Industrial Factory Automation

The International Society of Automation (ISA) has launched its 2010 ISA Directory of Automation in an easy-to-use online format. This resource is available to the organisations members from a link on the ISA homepage or the dedicated ISA Directory of Automation website. The ISA Directory of Automation offers both keyword-driven searches and category specific searches, two methods that produce the most industry-relevant results on the web. The directory also includes Request for Information (RFI) functionality, which allows users to quickly contact participating suppliers to obtain more detailed information for specific projects. The directory has a downloadable desktop search application, which enables users to search for items directly from a small search window on their desktops. ISA partnered with Multiview to create the new directory.

The International Society of Automation 's (ISA's) 56th International Instrumentation Symposium (IIS) will be held on 10-14 May 2010 at the Rochester Marriott Airport Hotel in New York. Registration is now open for the event, with online pre-registration extending through 3 May 2010. The IIS brings together industry specialists, scholars and researchers from across the globe to discuss instrumentation and the technologies that surround this field, through four days of sessions, meetings and training. Speakers will present papers on topics such as electronic instrumentation, wireless technology, cyber security, aerospace systems, process measurement and control, virtual instrumentation systems, laser and electro-optics instrumentation, geo science and remote sensing. The event also will feature volunteer-led tutorials, vendor exhibits and social functions. A pre-conference ISA training course, called Industrial Wireless Systems (IC85C), will be led by Wayne Manges, ISA100 commit...

The International Society of Automation Analytical Division (ISA-AD) has awarded Servomex second place in its Best Technical Paper category, and given it the 2009 Gilmer/Thomason/Fowler/Konrad award. Servomex's winning paper was titled 'A Comparative Analysis of the Errors in the Measurement of Oxygen Between In-Situ and Extractive Methods'. Following the presentation to a peer group of more than 200 professionals working in multiple industries, including hydrocarbon processing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and power generation, the paper was voted second out of 32 submissions and was invited by ISA-AD to be presented again at the ISA EXPO conference in Houston in October. Co-authored by Servomex technical experts James Hobby, Ian Gaskin, Richard Kovacich, Martin Lopez and Bahram Alizadeh, the paper reviews the emergence of new techniques for in-situ oxygen measurement that increase the range of methods available to the user - but for which there has previously been limited ...

The new P4ELA from BVM is a powerful SBC conforming to the Micro ATX 244 x 244mm form factor. It is suitable as a platform for high-performance systems in industrial workstation, industrial control and automation, POS, gaming, print imaging, digital signage, digital surveillance, network security and similar applications that require processing horsepower and fast graphics capability. The board uses the Intel Q45 + ICH10D0 Express chipset and supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Celeron processors conforming to the LGA775 pin-out, with an FSB up to 1333MHz. The built-in Intel Graphics Accelerator 4500, operating through a bandwidth-optimising enhanced backbone architecture, supports Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL to give outstanding 2D and 3D rendering, enabling support for the highest levels of Windows Vista experience. In addition, eight USB2.0 ports, five RS232s, one RS232/422/485 port and two GigaLAN ports are provided, as are six SATA interfaces supporting RAID and Intel M...