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May 20, 2008  

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Hot: Hydraulics, controls drive new solar energy field

Wadsworth, OH – Powerful hydraulic actuators rotate and tilt solar collector assemblies as they track the sun’s motion in the desert sky over the new Nevada Solar One power plant (link to photos, videos). The actuators and attached controls make minor adjustments to...
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Controlled efficiency: Power controls; biodiesel process simulation; steel plant

Zurich, Switzerland, Plano, TX, and Kuopio, Finland – Automation technologies are helping power transmission and a bio-refinery and steel mill in the Baltic Sea, Sweden, and Finland, thanks to separate efforts from ABB, Invensys, and Honeywell. The technologies used are...
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Events: FPGAs, student skills at IMTS, micro-, nano sensor technologies

San Jose, CA, McLean, VA, and Rosemont, IL – Three upcoming events include a first-time summit on field-programmable gate arrays, a National Institute for Metalworking Skills student gathering at IMTS to help increase interest in machine tool technologies, and an all-day micro and nano-technology session at Sensors Expo. Events will be held...
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Manage your automation: Planning, upgrades, risk mitigation, support

Palatine, IL – Ever get the idea you are not optimizing your investment in automation? The Automation and Control Life Planning Process from Schneider Electric provides a structure and framework for making industrial system planning decisions consistent with a manufacturer's intentions for the future. Advice inherent in the program includes...
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Drives: Enhanced VFDs; NEMA 4X inverters

Uxbridge, MA – Higher power NEMA1 drives and better enclosures for inverters are among recent product introductions from Lenze-AC Tech. Photos show...
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In print: NIST...it's not just for calibration

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Commerce, supports calibration and measurements communities and technologies. These and other, perhaps unexpected, programs can help your organization by...
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