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Management | Company Profile

Setting New Benchmarks In Industrial Automation

Phoenix Contact (India) Pvt Ltd provides new dimension to the automation industry in India

Management | Strategies

Essential Strategy

An effective compliant strategy for critical instruments and services

Management | Strategies

Quality start

Schmersal reflects on its past, present and future strategies of expansion in India through product development and customer satisfaction

Management | Interview

“I believe in “3 Ds & C” - Dream, Desire, Direction, & Commitment”

…says RN Khanna, CMD of Controls & Switchgear Group, India, in an exclusive chat with A&D India’s Jens Otte and Shekhar Jitkar. Excerpts…

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Technology | News

Agilent’s WireScope Pro is a hit

Agilent’s WireScope Pro cable tester has been declared a hit. Agilent Technologies Inc recently announced that its WireScope Pro cable tester has met and exceeded the requirements for certifying...

Technology | News

SCADAWave data radio products

Control Microsystems has recently launched SCADAWave data radio products. This advanced radio series includes remotes, base stations and hot standby/redundant station variants in both licensed and...

Management | News

Bosch pumping billions in India

Bosch will be reportedly investing Rs 4bn towards its expansion initiatives in India. This is apparently a part of the company’s ongoing investmentprogram for the country. The company is supposedly...

Management | News

Omron opens Mexico HQ

Omron celebrated the opening of Omron Electronics de Mexico, SA, a new regional headquarters in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on January 23, 2008. Under the direction of Ricardo Lomeli, General...

Management | News

Rockwell to expand in India

Rockwell Collins is reportedly planning to establish an engineering center in Hyderabad, India. The center is scheduled to begin providing services in October. The center will equip Rockwell Collins...

Technology | News

Bosch Rexroth‘s control system

Bosch Rexroth offers its controller-based control system IndraMotion MLC in a new version combining motion and logic control with robot control on a uniform platform. In addition to the 32-axis...

Technology | News

SEW-Eurodrive‘s MOVIFIT

SEW-Eurodrive, a world leader in integrated power transmission and motion control solutions, has introduced MOVIFIT ® Field Integrated Technology, the next generation in intelligent decentralized...

Technology | News

Balluff introduces new sensor

Balluff has introduced a new compact sensor especially designed for use with C-slotequipped pneumatic cylinders. Today, sensor installation from above into a standard C-slot is more and more a...

Technology | News

FANUC Robot wins award

The FANUC M-430iA robot’s High-Speed Handling by Visual Tracking won The Robot Award 2007 Grand Prize, the METI Minister Prize, sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry...

Technology | News

ACT’L introduces Talk2M

ACT’L has developed Talk2M, an Internet Connectivity Tool, to suit the needs of eWON Industrial Modem Routers. Talk2M (Talk to Machines) is an internet service designed to address the growing need...

Technology | News

Emerson to supply flowmeters

Emerson Process Management is reportedly providing flowmeters, used in upgrading AGZU Sputnik oil separator systems in Russia and the CIS, to Argosy Technologies Ltd under an agreement. This...

Technology | News

ASI‘s new signal conditioners

Automation Systems Interconnect (ASI) has introduced a complete range of signal conditioners in the market. The series of conditioners include analog converters and isolators, RTD and thermocouple...

Technology | News

AMETEK acquires the MCG

AMETEK has recently acquired the Motion Control Group (MCG), a leading global manufacturer of highly customized motors and motion control solutions for the medical, life sciences, industrial...

Technology | News

FCI introduces new Flow Meter

Fluid Components International (FCI) has launched ST50 Remote Mount Flow Meter to take care of the needs of process and plant engineers who must remote mount an air/gas flow meter transmitter to...

Technology | News

Beckhoff‘s new embedded PC

Beckhoff Automation has introduced the new CX1030 Embedded PC to provide automation and control applications with the most powerful Pcbased controllers possible.The DIN rail mounted CX1030 is the...

Technology | News

FDT Group‘s Road Show

FDT (Field Device Tool) Group’s 2008 European Road show will be reportedly held in Nyborg, Denmark, and Gothenburg, Sweden. The Danish Road show will take place at the Best Western Hotel Nyborg...

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Market | Event

Hannover Messe 2008 - 10 flagship trade fairs

Hannover Messe 2008 is all set to offer excellent insight into the latest know-how from all the key sectors of industry

Market | Event

India at Hannover

A generic overview of Indian exhibitors at the Hannover Messe

Business & Market | News

Rockwell takes CEDES‘ safety unit

Rockwell Automation has reached at an agreement with CEDES AG to acquire the safety and automation business. CEDES is one of the leading European suppliers of the safety and measuring equipments for...

Business & Market | News

Invensys services to sail offshore

A new offshore operations center has been established by Invensys Process Systems at the Ciudad del Carmen in the Gulf of Mexico. Invensys has taken the initiative to operate a Center of Excellence...

Business & Market | News

Symposium on instrumentation

Upcoming 54th International Instrumentation Symposium, sponsored by the Aerospace Industries, Test Measurement and Process Measurement and Control Divisions of ISA, is reportedly scheduled to be held...

Business & Market | News

Bachmann electronic in India

Bachmann electronic Industrial Automation Pvt Ltd started its operation in Pune, India and will be managed by Anant M Khadkikar. Bachmann electronic with headquarters in Feldkirch, Austria, has...

Buisness & Market | News

ADLINK to acquire Ampro

ADLINK Technology to acquire 100% shareholding of Ampro Computer Inc. ADLINK will acquire a total of 39,743,137 common shares in Ampro with a total investment amount of US$20 million. The closing is...

Business & Market | News

ABB wins power orders in India

Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), one of the leaders in power and automation technology, has reportedly won orders worth around $71 million from Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), to help fortify the...

Business & Market | News

AMT acquires K-R Automation

Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT) has acquired K-R Automation, which is a Warren, MI-based automation controls design, engineering and panel manufacturing company. The acquisition is effective...

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Expo Extravaganza

Industrial Automation India 2007- International trade fair for process, production and industrial building automation was a huge success

Market | Event

Electrifying Elecrama

Elecrama is blowing life into the power and electronics sector in India and stirring up a revolution

Business & Market | News

Siemens to control polymer plant

Siemens Energy and Automation Inc has been selected as the Main Automation Vendor (MAV) for the new BASF JONCRYLR Polymer Plant in Wyandotte, Michigan. The llarge green field project of more than...

Market | Interview

“Outlays in automation must be taken as business investments”

A&D Interview : Arcot (Raja) Rajabahadur, Director of South & South East Asian Operations, ARC Advisory Group, India, on plant floor trends

Business & Market | News

Siemens to equip steel plant

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies will apparently supply the new cold rolling mill of the Bokaro Steel Plant located in Jharkhand with turnkey process technology. With a purchase order worth...

Business & Market | News

RuggedCom wins $1 million order

RuggedCom has reportedly received a purchase order worth $1 million for an electric power application in India. Although the company, which has placed the order, chooses not to disclose its name, yet...

Buisness & Market | News

Wi-Fi market to expand in India

A study by the Global Wi-Fi Alliance has claimed that Wi-Fi market in India will grow to $891million by 2011-12. The expansion will reportedly cover WLAN gear, networking tools, professional...

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Coverstory | Powering the Chemical Plants

Processes of the future

Striving towards improved and consistent product quality

Coverstory | Round-Table

‘Meeting’ of Minds

Senior representatives from different industrty verticals got together todiscuss various aspects of process automation in the chemical industry

Coverstory | Insight

Integrated control systems of the future

A proposal for a new plant system for the 21st century

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Drives & Components | Application

It is all about efficient savings

The importance of electrical energy can never be underestimated. Variable frequency drives can be very effective in saving this resource

Drives & Components | Update

Driving durability and efficiency

New generation parallel shaft and bevel helical gearboxes for process industries

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Logic Control And Feedback Control | Innovation

Screwless innovations

Wago’s cutting edge screwless termination technology

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Fieldbuses & Networks | Technology

An intelligent solution

Field buses are easy, safe, reliable and technology friendly and thus integral to today’s process plants

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Sensors & Encoders | Success-Story

Late but at the right time!

Baumer is all set to take the India advantage and it has all the prerequisites to make it happen!

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i&m | Application

Picking it right

Banner lines up integrated sensor solutions to boost process efficiency and product quality

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Wireless in Automation | Technology

Wireless Motor Control Solutions and Integrated Architecture

Wireless control systems that reduce headcount and increase production reliability and savings

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Software & Enigineering Tools | Innovation

Software innovations – The growth story

An overview of the various innovations in software solutions for industrial automation

Software & Engineering Tools | Outlook

Software technology is a boon to the automation industry

Customer feedback can be a good way for understanding the various innovations and developments in the industry

Software & Engineering Tools | Technology

Measuring efficiencies

Solutions to calculate operation efficiencies accurately

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Eletormechanics & Power Engineering | Technology

Innovation Force

With new solutions in drives and automation technology, Lenze has emerged as a strong force in the market. We present a brief profile

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Robotics | Application

Latest solutions developed in Robotics in material handling

By using robotics in material handling, end-users benefit in terms of increased productivity, consistent quality and improved health and safety

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