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New Pump Profiles Enhance Wastewater Treatment Plant Controls Upgrade

The Glenelg Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) is one of three large wastewater plants in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia, a city ranked in the top 10 of The Economist’s “World’s Most Livable Cities.” The plant, located in Western Adelaide, covers a drainage area of approximately 92 square kilometers (36 square miles) and serves a population of about...

Latest Control News

May 14, 2013

Education Outreach: From Sensors to B2MML

May 10, 2013

Emerson Opens Americas Headquarters for Valve Automation Technologies

May 10, 2013

ABB’s Joe Hogan to Step Down as CEO

May 9, 2013

Festo Shows Innovative Gantry at Hannover

May 9, 2013

Beckhoff Links Operator Displays up to 100 m

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Education Outreach

News

| May 14, 2013

Education Outreach: From Sensors to B2MML

Banner Engineering and MESA International launch new education programs designed to engage families as well as practicing engineers.

Learn about various brands of of valve automation technology at Emerson's new Americas headquarters.

News

| May 10, 2013

Emerson Opens Americas Headquarters for Valve Automation Technologies

The new $30 million Americas headquarters for valve automation technologies in Houston includes a manufacturing facility.

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Sign up to receive timely updates from our editors and download this FREE Special Report exploring the most widely adopted protocols for fieldbus, Ethernet and wireless networking in the process industries, as well as the latest trends in wireless applications.

The Ever-Evolving Automation Industry

News

| May 7, 2013

The Ever-Evolving Automation Industry

In a one-on-one meeting with Invensys Operations Management President & CEO Michael Caliel and Systems Business President Gary Freburger, Automation World was offered a glimpse into how a major in

News

| May 2, 2013

Balluff Breaks Ground for Expansion

Balluff, automation supplier and U.S. subsidiary of Balluff GmbH, broke ground in northern Kentucky April for a $6 million expansion expected to bring 24 new jobs to the area.

Product

| May 1, 2013

Ethernet-Based DAQ System

The DaqLab/2000 series offers good performance at low prices.

Column

| April 30, 2013

Is MPC or Advanced Regulatory Control Right for Me?

The “culture of MPC” might unduly influence some companies to implement MPC, when in some cases, advanced regulatory control implemented right in the DCS control blocks might actually provide the best

Product

| April 30, 2013

Multifunction-PLC I/O-Module

The EyeMIO is a USB-Interface for industrial applications that works with the company's image processing systems by EVT to control the peripherals and act as the physical interface between the im

Product

| April 30, 2013

Leak Detection Camera

The FV-3532-01 thermal IP camera is optimized to detect hydrocarbon leaks.

Product

| April 29, 2013

I/O Modules for PROFINET and EtherNet/IP

The LioN-R series provide secure connection between actuators/sensors and control units even under harsh environmental conditions.

Product

| April 29, 2013

Calibrated 3D Machine Vision Inspection

The DS1000 3D laser profiling system calibrates real-world units of measurement for inspections too difficult to perform with traditional two-dimensional machine vision.

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Column

| April 28, 2013

SPC for the Real World

SPC, or statistical process control, has been around for a long time. While everyone’s heard about it, not many people are doing much with it.

Product

| April 26, 2013

Wonderware InBatch 2012 R2 Unifies Manufacturing Process Management

The new version of Wonderware InBatch software, 2012 R2, makes batch management data available to users and systems throughout the plant to increase operational effectiveness and enable better real-ti

Column

| April 26, 2013

Choosing the Right SPC Vendor for Your Company

A company had recently decided to globally deploy an SPC solution independent from the work it was doing in ERP, EQMS, and MES.

Column

| April 25, 2013

New Pump Profiles Enhance Wastewater Treatment Plant Controls Upgrade

The challenge: replace the entire control system without shutting down some critical parts of the treatment plant for longer than four hours.

Product

| April 24, 2013

Distributed Control System

The 2013 version of the Freelance system is aimed at medium and small plants.

Product

| April 24, 2013

Ethernet I/O Modules

The XT1110 and XT1120 are initial releases in the new BusWorks XT series of Ethernet monitoring and control devices.

Product

| April 12, 2013

Machine Vision Cameras

Added to the Genie TS camera series are 2M and 4M monochrome models that reach speeds up to 76 fps in HD format.

Governor Steve Beshear (left) and Balluff Inc. President Kent Howard celebrate Balluff's groundbreaking.

News

| April 12, 2013

Automation Supplier Breaks Ground for Northern Kentucky Expansion

Balluff, automation supplier and U.S.subsidiary of Balluff GmbH, broke ground yesterday for a $6 miillion expansion expected to bring 24 new jobs to the area.

Product

| April 12, 2013

Digitally Configurable Stack Lights

The software-configurable Smart Light eliminates complex hardware selection by providing visual indication solutions with just a single part number.

New Bosch Rexroth Hydraulic Facility

News

| April 9, 2013

Bosch Rexroth Opens Its Largest American Hydraulics Facility

Joining a growing list of manufacturers increasing operations in the southeastern United States, Bosch Rexroth expands its hydraulic pump manufacturing operations in South Carolina.

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