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September 2008 |
| Sponsor: Automation Direct |
Touch Panels at a Text Panel Price
AutomationDirect now offers two new 6-inch C-more Micro-Graphic Operator Interface Panels. Both are touch screen models priced at $299 (portrait or landscape mounting positions) and 5 selectable screen colors. One is a high contrast display. Accessories include keypad bezels with numeric keypads to reduce screen wear. Drivers support all DirectLOGIC protocols and various Allen-Bradley, Omron, GE, Mitsubishi, and Siemens protocols.
Download free configuration software (including a project simulator).
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| Sponsor: National Instruments |
Easily create an HMI –Program an industrial touchpanel with NI LabVIEW.
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Use the National Instruments LabVIEW Touch Panel Module to develop custom human-machine interface (HMI) applications for Windows CE touch panel devices. Click here to view technical resources.
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| Sponsor: Longwatch |
Longwatch puts plant video on HMI screens!
Longwatch captures video from cameras continuously. When an event or alarm occurs, Longwatch delivers a "game highlight video" to the HMI, showing what happened before, during and after the event. Videos can be archived to historians for a permanent record and later review.
Click here for more information
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| Sponsor: Wonderware |
Don't Miss the 2008 North American WonderWorld Conference
October 6-10, The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Your chance to attend informative and insightful sessions designed for the challenges of Executives, Operations Managers, Information Technology and Engineering Professionals
Keynote speaker Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors.
Click here for complete conference and session details and registration!
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Featured Articles
Resources & Literature
Application Stories
Featured Training
Product Announcements
Company News
Application News
Featured Events
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| Featured Articles |
Historians Make a Comeback
Automation World, August 2008
By C. Kenna Amos
There was a time when people thought data historians would go by the wayside, but because of their ability to retain high-fidelity data in a very compressed format, we’re seeing a resurgence in historian use. We’re also seeing historians being a repository and providing real-time data manipulation.
Establishing Change Management to Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your HMI/SCADA System
By GE Fanuc
There are more to costs than just those incurred through project development and ongoing maintenance. Change management technology offers an automated way to help an organization assess, monitor, manage, control—and lower—project costs as well as ongoing maintenance costs of HMI/SCADA and control systems. Registration required.
Operator Interface Outlook Clear, Bright
Control Engineering, July 2008
By Jeanine Katzel
Today’s windows-into-the-process boast larger, ever-improving flat panel displays and sophisticated graphics and animation. Wireless and network capabilities may further extend the role of these terminals.
Solid HMI Connections, Sealed Edges Prove Tough Enough
Control Engineering, July 2008
By Hank Hogan
With advances in hardware, portable and standalone devices can more easily meet the rugged interface needs of industry. Coming improvements in keyboards and displays promise even better performance.
Introduction to OPC for Building Automation
By Darek Kominek, Matrikon
HMIs, historians, and analysis and reporting packages that originate in the process control industry may not have drivers that support such protocols as BACnet or other building automation protocols. OPC can solve the problem.
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| Resources & Literature |
Longwatch publishes white paper on Video Process Monitoring
“Video Process Monitoring” white paper discusses the newest trend in HMI/SCADA: Embedding video into an HMI screen, so operators can actually see what is happening in a process plant, along an assembly line, or in remote areas.
Wonderware announces Customer Support program
Customer First program offers support options including 24/7 support, dedicated technical account management, critical incident response, software updates and advice on software architecture and security.
ISA publishes book, "Sell More Through Effective Technical Presentations"
This easy-to-read guide offers updated information on presentation materials and styles and to help you become a more competent speaker.
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| Application Stories |
Sweetening Ethanol, Sugar Mix
Control Engineering, September 2008
By Brandon Henning, GE Fanuc
One of Brazil's largest sugar producers GE Fanuc's Proficy Plant Applications efficiency module provides a comprehensive view of key factors including equipment downtime, quantity, and event sequences. The system also uses Proficy HMI/SCADA Cimplicity, PACSystems controllers, and Series 90-30 PLCs.
Wonderware replaces SCADA at BHP Billiton
South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2008
BHP Billiton’s Hillside aluminium smelter near Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal replaced its existing VXL supervisory system with Wonderware’s InTouch HMI/SCADA system, Historian, and ActiveFactory.
Geo SCADA Makes the World a Smaller Place
Automation World, August 2008
Equitable Gas in Pittsburgh automated its engines and compressors with PLCs and a WinCC SCADA HMI from Siemens. All of the process sensors, electric actuators and other devices in the system plug directly into a Profibus network, which eliminated much of the wiring to the PLCs.
Employee Monitoring System uses AutomationDirect Touch Panels
By T.J. Johns
BG Industrial Control in Placentia, CA, uses AutomationDirect's touch panels, Terminator IO, DirectLOGIC 205 Ethernet-based controllers, and Think & Do Studio PC-based control software in its Greer Monitoring System to monitor employee efficiency and productivity.
Memphis Biofuels goes online
InTech, July 2008
By John Arnold and Don Mack
Memphis Biofuels converted a former chemical processing plant into one of the nation’s largest capacity production facilities of biodiesel within 90 days. The Siemens DCS with HMI was a vital component in meeting the startup goal, because it allowed engineers to make configuration changes on the fly.
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| Featured Training |
How to Design IEC 61508-Compliant Hardware and Software
September 22-25, 2008 Natick, MA
Seminar covers safety engineering, IEC 61508 requirements, functional safety management, E/E/PES requirements, case studies, examples, and tools.
Longwatch offers free Webinars: Video, the Next Sensor for Factory Automation
September 24, 2008 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. (14:30 to 15:30 GMT)
October 8, 2008 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. (14:00 to 15:00 GMT)
Webinar discusses the emergence of new video technology, and how it can be integrated with an HMI/SCADA system.
Unleashing the Power of OPC - A 2-Part Educational Webinar Series
September 24, 2008 - 11 AM US Eastern Time (GMT-5), 4 PM London
This series brings two VENDOR NEUTRAL presentations from the highly popular OPC Road Shows series to the comfort of your own office. These webinars will show you how to leverage OPC investments and OPC technology in your custom business and manufacturing software applications using Visual Studio.NET.
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ARC says HMI software sales to reach $1.4 billion in 2012
The worldwide HMI software and services market, which was $926 million in 2007, will reach $1.430 billion in 2012, outperforming the industrial automation market overall.
NI reports record revenue for Q2 2008
National Instruments reported record quarterly revenue of $210.5 million, up 17 percent in the second quarter of 2008.
Wonderware selects Kepware for device communications
Kepware was selected as the primary provider to extend device communications options for Wonderware’s System Platform 3.0 product.
InduSoft CEView HMI/SCADA certified by AT&T for Mobile Applications
CEView HMI/SCADA software is certified to run on many popular mobile devices, including the AT&T 5700, MOTOQ Global, Pantech Duo, the Samsung BlackJack and BlackJack II.
IntervalZero acquires Ardence embedded software business
IntervalZero, led by a group of senior Ardence executives, acquired Ardence’s Embedded software business from Citrix Systems.
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| Application News |
Invensys to supply Arkema Rotterdam with Mobile Operator Wireless Solution
Wireless will enable Arkema's field operations teams to keep in touch with process alarms and plant conditions.
Emerson to automate coal-fired power plant in Indonesia
Emerson’s PlantWeb with Ovation control system will automate critical processes and equipment at two 300-MW power generating units at the PLTU 2 Banten-Labuan power plant.
Matrikon supplies Alarm Management to LyondellBasell Europe
All LyondellBasell production facilities in Europe will integrate and use Matrikon’s Alarm Management software suite with a variety of different control systems.
New control platform to increase production efficiency, flexibility
Control Engineering Europe, July 2008
PA Resins AB has ordered a new automation system based on ABB’s System 800xA to improve the operations of its phenolic and amino resins plant in Perstorp, Sweden. The new system will reportedly help increase overall productivity, as well as integrate the plant’s production and business systems.
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| Featured Events |
Emerson Exchange
September 29 - October 03, 2008 Washington, DC
More than 325 workshops and short courses, plus management sessions, technology exhibits, industry forums, and educational opportunities.
The Wonderware WonderWorld Global Industry Conferences
WonderWorld global industry conference series, co-sponsored by Microsoft and Mitsubishi Electric, will kick off the week of October 6 in Las Vegas.
ISA Expo
October 14-16, 2008 Houston, Texas
Organized around six core automation and control themes, ISA EXPO 2007 provides attendees a content-rich environment that offers unlimited opportunity for exploration of key technologies, professional growth, and interaction with like minded professionals.
Brazil Automation
November 17-19, 2008 São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil Automation is the largest event of Instrumentation, Systems and Automation in Latin America and one of the most important in the world. Besides presenting technology advances and new products and services, the event provides extensive integration among users, manufacturers, researchers, students, service providers and other professionals in the industry.
OMAC Integration Symposium
December 3-4, 2008 Charlotte, NC
Presentations and demonstrations will focus on the theme of “Total System Evolution: Emerging Technologies for the Advancement of Machine Automation and Control.”
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