Control Systems

The SECHE Group and its subsidiary TREDI have chosen ARC Informatique´s PcVue to set the future standard for its plants, including household and industrial waste incineration plants, and biogas power plants. Since its first deployment in 2005, it can now be found in 16 plants and workshops, representing more than 500,000 variables being processed, applied and logged by PcVue.

SolutionsPT announces that its new Versiondog dedicated website has now being launched: www.versiondog.co.uk, www.versiondog.ie . Since its appointment earlier this year by Auvesy GmbH & Co KG of Landau, Germany, SolutionsPT has been engaged in the preparation of a comprehensive launch program and service portfolio that will have immediate impact for its many customers.

Ethernet Direct Corporation, a professional and primary provider of industrial networking and communication solutions, is pleased to share an application of industrial-grade wireless access point in wildlife monitoring in Mexico.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that both its CapSense® capacitive touch controllers and TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers are now available in tiny Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packages (WLCSPs). These ultra-small packages enable manufacturers of personal media players, mobile handsets, PC peripherals (printers & mice), and other consumer electronic products to offer end products that are smaller and more attractive to consumers. A photo of the devices is available at www.cypress.com/go/wlcsp_photo.com.

SyTech Inc., advancing the technology of production reporting and data analysis software, today announced the Team edition of the XLReporter product family. This edition is unprecedented reporting software that marries the most popular reporting product, Microsoft Excel, with the leading historians in the automation industry, resulting in easy-to-grasp reports from anywhere in the organization, while maintaining individualized security.

Measurement Computing Corporation’s (MCC) USB-2500 Series of high-speed multifunction OEM boards are available from Adept Scientific . The USB-2500 Series are multifunction measurement and control boards designed for OEM or embedded applications; each board is supported under the popular Microsoft Windows® operating systems.

IDC is providing optimum interface capabilities for its ZigBee range of wireless mesh products, with the launch of its ZB104 Ethernet Gateway. Designed for use in logistics, warehouse distribution, manufacturing and medical sectors, the ZB104 is a dual function device, which acts as the central co-ordinator for a network of ZigBee devices; it also transfers data to and from the wireless network over Ethernet.

Scaling, fouling and oxidation are the natural enemies of reverse osmosis (RO) systems in water processing units—especially in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Proper process monitoring and control of critical parameters, such as pH, ORP, conductivity, flow, temperature and differential pressure can provide advanced warning and protection of a scaling, fouling or chemically attacked RO element. If these early warnings are ignored, the membrane may be damaged beyond the point that chemical cleaning can restore the system back to its original operating efficiency.

Rittal and Microsoft partnership shows that when two giants of the data centre start working together how real energy savings and business efficiency can be achieved. This is made possible by the interplay of RiZone, Rittal's new management software for the IT infrastructure and Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).

Concrete Equipment Company (CON-E-CO) is the first OEM to standardise on the new Baldor-Dodge Motorized Torque-Arm II (MTA) shaft-mounted speed reducer, receiving the first units as they came off the assembly line.