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The Secret to Improving Your Business Performance: Totally Integrated Automation
 Factory automation systems have evolved from the islands of automation of the 1980s to integrated control systems of today. Only Totally Integrated Automation from Siemens takes integration to a new level with a suite of automation products that use core intelligence from the inside out to fit together seamlessly.
While many automation companies provide products that control individual parts of the manufacturing process, and a few have stitched many such products into systems that span the entire process, only Totally Integrated Automation (TIA ) goes from shop floor to top floor with a completely harmonized homogeneous architecture. Instead of just piecing together system components from the outside in by building bridges between existing automation islands as most integrated control systems claim, TIA is designed from the inside out beginning with core intelligence built into modules at the machine-automation level, and carried consistently through the plant-wide automation system to achieve complete, seamless integration.
TIA doesn't just link together parts of a manufacturing process, it goes further by linking together automation components inside each machine module, such as by providing a transparent link from the I/O device, to the I/O card, to the device network, to the Controllers, to the HMI. By carrying such standards consistently out to the highest automation levels, TIA doesn't just link islands of automation, it eliminates them, making the resulting automation a homogeneous system engineered in a single software environment instead of a patchwork of hardware and software packages
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Solar Panel Assembly Made Easy
 Precision manufacturing is key to producing weather-resistant solar panels. Integrated motion and control systems from Siemens provide the needed accuracy and performance.
A market growing at 45 percent per year looks like a good bet to get into. According to Mike Taylor, director of research and education, Solar Electric Power Association, the solar photovoltaic for electric generation market has been on that slope for the past three years. No wonder automation companies are developing solutions for the solar panel market.
Taylor says that Europe has been the photovoltaic leader, but that the U.S. market is rapidly developing. Putting to rest the myth that solar implementations require never-ending sun, the current market leader is Germany—not exactly a sunny country. Spain follows, with the United States third in market size... Read more
Hanover Fair Showcases “Energy Mix of the Future”
 The world's largest industrial technology show, held annually in Hannover, Germany, highlights thirteen flagship fairs, including the debut of the “Wind“ fair. Energy efficiency, renewables and cost efficiency are recurrent themes throughout.
Hannover Messe 2009 (or Hanover Fair, as it's commonly referred to in the U.S.) was held April 20-24 in Hannover, Germany, serving as the world's largest gathering of industry professionals, exhibitors, industry organizations and nations. “Leading personalities from science and industry come together in Hannover in order to present technologies,” said Dr. Willi Fuchs, Director of the Association of German Engineers (VDI)
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