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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rackmount computer fits in tight spaces</title>
      <description>To achieve maximum reliability, the Relio R4000 supports Windows XP Embedded (XPe) and Linux operating systems running from CompactFlash. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Sealevel Systems</category>
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      <title>Touchscreen HMIs incorporate Soft-PLC</title>
      <description>By combining two automation modules into one , Lenze offers cost savings and simplified installation. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Lenze</category>
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      <title>Logic modules provide increased capacity</title>
      <description>The logic modules of the new 0BA6 series are significantly more powerful than previous models and, with 200 function blocks, the memory capacity is 50% larger than before. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Siemens Automation and Drives</category>
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      <title>Scada upgrade suits utility companies</title>
      <description>iPower provides built-in object security, enhanced graphics capability, standard operator interfaces, alarm and event reporting and standard drag and drop electrical utility objects. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms UK</category>
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      <title>Gateways link different fieldbus systems</title>
      <description>Typical applications are installations with mixed usage of Beckhoff and Siemens, Rockwell or Schneider PLCs, such as automobile manufacturing plants.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>HMS Industrial Networks</category>
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      <title>Specification boosts IO-Link deployment</title>
      <description>PI's integration specification forms the basis for the wider deployment of IO-Link in Profibus and Profinet systems. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Profibus Group</category>
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      <title>CompoNet support boosts industrial communication</title>
      <description>With the addition of CompoNet to the Anybus family, HMS will provide products for all four CIP networks. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>HMS Industrial Networks</category>
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      <title>Quadrature encoder boosts response speed</title>
      <description>The ADAM-5081 has a high isolation of 2500V DC, a high-speed frequency mode (5Hz to 1MHz) and a counter code operating at 1MHz. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Advantech (UK)</category>
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      <title>FireWire cables pass extended flex tests</title>
      <description>Northwire's standardised flex-life tests include rolling and torsional flex as well as bending flex.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Northwire</category>
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      <title>Software streamlines production processes</title>
      <description>With Proficy Workflow, companies can improve, eliminate and automate steps in production to make their organisations more lean.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms UK</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/gef/gef266.html</link>
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      <title>Streamlined interface connects business systems</title>
      <description>ECS provides a streamlined, single-point interface for vertical integration between plant and enterprise business systems for improved productivity.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ABB Automation Tech (Instrumentation + Automation)</category>
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      <title>World's longest superconductor cable passes test</title>
      <description>The 600m, 138kV, 574MVA power link is the first superconductor cable installed in a live grid and operating at transmission voltage. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Nexans</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/nex/nex163.html</link>
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      <title>Wireless routers monitor remote substations</title>
      <description>EDF Energy's Networks Branch substations in the South East are being fitted with Sarian MR4110 wireless routers, which allows the company to remotely monitor its electricity substations. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Digi International</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/dgi/dgi118.html</link>
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      <title>Scada systems improve communication reliability</title>
      <description>Continuous recording means there are never holes in the data, even when communication links go down. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Control Microsystems</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/cmo/cmo107.html</link>
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      <title>Explaining worldwide fieldbus differences</title>
      <description>All fieldbus protocols share the same, really rather short, history, but that does not mean they are anything like equal. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>CC-Link Partner Association</category>
      <link>http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/ccl/ccl127.html</link>
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