Around the Industry

Pump and mixer manufacturer Landia won the coveted prize for Technical Innovation at the 2009 Food Processing Awards, now in its 25th year.

Parker Hannifin has announced an agreement with Nabtesco Corporation of Japan to market and sell Nabtesco's range of advanced air dryers for use in commercial vehicles. These dryers are used in compressed air systems to improve the performance and safety of air braking units, and to reduce operators’ maintenance costs.

A second standard in the ISA99 series Security for Industrial Automation and Control Systems has been approved by the American National Standards Institute and may be obtained at www.isa.org/standards.

Ethernet Direct Corporation is pleased to announce a new product offerings and online learning to assist engineers to increase technical knowledge in Industrial Ethernet through an automated and user-friendly learning platform called EDUCATIONAL LINK.

Frequency products manufacturer IQD has signed a new distribution agreement with Easby Electronics. We can now offer our customers IQD’s comprehensive range of frequency control products through out the UK.

Hayward Tyler Ltd, a leading manufacturer of pumps and motors for the power and oil and gas industries, has won a British Business Award 2008 for its work in China.

Pilz has published a new booklet outlining its machinery safety training courses and the schedule for January to June 2009.

The Wireless Standards for Industrial Automation committee, ISA100, held an important meeting 13-15 January at the NASA Ames Research facility in Mountain View, California. The meeting began with an opening plenary session, attended by 75 people. Co-chair Patrick Schweitzer of ExxonMobil opened the session with an expression of ExxonMobil’s commitment to the ISA100 standards development process.

Design Automation is a popular topic at this year's SolidWorks World and several of the sessions feature DriveWorksXpress and DriveWorks

Altair today unveiled Personal PBS, a free turnkey application that leverages multi-core CPU technology to easily transform any desktop computer into a miniature compute farm or cluster system. For a nominal fee, Personal PBS also provides an easy upgrade path that enables customers to submit jobs from their personal desktop to backend server systems running PBS Professional®. Altair expects this new product to appeal to the open-source community, academia, small and medium-size businesses, and corporate clients who want to maximize local desktop performance.