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News
 | May 15, 2013

Why Do Automation System Integration Projects Fail?

A panel of certified control system integrators share the hard questions end users should be asking to ensure they get the automation systems they need.
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Belden program certifies industrial networks
News
 | March 28, 2013

First Vendor-led Industrial Network Certification Program

Belden’s industrial Ethernet infrastructure certification program will validate that network infrastructures are built to the highest standards and have the ability to evolve.
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Packaging Automation
Pat Reynolds
VP Editor, Packaging World
The last thing we wanted to be doing is pounding the PLCs, adding more code, said Campbell's Tom Braydich.
Campbell Soup’s Data Acquisition Journey
Column
 | March 12, 2013

Capturing Data to Target Errors and Continuously Improve

Increasingly complex global supply chains always present clients across many industries with new challenges.
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Dashboard: Agnostic Aggregation
News
 | February 12, 2013

Dashboard: Agnostic Aggregation

GE Intelligent Platforms’ Proficy Vision dashboard is designed to connect and interact with any system or device in a plant via the URL.
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Product
 | February 12, 2013

Computing Platform for Industrial Imaging

The Supersight Solo computing platform, designed for industrial imaging applications, allows users to integrate a system host board with graphics processing units, FPGAs and frame grabbers in a single
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Four Emerson System Plast components were part of the retrofit package.
News
 | February 1, 2013

Pepsi invests $35,000 to generate an added $300,000 annually

On a 2 liter PET bottling line at a Pepsi plant in Cheverly, MD, an optimized conveyor connection between case packer and palletizer is helping to generate about $300,000 more in revenue per year.
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Plasma treatment helps inks adhere to surfaces. Source: Enercon
Blog Post | January 11, 2013

System Integration Optimizes Surface Treatment Solutions

The manufacture of everything from toothbrushes to auto parts can benefit from the use of atmospheric plasma or flame surface treatment during assembly and decorating operations. To bring these solutions to the factory floor, specialty integrators are called upon to develop material handling and automation of the treatment process.
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Primer
 | August 17, 2012

Uses of Historian Data: A Tutorial

A systems integrator explains what software historians are and why production plants need a repository of real-time industrial data.
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Secondary Packaging Automation
 Video | July 20, 2012

Secondary Packaging Automation

Steve Segora, Western Region Sales Manager for the Langen Packaging Group, explains automation in secondary packaging and end-of-line operations.
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Podcast | July 3, 2012

Podcast - Get Certified! System Integrator Association Releases New Certification Manual

Automation World caught up with Jeff Miller, chairman of the best practices committee, Control System Integrators Association (CSIA), in May as his committee was putting the finishing touches on the B
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