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Automation Weekly - Micro DCS, nanoLine PLC, Siemens digital acquisition, Webinars on robotics, migration solutions, OPC
The September 3, 2008 issue of our Automation Weekly eNewsletter is online now. This issue includes a product spotlight on ABB's micro DCS, new nanoLine PLC, Siemens acquisition of innotec, various webinars on robotics, migration solutions and OPC, plus other latest automation news and products. Sponsored by WAGO, ABB and Software Toolbox.
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Product Spotlight: Micro DCS - Small to Midrange Process Control
Our contributing editor, Bill Lydon, recently reviewed the newest hardware and features of the ABB Freelance control system. ABB describes Freelance as a small footprint DCS for small to medium sized plants in the process industry and for applications requiring DCS functionality in a compact system with intuitive and efficient engineering tools.
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Get Physical with Security
By Bill Lydon, Contributing Editor
While there is a great deal of legitimate concern about cyber security, many industrial facilities may be at high risk due to poor physical security. There is a need for a comprehensive security strategy for these facilities and other critical infrastructure. Honeywell Process Solutions' industrial security initiatives go beyond cyber security to address physical plant security.
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GE Fanuc's Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation
By ARC Advisory Group
The ability to provide an open framework for production management or MES applications allows truly transparent access to data from multiple applications. GE Fanuc has combined its long time expertise in real time control applications with its production management and HMI capabilities to produce such as system. Registration required.
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Returnable Packaging - The Next Phase of Lean
By Thomas R. Cutler
As industrial automation continues down its lean manufacturing journey, the area of packaging waste has taken center stage. The way to reduce this packaging waste is returnable packaging.
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Alarm annunciators in safety related applications
- 09/05/08
The adoption of EN61508 standard has introduced a very broad but systematic framework which allows plant engineers to apply the functional safety concepts systematically to all modern control equipment.
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Solutions Engineering builds motor test station
- 08/28/08
Solutions Engineering in the UK is able to test the performance of its motors, having built a test station around a TorqSense piezo electric torque transducer.
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Statoil pumps up production through information sharing and smart practices
By IBM Corporation
With oil and gas production the backbone of the Norwegian economy, Statoil–the nation’s largest producer–needed a way to offset the natural trend toward declining production levels. Statoil sought to incorporate new technologies into production processes in order to transform, streamline and improve them.
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OPC Drives Overall Equipment Efficiency from 65% to 75%
By Thomas R. Cutler
"Supporting OPC creates great new opportunities for collecting data from production equipment in real time, performing statistical analysis on the data and then feeding information back to operators, engineers or to the equipment itself," says Byron Shetler, Chief Technology Officer for Hertzler.
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Code reading with In-Sight saves Sony money
By Cognex
Sony in Malaysia is using the In-Sight 5110 for code reading on PCBs for their MP3 players. Each PCB passes along a conveyer on 9 production lines and is marked with a Datamatrix code containing product information in 10 characters measuring only 1 mm x 1 mm in size.
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