• Color screens: High-performance HMI with non-volatile alarm buffer
• HMIs: Pre-built tag databases, trend screens provide instant functionality
• Case history: Linux-to-ControlLogix solution uses OPC 'magic'
• Programming: Microbrewery illustrates PAC software uses, benefits
• Enterprise connectivity: IBM WebSphere Premises Server V6.1 software released
• Real-time systems: Time to set embedded hypervisor benchmarks
• In print: OPC, industrial control, mechatronic culinary arts
• Online headlines: How to keep a manufacturing job

Color screens: High-performance HMI with non-volatile alarm buffer

See what Siemens has added to a Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 T standard package to create a high-performance HMI.
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HMIs: Pre-built tag databases, trend screens provide instant functionality

InstantHMI for Watlow, an OEM version of Software Horizons' Instant HMI 5.0 software, allows the entire download-install-run process to take place in under 5 minutes.
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Case history: Linux-to-ControlLogix solution uses OPC 'magic'

"The possibilities that this opens up for real-time connections between PLCs and corporate data processing systems will bend your imagination," said TFT's Stewart McMillan.
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Programming: Microbrewery illustrates PAC software uses, benefits

Because PACs combine the features of more traditional automation technologies - programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCSs), remote terminal units (RTUs), and personal computers (PCs) - PAC programming methods may be new to some. An Opto22 whitepaper provides a quick tutorial.
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Enterprise connectivity: IBM WebSphere Premises Server V6.1 software released

Version 6.1 "significantly expands" the ability to act on RFID sensor events; 11 sensor vendors certified so far.
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Real-time systems: Time to set embedded hypervisor benchmarks

A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine (VM) manager, allows multiple operating systems or execution environments to run simultaneously on a single embedded processor. Find out how multi-core chips can benefit from virtual machine managers that are resource-miserly.
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In print: OPC, industrial control, mechatronic culinary arts

• March 2008 - OPC Foundation opens first Independent Certification Test Lab to validate OPC products
• March 2008 - The Culinary Art of Mechatronics
• March 2008 - Industrial control shipments finish strong in 2007
  

Online headlines: How to keep a manufacturing job

• PLCopen revives TC6 – XML for PLCs
• Bosch Rexroth IndraControl L10 PLC provides pre-developed machine functions and reusable code to reduce engineering time on complex machines.
• APICS offers five tips for keeping a manufacturing job
  

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New podcast: Windows in a Virtual-Machine Environment

Guarav Banga, CTO of Phoenix Technology, talks about how Microsoft's change in its Vista user license agreement affects virtualization.
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