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Industrial Communications Portal: Products, News, Articles & Resources
Industrial Communications Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Industrial Communications where controls and automation engineers can find ideas and resources to apply communications technology to create reliable automation systems. Technologies covered on this portal include wired and wireless switches, routers, data communications standards, modems, communications software, network management, IP video and VoIP. Keep up to date on the communications options available to build and connect automation systems. Subscribe to our e-Newsletter or get the latest information on Industrial Communications sent to your desktop as soon as they are published on this page.
Articles
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FISCO and FNICO Are Interchangeable...for Now
- 03/19/10 Control Design, March 2010 By Mike Bacidore FISCO, FNICO are like two clouds of flammable gases passing in the night. |
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Flexibility, Integration Key For FPGAs in Automation
- 03/19/10 Automation World, March 2010 By Gary Mintchell Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips have been around since 1984, but this venerable technology continues to find a dedicated user community in industrial automation. |
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Appropriate Network Connectors Bring Best Service
- 03/19/10 Automation World, March 2010 By C. Kenna Amos Not having the right connection devices or technologies can cripple the potential of an automation network. |
White Papers
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
By Stanley Liu, Moxa This white paper explores how selecting the correct solution allows existing IT departments to easily deploy and monitor the full range of available industrial automation devices for server room monitoring, without complicated integration obstacles or additional training requirements. |
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Sample Code for Embedded Applications
By Dr. CF Lin, Moxa Software developers should always be on the lookout for ways to ensure that products are developed quickly, but at the same time are also reliable and cost-effective. A simple yet very effective way of doing this is to rely on sample code when getting started with a project. |
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Using Industrial Ethernet in the Oil and Gas Industry
By Flanker Kuo, Moxa Drilling for, transporting, storing, refining, and exporting oil and natural gas remain incredibly complicated undertakings and require a great deal of industrial automation. Industrial Ethernet solutions can play an important role. |
Application Stories
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HMC Products uses Grace Thru-Door Ethernet Switch
- 03/16/10 The E5 is mounted on the outside of the Pouchmaster packaging machine, thereby enhancing compliance to NFPA 70E. |
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Using Industrial Wireless Ethernet in Mining Systems
By Moxa A mine uses a combination of Moxa's AWK-1100 wireless AP/Bridge/AP Client and an industrial Ethernet switch. PLCs connect to the switch, which connects to an AWK-1100 wireless AP. Another switch/AP combination is used at the control end of the system. |
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Oystar Jones Puts the PLC in Packaging Equipment
- 03/19/10 Control Design, March 2010 By Mike Bacidore Oystar Jones’ soap packaging machines use PLCs, servo motion, discrete I/O, analog I/O, variable frequency drives and operator touchscreens, and a mix of hardwired and digital networking, depending on the vintage of upstream and downstream equipment. |
Resources & Literature
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Siemon adds online educational resource for cabling
- 03/16/10
Website helpS IT network and data center professionals understand the benefits of shielded twisted-pair copper cabling. |
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Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
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Siemens Automation and Drives Interactive CD Catalog
The interactive catalog of Siemens Automation and Drives Business (CA01) gives you information on more than 80,000 products and systems used for industrial automation and control. |
Training & Seminars
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Emerson’s PlantWeb University Online Learning Center
Free web-based training includes more than 40 brief, practical courses on new automation technologies and strategies. Topics include implementing fieldbus, wireless technology, safety instrumented systems, streamlining maintenance, improving equipment effectiveness, and enhancing plant efficiency. |
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ISA Understanding and Implementing Wireless Industrial Automation Systems
May 3 through June 25, 2010 This course is offered online. Students will have access via email to an instructor and have an opportunity to participate in live Q&A sessions with the instructor and other class participants. The course will cover the most relevant details associated with industrial wireless systems with an emphasis towards how the various technological choices coexist, interoperate, and interact with each other. Price: $1,210. |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
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S.I. Tech introduces Model 2181 USB Fiber Bit-Drivers
- 03/17/10
Model 2181 and 2182 allow a computer's USB port to be extended up to 5 Km using single mode fiber. |
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Advantech announces single and dual processor ATCA blades
- 03/16/10
MIC-5320 and MIC-5322 AdvancedTCA Blades with 10GbE connectivity combine single or dual processor computing performance with high-speed I/O flexibility for Network Equipment Providers (NEPs). |
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GE speeds up A10200 single board computer
- 03/16/10
The A10200 is available with the Intel Xeon processor 5600, with up to six cores and 12 Mbytes of L3 cache for each CPU, enabling a processing performance improvement of up to 50%. |
Company & Organization News
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
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ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
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TC Communication announces Model TC3844 Ethernet gateway
- 03/07/10 Model TC3844 gateway converts Ethernet data into framed or unframed T1/E1 or T3/E3 circuits offered by service providers, microwave links or existing SONET/SDH rings. |
Project News
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GarrettCom provides Ethernet switches to Danish rail
- 12/14/09 Magnum 6KQ managed Ethernet field switches provide onboard networking to passengers on Danish rail operator DSB , as well as IP networking for video surveillance. |
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GE Fanuc supplies computers to KSG power plant simulator
- 09/15/09 The $1.1 million order from KSG Kraftwerks-Simulator-Gesellschaft MBH of Essen, Germany, includes CPU blades, I/O controllers, associated software and support. |
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Softing to supply PROFINET to Cisco Systems
- 09/10/09 Cisco Systems has selected Softing’s PROFINET stack to enhance the IE 3000 Series Switch family with PROFINET I/O capabilities. |
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