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June 2008 |
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Safety instrumented systems: shedding light on SIL
South Africa Instrumentation & Control, May 2008
By Andrew Ashton
Safety engineering principles have evolved over the past decade or so from employing a relatively formulaic and prescriptive philosophy to one which involves risk assessment and risk reduction. This risk-based approach places far more responsibility on control system engineers.
HART monitors extract data from smart instruments
Plant Engineering, May 2008
By Greg Feliks, Moore Industries
A simple and cost effective solution for gathering HART information is to use a HART interface device. Fortunately, HART interface devices, available from several manufacturers, make acquiring HART data a fairly simple proposition. This HART data is then made available to the control system via analog signals, discrete outputs or serial communications.
Bit-level Buses Compete on Speed, Connectivity
Automation World, May 2008
By C. Kenna Amos
Down in the lower levels of the seven-layer International Organization for Standardization’s (www.iso.ch) Open System Interconnection Reference Model, two bit-level buses compete to control devices such as actuators and sensors: the Actuator Sensor Interface (AS-I) and CompoNet.
What’s needed in process automation?
Chemical Processing, May 2008
By Mark Rosenzweig
A recent survey of end users by Jacobs Engineering Group provides an extensive wish list for field instrumentation, including disposable instrumentation for disposable process components; Class 1 Division 1-rated I/O modules; power-over-Ethernet instruments; and built-in control module logic, including alarming. Wish lists also cover controllers, HMI, control systems, batch, and more.
Safety Sensors Rise to New Heights
Control Engineering, May 2008
By Mark T. Hoske
An integrated safety system, like any control system, contains sensors, logic, and actuation, with I/O connections, networks, and software to tie it altogether. As connected sensors advance in functionality and fall in cost, redundancy and fail-safe designs reduce risk.
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| Resources & Literature |
Omron STI's 2007/2008 Machine Safety Engineering Guide
Omron STI's new 1500+ page 2007-2008 Engineering Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding is now available. This two-volume set details Omron STI's complete family of machine and process safety solutions, and contains more than 225 pages of educational resource material.
Moore Industries announces SNAP custom signal interfaces
SNAP provides customers with customized solutions to meet unusual signal interface needs in industrial process control, systems integration and factory automation applications.
Earthing & Bonding Applications Handbook 2008
Handbook is a practical guide for engineers and plant managers to controlling the hazards associated with uncontrolled discharges of static electricity within flammable and explosive atmospheres. The Handbook contains clear and concise illustrations of solutions to a wide range of electrostatic hazards.
UEI publishes Introduction to DAQ White Paper
“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Acquisition” explains the overall concept of data acquisition and considerations for analog input systems.
Calex publishes DC/DC and AC/DC short form product guide
The Short Form Product Guide provides an easy reference selection guide for Calex DC/DC converter and AC/DC power supply products.
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| | Application Stories |
Suppliers Bring Data Logging to Drag Racing
Design News, May 2008
By Charles J. Murray
Nearly all serious drag racers now use so-called “black boxes” to record fuel pressure, oil pressure, shock travel, engine rpm, clutch rpm, acceleration and a host of other parameters. Radiated electrical noise serves as a problem for such data recording, however. Alcohol funny cars employ high-powered magnetos, causing noise problems for sensors, especially those mounted near engines.
Upgrade delivers spare parts
Control Engineering, May 2008
By Marvin Coker, Bachelor Controls
Golden Triangle Energy Cooperative in Craig, MO, had control system hardware that had been deemed obsolete by the manufacturer, and replacement parts were becoming difficult to find. Bachelor Controls upgraded the system to Rockwell Automation’s Process Automation System, ControlLogix PAC and I/O, and RSView.
World's first plant with IO Link technology
Control Engineering Europe, May 2008
Duni GmbH in Bramsche, Germany, a producer of table decorations, uses IO Link technology on the packaging line. A dozen SICK photoelectric proximity switches communicate with the controller, which is in a Profibus fieldbus environment.
Condition monitoring system prevents downtime at nuclear plant
Process & Control Today, April 2008
A FAG VibroCheck remote condition monitoring system is helping E.ON Kernkraft’s nuclear power plant in Grafenrheinfeld, Germany, monitor more than 90 electric motors, pumps and fans, providing early warning of impending failures and helping to keep plant availability above 90 per cent.
Out of the Cabinet, on the Job
Control Design, April 2008
By Jim Montague
Users simplify networks, reduce troubleshooting and save wiring and labor with machine-mount, IP67-rated I/O components.
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| | Featured Training |
Free Data Acquisition Seminar
June 17, 2008 Marlborough, MA
Experts from Measurement Computing and Andruss-Peskin will demonstrate and configure typical real-world test, measurement, and control scenarios.
Understanding and Applying Instrumentation in Hazardous Locations
July 9-10, 2008 Research Triangle Park, NC
Provides a detailed, systematic approach to the specification and implementation of instrumentation in hazardous locations. Related standards from National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), American Petroleum Institute (API), and ISA are stressed.
Fieldbus training in South Africa
July 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa
The Fieldbus Foundation Southern African Marketing Committee will hold its first fieldbus training course during the second week of July 2008.
FREE Training on Opto 22’s SNAP PAC System
Opto 22 offers FREE SNAP PAC System training classes held at company headquarters in Temecula, California. The four-day, hands-on class provides an overview of Opto 22’s simple answer to complex automation problems.
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Semaphore launches Certified SCADA Integrator Program
The program provides comprehensive training as well as a technical support program that is tailored to the needs of systems integrators.
GE Fanuc completes acquisition of MOST from MTL
GE Fanuc completed the acquisition of assets of the MTL Open System Technologies (MOST) product lines.
Moore Industries Seeks Oldest Products Still in Service
Moore Industries is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, and is trying to find the oldest of its products that are still in service.
Microprecision builds its Swiss microswitches in the U.S.
Microprecision Electronics now builds its microswitches at Wilbrecht Electronics’ Huron, S.D. plant.
Moore Industries Celebrates 40 Years of Success
Still privately-held by founder and CEO Leonard W. Moore, the company has come a long way from humble garage beginnings when Moore designed and built the company's first electronic signal converters. Today, the company builds signal conditioners, temperature transmitters, fieldbus interface devices and much more.
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| Application News |
Using Industrial Wireless Ethernet in Mining Systems
A mine uses a combination of Moxa's AWK-1100 wireless AP/Bridge/AP Client and an industrial Ethernet switch.
Emerson to automate two new glass plants in China
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, DeltaV, intelligent field devices, and Foundation Fieldbus at Zhejiang Changxing glass plants in the Zhejiang Province.
UEI supplies I/O to replace VME on flight simulator
Flight Simulator manufacturer FlightSafety International switched from using VME systems to UEI’s Gigabit Ethernet RACKtangle I/O chassis.
ABB to supply controls for cement plant project in Arizona
ABB to supply 800xA Extended Automation System, motors, drives, MCCs, analyzers, CEMS, switchgear, and instrumentation.
GE Fanuc supplies PLCs and HMI to Macawber Beekay
Equipment includes PLC-based control panels, Proficy HMI/SCADA, CIMPLICITY, and VersaMax I/O to control ash material handling at Macawber Beekay's plant in New Delhi, India.
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| Featured Events |
Automatica 2008
June 10-13, 2008 Munich, Germany
Displays the latest in robots, assembly and handling technology, machine vision and associated technologies in five trade fair halls.
International Manufacturing Technology Show
September 8-13, 2008 Chicago, IL
The largest and longest running manufacturing technology trade show in the United States, IMTS is ranked among the largest trade shows in the world. IMTS attracts over 90,000 visitors from every level of industry and over 40 countries.
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.
SCS Paris
December 2-5, 2008 Paris, France
Covers systems, components and solutions, including electrical, automation and mechatronics.
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