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Feature Article
 | November 5, 2010

Networking: Determined To Improve Precision

Deterministic networks synchronize movement so that rapid processes can maintain accuracy.
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Product
 | November 4, 2010

Ultrahigh-temperature UPS

UL Listed for operation up to 65ºC, the SSG Series ultra-high temperature, double conversion, online UPS family has been specifically designed to withstand temperature environments that would destro
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November 4, 2010

Readers Rate Service Support

An Automation World survey on user satisfaction levels for both hardware and software support produced results that surprised some automation suppliers.
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November 4, 2010

Get It All Together For Plant Asset Optimization

Once limited in practice just to maintenance scheduling, asset management today requires a holistic view of the plant and all of its information in order to improve return on assets.
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Jim Pinto
November 3, 2010

Swim Upstream in a Down Market

Today, U.S. automation businesses seem to be focusing on foreign markets, while waiting for growth to trickle down from a domestic market upturn.
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October 26, 2010

High resolution Ethernet IP encoders

EVM58 Ethernet IP encoders from Pepperl+Fuchs come with up to 25 bit resolution and provide highly-accurate machine position or velocity feedback via industry-standard Ethernet/IP interface.
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October 1, 2010

Handheld Scanner Breaks Ground

As the next-generation DataMan handheld industrial ID scanner, the DataMan 8000 Series is designed for the factory floor. 
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October 1, 2010

Diaphragm Withstands Pulverized Coal

The 2600T series pressure transmitter with a specially coated diaphragm directly measures pressures of pulverized coal, eliminating the need for long sensing lines. 
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October 1, 2010

Flowmeter Adds Profibus, DTM

The FlexMasster ST98 Flow Meter Series now meets the Profibus-DP/-PA standards. 
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October 1, 2010

Robust Networks Become Essential To Running Plants

Control and Information Technology have become collaborative partners—like it or not—as industrial networks bring efficiency to plants.
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October 1, 2010

The Wisdom of Wireless

More engineers install wireless networks.
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October 1, 2010

Industry View: Adding Value to Industrial Ethernet Switches

At a base level, managed switches are necessary to provide the redundancy required for high-availability manufacturing applications.
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Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief
October 1, 2010

Both Sides of Innovation

“I’ve looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow, it’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know life, at all,” sang Joni Mitchell in the ’60s.
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October 1, 2010

Pulp & Paper Red Ink Turning Black

If someone said that the North American pulp-and-paper industry now plays catch-up with its South American and Asian counterparts, that would be understatement.
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October 1, 2010

Defending Against the Next Stuxnet

Experts agree that defense in depth is the best approach to guard against future cyber attacks targeting industrial control system networks.
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September 30, 2010

Best-in-class manufacturing ops

At Heineken South Africa and Microsoft Europe, efficiency-minded suppliers help make processing and packaging logical extensions of each other.
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September 30, 2010

Teaching retorts how to communicate

Operations management in all types of manufacturing is under constant pressure to continually achieve efficiency improvements.
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Product
 | September 2, 2010

Digitize Ingredient Preparation

The Proficy Accelerator Solution for weighing operations is said to digitize preparation and recording, decrease variation and improve product safety and quality in food, beverage and life science man
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Feature Article
 | September 2, 2010

Vision System Helps Ensure Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Safety

To meet increasingly stringent automatic identification requirements, this pharmaceutical packager turned to camera-based code scanners to ensure correct packaging.
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September 2, 2010

Rugged, Dual-core PoE Vision

The EOS-1000 is billed as the industry’s first compact vision system based on the Intel Core2 Duo P8400 processor. 
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