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ICONICS has released following versions of the products:

GENESIS64 V10.61
Hyper Historian V10.61
MobileHMI V10.61
Energy AnalytiX V10.61
Facility AnalytiX V10.61
PortalWorX V10.61

Installation DVDs are available on ICONICS Customer Connection Portal in Product Download section:
http://partners.iconics.com/Home/Support/ProductDownload.aspx

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has equipped Version 8 of its Simatic PCS 7 process control system with a host of new functions. The new features range from improved data exchange and an easier engineering workflow, more powerful communication, redundancy-related and fault-tolerant functions to new controllers and extended functionalities for the software tools.

In Version 8 of Simatic PCS 7 the data exchange between the Cosmos plant management software and the PCS 7 engineering tools has been improved and the engineering workflow simplified. This now offers the user enhanced planning quality and an easier way to document the tracking of changes. In the new PCS 7 version the integrated, scalable long-term archiving system, Process Historian, is now suitable for the central archiving of process data from multiple projects in real time. Users can now access the archive data and reports quickly for the purpose of optimizing production and assets. They can now create and modify reports easily using the standard Microsoft Reporting Service tool. In addition to Windows XP, Simatic PCS 7 Version 8 has also been released for Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit).

To further read on this please click 'Version 8 of its Simatic PCS 7 process control system'

(Application Note by MTL) We often come across the above terms, and others, when we are talking about equipment and systems. All of them relate in some way to how well something will perform in a particular task; however it is important to use the correct term for the task in hand, otherwise you are likely to end up with the right answer ...but to the wrong question!

To further read this Application Note by MTL Instruments please click 'Availability, Reliability, SIL: What is the difference ?'

The MatrikonOPC Server for IndustrialSQL (InSQL) supports both real-time and historical data access to one or more Wonderware IndustrialSQL databases or Wonderware Historians. Applications that require connectivity to these databases can use this OPC Server to access real-time and historical process data that is archived by an online analyzer, laboratory personnel, etc. Key features include:

• Support for Wonderware IndustrialSQL databases and Wonderware Historians

• Access to both real-time and historical data

• Support for reading

• Connects to multiple databases simultaneously

• Aggregates List: Average, Count, DurationBad, DurationGood, Interpolated, Maximum, MaximumActualTime, Minimum, MinimumActualTime, PercentBad, PercentGood, StandardDeviation, TimeAverage, Total, Variance, and more...

ExxonMobil’s 2012 Outlook for Energy Sees Efficiency, Developing World Economic Growth and Natural Gas Reshaping Global Demand through 2040

• Demand to be about 30 percent higher in 2040 versus 2010 as population grows and global GDP doubles; demand in developing nations rises nearly 60 percent.

• Less-carbon-intensive fuels, particularly natural gas, gain market share, while coal peaks and begins a decline for the first time in modern history.

• Gas from shale and other unconventional rock formations will account for 30 percent of global gas production by 2040.

• Demand growth would be more than four times the projected 30 percent without expected gains in efficiency.

To further read on this topic please click 'ExxonMobil’s 2012 Outlook for Energy'

MAtrikonOPC has released veriosn 1.1.0 for the Siemens APACS series. The APACS OPC Server from MatrikonOPC offers direct connection to your Siemens Moore APACS DCS without requiring the extra expense of an API. This OPC Server also offers much higher write performance which is often a necessity for DCS migration or console replacement projects. This OPC Server automatically finds all Siemens Moore MBUS/MNET interfaces over Ethernet and sets up connections for them – making configuration a snap!

For further information please click 'Version 1.4.0 of the OPC Server for APACS Direct is Released'

Houston, Texas — December 22, 2011 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji, Iraq.

Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a license for its proprietary Ammonia Process and related engineering services to increase the plant capacity to 120 percent of the original design. The original plant, which started up in 1989 was designed to produce 1000 MTPD Ammonia.

“KBR is proud to have the opportunity to work with First Global Company to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant,” said John Derbyshire, President, KBR Technology. “Helping our licensors debottleneck their plants and achieve greater production capacities and process efficiencies is one of our core competencies and will be an area of significant growth worldwide.”

KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals, civil infrastructure, power, industrial, and commercial markets. For more information, visit www.kbr.com.

The MatrikonOPC UA Wrapper for COM OPC Servers provides OPC UA clients with access to legacy COM OPC DA, HDA, and AE OPC Servers using OPC UA Specifications. The UA Wrapper exposes COM OPC servers as folders in the OPC UA server’s address space. The UA Wrapper can be configured to host multiple OPC servers. Two types of communication protocol are supported by the UA Wrapper: TCP and HTTP.

Features:

• Built with the latest UA SDK from the OPC Foundation.

• Filtering is supported to improve the efficiency of browsing large numbers of tags.

• DA, HDA, AE functionality is now available via nodes in separate address spaces.

• OPC Security is now supported: Users can grant and deny access to tags based on user login (Coming Soon!)