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From Russia with Love
Blog entry | May 17, 2012

From Russia with Love, John Deere Style

Interesting example of how John Deere is exporting to the Russian market, a country currently known for graft and corruption.
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Blog entry | May 15, 2012

Survey - Process Fieldbus Implementation and Operational Aspects

The Fieldbus Foundation and ARC are conducting a survey on process fieldbus selection criteria, installation, and challenges associated with the implementation and operational phase of the technology.
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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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Alarm Management Opinions
Blog entry | May 1, 2012

Alarm Management Opinions

Members of the Automation World LinkedIn group offer their thoughts on why nuisance alarms remain such a problem throughout industry.
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Integrated Motors & Drives
Blog entry | April 17, 2012

Trends in Motor/Drive Integration

The motor/drive combination device has been around for several years now in distributed control applications. Manufacturers’ push for higher efficiency and greater energy savings could accelerate demand for these integrated power products.
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Rube Goldberg World Record
Blog entry | April 10, 2012

Purdue Engineers Break Own Rube Goldberg Record

New Rube Goldberg machine incorporates 300 steps, breaking old record of 244 steps by a comfortable margin.
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Industrial Ethernet Cabling
Blog entry | March 22, 2012

Industrial Ethernet: Know Your Cables and Connectors

Though the physical layer of the cables and transmission rates may often be the same, there are number of significant differences between industrial grade and commercial grade Ethernet cables and connectors.
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Small Footprint Safety
Blog entry | March 14, 2012

Safety in a Small Package

Sick releases mini version of its S300 safety laser scanner for mobile and stationary safety applications.
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Power Over Ethernet
Blog entry | March 5, 2012

Power Over Ethernet Opinions

Recently positioned as a game-changing technology for industry, Power over Ethernet technologies do not appear to be experiencing the uptick in use once expected. Members of Automation World’s LinkedIn group weigh in with their thoughts on why this is so.
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Diagnostic Intelligence
Blog entry | March 1, 2012

Diagnostic Intelligence

Envision from Beet Analytics Technology creates an automation intelligence system by tracking all diagnostic events related to automated or manufacturing processes.
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