The worldwide market for fieldbus solutions in the process industries is expected to grow at an above average compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the next five years, according to…

Claude Gravel has been named Canadian sales manager of Harting Canada, based in Montreal, Que. Gravel has 21 years experience in sales and distribution management with major electrical and electronic…

ODVA has announced that Bosch Rexroth, a specialist in the field of drive and control technologies, will become one of the organization's principal members, joining leading suppliers Cisco Systems, Rockwell…

Wieland Electric recently celebrated the company’s 100th birthday at its Canadian headquarters in Oakville, Ont. Friedrich Wieland founded the company on October 7, 1910 in Germany, with the goal of…

N-TRON Corp., a manufacturer of rugged industrial networking components, has been purchased by Spectris plc, an instrumentation and controls company. N-TRON is based in Mobile, Ala., and employs around 60…

RuggedCom, a Concord, Ont.-based designer and manufacturer of rugged communications networking solutions for mission critical applications in harsh environments, has agreed to purchase the substation automation business of Bow Networks…

 SERCOS International (SI) has announced that an open source software driver library for the SERCOS III real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the sourceforge.net online portal.…

The promise of linking manufacturing and IT systems together has been an ideal of automation professionals for decades, according to one reader, who sees the PC — along with an…

Kepware Technologies, a leader in communications for automation, has enhanced its award-winning KEPServerEX OPC Server with version 5.1, which delivers significant new functionality and a variety of enhancements to the…

Prospects for continued adoption of device-level factory automation networks remain overwhelmingly tempered by the weight of current and future economic pressures felt by OEM machine builders and end users. Within…