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The prototype turbine generator from Deprag Schulz is made from a microexpansion turbine with an electrical generator.
News
 | June 27, 2011

Turbine Generator Captures and Re-uses Wasted Energy

As part of a growing trend across industry to make good use of excess energy created by industrial processes, Deprag Schulz has developed a turbine generator to capture small amounts of residual ene
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News
 | June 22, 2011

Manufacturing Disinvestment in China?

(Posted on June 8, 2011) Chinese wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year. That and other factors are helping U.S. states better compete for manufacturing jobs, according to analysts. 
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Using MakerBot's Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, the infrared camera bar from a Microsoft Kinect system and software he wrote himself,
June 21, 2011

It's Summertime, and the Automation is DIY

Modern and historic automation entertains the masses as hundreds get their geek on at Maker Faire 2011 in California.
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News
 | June 20, 2011

Embedded Vision Alliance Enables 'Machines That See'

New industry-wide initiative will empower engineers with practical information, know-how, and standards for adding computer vision capabilities to their products 
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Blog entry | June 3, 2011

OEM: Micro Controllers Deliver Power

Hitting a sweet spot for stand-alone machine applications with fewer than 48 I/Os, the new family of controllers offers quick programming and reduced installation time.
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Product
 | 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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Column
 | June 1, 2011

Quantitative Easing: What’s On the Horizon for Manufacturing

It may simply be time for the market to take a breather from what has been an exhilarating run up. Total manufacturing employment for the past 12 months is 0.1 percent above last year.
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News
 | June 1, 2011

Microsoft ERP Software Combines Discrete, Lean, Process Manufacturing

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 includes pre-built capabilities for five industries, and is said to simplify operations while increasing flexibility.
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June 1, 2011

Is Your Enterprise a "Cloud Liver"

I was listening to a recent This Week in Google podcast, a show completely devoted to the cloud, and Jeff Jarvis, blogger, BuzzMachine.com, remarked about “cloud livers.” I did an audio double take.
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News
 | June 1, 2011

First Registered Hosts with Fieldbus Foundation Host Profile “61b” Named

Fieldbus Foundation says Emerson and General Electric hosts passed tests for support of the new mandatory host profile for field diagnostics.
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Product
 | 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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Product
 | June 1, 2011

Safety Input/Output Modules

SafetyBridge I/O modules expand the company’s SafetyBridge system, which can be implemented using any automation network.
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Product
 | June 1, 2011

Embedded PLCs with Ethernet

The FMD88-10 and the FMD1616-10 are Ethernet-equipped programmable logic controllers (PLCs) for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
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Through Augusta, LMI can expand distribution channels for its Gocator 3D measurement sensor.
News
 | June 1, 2011

Machine Vision Merger: LMI Joins Augusta

LMI Technologies, a Vancouver, B.C., Canada maker of 3D laser measurement sensors for industrial measurement and control applications (www.lmi3d.com), has sold 100 percent of its shares to join August
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Column
 | 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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