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 Video | May 15, 2012

CSIA Conference: Predictive Analytics & After Sales Service

Greg Bodenhammer, vp of Industry End User Business, Schneider Electric, discusses predictive analytics and how end-user companies can utilize system integrators to perform after sales services. (Approximate Time - 1:46).
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Hall Effect Sensor
Product
 | May 12, 2012

RTY Hall Effect Sensor for Harsh Industrial Applications

Honeywell today introduces its RTY Series Hall-Effect rotary position sensors that provide a cost-effective rotary position sensor solution with a variety of options (e.g., sensing range, pinout, volt
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Product
 | May 11, 2012

Automation Control Panels with Communication and Field-bus Capabilities

These panels offer greater expansion capabilities as well as expanded DI/DO and field-bus control support.
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Upgraded Processor
Product
 | May 11, 2012

Upgraded Processing Power for Industrial Panel PCs

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has upgraded the processing power of its IPPC-9151G and IPPC-9171G to Intel Core i7 processors from an Intel P-4 processor.
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Case Application
 | May 10, 2012

Ready Or Not Wireless Is Here

Standards may not be harmonized, and response times may still be too slow for many applications, but automation professionals are adopting wireless communications anyway.
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New Yokogawa Canada Director
News
 | May 10, 2012

Yokogawa Appoints Ian Verhappen as Head of Canadian Business

Ian Verhappen becomes the managing director of Yokogawa Canada Inc., reporting to Yokogawa Corporation America President Mr. Chester J. Mroz.
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Playing with Fire
Blog entry | May 8, 2012

Engineering Students Toy with Industrial Technologies

Too often we hear about the deficit of interest in engineering education. These two application videos illustrate that the state of engineering education is anything but moribund.
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White Paper | May 7, 2012

DNP3 for Water/Wastewater SCADA Systems

Summary: This 9-page whitepaper explains the key features of the DNP3 protocol and how it can help in water/wastewater telemetry systems. Developed primarily for use in the power industry, the features of this 20-year-old open protocol that support water/wastewater SCADA systems include classification of field data, report by exception, time-stamped data, support for time synchronization, secure authentication, diagnostic information for each I/O point and communication to multiple masters.
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Perspective
 | May 5, 2012

Automation on the High Seas

Manufacturing’s continuing expansion knows no borders, including land.
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Feature Article
 | May 5, 2012

Food Producer Success: New Automation Strategy Drives Control System Migration

A major food producer sought to replace its legacy distributed control system to handle a greater variety of automation tasks.
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Video | May 4, 2012

Automation Applied: Virus Prevention Using Deep Packet Inspection, part 1

Eric Byres, cto and vp Engineering of Tofino Security, a Belden Company, provides a look at how viruses attack a PLC/HMI with out Deep Packet Inspection via an USB memory stick. (Approximate Time - 3:24)
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Fault Detection
Product
 | May 4, 2012

Detect Problems in Electrical Control Systems

The FTR-Birdie is a self-contained electrical test and fault-finding logger that records and displays all on/off voltage changes at its 16 inputs.
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Fluke Power Analyzer
Product
 | May 4, 2012

Power Analyzer With Inverter Efficiency Function

The 430 Series II Three Phase Power Analyzers, which use a patented algorithm to measure energy wasted by power quality issues and quantify its cost, have been improved.
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Packaging Machine Site
News
 | May 4, 2012

Website Targeted to Packaging Machine Community

Targeting the needs of those who design, build, buy and operate packaging machinery, Mitsubishi will bring all its packaging oriented solutions together in one site.
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News
 | May 3, 2012

Machine Vision Issues for Automation

Machine vision has experienced a rapid rise during the last years.
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