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 Video | July 18, 2011

Video: Editor Gary Mintchell on our September edition

Watch and listen to this short video on what's coming in the September issue of Automation World. AW editors present the latest information on enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI), workflow, and working with EPCs. Also in this issue is our popular Packaging Automation Review.
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News
 | July 13, 2011

Invensys Operations Management Selected as Microsoft Industry Partner of the Year

The award recognizes Invensys Operations Management for excellence and innovation in using Microsoft-based solutions to help its manufacturing and infrastructure management customers achieve ope
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Blog entry | July 13, 2011

Automation: Demand Healthy but Softening on Tougher Comps, Optimistic on 2H1

Mark Douglass, Sr. Equity Analyst of Longbow Research, follows a number of companies who are in the industrial automation space. Here is his latest report. Overall an optimistic report.
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Product
 | June 30, 2011

40mm Brushless Motor

This 40mm brushless motor is appropriate for industrial applications, logistics equipment, mobile robotics and packaging machinery.
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News
 | June 30, 2011

Accelerated Automation Use In India Is Needed

While China has rapidly closed the gap in skills development and industrial deployment of highly automated process, India lags behind in addressing the low GDP 'per hour worked' ranking, cau
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Column
 | June 28, 2011

Fighting Fake Drugs in Africa

Pharmaceutical manufacturers May & Baker Nigeria PLC and KAMA Group of Ghana are using track and trace technology to enable people in Nigeria and Ghana to check the authenticity of their malaria
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Perspective
 | June 28, 2011

Pulp and Paper: Lean Manufacturing Leads to Opportunities

Yes, emerging technologies exist in the North American pulp-and-paper product arena.
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President Barack Obama calls on industry, universities and the federal government to together invest in emerging technologies th
News
 | June 27, 2011

Obama Administration Supports Advanced Manufacturing

With support of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition, President Obama calls on industry, universities and the federal government to together invest in emerging technologies that will enhance
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Blog entry | June 16, 2011

Energy Efficiency: New Variable Speed Drives

The A1000 variable speed drive offers a multi-language LCD display, parameter storage, application presets and a portable USB copy unit.
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Frank Kulaszewicz, Vice President Architecture and Software
June 15, 2011

RSTechED 2011 Event Invites Innovation

Rockwell Automation's annual educational event, RSTechED 2011, began on June 12 in Orlando, Fla.
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David Greenfield, Media and Event Director, Automation World
June 6, 2011

B2B Industry Journalist David Greenfield Joins Automation World

Well-known industrial automation and control editor David Greenfield has joined Summit Media Group’s Automation World magazine as Media and Event Director.  
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Case Application
 | June 1, 2011

Case Packing: Robot Rescues Crew from Heavy Loads

The three-person crew manning end-of-line-packaging operations at the Recochem Consumer Packaging Division (Canada) plant in Edmonton, Alberta, were being pushed to the limit as they struggled to keep
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Feature Article
 | June 1, 2011

Packaging Robots: More Than Just Brawn

What’s ahead for robotic packaging systems? A simplified, more integrated and more economical control architecture, plus a more sophisticated approach toward sensing.
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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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Product
 | 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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