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		PXI-based test platform cuts costs - 02/15/12 Control Engineering Europe, February 2012 By Woody Beckford, et al, Analog Devices Using PXI and LabVIEW allowed Analog Devices to test its MEMS devices at a fraction of the cost, weight, power consumption, and footprint of its previous ATE system.

		Detecting oscillations in the variable frequency drives of large industrial blowers - 02/04/12 Industrial Embedded Systems, January 2012 By Juerg Roth, ABB, and Klaas A. Vogel, Elsys Instruments As the electronics within them have advanced, modern VFD controllers and motors require more than conventional measurement tools to diagnose, troubleshoot, and fine-tune the system and ensure overall reliability. Here’s how ABB diagnosed a VFD system installed in a blast furnace blower.

		Axis uses MIPS32 34Kc processor in video cameras - 11/21/11 The indoor AXIS Q1602 and the outdoor-ready AXIS Q1602-E can deliver multiple, individually configurable H.264 and Motion JPEG video streams simultaneously.

		Nordic ID uses austriamicrosystems AS3992 RFID IC - 09/13/11 The AS3992 powers the Nordic ID NUR-05W reader, one of the the smallest UHF RFID mass reading Windows CE devices on the market.

		EKM doubles output of board testing - 05/19/11 With the installation of a vacuum fixture, EKM Elektronik went from testing 30 boards in 8 hours to testing 70 boards in 8 hours.


		austriamicrosystems supplies RFID IC for Thinkify's TR-200 - 04/06/11 The AS3992 UHF Gen 2 Reader chip is an integrated analog front end and provides protocol handling for ISO18000-6b/c 900MHz RFID reader systems.

		Fedegari Autoclavi Selects Wind River for Industrial Sterilizer - 02/07/11 Process and Control Today, January 2011 Fedegari Autoclavi standardized the control system for its Thema4 on Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system. This meets the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, including compliance with global certification requirements set out by the FDA and the European Union.

		MVP supplies Inspection Systems to EControls - 01/26/11 The two Supra Es provide complete inspection capabilities ranging from 2-D paste inspection to pre-reflow, post-reflow and post-wave inspection capabilities.

		McObject provides Embedded Database for Solar Power Electronics - 01/12/11 Azuray Technologies will include McObject’s eXtremeDB Fusion embedded database system in its communications gateway, a Linux-based device for solar power optimization.

		eXtremeDB Embedded Database handles Nuclear Waste Processing - 01/05/11 Baltic Information Systems (BIS) developed a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) product called BISMARC that relies on the eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) from McObject.

		Softing Technology helps make Pizza - 11/30/10 Softing integrated pizza production information in SAP R/3 via a Siemens S7 OPC Server to enable automated fault logging with precise time information.

		A practical approach for developing multicore systems - 11/21/10 Embedded Computing Design, October 2010 By Rational Software, IBM A case study from IBM’s work on fourth-generation/third-generation long-term evolution (4G/3G LTE) wireless handsets demonstrates how these best practices provide a practical approach to development. Registration required to read paper.

		austriamicrosystems supplies RFID reader IC to Nordic ID - 11/03/10 Nordic ID’s new multifunctional handheld computer - the Nordic ID Morphic - uses austriamicrosystems’ AS3991 UHF RFID chip.

		Pickled fruit manufacturer uses vacuum measurement system for jar lids - 10/19/10 Bennett Opie reduced set up times on three of its filling lines by after installing a non-contact vacuum integrity measurement system for jar lids from Micro-Epsilon.

		Building an IP surveillance camera system with a low-cost FPGA - 08/26/10 Industrial Embedded Systems, July 2010 By Judd Heape, Altera A newly introduced reference design applies FPGA-based signal processing in an inexpensive solution for wide dynamic range IP cameras with some fairly sophisticated techniques inside.

		Kollmorgen software controls Paper Processing Machine - 08/17/10 Jakob Graphic Services used the Kollmorgen Automation Suite software package to control its jumbo roll collator.

		Raima adds Softing OPC UA software to its RDM embedded database - 03/03/10 Softing integrated its OPC Unified Architecture (UA) software into an OPC UA based application that communicates directly with Raima Database Manager.

		Embedded PCs Keep Drilling Machines on Budget - 10/10/09 Control Engineering, October 2009 Kays Engineering uses Beckhoff embedded PCs, Ethernet controllers, TwinCAT software and EtherCAT servo drives to control its DeHoff gun drilling machines.

		Software Virtualization Environment Enhances Control - 10/10/09 Control Engineering, October 2009 By Kim Hartman, TenAsys Cleveland Motion Controls’ Burny XL CNC uses a virtual machine architecture, implemented by TenAsys software, to simultaneously run Microsoft Windows XP Embedded and the TenAsys INtime real-time operating system

		GainSpan powers Wi-Fi module of North Pole Engineering - 10/05/09 North Pole Engineering's WiFi-IT! module is based on GainSpan's GS1010 system-on-chip, a highly integrated, low power Wi-Fi single chip solution.

		Remote Control Bowling - 08/20/09 Mechanical Engineering, August 2009 This special bowling ball is guided down the lane not by the arm swing and hand release of a bowler but by the acumen of the user holding a controller that is not much different from the one used in Play Station, Xbox or other video games. An internal motor drive rotates a sleeve to alter the center of gravity and path of the ball.

		SCHOTT Tubing uses Softing OPC software in measurement application - 05/27/09 SCHOTT is employing Softing’s OPC Easy Connect Suite and OPC ActiveX control as a reliable link to automatically transmit measured values from Excel to the process control system.

		Robust control system provides safety underground PACE, May 2009 A control system is normally found inside a control cabinet, where it is well protected from all types of environmental influences. However, control systems can also be installed on mobile machinery, where they may be subjected to rigorous shaking, meaning a control system must be tough enough to withstand the elements.

		Purely Performance-Driven Control Design, March 2009 By Rich Gaston, Heateflex For 18 years, Heateflex offered Power-to-Flow technology in its Aquarius line of deionized water heating systems. The algorithm was programmed in assembly language in an embedded temperature controller, a custom-designed board running a 6809 microprocessor. Heateflax relaced the 6809 with an Omron CJ1M PLC, and gained Ethernet, DeviceNet and Profibus connectivity.

		OPC and XML in Building Automation - 02/26/09 By Softing LOYTEC, an Austrian manufacturer, embedded the OPC XML/DA standard into L-OPC, one of its building automation products, using Softing’s OPC Easy Connect Suite. The L-OPC implements access to a user defined set of data objects through the use of Web services.

		Siemens uses FLEXnet to license building management software Siemens Building Technologies uses Acresso FLEXnet Suite to automate the licensing of its PXE Modular product line. It allows them to manufacture and stock just a few base hardware products, which can now be customized in the field with entitlement licenses

		Out of sight, not out of reach By Softing Clariant, a plastics manufacturer in Gersthofen, Germany, used a Profibus Ethernet gateway and FDT to connect to HART devices in hazardous areas and won the HART plant of the year award.

		Open-source Software Controlling Japan’s Top Particle Accelerator Control Engineering, December 2008 By Shin Kai The KEK B-factory double-ring electron-positron collider in Japan has begun using Linux-based PLCs and open source EPICs software for beam mask and magnet controls.

		Buhler's Grain Milling Automation Relies on OPC Technology By Wolfgang Langer, Softing Buhler standardized on Softing’s S7/S5 OPC Server to provide reliable connectivity between its WinCoS.r2 grain milling automation system and multiple S7-400 PLCs.

		Software Interprets between Rockwell Automation and Siemens By Softing Krones, a packaging manufacturer, uses control systems based on Siemens and Rockwell Automation equipment. Using Softing software, Krones can communicate between Simatic, ControlLogix, CompactLogix, PLC-5 and SLC-500 controllers.

		Data acquisition embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet Embedded Computing Design, November 2008 By Justin Vandenbroucke, Univ of California, Berkeley Embedded technologies help researchers control, monitor, and acquire data from systems located at an almost completely inaccessible site where winter temperatures sometimes reach -80 °C.

		MEMS for Tilt Measurement and Headlight Leveling Sensors, October 2008 By Andrew Glascott-Jones, e2v This article looks at the requirements of sensor systems for measuring tilt and pitch, for those in use now and for possible future MEMS-based systems. It also includes discussion of design issues facing the sensor interface electronics.

		Amcor PET Packaging Streamlines Plant Operations with Kepware By Kepware Amcor, a maker of packaging solutions from corrugated board to blister packs and bottles, installed a KepwareEX server to connect Wonderware, Siemens, Allen Bradley and Apriso/SAP applications into a single network via OPC.

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