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LabVIEW 8.20 — 20th Anniversary Edition
National Instruments LabVIEW is an industry-leading software tool for creating user-defined design, control, and test systems. For 20 years, engineers and scientists worldwide have relied on LabVIEW graphical development. Learn how you can use LabVIEW to easily acquire, analyze, and present your data. Take the guided tour.

Issue Highlights
- Common-sense security best practices
- Outsource your engineering?
- Applying Power-over-Ethernet in industrial networks

Help us with our study on research and buying habits
The next phase of our big research and buying habits study is underway. Please participate in this study that looks at the ways machine control professionals research, specify, and buy their automation. It's quick. It's painless. It has prizes!

Fence me in
The Fall Issue of Industrial Networking magazine discusses ways process control engineers can protect against potentially destructive attacks on vulnerable networks. Though cyber attacks are increasingly easy to launch, there are many practical methods for protecting industrial networks. Yes, there are no magic bullets or miracle cures here. Just the long, slow, unglamorous chipping away that common-sense vigilance always seems to demand.

Outsource your engineering?
Is executing the design, startup, and support for your control, instrumentation, and electrical systems with internal resources always the right approach? We asked this and other outsourcing questions of both machine builders and system integrators, and their responses form the basis for this month's installment of Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert's Machine Builder Mojo column.

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LabVIEW 8 — Design and synchronize intelligent devices and control systems
LabVIEW 8 from National Instruments provides a single graphical programming platform for easily creating simple analog PID control loops as well as complex control systems with integrated FPGAs, analog, high-speed digital, vision, and motion I/O. View an interactive tutorial.

OEM Spotlight: Tighter controls lead to cutting remarks
September's OEM Spotlight shines on a Milwaukee-based cutting systems machine builder that strives to design its plasma and oxy-fuel cutting machinery well above commodity performance levels for its customers.

White Paper: Applying Power-over-Ethernet in industrial networks
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) is fast becoming the solution for powering industrial networks. This paper describes the benefits of using PoE for control applications on the factory floor, including utilization of an RPS, time and cost savings, ease of implementation, versatility of plant design, and safety advantages.

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New Products

Electrical schematics software helps manage projects

PLC includes on-board I/O and operator panel

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Industry Events

Initi@tive 2006
September 28-20, Orlando, FL

Automation Fair
October 25-26, Baltimore, MD

PACK EXPO International 2006
Oct. 29-Nov. 2, Chicago, IL

SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2006
Nov. 28-30, Nuremberg, Germany

Yokogawa Tech Fair & User Conference
Nov. 29-Dec. 1, Houston, TX

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