Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has entered into an agreement with Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd. ("Wako") on the marketing and after-sales service of Yokogawa's CellVoyager™ CV7000 high-throughput cytological discovery system in North America and Europe.

Wako manufactures reagents, diagnostic agents, and equipment for life science applications and has an extensive sales and service network among pharmaceutical companies and drug discovery research institutions in Europe, the US, and Canada, which are the global centers of drug discovery research*1. Through this agreement, Yokogawa will expand its drug discovery support system business.

CellVoyager CV7000 is an automatic testing system that is capable of administering hundreds of thousands or even millions of compounds to cells, capturing images of the resulting changes in the cells, analyzing the obtained images, and screening them to find promising drug candidates. This system is comprised of a confocal scanner unit, which can observe live cells in real time, and a high-accuracy positioning mechanism. The CellVoyager CV7000 features the industry's fastest screening times and highest image resolution, and is highly regarded worldwide.

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Rueil-Malmaison (France), April 3, 2012 – Schneider Electric and its Foundation announced the creation of Schneider Electric Teachers. This Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) aims to promote volunteering of current and retired Schneider Electric employees in partner organisations of the Schneider Electric Foundation, dedicated to teaching and professional training within the energy field.

Schneider Electric Teachers’ role is to link partner organisations of the Schneider Electric Foundation with volunteers, current or retired employees of Schneider Electric. For this, a dedicated website (www.teachers.schneider-electric.org) was created: missions are posted by partner organisations¹, and then offered to pre-registered volunteers whose profile meets search criteria². Schneider Electric Teachers then organizes contacts, provides pre-departure training, takes in charge the organization and bears the costs for transport and accommodation.

Exida, an accredited global certification company, has certified Moore Industries’ STA logic solver for functional safety, ensuring that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508.

“Moore Industries has a strong development process that meets the requirements of SIL 3 - IEC 61508,” says exida Certifying Assessor Iwan van Beurden.

Tina Lockhart, director of engineering at Moore, says exida’s understanding of the safety lifecycle has helped integrate the 61508 standard into Moore’s product development process.

"exida certification is the best choice for global functional safety certification,” Lockhart says. “They trained our experts to perform FMEDA analyses and helped us to migrate to version 2 of 61508. Their understanding of the safety lifecycle has been invaluable.”

“This product fits a niche market needing a single loop safety rated logic solver,” adds exida Managing Director Dr. William Goble. “We are pleased that Moore Industries chose exida.”

New record in patent applications – seven awards given. Innovators of the Endress+Hauser Group met this year at Maulburg for their 12th inventors' meeting, celebrating a record 225 patent applications. Seven product and process innovations were honored with awards.

Curiosity, thirst for knowledge and inventive spirit have made the Endress+Hauser Group a world leader in measurement engineering and automation solutions. Now almost sixty years after the foundation of the company, the innovative drive shows no signs of abating: the record 219 patent applications in 2010 were topped last year with 225 patents. "This excellent figure shows that we are on the right track," says Michael Ziesemer, COO of the Endress+Hauser Group. "Our unbroken powers of innovation give us confidence that we will continue to offer our customers the best possible solutions in the years to come."

Patents with a sustained and positive effect on Endress+Hauser's business success are honored every year at the Endress+Hauser Innovators' Meeting, held in 2012 inMaulburg, Germany. Over 300 inventors met on 30 March in a friendly atmosphere to celebrate the intellectual achievements and to present the winning projects.

The four "Patent Rights Incentive Awards", each with a prize money of 15,000 euros, went to teams of inventors at the production sites Endress+Hauser Conducta, Endress+Hauser Flowtec,