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Blog entry | March 25, 2011

Invensys Names New Corporate CEO

Update, just received the official statement from Invensys, read below:
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March 14, 2011

Japan Disaster Looms Large for Those of Us in the 'Automation World'

As we continue to get news of the tragic events in Japan, I’m often sucked into the coverage with mentions of process control breakdowns (water cooling pump/valves) at these nuclear powers plants, a
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March 3, 2011

U.S. Manufacturing: Innovation or Bust

A recent news item on U.S. manufacturing, “ISM Factory Index Jumps to 60.8% in January,” touts manufacturing’s rebound for the last 18 months, and that’s the good news.
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News
 | March 1, 2011

Bosch Rexroth Signs On as ODVA Principal Member

Increased support from another well-known automation vendor provides additional momentum for EtherNet/IP and other networks based on the Common Industrial Protocol, or CIP.
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Feature Article
 | February 1, 2011

What’s New in Integrated Logic and Motion Control? Vendors Respond

As part of our research for the February 2011 feature story, “Control Vendors Put More in the Box,” Automation World posed a handful of questions via e-mail to vendors of integrated logic and motion
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News
 | February 1, 2011

India Defense Ministry Targets Local Manufacturers

Will the new Defense Production Policy make India a major defense manufacturing hub?
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Blog entry | January 18, 2011

Updated Planning/Manufacturing Software

New updates to the Tecnomatix 9 planning and manufacturing software offer advanced productivity for aerospace and defense industries, improved operator safety and simplified factory knowledge management.
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Blog entry | January 14, 2011

Feed Forward Blog: Lean And Mean Manufacturing

When I started my career in manufacturing lean was what I was at 150 lbs. and just-in-time was when I rolled into the drive as my wife was finishing dinner preparations. But I tried hard to do many of the things that Lean (or the Toyota Production System) systemized later or that just-in-time scheduling has done with automobile assembly.
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Column
 | January 6, 2011

Real-time Video Adds Fourth Dimension to HMI Software

It is important for the process and discrete manufacturing industries and automation suppliers alike to focus on tools that improve the interaction between systems and operators.
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News
 | January 6, 2011

European Automation: IOM and Siemens Italia Look Ahead

Innovation was a common theme at recent European conferences sponsored by automation majors Invensys Operations Management and Siemens.
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News
 | January 3, 2011

Teledyne to Acquire Dalsa for $342 Million

The acquisition of Dalsa, whose line includes industrial machine vision products, complements Teledyne’s existing digital imaging portfolio.
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Feature Article
 | November 5, 2010

Determinism: Don't Change A Thing

Ethernet has displaced many industrial networks over the past few years, as many users made the transition from a range of fieldbuses.
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October 1, 2010

Rugged, Touch Panel PCs

TPC-651H and TPC-1251H fanless touch panel computers come with an Intel Atom eMenlow XL processor, -20 ~ 60°C operating temperatures, and a front-sealed design providing advanced IP65 protection. 
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September 30, 2010

Best-in-class manufacturing ops

At Heineken South Africa and Microsoft Europe, efficiency-minded suppliers help make processing and packaging logical extensions of each other.
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Feature Article
 | August 4, 2010

Networking Factories: Peripheral Vision

Cameras and other peripherals are beginning to use Ethernet and TCP/IP protocol, accelerating the move toward flat, single-network architectures in factories.
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