LAKE FOREST, Calif. (March 7, 2017)—Schneider Electric announced Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. has renewed and expanded its commitment to Schneider Electric with its next-generation process modeling solution SimSci SimCentral.

Bill McDowell has been elected vice president of operations for Blue-White Industries. (Courtesy of Blue-White Industries)

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (March 7, 2017)—Blue-White Industries’ Board of Directors announced the election of Bill McDowell to vice president of operations, according to a statement from the company.

BERWYN, Pa. (March 7, 2017)—AMETEK Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Thomas Amato as a new director of the company.

Amato serves as president and chief executive officer of TriMas Corporation, a diversified, global manufacturer of engineered products, according to a statement from AMETEK.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 7, 2017)—SPX FLOW Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has elected Robert (Bob) F. Hull Jr., a current independent director of SPX FLOW, as chairman of the board, effective upon the retirement of the current chairman, Chris Kearney.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. (March 6, 2017)—Calculating the Pump Energy Index (PEI) to comply with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) pump energy conservation standard released in January 2016 will become a bigger challenge as manufacturers prepare to meet the 2020 compliance and labeling requirements.

BADEN, Switzerland (March 6, 2017)—GE announced its new global Powering Efficiency Center of Excellence (COE), which brings together cross-business experts in its energy businesses to boost the efficiency of new and existing coal-fired power plants and significantly reduce their emissions.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (March 6, 2017)—The Motion Control and Motor Association (MCMA), the largest association in North America dedicated to advancing the global understanding and use of motion control and related automation technologies, has launched the MCMA Certified Motion Control Professional program.

DUBLIN (March 6, 2017)—Analysis firm Research and Markets has announced the addition of the report “Global Smart Water Meter Market Size, Share, Development, Growth and Demand Forecast to 2025” to its offering.

The global smart water market is expected to grow with double-digit compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during 2016-2025, according to the report.

BARCELONA, Spain (March 2, 2017)—Cutting-edge, smart water solutions are gaining traction with municipal water utilities, which see data and analytics as critical tools for overcoming the age-old issue of crumbling water infrastructure, according to Bluefield Research.

More than $20 billion is slated for metering, data management and analytics from 2016 to 2025 globally, Bluefield Research said in a statement.