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Power management company Eaton today announced the release of the ELPRO® 450U-ETM licensed wireless Ethernet modem. Ideal for industrial applications, the product offers powerful long-range communications to extend Ethernet networks in difficult-to-reach locations. Flexible options available support 360 to 512 megahertz (MHz) configurations, providing users with an integrated and complete industrial Ethernet infrastructure solution.

“The 450U-E extends the broad range of licensed and unlicensed Ethernet modems offered by the ELPRO product line,” said Steven Toteda, vice president and general manager, Eaton. “With solutions from 60MHz to 5.8GHz, the product line’s unique features help extend end-to-end network connectivity, easily integrating with our range of market-leading networking solutions designed to provide end users with a productive and safe solution and lower total cost of ownership.”

The ELPRO 450U-E modem is designed to integrate with ELPRO wireless and wired networks to connect remote sensors, actuators and instrumentation to mission critical monitoring and control system programmable logic controllers, distributed control system and supervisory control and data acquisition. Key applications include oil and gas, water/wastewater, mining and power generation.

The ELPRO 450U-E Wireless Ethernet Modem utilizes dynamic network optimization and intelligent routing to achieve high reliability, lower latency and deterministic power management. Additionally, the ELPRO 450U-E operates in an extended temperature range designed to meet the demands of industrial environments and provides secure industry standard encryption (128bit AES, 802.11i with CCMP, WEP, WPA2) and compliance, including ATEX/IECEx (hazardous area approval). It is easy to use and simple to install with DIN-rail or wall-mount options.

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The OMEGA GAB-1700 oxygen analyzer has been specifically designed to meet the demanding needs of field and laboratory analysts, light industrial users and others who require fast, accurate and reliable analysis of common gas mixtures. This compact, portable and easy to use instrument is based upon a non-depleting, component specific measurement technique (magnetodynamic paramagnetic) for long life and minimal running costs, avoiding the problems associated with electrochemical or other less robust methods of analysis.

• Non-Depleting Paramagnetic Measurement Technology Ensures the Unit is Always Ready for Use

• Accurate, Reliable and Component Specific, Giving Confidence that ObservedValues are Credible and Not Due to Background Interference

• Customer Pre-Tested Software Offers Ease of Use, Simple Calibration and Advanced Features

• Innovative Construction Gives a Robust Unit with a Space Saving Footprint

• Rechargeable Battery Option Enables Mobile Use

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Case Study by Advantech: China’s growing domestic market has resulted in a two-digit growth of food & beverage processing and packaging equipment and has drawn many companies around the world to explore this huge developing market, including TCP Pioneer Co.Ltd, a liquid food and beverage manufacturing/packing facility provider headquartered in northern Taiwan with its products sold to several top beverage brands in China.

Over the years China’s food/drinks packing industry has evolved from that of comparatively straightforward mechanization carried out by hand and electric or pneumatic systems to a higher degree of automation based on information collection and processing, and the need for automation products like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) combined with the use of Human-machine Interface (HMI) is soaring.

Addressing China’s market needs, about three years ago, our customer started to upgrade their products from those of more traditional mechanical types to the use of PLCs matched with Advantech’s human-machine interface (HMI) product - WebOP- a touch panel display through which the operators at beverage plants can easily manipulate the machines and increase productivity and efficiency.

The result is that our customer is selling their equipment units for twice the price of their original products; and their customers are dramatically reducing their use of manual labor and saving huge costs.

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The VP-IR2 series IR illuminator is designed specifically to work with Moxa VPort series IP cameras and PT scanners. It features high power efficiency and a lower LED life cycle, and is suitable for all types of industrial surveillance applications. The VP-IR2 can be easily mounted on a VPort camera housing or IR bracket available for Moxa PT scanners.

Infrared Wavelength: 850 nm

Angle: 20 to 60° (optional)

IR Effective Range: Up to 100 m

Automatic IR On/Off: Controlled by built-in photocell

Operating Temperature: -30 to 60°C (-22 to 140°F)

Weatherproofing: IP66

ICR Switching Volt-free relay output

Power Consumption: 12 W

Power Requirement: 12 VDC

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Baton change: Matthias Altendorf (right) takes over management of the Endress+Hauser Group at the beginning of 2014. His predecessor Klaus Endress is new President of the Supervisory Board.

After 19 years at the top of Endress+Hauser, Klaus Endress is set to clear his desk at the office in Reinach, Switzerland. The previous CEO moves to the Group's Supervisory Board as of 1 January 2014, replacing President Klaus Riemenschneider who is retiring after 43 years of work for Endress+Hauser.

New CEO of the Group is Matthias Altendorf, former Managing Director of the Center of Competence for level and pressure measurement engineering in Maulburg, Germany. The 46-year-old is only the third CEO in the company's history starting in 1953 – and the first one not coming from the Endress shareholder family. The changes at the top of the Group have already been announced in March.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has achieved ISASecure™ Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) Level 1 Certification from exida for their ProSafe-RS Safety Controller. Based upon the ISA/IEC 62443 standards, ISASecure EDSA is an industry consensus cyber security certification scheme for products and supplier development practices. Exida is the only ISASecure EDSA Chartered Laboratory accredited by ANSI/AClass in accordance to ISO/IEC Guide 65 and ISO/IEC 17025 to evaluate embedded devices according to the ISASecure EDSA conformance scheme and grant ISASecure EDSA certifications on behalf of ISCI.

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The OM-USB-TEMP, OM-USB-TEMP-AI and OM-USB-5203 are USB 2.0 full speed temperature input data acquisition modules (fully compatible with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 ports). These are plug-and-play modules which draw power from the USB cable–no external power supply is required (except for

OM-USB-5203 which requires an ac adaptor). All configurable options are software programmable, and the modules are fully software calibrated. The OM-USB-TEMP and OM-USB-5203 provide eight differential temperature input channels. The OM-USB-TEMP-AI provides eight analog input channels that are configured as four differential temperature inputs and four differential or single-ended voltage inputs. Temperature inputs are software programmable for different sensor types including type J, K, T, E, R, S, B, N thermocouples, 2, 3 or 4-wire Pt100 RTDs, 2, 3 or 4-wire thermistors and semi-conductor sensors and are configured in blocks of two channels. A different type of sensor (thermocouple, RTD, thermistor, semiconductor) can be connected to each block of two channels (both channels must be the same type).

• Models OM-USB-TEMP and OM-USB-5203 have 8 Temperature Inputs

• Model OM-USB-TEMP-AI has 4 Temperature Inputs and 4 Analog Voltage Inputs

• Temperature Inputs are Software Programmable for Thermocouple, RTD, Thermistor or Semiconductor Temperature Sensors

• Model OM-USB-5203 has Data Logging Capability (Compact Flash)

• 24-Bit Resolution

• Built-In Cold Junction Compensation and Open Circuit Detection for Thermocouple Inputs

• Eight Digital I/O

• No External Power Supply Required (Except for OM-USB-5203)

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Success Story by Yokogawa:  SAMSUNG Fine Chemicals (SFC) produces many kinds of fine chemicals that have been well received both in Korea and the global market. SFC’s products include mecellose (methylcellulose), epichlorohydrin (ECH), dimethylformamide (DMF), methylamines, tetramethylammonium chloride (TMAC), barium titanate powder (BTP), and AnyCoat. SFC also produces a range of general chemical products such as ammonia, urea, melamine, methylene chloride, methyl chloride, formic acid, and caustic soda. One of SFC’s primary next-generation strategic businesses is the production of electronic chemical materials (ECM) such as BTP.

SFC has four BTP plants in Ulsan that, altogether, produces 4,000 tons per year of this material. One of these plants, plant C, was built in 2010 and uses Yokogawa’s CENTUM CS 3000 distributed control system to control all of its operations. In 2012, SFC introduced Yokogawa’s Exapilot package solution to automate processes throughout this plant. As a result, SFC has been able to reduce operator workload, improve product quality, and reduce production losses.

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