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Automation Weekly - Largest VFD, IEC 61131 in OPC-UA, Webinar - Using video in HMI/SCADA, Application wins for ABB, Siemens, Emerson
The August 20, 2008 issue of our Automation Weekly eNewsletter is online now. This issue includes a world record VFD from Siemens, PLCopen adds IEC61131 to OPC-UA, Webinar on using video in HMI/SCADA, Application wins by suppliers, plus other latest automation news and products. Sponsored by AutomationDirect, Citect and Wonderware.
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State of Manufacturing & Automation in the U.S. Looks Good
Could it be that high fuel prices, the weak dollar and crises in the U.S. manufacturing industry are creating opportunities? Andy Chatha of ARC Advisory Group thinks so. He says the U.S. industry has suddenly become competitive on the world market, and companies are no longer moving operations overseas. Instead, many are expanding their facilities, and he predicts a boom in automation right here in the U.S.
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Don't judge a supplier by its name
By Frank Hurtte, Contributing Author.
For those of us who live and breathe the rarified vapors of technology based automation, it's pretty hard to fathom how life existed without electronic automation. Yet, it has been a short 30 years since the venerable PLC became anything more than a novelty outside of the Big 3 in Detroit. Sometime in the late 1970s, microprocessors changed our lives forever. Since those early days, the power of these tiny chips forever changed the way we think about manufacturing.
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Controlled Size Reduction
Control Design, August 2008
Modern Process Equipment in Chicago designs and builds roller-style granulizers based on Allen-Bradley PLCs. PLC control allows them to provide 25 different recipes that control all of the important grinding parameters.
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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.
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It's all in the LANs
InTech, August 2008
By Fereshteh Fatehi and Yuqiu You
In one of our latest projects, we integrated the PLC control process and data transmission by applying the local area network (LAN) technology in PLC control. We set up the communication of the remote PLC control by establishing a LAN connecting computers and PLCs.
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PLC Structure, Programming, Installation, and Maintenance
September 22-26, 2008 Research Triangle Park, NC
This course will enable you to understand PLC architecture, configuration, installation, maintenance and ladder logic programming with over 50% hands on training.
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Industrial Data Communications
November 17-19, 2008 Research Triangle Park, NC
Learn the underlying principles behind today's industrial communications systems, including Modbus, Data Highway Plus and Ethernet/TCP IP. Real life examples and case histories will help you understand the facts behind control networks and how to apply and maintain them effectively in your plant.
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CANopen Training
July 2, 2008 Brasov, Romania
Provides Basic knowledge of CAN communication, including CAN basics, CANopen introduction , basic protocols, additional protocols, system design, device profiles and application profiles.
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WAGO CorporationTwo Networks in One PLC…
.png) The 750-841 is the first PLC to offer both EtherNet/IP and Modbus/TCP as built-in networks “out of the box” – no add on cards. The CPU can be configured to communicate only EtherNet/IP or Modbus/TCP, as well as both protocols at the same time.
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ISA Marketing & Sales Summit
September 17-19, 2008 Cleveland, Ohio
Summit helps marketing and sales executives in automation markets meet the strategic and tactical challenges of the 21st century.
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The Exhibition for Processing and Packaging Machinery
September 30 to October 2, 2008 Birmingham, UK
The PPMA Show is the UK’s annual showcase for processing and packaging machinery. The exhibition provides the best opportunity to source, evaluate and purchase machinery, equipment and ancillary products & services for all your processing & packaging requirements.
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Automation 2008
September 25-28, 2008 Mumbai, India
India's No. 1 Automation Exhibition.
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