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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the receipt of an order from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to supply control systems, safety instrumented systems, analysis systems, and other products for Stage-1 of the Jeddah South supercritical oil-fired thermal power plant*1 project in Saudi Arabia. The joint order recipients are Yokogawa Electric and a subsidiary, Yokogawa Middle East & Africa B.S.C.(c).

Jeddah South will be Saudi Arabia’s first supercritical thermal power plant, and is being built by a state-owned enterprise, the Saudi Electricity Company, at a site south of the city of Jeddah, which is on Saudi Arabia’s western coast, facing the Red Sea. Stage-1 of this project involves the construction of four 723 MW units producing a total of 2,892 MW. Unit 1 is scheduled to start operation in 2017.

For each of the four units, Yokogawa will supply the following:

• CENTUM® VP R5 integrated production control system for the control of the boiler and its auxiliary facilities, including all IEC61850*2-based electrical systems; a ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system (SIS); an Exaquantum™ plant information management system (PIMS); a plant operation training simulator

• PK200 current-to-pneumatic converters

• Liquid analysis system consisting of conductivity, pH, and residual chlorine analyzers

• Duct gas analysis system consisting of oxygen, infrared gas, and TDLS200 tunable diode laser analyzers*3

Yokogawa Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Middle East & Africa, will be responsible for the engineering and commissioning of the DCSs, SISs, and PIMSs. Yokogawa Electric and Yokogawa Electric Korea Co., Ltd. will be responsible for the engineering and delivery of the current-to-pneumatic converters and the analysis systems.

Yokogawa has executed a number of large oil & gas and petrochemical projects and provided more than 80 control systems for power plant and power plant utilities throughout the Middle East. Furthermore, the company has set down deep roots in the region through such initiatives as the establishment in 2006 of Yokogawa Saudi Arabia. Yokogawa believes that this strong track record was a key consideration in its selection for this project.

Supercritical thermal power plants are highly efficient and produce fewer greenhouse gases than conventional power plants, and it is expected that more plants of this type will be constructed in Saudi Arabia and other countries. In anticipation of growing demand for its highly reliable products and services, Yokogawa will step up its efforts in the global power sector.

*1 With this technology, pressure and temperature are kept above the critical point as steam passes from the boiler to a steam turbine. This allows power to be generated more efficiently and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

*2 Based on the IEC61850 international standard defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), electrical systems throughout this plant, including more than 750 intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) as well as all statistical and tariff energy meters, need to be integrated with the CENTUM VP DCS. Yokogawa is thus providing an integrated operational platform for this very large power plant.

*3 The TDLS200 boasts a fast response time and is used in combustion processes. One such application is the continuous measurement of residual NH3 in the denitrification process, which removes NOx from the exhaust gas produced as a result of the combustion of fuels in a boiler. There is a rising need for such continuous measurement solutions as they help to reduce corrosion to plant equipment and also protect the environment by reducing the emission of large amounts of ozone depleting gases.

Installation of remote Ethernet I/O in offshore environments is a real challenge. It is critical to find devices properly designed for protected, safe use in these environments. Moxa’s ioLogik E1200H series with IEC 60945 certifications fulfills the need for devices suitable to such demanding industrial applications. Compactly packaged in a metal housing, this rugged hardware keeps operating in temperatures ranging from -40 to 75°C, meeting the stringent demands of IEC 60945 for harsh offshore applications.

Features and Benefits:

• IEC 60945 approval for harsh offshore environments
• Wide operating temperature: -40 to 75°C (-40 to 167°F)
• Active communication with patented MX-AOPC UA Server and Active OPC Server
• 2-port Ethernet switch for daisy-chain topologies
• User-defined Modbus/TCP addressing

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Thanks to its two embedded Ethernet switch ports, the ioLogik E1200H remote Ethernet I/O allows you to create daisy-chain topologies for easy cabling. In distributed Ethernet data acquisition applications, panels, units, and cabinets are often located at remote sites where space is limited. The daisy-chain capability of the ioLogik E1200H series allows ioLogik E1200H units to connect in series either to each other or to other nearby Ethernet devices, drastically saving on both space and wiring costs.

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Kepware Technologies, a software development company focused on communications for automation, today announced two key partnerships in various continents. These Preferred Partners will promote, distribute, and offer support for all software solutions across Kepware's product portfolio.

Kepware is pleased to welcome the following companies to its 2014 Preferred Partner program:

Latin America:

•Exata Sistemas de Automação (Brazil)

•InfoPortal (Mexico)

Europe:

•b+i automation (Switzerland)

•EFA Automazione (Italy)

•FOXON (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Ukraine)

•inray Industriesoftware GmbH (Germany)

•KEP France (France)

•Logitek (Spain)

•MAC Solutions (United Kingdom)

•Novotek (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden)

•PLK Systems (Russian Federation)

Asia PAcific:

•Allied Solutions (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam)

•BridgeWare (Korea)

•Dingchen Technology (Beijing, China)

•FETCH Automation (Australia and New Zealand)

•Kanto L-Engineering Co. (KLEC) (Japan)

•OICE Automation (Thailand)

•Sarla Technologies (India)

•SiboTech (Shanghai, China)

•Youngtec (Taiwan)

Middle East & Africa:

•ASP Otomasyon (Turkey)

•Contel (Israel)

•eTX Data Services (South Africa)

•PRECAST (Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates)

"Each of these companies has deep expertise and a stellar reputation in their respective markets, which makes them ideal partners as we continue to grow," said Brett Austin, President, Kepware Technologies. "The Middle East and Africa have become key regions for our business. Expanding our network of connected partners allows us to better deliver the quality products and services in this area that are synonymous with Kepware."

Working with a Kepware Preferred Partner provides customers with a resource that has both product expertise and knowledge of specific industry challenges that are unique to their region. Partners also offer support in the customer's time zone and native language, a network of trusted System Integrators, technical consulting, and training capabilities. Each partner has a proven record of success and possesses guiding principles that align with Kepware's business objectives and commitment to excellence.

Omron has developed a new and exciting family of compact power supplies. With the same high quality and practical design that made our previous series safe, reliable, and easy to install, the new S8VK series is even tougher, more compact and easier to use. Omron is a world leader in the development and manufacture of industrial power supplies.

We launched our first compact product, the S82K, in 1987 and our S8VS compact series has been an automatic choice with customers since 2002.

To ensure that we provide the perfect solution to match every customer’s need, Omron has launched 4 different families: the cost effective S8VK-C, the standard with single-phase input S8VK-G, the standard with three-phase input S8VK-T, and the redundancy unit S8VK-R.

Three compelling reasons why the S8VK is the right power supply for you:

1. Resistant in tough environments

Omron is confident that the quality of the S8VK will exceed your high expectations. Its robust design and construction withstand harsh environments and provide stable operation over a wide operating temperature range. Because of high MTBF figures, your S8VK will keep running in stable condition for a long term.

2. Easy and fast installation

The S8VK series not only offers you greater flexibility when designing your machine, it also saves you time and reduces costs thanks to the minimal wiring requirements and easy one-handed mounting provided by the enhanced DIN-rail mounting clip.

3. The most compact class on the market

Designed with space saving in mind, the S8VK series is our most compact power-supply range ever and the most compact class on today’s market.

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ICONICS, a Microsoft® Application Development Partner of the Year Finalist, Gold Certified Partner and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, is excited to announce new features for Hyper Historian™ including support for the cloud via Windows Azure™. Hyper Historian is a high speed, reliable and robust industrial plant historian solution designed for mission critical applications.

ICONICS’ exciting new cloud-enabled technology makes Hyper Historian one of the first industrial plant historians available on the cloud. It is now more scalable than ever, as clients can leverage Microsoft’s public cloud application platform to access their Big Data from any desktop, Web browser or mobile device. This feature reduces IT costs with simple setup and minimal maintenance requirements, allowing customers to infinitely grow their application based on the changing needs of their business. Customers experience increased collaboration while maintaining the security that they have come to expect from ICONICS products.

Another feature in its upcoming release enables Logger-to-Logger communications to aggregate and merge data from any plant historian server. This allows Hyper Historian servers to exchange data hierarchically with other Hyper Historian servers or with third-party historians as well. These data exchanges can be triggered on a schedule or manually on demand, regardless of whether the server is located on premise or in the cloud. This enables remote access to the most critical information with maximum flexibility and control.

Taking full advantage of the latest 64-bit .NET-based computing technologies and numerous performance features, including full utilization of multi-core hardware, Hyper Historian is the first plant historian to be compatible with Microsoft Windows 8, Certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2012, and to integrate with SQL Server 2012 and Windows Azure. The software also fully leverages OPC UA communication standards, as well as a wide variety of other protocols for connecting to existing infrastructure.

“Due to the highly variable nature of wind power, owner-operators need powerful historians to enable their analysis and understanding of both individual unit and aggregate wind farm performance," said Harry Forbes, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group. "A tool such as Hyper Historian is critical for identifying trends and deviations in unit behavior and diagnosing their root causes.”

The above enhancements add to Hyper Historian's already extensive capabilities that include:

· Extensive Redundancy – Supports redundancy at all levels, including the use of remote distributed data collectors, multiple distributed loggers and multiple OPC classic and OPC UA interfaces.

· Intelligent Asset Technology – Hyper Historian can now be integrated with AssetWorX™, the ISA-95-compliant Asset Modeling tool available with the GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA system. Any analysis derived by Hyper Historian can be included as a property of any asset.

· Third-party OPC HDA Compliance – Assures interoperability with hundreds of applications and integrates automatic failover to active loggers.

· Powerful Performance Calculations – The extensive performance calculation capabilities can now be configured to execute on redundant platforms.

Hyper Historian is being used today for plant historian applications in industrial and utility applications throughout the world, including wind asset independent performance verification and generation plant monitoring and analysis.

exida, the global leader in functional safety certification for the process industries, has certified KOSO America, Inc.’s REXA Xpac for functional safety, to help ensure that it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

“KOSO’s capabilities were confirmed through an extensive certification process,” said Chris O’Brien, exida Evaluating Assessor. “They have a very strong control on their design, as well as having exceptional metrics.” “exida has the experience and technical expertise that we look for in a certification body,” says Nick Lalos, KOSO Marketing Supervisor. “They have a rigorous program and completing this certification will give our customers additional confidence in our products.”

About exida: exida is a certification and research firm specializing in safety critical/high availability automation systems, control system cybersecurity, and alarm management. exida has performed more process control safety certifications than any other company worldwide. exida’s main offices are located in Sellersville, PA, USA and Munich, Germany and has worldwide operations with service centers in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, and New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

About KOSO America, Inc.: As the manufacturer of REXA Electraulic™ Actuation, Koso America is an industry leader in actuator design and electro-hydraulic technology. REXA high performance actuators and damper drives are built to withstand the most demanding applications in the power, oil & gas, metals processing, precious metal mining and water and wastewater industries.

ICONICS, a Microsoft® Application Development Partner of the Year Finalist, Gold Certified Partner and provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Automation Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, announces a greatly expanded Wind AnalytiX® software solution. This new solution offers extensive integration of energy and meter sources into one unified platform with real-time monitoring, automatic 3D terrain elevation drawing, an extensive data historian, advanced distributed alarm management and notification and data analytics.

Wind AnalytiX quickly turns large amounts of real-time and historical data into valuable information and monitors renewables' Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE). With capabilities of forecast integration, production projections and other fully customizable report templates, Wind AnalytiX rivals other products on the market with its quick and integrated reporting. Advanced dashboards deliver rich user experiences and KPIs needed for optimum renewables management and to help drive continuous improvement. Additional data analysis capabilities assure renewable assets are online and producing at specified performance.

When failures do occur, Wind AnalytiX issues alerts and maintenance notifications and will provide automatic guidance, resulting in reduced downtime and reduced costs related to diagnostics and repairs. With role-specific permission, users can format custom dashboards to promote ease of use. Benefitting from advanced graphics, users are now able to select areas of EarthWorX™ maps to generate accurate elevation profiles with the 3D Terrain object. Applications with distinct data requirements can utilize standard protocols like OPC, SNMP, BACnet and SOAP Web Services. As a fully OPC-compliant solution, Wind AnalytiX offers Universal Connectivity for any project.

The Wind AnalytiX suite includes the following applications:

•EarthWorX™ – Integrate live maps using ESRI mapping technology as well as Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps. Quickly view geographically dispersed wind and renewable assets across a 3D terrain, visualized in real time with historical equipment faults. Users can zoom or pan through maps to navigate across their entire renewable assets and operations while recognizing issues without delay, using ICONICS' patented Smart Pin Technology.

•Hyper Historian™ – An extremely high performance Plant Historian that can archive high volumes of equipment condition, power, and power quality data at high resolution and then deliver complex analysis, charting and reporting.

•FDDWorX™ – A Fault Detection and Diagnostics Solution – Advanced algorithms analyze, detect and predict equipment and efficiency faults. When faults do occur, the system provides a list of probable causes with current estimated probabilities.

•PortalWorX™ – Simple-to-configure dashboard technology delivers the world’s leading visualization to any Web browser. PortalWorX integrates with Microsoft SharePoint® and Silverlight® and provides customizable KPIs, charting, Excel® grids, alarming, reports and many other dashboard Web parts.

•AssetWorX™ – An Intelligent Asset Technology that allows users to define assets and apply sophisticated intelligence and analytics. Defined assets can include wind turbines and substations, based on the IEC61400 and IEC61850 standards. AssetWorX significantly decreases engineering time for each wind power and utility operation.

"Soaring oil prices and Middle East political instability are accelerating demand and simplifying justification of new wind power projects, which stimulates the market need for automation tools necessary to maximize production of wind energy that have the most dramatic effect on profitability and asset utilization,” said Craig Resnick, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group. “Solutions such as Wind AnalytiX provide the information needed through visualization and reporting tools that help wind power projects maximize operational efficiency and reduce costs.”

National Instruments had recently announced an integrated software defined radio solution for rapidly prototyping high-performance, multichannel wireless communication systems. The NI USRP RIO platform is built on the NI LabVIEW RIO architecture and combines a high-performance 2 x 2 multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) RF transceiver capable of transmitting and receiving signals from 50 MHz to 6 GHz with an open LabVIEW programmable FPGA architecture.

Wireless engineers can use this technology to rapidly prototype real-time wireless communications systems and test them under real-world conditions. They can also prototype more capable wireless algorithms and systems faster and reduce time to results using the only complete platform to take full advantage of a graphical system design approach. The USRP RIO family delivers high-performance, real-time processing capability with the Xilinx Kintex-7 Series FPGA, low latency with the PCI Express connection to a host computer and small size (1U half wide, 19 in. rack mountable).

USRP RIO is ideal for a wide range of application areas including 5G wireless communications research, active and passive radar development and exploration, communications intelligence, connected smart devices and more. NI USRP™ (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) is already a popular platform for research spanning industry and academia as it empowers researchers to rapidly iterate on designs via programmable software. For example, a recent Lund University announcement highlights a 5G research application focusing on massive MIMO – a technology being considered for 5G communication.