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April 29, 2008  

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End users: Ethernet, safety topics debated at Hannover Fair

Hannover, Germany – Industrial Ethernet technologies, plant safety issues, and related trends were covered in panel discussions at Hannover Fair. End users and other attendees interacted with a variety of global industry representatives. Customer requirements include....
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Embedded trends: Multicore chips see greater use

San Jose, CA – Multicore embedded computing was a major development at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, held April 14-18 in San Jose. While multi-core and multiprocessor computers and chips have been out for several years, it is only recently that companies have started developing software that can really put it to good use in....
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Interoperability, OPC: Helping to glue everything together

Dayton, OH – Interoperable? You bet. With hopeful tone, OPC Foundation's Tom Burke says, "It's all gelling. And it's not just OPC anymore. We don’t need to compete, just work together to get standards adopted." That idea’s going to be particularly useful as distributed control systems, programmable automation systems, PLCs, embedded controllers, PCs and enterprise systems continue to expand into each others' worlds. But how?
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ABB: User conference, exhibition, flow, SCADA, wireless

Houston, TX – Users and specifiers of process, plant and utility automation equipment, software and services gathered here April 29-May 1 to discuss successes, business challenges, and technologies with ABB representatives and others at the ABB Automation World 2008 Users' Conference and Exhibition. SCADA, wireless, flow, and analyzer technologies....
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GE Fanuc: Proficy applications; Quick Panel View; software agreement

Foxboro, MA – GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announced version 4.4 of Proficy Plant Applications, added KEPServerEX and drivers into Proficy Machine Edition View software, and agreed to resell the Catapult Software iPower product as a Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX option.
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In print: Energy projects head Europe's green activities

Currently under construction in one of the sunniest parts of Spain, the desert-like heights of the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia, Andasol will be the largest solar energy plant in Europe when completed in 2009. It will produce about 350 GW-hr of electricity per year, enough to power 100,000 Spanish households. The technology captures....
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