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Pinto Prognostications 2012
In the United States, the trend to outsource jobs to lower-cost countries is slowing down. Many companies are reversing earlier offshore outsourcing decisions for skilled jobs as well as regular manufacturing work. Businesses are recognizing that cheap, exploited foreign labor is only a short-term expedient. There are domestic outsourcing alternatives that...
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Wireless | December 22, 2011

Pinto Prognostications 2012

I have a hunch that 2012 will not be another same-old, same-old year for industrial automation. Expect opportunity niches to arise around industrial wireless, Ethernet, mobile interface technologies.
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Gesture Based Machine Control
Machine Control | December 16, 2011

Gesture-based Machine Control Merges HMIs, Consumer Electronics

Combining gesture-based control and speech recognition, which are both supported by the Kinect for Windows sensor and SDK, opens the door to many sophisticated automation applications.
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Data Flowing via OPC
Communication | December 8, 2011

Natural Gas Production: Enabling In-the-Field Meter Data

Dart Oil and Gas needed to make production data from its methane wells available to engineers in the field.
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HMI | September 1, 2011

Arizona Utility Co-op Insists on a Single HMI

Global access to information is helping AEPCO and its small staff of engineers, operators and maintenance technicians ensure continuous system uptime, and its instance on a single human machine interf
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HMI | September 1, 2011

PLC with Integrated HMI

Duo Series is a new line of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with human machine interfaces (HMIs) incorporated.
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August 15, 2011

Re-engineered Arc-Resistant Motor Control Centers

A re-engineered family of motor control centers (MCCs) are arc-resistance, compliant with ANSI/IEEE C37.20.7 standards and filled with features designed to serve water and wastewater, oil and gas, a
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August 1, 2011

Variable Speed Drives for Pumps, Fans

Altivar 212 variable speed drives and the S-Flex enclosed version are designed to provide OEMs and control panel builders with energy efficient and economical solutions for pump and fan applications.
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HMI | August 1, 2011

HMI: Going from Cute to Effective

A funny thing is happening on the way to today’s cutting-edge human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in process industries—they are losing almost all their color and shedding their cute factor.
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I/O | June 5, 2011

Terminal Blocks Offer Isolation

The TermOpto solid-state relay functions as both a terminal block for signal connection, and a relay to separate signals, all in one compact module.
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HMI | June 1, 2011

Video Capabilities Integrated Into Graphic HMIs

Graphic HMI video capability integrates both live and recorded video into human machine interface (HMIs) applications.
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Process Safety | June 1, 2011

Simplified HMI with CANopen

Adding to the vendor’s range of motion control products, the KPD202-501 is a compact, IP65-rated operator panel with a CANopen interface.
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Motion Control | June 1, 2011

Inductive Sensor Extends Range

With a sensing range up to 40mm and a small housing, the Q40 inductive proximity sensor has the ability to sense aluminum and steel at the same distance.
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Networking | June 1, 2011

New Operator Panels with Upgraded iX Software

A new line of operator panels, called the ix Panel TxA, offers three different sizes and comes equipped with the company's upgraded iX 1.30 software.
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HMI | June 1, 2011

Operator Panels

New iX Panel TxA operator panels, available in a variety of display sizes, feature the company’s upgraded iX software with multiple drivers to communicate with most automation equipment.
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Process Safety | June 1, 2011

Will Robots Ever Replace Humans?

It was 1985 when I took my first robot programming class. Wound up taking two. At the time, IBM had a “SCARA” robot that we integrated and the 6-axis robot we used was then known as GMFanuc.
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Networking | May 23, 2011

Virtual Chart Recorder

The iTHX-SD transmitter lets users monitor and record temperature, relative humidity and dew point over an Ethernet network or the Internet with no special software except a Web browser.
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April 1, 2011

The People Challenge

At Brock Solutions’ recent holiday party, one of our new employees who spent the previous 30 years at a large consumer products company remarked to me how young the group looked.
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Networking | March 5, 2011

Option Doubles Thrust Capacity

Uhing RG3 linear drives are now available with an extra bearing option that doubles the axial thrust capacity of the drive unit without significantly increasing the length of the drive box.
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Power Supplies | March 5, 2011

Position Sensors Add EtherNet/IP

Expanding the range of available interfaces, Temposonics R-Series magnetostrictive sensors are now compatible with EtherNet/IP devices.
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Networking | March 5, 2011

Actuator-matching Program Expanded

The vendor’s Your Motor Here (YMH) program has been expanded to include more than 80 actuator products in nine different series for inline and reverse-parallel drive configurations.
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