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Life Before Twitter
Without the Internet, Email Alerts, E-Readers and Twitter, We Would Just Be Lost

FISCO ic and FNICO Are Interchangeable...for Now
FISCO, FNICO Are Like Two Clouds of Flammable Gases Passing in the Night

Fiberoptic, Wireless Connections Require Special Considerations
Fiberoptic, Wireless Raise Hackles: Connecting Machines to Networks or In-Line Systems Can Be Tricky, Depending on the Media

FPGA Platform Allows Faster Implementations
New Help for the FPGA-Challenged: VeriLog Is a New Language You Should Know

Across the Great Divide?
What Generation Gap? The Preferred Product Research Methods of Machine Control Professionals Don't Vary Much by Age Group

Stacker Turns Green With Energy
Regenerative Drive System in Servo-Driven Lumber Machine Returns Energy and Creates Efficiency

What Does NFPA 70E Allow?
FPA 70E Is Tough to Work Through. What Can Somebody Tell Us About This?

Nothing Is Useless
The Most Useless Machine Ever Caught Your Attention, Now Tell Us What We Can Do to Capture It Too

A PLC by Any Other Name
A PAC Is a PLC on Steroids. Anything a PLC Can Do, a PAC Can Do

Oystar Jones Puts the PLC in Packaging Equipment
Soap Box Has Longevity With Machine Builder: Packaging Machine Builder Integrates PLCs and Servo Motion

A Sensor Exists for Almost Every Application
Whatever You Need to Measure: Sensors Exist for Every Type of Application

ABB Acquires Jokab Safety
ABB Adds Machine Safety to Low Voltage Products Division

Difficult Year Closes on Global PLC Market
Global PLC Revenues Decline in 2009

CMI Corroborates Recession Retreat
U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) numbers are the best in over a year and a half

Robotics Center Merges Academics, Industry
The Centre for Automation and Robotics Research (CARR) opened at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, U.K.