Boulder Imaging (www.boulderimaging.com) exhibited at the Assembly and Automation Technology Expo in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 20-22, 2011, and stressed its precision inspection capabilities for a wide range of applications, including process control, assembly and print/web inspections.

At the Assembly and Automation Technology Expo, Michael Szesterniak, Product Manager, Linear Mechanics, Parker Hannifin, demos the features of the newly released rod-less actuator. (Approximate Time: 2:04).

Automation Vendor Opto22 (www.opto22.com) and eSight Energy Inc.

David Greenfield, Media and Events Director, Automation World, interviews Igor Valuyev, Chief Electrical and Automation Engineer, New Belgium Brewery, about their cascading PID loops, process water treatment, the control system and the wireless architecture at the Fort Collins brewery.

Watch and listen to this short video on what's coming in the October issue of Automation World. AW editors present the latest information on Internet of Things (M2M), wireless sensor network standards and markup languages in manufacturing.

Automation World covered last week's user conference, NI Week 2011, in Austin, Tex. Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses the large turnout, 25 years of LabView, multicore and FPGA parallel programming with LabView and dataflow programming, and NI's growth into a big company.

Mauro Capetti, engineer at ImagingLab SRL, demonstrates a robotic vision application at NI Week 2011. (Approximate Time: 1:40).

Christian Fritz, senior product manager, advanced machine control & robotics, National Instruments, demos an industrial controller connected to two drives/motors. (Approximate Time: 1:05).

Christian Fritz, senior product manager, advanced machine control & robotics, National Instruments, describes the technology behind the pick-and-place robot. (Approximate time: 1:06).