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
First-day announcements from the annual Siemens Automation Summit user conference include a new blog and touring demonstration vehicle highlighting Siemens process instrumentation and analytics prod
ARC’s workshop on Anti-Counterfeiting and Brand Protection (ABP) at our 15th Annual World Industry Forum in Orlando last February brought together executives from a wide cross section of manufacturi
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
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
At the IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Network & RTLS Summit, held in Munich, Germany on June 21-22, Dust Networks served up a demo with all network nodes running on energy harvested from different dev
Global power generation supplier GE Energy, a unit of General Electric Corp. headquartered in Atlanta, announced that it has established in Saudi Arabia a new 10,000 sq. m.
The 36th iteration of the Honeywell User Group (HUG) Conference kicked off yesterday with over 1,000 people in attendance. This is up significantly over the past couple of years—getting back to 2007 levels. And the energy in the demo room when I got there after lunch was also very high.
France-based, Schneider Electric SA, agrees to buy China-based Leader Harvest Power Technologies Holdings Ltd. and Televant, a Spain-based IT solutions provider.
Last week I had little time to post because I was in company meetings for several days and then I flew to Budapest. Wednesday we will tour an Audi plant and Thursday I will receive my annual update from Festo. Home Friday, then Sunday it is off to Phoenix and the Honeywell User Group.
Building and improving on the design of the company’s Sirius Power Control products, the Innovations line offers performance increases across the S00 (16A up to 10hp) and S0 (40A up to 30 hp) frames
First quarter (1Q) net profit for ABB Ltd (India), the Indian unit of Swiss engineering major ABB, surged about nine-fold from a year ago, driven by short-cycle orders in the automation segment.