General Mills braces for costly commodities
CNN Money
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Industrial computers: Advantech to grow into vertical market solution provider
Control Engineering
Shanghai, China–Advantech corporate executives were pleased to show off their home country of China during their annual World Partner Conference in Shanghai this year. But the bigger news was how they are positioning themselves to grow beyond their success as a Taiwanese maker of general purpose industrial computers and automation equipment. The plan extends beyond results already delivered.
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SCADA system upgrades can benefit from new software, hardware
Control Engineering
New software for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) include a GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms vertical solution pack for the water industry, Control Microsystems released the 2009 Edition of ClearSCADA, the newest version of its SCADA Host software with support for 64-bit operating systems (OS). Semaphore, introduced a 1-Wire interface for its T-Box line of SCADA system products, compatible with T-Box MS Modular System, when equipped with a 32-bit CPU.
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