Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. orders for tools that cut and shape metal rose 2.1 percent in August from the same month last year, according to a joint survey by two industry groups.
At the 2006 Asia Pacific Industrial Technologies Awards last week, Frost & Sullivan honored 28 recipients' for outstanding performances in the Electronics, Industrial Automation, Process Control, Energy & Power Systems and Environment & Building Technologies industries.
The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award in the field of substation automation is presented to Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD), Germany, for commissioning the world's first substation control system based on IEC 61850 - the new 'high objective' standard protocol for substation communications.