SAS and GE Fanuc form agreement

SAS Institute announced a marketing agreement with CimWorks, a GE Fanuc company, that blends plant floor control and data acquisition from GE Fanuc with data quality, analysis, and reporting from SAS. The companies will provide a packaged analysis-ready data model and warehouse load process. The SAS/CimWorks solution will consist of the GE Fanuc CimWorks Visual SPC product line on the shop fl...

Fieldbus Foundation finalizes agreements

The Fieldbus Foundation has finalized agreements with Fisher-Rosemount and Honeywell regarding underlying technologies essential to implementing the FOUNDATION fieldbus specifications. The agreements involve three "Control in the Field" patents and a patent relating to Distributed Function Blocks held by Fisher-Rosemount, and two download patents relating to programming field devices held by ...

Siemens and Datastream sign licensing agreement for EAM

Siemens Industrial Services and Datastream Systems, Inc., have signed a general agreement to form a global alliance for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). Siemens, a technical services provider, will license, implement, and support Datastream's family of asset lifecycle management solutions and services, making the web-based EAM system available to Siemens' customers.

Fisher-Rosemount changes name

Fisher-Rosemount is changing its name to Emerson Process Management to reflect its expansion into industry-specific engineering, consulting, and project management services. Its expanded services and solutions complement Fisher-Rosemount's products, technologies, and automation architecture. The new name and adoption of a new logo also reinforce the company's link to its parent, St.