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The summit will provide engineering and operational professionals, automation and operations management and senior-level executives with end-user learning opportunities covering the complete spectrum of automation.

The question is not what the process industries are trying to accomplish by means of industrial automation. But rather, “As you drive performance by opening up data and collaboration, how do you ensure cyber-security?” said Patricia T. Sperrell of Exxon Mobil, speaking at ARC Advisory Group’s World Industry Forum, held this week in Orlando.

The report, titled “Automation Expenditures for Food and Beverage Worldwide Outlook,” examines the market for automation products and systems in food and beverage products and ingredients manufacturing.

The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is working with one of the world's biggest mining companies, UK-based Anglo American plc, on the development of innovative robotic technologies for mining.

“R&D today isn’t about white coats. It’s about working with customers,” Ashish Kulkarni, Dallas-based Celanese Corp.’s recently appointed chief technology and innovation officer, says. But, Kulkarni adds, you need to go beyond the bromide of “listening to your customer.”

Intelligent Marshalling from Houston, Texas-based Invensys Operations Management can eliminate process field rewiring and, indeed, the need for marshalling cabinets entirely. Furthermore, Intelligent Marshalling breaks the dependency between control system design and I/O subsystem installation, says the company.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – ASCO Numatics, a manufacturer of fluid automation, flow control, and pneumatics solutions, has announced the recipients of the 2012 ASCO Numatics Industrial Automation Engineering Scholarship.

Zontec Inc., a developer of Statistical Process Control (SPC) software solutions, has announced an update to its Synergy 2000™ Multi-function Toolbox. The Multi-function Toolbox automatically collects data in real-time

Yokogawa Electric Corp.’s FAST/TOOLS® SCADA web-based real-time management and visualization software suite delivers a comprehensive solution that brings together the company’s process management infrastructure, expertise and ecosystem support for

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced updates to its DesignMATE software tool, a software download that allows plant automation professionals to audit segment layouts. The updates cover DesignMATE''s library of