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News - Rockwell addresses health and safety with show appearance (18 August 2010)
Rockwell Automation is highlighting services, software and hardware, that will help plant and machinery designers tackle safety legislation, ahead of Health+Safety 10. The UK show, held in Bolton, October 13 to 14, is part of a series of regional exhibitions covering the health and safety arena....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell Automation bolsters development tool (16 August 2010)
Rockwell Automation has incorporated the latest changes in the ISA-88 standard into its Power Programming version 4 development tool. This covers the inclusion of OMAC (Organisation for Machine Automation and Control) PackML guidelines....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell gets TÜV thumbs up for e-stop buttons (27 July 2010)
Rockwell Automation has earned TÜV certification for the B10d Functional Safety rating on all styles of Allen-Bradley emergency-stop push buttons. The certification shores up the company’s claims that its e-stop components bolster worker safety and increase productivity....FULL STORY

Features - Cadalec scoops overseas project with PICS capability (29 April 2010)
When tendering for a large overseas project UK based control system specialist, Cadalec noted that the specification required the application to be simulated using PICS software. Cadalec had recently upgraded its PICS software from HardwarePT, placing them in a comfortable position to deliver a project with high efficiency and reduced costs....FULL STORY

Features - Liquids manufacture gets automation boost (29 January 2010)
PZ Cussons, the company behind household brands such as Original Source, Imperial Leather and Carex, has built a new liquids manufacturing facility in Manchester. Endress+Hauser’s FieldCare software was implemented to maintain and configure the army of instrumentation installed at the plant....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell Automation sponsors release of open-source software stack (08 December 2009)
Open-source EtherNet/IP communication stack developed by the Vienna University of Technology cost effectively connects I/O devices....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell Automation and Eplan in software deal (12 November 2009)
New interface from Rockwell Automation and Eplan Software & Services will make Eplan Electric P8 electrical design software available in RSLogix, allowing electrical engineers, control hardware engineers and software programmers to automatically synchronise controls configuration data....FULL STORY

Features - Machine building: Flexibility is silver bullet for packaging machine design (12 May 2009)
Predictive maintenance, online parts ordering, energy monitoring are information metrics moving to the operator level or machine level. ...FULL STORY

News - ‘Integrated Architecture’ system expands (11 March 2009)
Rockwell Automation says it has added more than 30 new capabilities its ‘Integrated Architecture System’ for advanced process control, midrange machine builders, safety and IT convergence solutions. ...FULL STORY

News - Rockwell joins forces with ProLeiT (09 March 2009)
Rockwell Automation’s recent global agreement with ProLeiT AG targets brewing, dairy and related industries, offering them faster start-up and commissioning of application in an open architecture development environment. The agreement allows ProLeiT to more tightly integrate its Plant iT industry solution with the Rockwell Automation Logix Control Platform. ...FULL STORY

News - CIP networks: 24 V dc power with Ethernet specification expected in April (06 March 2009)
End-users can face incompatibility when designing and deploying 24V auxiliary power on the factory floor. In response, ODVA, keeper of the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) network, is creating a 24 V dc 'Power with Ethernet' specification to help power e-stops, I/O sources and devices, actuators, and controllers....FULL STORY

Features - Robot Roundup (06 January 2009)
‘Original equipment manufacturers are starting to run robotics with off-the-shelf controls and even large robot manufacturers are adopting the use of embedded nonproprietary software,’ says Dan Throne, sales and marketing manager, Bosch Rexroth Corp, Electric Drives and Controls. ...FULL STORY

News - Rockwell unveils PowerFlex 755 (26 November 2008)
Rockwell Automation has reacted to changing global standards and certifications with the launch of a new AC drive. The PowerFlex 755 AC is the first model to be released from the Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 750 series and incorporates new safety functions and features designed to boost integration....FULL STORY

News - FDI achievement result of co-operation with process control suppliers (14 November 2008)
The FDI (Field Device Integration) team has completed the draft architecture and inventory of use case analysis, describing the achievements as a milestone. The Steering Committee of the EDDL Co-operation Team has worked closely with the FDT Group to advance a common solution for field device integration....FULL STORY

Sponsored content - Fieldbus Facts October 2008 (14 November 2008)
The newly established Fieldbus Foundation Central and Eastern European Marketing Committee (FFCEEMC) will seek to increase awareness and adoption of FOUNDATION technology throughout the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region through end user-focused activities such as training, technical support, trade show participation, and seminars, the Fieldbus Foundation announced recently. ...FULL STORY

Features - Upgrading Control: Migration or Evolution? (12 September 2008)
When a process control platform needs upgrading, the answer can be an incremental change, a system-wide rip and replace, or anything in between. Users have more options than ever....FULL STORY

News - Fieldbus Foundation: Better Device Descriptions, Device Coupler Test Spec, board member (08 August 2008)
Fieldbus Foundation has streamlined fieldbus development for device and system suppliers by enhancing its Device Descriptions (DD). In separate announcements, the organisation released the final Device Coupler Test Specification and named a DuPont executive to its board. ...FULL STORY

Features - Safety reference resources, standards, CD, white paper (15 July 2008)
As ISA is offering a CD full of process safety references, Rockwell Automation offers a new white paper examining the holistic approach to safety. ...FULL STORY

Features - Dairy Farmers of Britain meets demanding contracts (26 June 2008)
Dairy Farmers of Britain has completed an £850,000 (€1 million) bulk storage project, in an effort to meet the demands of supermarket contracts. ...FULL STORY

News - Webcasts: Networks, cultures converge; plant-floor networking; how to work with IT (25 June 2008)
Based on knowledge of manufacturing and IT cultures, Rockwell Automation and Cisco are holding a series of educational seminars to help organisations implement change by establishing best practices between IT and manufacturing. ...FULL STORY

Features - Rockwell announces process strategy (08 May 2008)
Rockwell Automation has been very busy over the last year with acquisitions of ICSTriplex, ProsCon and Pavilion. The company recently outlined its strategy behind the purchases and how it felt the new additions had bolstered its process portfolio....FULL STORY

Features - Industrial motors: more torque, more integration (06 May 2008)
Makers of industrial motors are quick to adapt their products to the needs of manufacturing. In this article we look at direct-drive, permanent-magnet (PM) 'torque motors,' so called 'integrated' motors where the drive is combined with the motor, servo motors large and small, and an extra rugged duty AC motor designed for the harshest environments in process automation....FULL STORY

Features - Linux to ControlLogix solution uses OPC (17 April 2008)
‘If you’ve watched a plane be deiced, you’ve probably seen a Task Force Tips (TFT) product in action,’ said president Stewart McMillan. TFT makes water delivery solutions – nozzles, hoses and valves – for clients worldwide including firefighters and aerospace firms. ...FULL STORY

Features - Washing eggs with fuzzy logic (18 March 2008)
Arriving at a solution sometimes comes from learning a different way to express the problem. Fuzzy logic has been around for more than forty years, so it isn’t anything new to the controls community. ...FULL STORY

White papers - Rockwell Automation : Process Solutions (17 January 2008)
White paper and literature downloads, brought to you by Rockwell Automation...FULL STORY

News - Premier Power boosts compressor control (16 January 2008)
Premier Power has installed a SCADA solution to monitor compressor status in the control room of its gas-fired electricity generating station B at Ballylumford, Northern Ireland....FULL STORY

Features - Condition Monitoring: Some Economic Issues (01 September 2007)
New ways to gather information, such as wireless networking, plus information integration are helping users avoid costly downtime on their equipment....FULL STORY

News - Schneider ramps up participation with ODVA (20 April 2007)
Schneider Electric has upped its involvement to become a principle member of ODVA, joining Cisco Systems, Eaton Electrical, Omron Corporation and Rockwell Automation....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell buys ProsCon (22 February 2007)
Rockwell Automation, on 1 February 2007, acquired Ireland-based engineering company, ProsCon Holdings....FULL STORY

News - Rockwell adds family to switch range (06 December 2006)
Rockwell Automation claims to boost machine safety with a family of coded non-contact switches....FULL STORY