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Chemical Company Selects Rockwell’s Production, Asset Management System

Warwick Chemicals will replace its aging DCS with Rockwell’s PlantPAx Process Automation System, which includes batch and sequencing production software, and manufacturing operations and asset management applications.
SCADA Security Breaches Spark Industry Call to Action

Following security breaches at two water utilities in the U.S., industry experts are urging government, manufacturers, and automation vendors to band together to solve the SCADA security vulnerabilities that could threaten public safety.
Rockwell Reports Solid Sales in Fiscal 2011

Growth in emerging markets and more OEM activity played a major role in the company’s 24% year-over-year revenue increase. The outlook for next fiscal year is just as bright as Rockwell expects more technology investment in sectors such as manufacturing intelligence.
Invensys Fiscal First Half Aided by Operations Management
Rockwell Automation Rolls Out High-Performance Controllers
Mitsubishi Invests in ICONICS
Siemens Buys Brazilian MES Firm

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The National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) is the voice of advanced manufacturing in Washington, D.C., helping its members’ bottom line by providing projects and policy/program solutions for U.S. manufacturing in process technology and innovation, supply chain value creation, sustainable manufacturing, and workforce education and training.
The International Society of Automation (ISA) is a non-profit organization that helps its 30,000 worldwide members and other automation professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a non-governmental organization that is the largest developer and publisher of international standards for business, government, and society.
A global community of experts on quality in all fields, organizations, and industries make up the American Society for Quality, the world’s leading membership organization devoted to quality.
The Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence Group on LinkedIn . Learn more on what is fast becoming the major emerging technology focus for manufacturers today. This group aims to discuss the strategic issues facing process manufacturers today and how real-time intelligence can be used to drive improvements. Use this open forum to share and discuss how the EMI market space is changing, read how your peers are deploying EMI, and take away strategic content on this emerging technology landscape.
OPC Foundation is dedicated to interoperability in automation via open standards.
The Automation Federation is an association of member organizations providing awareness, programs, and services that continually advance the automation profession for the betterment of humanity.
The International Trade Administration’s Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative . This website serves as the central information portal for U.S. companies on what the U.S. Department of Commerce and other federal government agencies are doing to support sustainable manufacturing in the United States.
Measurement Control and Automation Association is a trade association of leading companies who manufacture and distribute a wide variety of process controls, field measurement and analysis instrumentation, systems and software used in industrial process control and factory automation around the world.

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The Manufacturing Intelligence Benchmark Report : Bridging the ERP and Shop Floor Divide. This report, published by Aberdeen Group in 2006, outlines the role that MI plays in bridging the gap between MES and ERP systems.
Quality Digest offers articles and communities that cover a wide range of general interest quality topics.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Manufacturing Operations Management: ISA-95 Best Practices Book 1.0 . This book provides in-depth coverage on how you can apply ISA-95, Enterprise-Control Integration Standard, to help lower TCO of manufacturing operations management (MOM) systems and their enterprise and plant interfaces. It consists of a series of related “how-to” white papers described in the context of ISA-95 models, definitions, and data exchanges.

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Green Manufacturing . Commentary, information, and resources related to green manufacturing and sustainability in the U.S. and abroad. Based on information from a variety of sources (web to print) and including technical information from researchers in the field as well as researchers at the University of California in the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS - lmas.berkeley.edu).
The Industrial Automation Hands-on blog is the place where you can look for information on topics related to automation in different industries. It provides a broad overall view.
Not another Industrial (software) blog highlights standards, networking, security, databases, open source, and other topics related to the development of HMI and SCADA systems.
The AF Chairman blog offers insights from the Automation Federation.
The Manufacturing Operations blog covers topics that concern the operational staff, the Production Operations, Production Supervisors, Plant Managers, Maintenance Managers and Quality personnel.

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Automation Platforms

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Chemical Company Selects Rockwell’s Production, Asset Management System

SCADA Security Breaches Spark Industry Call to Action

Rockwell Reports Solid Sales in Fiscal 2011

Invensys Fiscal First Half Aided by Operations Management

Rockwell Automation Rolls Out High-Performance Controllers

Mitsubishi Invests in ICONICS

Siemens Buys Brazilian MES Firm

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