Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has extended its lineup of DPharp EJA series differential pressure/pressure transmitters with the development and release for sale of the EJAC60E hygienic adapter system. The EJAC60E hygienic adapter system consists of the EJA560E hygienic gauge pressure transmitter and adapters of different sizes and connection types.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has developed Virtual-M3, a simulation software tool for the Yokogawa FA-M3V range-free multi-controller, and is releasing it on May 17th. With this simulation software, a virtual debugging environment can be established on a PC to debug application control programs for the FA-M3V without having to use an actual multi-controller and I/O devices.

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Red Lion Controls announced that its Sixnet series RAM industrial cellular RTUs and wired routers now offer enhanced communication security using Distrix Networks’ software-defined networking (SDN) technology. According to the press release, Distrix’s SDN technology, running on RAM devices, speeds and simplifies deployment of communication networks between industrial devices and IIoT cloud platforms and delivers security for remote machine access.

ARC's European industry forum has started this morning in the Spanish coastal town of Sitges. The well-attended event will feature a variety of plenary sessions as well as hands-on workshops over the next 2 days.