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Industrial I/O Portal: Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Industrial I/O Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Industrial I/O with valuable information and resources for controls and automation engineers to apply to Industrial I/O applications. Industrial I/O comes in all shapes and sizes – local and remote - including point I/O, slice I/O, brick I/O, rack I/O, signal conditioners, A/D converters, data acquisition systems and data loggers.
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Articles
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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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The Path to Protection
- 03/19/10 Control Engineering Asia, March 2010 By Paul Haake, Chloride North America Engineers are employing more electronic equipment, much of it adopted from non-industrial applications, and almost all of it more sensitive to electrical disturbances than the equipment being replaced. These are then mixed with the inherently poor power environment of an industrial facility and aging power generation and distribution facilities. |
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Distributed control provides plug-and-play function blocks
- 03/13/10 Process & Control Engineering, March 2010 By Ralf Möbus, Safety Network International With distributed control a fully mechatronical modularisation of machinery is possible where modules can act almost independently from the rest of the machinery. Such an approach offers several advantages for machine builders. |
White Papers
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Adding Process Control to a PLC-based System
By Opto 22 Today's automation applications are less narrowly defined than in the past. Today, both discrete control and process control are often required to get the job done. Because of the architectural differences between a PLC-based system and a DCS, approaching a hybrid system from the PLC side can offer some challenges. |
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Using Intelligent SNAP I/O with Allen-Bradley Logix Systems
By Opto 22 Technical note introduces concepts to help add SNAP I/O to an A-B PLC system. It describes SNAP I/O, discusses explicit and implicit messaging, and provides some architectural details of implicit messaging, the more common method of communication. |
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Interactive signal isolation whitepaper
- 12/04/08 By Moore Industries Whitepaper has information on signal isolation and conversion, the instrument selection process, HART and applications, and is interactive. |
Application Stories
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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. |
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Integrating Controls for Hydrogen Production
- 02/16/10 Control Engineering, February 2010 By David Crump, Opto 22 With control products from five different vendors in use at its virtual power plant, Sotavento relied on programmable automation controllers to connect analog and digital I/O across its enterprise. |
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What Wireless Network?
By Boss Automation The Cockrell Ranch Waterflood project in Texas recovers oil from wells that would have once been considered ‘tapped.’ Its SCADA system includes HMIs, PACs and PLCs from Rockwell Automation, and a wireless system from Prosoft Technology. |
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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Wireless Instrumentation Brochure
Brochure describes Accutech’s battery-powered wireless instrumentation, including base radios, pressure, temperature and level sensors, totalizers, and output modules. |
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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. |
Training & Seminars
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Opto 22 Remote I/O for Allen-Bradley Logix seminar
Half-day technical seminar, hosted by Opto 22, shows how to add intelligent remote I/O to Allen-Bradley PLC/PAC systems without programming. |
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Opto 22 introduces SNAP IO Learning Center
- 05/05/09
Learning Center provides all the hardware, software, and instrumentation required to learn how Opto 22 I/O can connect to and communicate with Allen-Bradley Logix systems. |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
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UEI releases DNA and DNR analog input boards
- 03/17/10
The boards provide 16 fully differential channels of 24-bit, analog inputs with seven software programmable input ranges from ±10 to ±0.156 Volts full scale. |
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Calex announces 8940 Series thermocouple signal conditioner
- 03/16/10
The 8940 Series is for use with 100, 500, and 1000 ohm Platinum RTDs with a temperature range of -50°C to 450°C. Price: $140. |
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M2M updates Netbiter EasyConnect portal
- 03/15/10
Enhancements include plug’n’play installation of wireless devices, and secure access of firewall protected equipment. |
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Company & Organization News
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Semaphore signs Pericom AG as rep
- 03/15/10 Based in Germany, Pericom specializes in industrial PC, control, and networking products serving the building automation, energy, machine, and water utility markets. |
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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. |
Project News
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G Systems to supply NASA Orion Test Stations
- 03/02/10 G Systems won three contracts valued at over $1 million to design, integrate, and install an automated data acquisition and analysis test station for Orion. |
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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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Emerson to control coal gasification plant in Decatur, Illinois
- 07/14/09 Equipment includes digital valve controllers and valves, transmitters, analyzers, flow meters, process control and asset optimization technologies, AMS Suite, wireless and digital safety systems. |
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