White Paper Alert - September 30, 2011 - The True Cost of UPS Ownership, The Perils of a DIY Distributed Control System, Machine Design Guide, IR imaging for machine vision and process control

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September 30, 2011

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	Maintaining Uninterruptible Power Systems: the True Cost of UPS Ownership By Michael. A Stoutt, Falcon Electric UPS selection is so large that consumers are often misled into buying a UPS on price alone, without fully understanding what they are buying or available options. For industrial applications, users face a costly learning experience if they buy a UPS on cost alone. Here’s what you need to know about buying a UPS.
	The Perils of a DIY Distributed Control System By Tim Sweet, Honeywell Process Solutions For certain industries, a distributed control system (DCS) provides substantially more value as the basis for automating the plant than a programmable logic controller (PLC)-based system. When PLCs and HMI software packages are integrated, the result looks a lot like a DCS. But, all is not as it seems.
	Machine Design Guide By Christian Fritz, et al, National Instruments Faster, better, and cheaper is the name of the game for machine and device designers. This machine design guide examines the best practices and tools that successful machine designers use to make different design trade-offs, meet design challenges, and increase profit.
	IR imaging for machine vision and process control By Jason Styron, FLIR Covers the technology behind infrared as a form of non-visible imaging, including detector technology, camera platforms, software, software analytics, and applications. The purpose of this is to highlight the use of IR technology for conventional machine vision applications.

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