular community.
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Column
 | March 27, 2012

From Control to Optimization and Simulation

The notion of finance providing control insights to operations is outdated.
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Product
 | December 2, 2011

Intelligent Marshalling and More in Expanded DCS

Called the next major evolution of the Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system, the latest I/A Series system includes an Intelligent Marshalling solution and high-performance Foxboro control sof
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Perspective
 | December 1, 2011

Re-shoring or Rebalancing, U.S. Manufacturers Seek National Stability

Even the Web address of Kildeer, Ill.-based Reshore Initiative—www.reshorenow.org—communicates the urgency founder Harry Moser assigns to re-shoring.
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Column
 | November 30, 2011

The Real Costing Question: Avoidable or Unavoidable?

When you examine the costs associated with a decision or a potential course of action, there is really only one question: What costs are avoidable or unavoidable?
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OpsManage News
News
 | November 14, 2011

OpsManage'11 Conference Wrapup

With more than 1,300 attendees in Nashville, President and CEO Sudipta Bhattacharya emphasized the continuity of leadership over the past three years as a major factor for the success thus far of the
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The need for easy to access to experienced expertise.
Feature Article
 | November 1, 2011

How Social Media Is Improving Manufacturing Collaboration

Social media isn’t just for personal use any more.
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Dr. Ben Wang, incoming exec. dir. of the Manufacturing Research Center at GIT.
Perspective
 | November 1, 2011

Manufacturing with a Big "M"

Celebration of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Research Center’s 20th anniversary is marked by a plan to advance manufacturing in the U.S. through development of “collaboratories.”
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EDDL and WirelessHart unlocking intelligence in Hart devices on proprietary systems.
October 11, 2011

Wireless Device Integration

How Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) can be used to integrate hardwired and wireless devices into a control system for device diagnostics and device version updates.
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October 6, 2011

ABB Opens New Solar Inverter Production Center

Center will feature a 400 megawatt per year capacity as well as an engineering center to support inverter production and nearby motors and drives factories.
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Perspective
 | October 1, 2011

Electronics Assembly Made Flexible

MBX has developed special production, picking, tracking and staffing procedures and also has built proprietary software to improve scheduling, balance workload distribution, and perform other ma
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Renewegy engineer Greg Aykens was on hand for the raising of the Wago turbine. Renewegy specified WAGO's IP67-grade 756 Series c
October 1, 2011

Wago Wind Power Support Reaches New Heights

At its North American headquarters, Wago installs a 20kW Renewegy wind turbine system, which includes its connectors and other components and supports active energy management.
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September 29, 2011

Foundation Fieldbus Specification Issued For Wired and WirelessHart

Preliminary specification is designed to help end users interface Hart and WirelessHart devices to Foundation Fieldbus for improved control system and end device interaction.
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Representatives of the five automation foundations who signed the agreement to form FDI Cooperation LLC (left to right): Richard
September 27, 2011

FDI Cooperation LLC Formation Highlights Device Integration Collaboration

FDT Group, Fieldbus Foundation, Hart Communication Foundation, Profibus and Profinet International, and OPC Foundation have founded a company to establish an organization that will manage a single s
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Case Application
 | September 8, 2011

Electronics Assembly Made Flexible

MBX developed special production, picking, tracking and staffing procedures and built proprietary software to improve scheduling, balance workload distribution, and perform other manufacturing tasks.
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