May 23, 2011 – Exlar Tritex II actuator gains CSA Class I, Division 2 ratings. Exlar’s Tritex II linear actuator combines a brushless motor, a specially designed roller screw mechanism for converting electric motor power into linear motion and a built-in position controller. With forces up to 3685 pounds, strokes up to 18 inches and speeds up to 33 inches per second, the Tritex II actuator is ideally suited for control valve and damper applications requiring an extremely fast response to the smallest command signal changes without overshoot—even when friction is present

May 24, 2011 – The EyeCheck-Reader systems of EVT detect and read any information of conventional codes,such as QR-Codes, DMC, bar codes, OCR/OCV, color ring codes and pharmaceutical codes.

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May 24, 2011 – The Hobart Ground Power Gateway from Chipkin Automation Systems reads current, voltage, phase, power and other variables from Hobart power generators and serves data as Modbus, BACnet or Web data for easy remote monitoring. The Gateway connects to the Hobart Ground Power controller, then reads data and stores it internally

May 24, 2011 – Amtech Drives appointed Charles F. Geraldi the North American division’s new President. Geraldi is a 27 year veteran of the high tech automation industry and holds a BEEE from Stevens Institute of Technology along with a MBA from Iona College.

May 24, 2011 – Softing North America signed AWC  as an Authorized Distributor for its line of diagnostic and troubleshooting tools for PROFIBUS networks. “Softing has been in the fieldbus business for more than 25 years. During this time, we actively shaped open technology standards and established ourselves as the world leader for fieldbus diagnostic tools,” said Jason Frank, Softing North America’s Business Development Manager

May 24, 2011 – Full-color eight-page brochure from ABB covers the company’s wide range of rotameters, also known as variable area flowmeters.

May 24, 2011 - Acromag promoted Rowland Demko to National Sales Manager for their Embedded Solutions Group. Previously serving as Acromag’s regional sales manager for the Western United States, Rowland will now oversee all sales operations in North America. He has a wealth of technical and sales experience in embedded computer technologies and numerous industries including defense, aerospace, manufacturing, scientific research, and telecommunication

May 24, 2011 – GarrettCom named Lee House as General Manager. In his new role, House is the senior executive in charge of all aspects of GarrettCom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belden, Inc

May 24, 2011 – The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PEC-3710 integrated I/O controller. Featuring an AMD LX800 500 MHz controller with 16-channel analog input, 4-channel analog output and 32-channel isolated digital input/output, the PEC-3710 is a standalone automation controller that not only greatly shortens customers’ development time but also offers rich networking interface for function extensions