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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.
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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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News
 | May 10, 2013

ABB’s Joe Hogan to Step Down as CEO

Citing personal reasons for leaving the company, Hogan will continue to lead ABB until a successor is announced.
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News
 | May 9, 2013

Festo Shows Innovative Gantry at Hannover

Festo’s H-gantry EXCM provides precise and fast positioning in cramped installation conditions.
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News
 | May 9, 2013

Beckhoff Links Operator Displays up to 100 m

A new connection technology enables multi-touch panels to be up to 100 m from the industrial PC.
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Embedded PC Control
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 | May 9, 2013

Medical Device OEM Leverages Embedded PC-based Control

Beckhoff’s embedded PC is used to control IntraOp Medical’s new generation of IntraOperative Electron Radiation Therapy machines.
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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
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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.
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Column
 | May 2, 2013

HMIs: Beyond the Fixed Panel Interface

Factory automation mobility is not just about iPads. Companies of all sizes need to think about the software needed to push context-sensitive information to operators and managers.
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Product
 | May 2, 2013

Box Computer

The BC50I is designed for data-heavy industrial computing applications.
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Column
 | May 1, 2013

Printing Press Upgrade Includes Move to Sercos III

Edda Trykk, the second largest publisher in Norway, has selected Honeywell to upgrade the Printa press control and shaftless drive systems at its newspaper printing facility in Stokke, Norway.
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GE Rugged COM Adopts AMD
News
 | May 1, 2013

GE Adopts Latest AMD Processors for Industrial Computing

GE Intelligent Platforms is developing embedded modules based on the new AMD Embedded G-Series system-on-a-chip processors.
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Product
 | May 1, 2013

Ethernet-Based DAQ System

The DaqLab/2000 series offers good performance at low prices.
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Barriers to Human Reliability
News
 | April 30, 2013

Barriers to Human Reliability

The idea of placing greater emphasis on operator interaction with automated systems has been gaining traction.
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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
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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
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Product
 | April 30, 2013

Leak Detection Camera

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