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Video SCADA Partnership
HMI | February 6, 2012

Industrial Video and Control Acquires Longwatch Technology

Two companies focused on combining video with industrial automation join forces to expand use of “video MES” and other HMI SCADA technologies.
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Robotics | February 3, 2012

Adept Technology Opens Office in China

Adept Technology expands global sales strategy with the opening of its first subsidiary in China.
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Schneider Growing
Finance | February 1, 2012

Schneider Electric Adds To Drives Sales Force

Addition of 10 experienced automation and control sales organizations will achieve customer service; expand sales coverage.
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Acquires RuggedCom
Mergers & Acquisitions | January 31, 2012

Siemens Acquires RuggedCom to Expand Ethernet Presence in Manufacturing

Siemens has entered into an agreement with RuggedCom Inc. to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of RuggedCom by way of a friendly, board-supported takeover bid.
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Growth for Manufacturers
Manufacturing | January 30, 2012

U.S. Industrial Manufacturers Expect Moderate Growth in 2012

According to PwC’s Q4 2011 Manufacturing Barometer, positive own-company revenue forecasts and improving gross margins drive increased optimism for U.S.
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Another Acquisition
Machine Control | January 30, 2012

ABB To Acquire Thomas & Betts

ABB to acquire Thomas & Betts for $3.9billion with intent to become major player in North American low-voltage products market.
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Urso on Innovation
I/O | January 27, 2012

Innovation Expectations: Universal I/O, Security, Integration

Honeywell Process Solutions Chief Technology Officer Jason Urso offers his take on three areas of automation technology in which he expects to see significant levels of automation in the coming years.
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Smaller Form Factor
PAC | January 23, 2012

Controller Software Brings Scalability to Smaller Form Factor PACs

Rockwell Automation promoted its increased scalability in controllers during last November’s Automation Fair. Now the controller software is catching up with the hardware.
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New Certification Program
Robotics | January 21, 2012

Robotics Industry Forum Paints a Bright Picture for 2012

Held in Orlando, Fla.
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Control Trends
Automation Team | January 20, 2012

Object-Oriented Programming in Automation

Users are advised to get on board with object-oriented programming sooner rather than later, because OOP is the future.
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Italian Automation
Industry Trends | January 20, 2012

Italian Machine Markets: 2011 Recap

Packaging machinery and machine tools both showed good growth in 2011, boding well for Italian automation markets in 2012.
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WinSystems Celebrates Thirty
Industrial PCs | January 19, 2012

WinSystems Celebrates 30 Years in Small Form Factor, Embedded Board Market

The embedded computing market is a tough one that has experienced much consolidation. But Arlington, Texas-based WinSystems bucked the trend announcing its 30th anniversary in January 2012.
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Motion Control | January 10, 2012

Motion Control Vendor Lenze Expands in U.S.

A 100,000 sq. ft. Mechanical Product Assembly & Logistics Center will bring up to 40 skilled jobs to the area.
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Robotics Firm Expands
Robotics | January 10, 2012

Robotics Peripheral Maker Expands

ATI will more than double current manufacturing and inventory capacity and hire 50 new employees.
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Wind Energy Research
Maintenance | January 10, 2012

GE Software Powers IIT Wind Energy Research

Goal of project is to illustrate how advanced and automated predictive diagnostics can improve the availability, reliability and cost performance of wind power generation.
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