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Do PLCs Eliminate Need for a DCS? By Bill Lydon, Contributing Editor
In the past it was fairly easy to determine whether a PLC or a DCS was right for an application but in recent years this has become more difficult. It is argued that more powerful PLC products coupled with new software tools provide an integrated process control system rivaling a distributed control system (DCS) for process control applications.
Automation Insights Network By Rick Zabel, Publisher
Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.
Invensys...Extreme Makeover - Review from IPS User Conference By Bill Lydon, Contibuting Editor
After attending the IPS North American Client Conference it is apparent that the company is reinventing itself with a clearly defined strategy. IPS's (Invensys Process Systems) view of the major challenge facing industry was summarized by Paulett Eberhart, president and CEO - "Industrial business is now a real-time business, and the only way to effectively perform in a real-time business is in REAL TIME."
Utilizing cellular technology with SCADA applications By Michael Meirovitz, Control See
Cellular technology can be used with SCADA applications to improve productivity, increase plants’ uptime and prevent damages. Switching from analog modems to cellular modems may improve plant performance and availability significantly.
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.
Semaphore Offers SCADA Security white paper
- 07/17/08 White paper describes the application of new SCADA security technology and outlines a sensible, cost-effective approach that is based on the latest developments in SCADA.
Application Stories
Data acquisition embedded in the Antarctic ice sheet Embedded Computing Design, November 2008
By Justin Vandenbroucke, Univ of California, Berkeley
Embedded technologies help researchers control, monitor, and acquire data from systems located at an almost completely inaccessible site where winter temperatures sometimes reach -80 °C.
Batch tracking and reporting with ISA 95 South Africa Instrumentation & Control, October 2008
SAB Maltings, Cape Town, South Africa, installed a Wonderware system to track products through the process to get a complete view of production variables applicable to each batch. The system is compatible with the ISA-95 industry standard.
CC-Link Finds Fitting Application Process & Control Today, September 2008
The Yorkshire Fittings Leeds factory installed a SCADA system to monitor a bank of compressors. An audit of all the existing control systems running identified that much of the hardware already in place was either already CC-Link enabled, or could be made so very simply and cheaply through the use of standard plug-in cards. CC-Link was chosen as the as the shop floor protocol for communicating between field devices and production machinery.
IOtech offers DASYLab training
- 11/23/08 December 3-4, 2008 and February 17-18, 2009
Practical, hands-on training program presents DASYLab essentials and details.
Instrumentation and Control Master Series In bringing the elite of the control and instrumentation industry together for four hard hitting days of intensive training, the Instrumentation and Control Master Series as proved an outstanding success.
ABB Q3 net income up 26%
- 10/23/08 ABB reported increases in revenues, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), net income and cash flow in the third quarter of 2008.
MacroView acquired by Sentient
- 10/16/08 Sentient Computing is the now the sole owner of MacroView, an established SCADA/HMI product originally developed in Australia.
PLC-Based SCADA to Monitor Storage Tanks By Rotork
The Vopak ‘Skarvik 1’ project is the largest petroleum tank storage project in Scandinavia for 25 years and the first fully automated installation of its kind in Sweden. Ten new tanks and a PLC-controlled SCADA system will enable Class 1 hazardous products to be pumped to and from any location on the site.
GE Fanuc supplies Proficy HMI/SCADA to to Genzyme Ireland Process & Control Today, September 2008
Kerrco Automation, the GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Channel Partner for UK and Ireland, is supplying GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX to Genzyme Ireland for use as its site standard.
exiderdome -- A spectacular multimedia traveling expo Multiple Cities Through May 2009
Join Siemens in this exciting, hands-on environment where you will experience and learn more about vital, innovative technologies and strategies from around the world that will transform the way you do business.
ARC's Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing Forum Orlando, February 2-5, 2009
Sustainable manufacturing is a socially, environmentally, and resource-responsible approach to manufacturing. ARC's Forum defines sustainability in terms that are actionable for a manufacturing business. Learn the strategies, technologies, and practices to address your company’s challenges for sustainability.
ABB Automation & Power World March 24-26, 2009 Orlando, FL
Event merges ABB Automation World and ABB Power World into one comprehensive users conference and exhibition.
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