• Awards: Wonderware applauds users of winning applications
• Laboratory integration: OPC Analyzer Devices Integration draft specification to be released
• Project management: CAD /project management integration
• Data integration: GE Fanuc provides context and ease of access with DataMart tool
• Acquisitions: Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Christensen Display Products
• Text messaging: Display panel has built in functions, diagnostics
• Embedded automation: Compact computer supports multiple operating systems
• In print: Automation/Ethernet at Disney; multivariable controllers; negotiating contracts
• Online headlines: Embedded control news; automation alliances; be glad you're a controls engineer!

Awards: Wonderware applauds users of winning applications

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, announced the North American winners of its annual Wonderware Open 2008 competition, which recognizes innovative industrial applications in four categories: best SCADA application, HMI application, enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) application, and manufacturing execution system (MES) application. Congratulate the winners, which included a water/wastewater agency, a brewery, an electric utility and a materials manufacturer.
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Laboratory integration: OPC Foundation to release OPC Analyzer Devices Integration draft specification

OPC Foundation members representing both process analytical technology (PAT) and laboratory industries are developing a logical extension of the OPC UA specifications that will enable multivendor interoperability for analyzer devices. Progress has been made on the goals of a common method for data exchange, and a data model for process and laboratory analyzers. OPC Foundation says it will release the OPC Analyzer Devices Integration (ADI) draft specification for review December 2008. Find out what pharmaceutical users say are the benefits...
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Project management: CAD /project management integration supports distributed engineering

Clarizen is offering a software plug in for use with Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks mechanical CAD software that lets distributed design and engineering teams manage and track a project's progress within their own CAD tools. No separate project management software is needed. The $25 subscription-based software...
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Data integration: GE Fanuc provides context and ease of access with DataMart tool

Is yours a multi-site facility that is data rich but information poor? If you're a user of GE Fanuc's Proficy production management software, you now have a tool that scoops up data for you and presents it in logical views to the users who need it. The new Proficy DataMart enterprise software application automatically aggregates and delivers plant-to-plant data for performance benchmarking and analysis.
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Acquisitions: Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Christensen Display Products

Adding to its product portfolio of industrial monitors and PCs for hazardous locations, Pepperl+Fuchs has acquired Christensen Display Products. The Preston, WA, maker of ruggedized, flat-panel monitors for the process and industrial control markets brings more than 200 models to Pepperl+Fuchs, which expects to strengthen its purge/pressurization systems offerings through the move.
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Text messaging: Display panel has built in functions, diagnostics

A text ticker feature that can scroll up to a 24-character text message horizontally across the screen is one of the attributes of the new LOGO! TD text display panel from Siemens Energy & Automation. The unit is designed for migrating a basic hardwired control design (pushbutton/pilot devices, rotary timers, counters, and cube relays) to a programmable controller, and has other built-in operator functions including...
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Embedded automation: Compact computer supports multiple operating systems

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the UNO-1150, an AMD GX2 400 MHz embedded automation computer. Compact to help save space, front-accessible for easy wiring, and DIN-rail-designed for easy installation, the unit supports multiple operating systems, including Windows XP Embedded, WinCE 6.0, and embedded Linux. See picture.
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In print: Automation/Ethernet at Disney; multivariable controllers; negotiating contracts

• Automation and Ethernet Combine for 3D Disney Attraction
• Legalities: Negotiating 'take it or leave it' contracts
• Basics: Multivariable controllers balance competing objectives
  

Online headlines: Embedded control news; automation alliances; be glad you're a controls engineer!

• Embedded news: PLCs in Asia, Linux, Intel Atom, COM Express module
• Employment: Be glad you’re a controls engineer!
• Automation Alliance Group adds Omnicon, MES, motion integration
  

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