Infor announced Infor CloudSuite Facilities Management for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) customers seeking preconfigured, cloud-based, facilities management. This announcement builds upon Infor's collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and provides customers using EAM facilities functions with a reliable cloud-hosting platform.

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Mechanical processes and raw materials in the form of powder, bulk and solids are everywhere in the industry, be it ingredients for pharmaceutical or chemical products, sugar and flour for food, plastic granulate to produce all kinds of products and components or the stones and cement to build our houses.

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of rugged network components with the Ruggedcom RMC8388 - a cost effective compact time converter designed to operate in harsh environments with widely varying climatic and environmental conditions. Withstanding extreme temperature from -40 up to +85 degrees Celsius, vibration and shock the device offers high reliability for Electric Power applications. By enabling cost effective time synchronization, Ruggedcom RMC8388 reduces both capital expenditures and maintenance costs.

Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices and objects will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Yet today, more than 99 percent of things in the physical world remain unconnected. To capitalize on the unprecedented opportunities presented by this wave of digitization, companies and cities are increasingly deploying Internet of Things solutions.

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) announced the launch of Uniformance Asset Sentinel, which continuously monitors equipment and process health, assisting industrial facilities to predict and prevent asset failures and poor operational performance.

Flexible Protection for Automation Networks

​Hexagon held its annual conference to showcase plant design solutions (Intergraph Power, Process, & Marine (PP&M)), along with its other technology business units for Geosystems, Geospatial, Metrology, Security, Government, & Infrastructure, and Mining.

Kepware announces that KEPServerEX version 5.18 is now available. This release includes the following new products and enhancements that offer additional device connectivity and an improved user experience:

• New Media Level Redundancy "Switch on Trigger" mode
• New tag editing capabilities in the KEPServerEX communications platform
• Support for ABB Totalflow trend data and liquid Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM)
• New Fisher ROC Ethernet and Fisher ROC Plus Ethernet drivers

19-inch widescreen Flat Panels and Panel PCs with all-round IP65 protection are the latest addition to the Siemens glass-front portfolio. Fitted with a rugged aluminum enclosure, the new devices are designed especially for use at the machine level in harsh industrial environments and can be mounted either from the top or the bottom on a stand or supporting arm system.

MKS Instruments, Inc., a global provider of technologies designed to better enable advanced processes and improve productivity, has introduced the MKS Automation Platform, a modular, scalable and configurable solution for comprehensive control that focuses on improved operational and productivity efficiencies.  It is designed to help to lower total cost of ownership and improve utilization of existing tools and assets.