- Six ways outsourced maintenance saves
- The Reality Of Our Construction Process
- OPC and XML in Building Automation
Automation Portals
- Automatic Identification
- Design & Simulation
- Digital Factory
- Electrical & Control Panels
- Embedded Automation
- Factory Automation
- Fieldbus Networks
- Flow, Level & Process Inst.
- Fluid Power, Valves & Pumps
- HMI & Operator Interfaces
- Industrial Communications
- Industrial Computers
- Industrial I/O
- Machine Control
- Machine Safety
- Manufacturing Intelligence
- Motion Control
- OPC
- Plant Management & Maint.
- PLCopen
- Process Control
- Process Safety
- Programmable Controllers
- Robots & Robot Controllers
- SCADA & RTU
- Security
- Sensors
- Systems Integration
- Test, Measurement & LIMS
- Vision
- Wireless Connectivity
- Network Portals
- EtherCAT
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- PROFINET
- Industry Portals
- Building Automation
- Chemical
- Food & Beverage
- Machine Tools, CNC & DNC
- Material Handling
- Oil & Gas
- Packaging
- Pharmaceutical
- Power & Energy
- Transportation (Microsite)
- Water & Wastewater
- Event Portals
- Hannover Messe
- Industrial Automation NA
- ISA Automation Week
Building Automation Application Stories
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Many of the following links are PDF documents and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. Download Acrobat Reader Here.Chicago Structure Unveils New BAS Using Contemporary Controls’ Skorpion Switches
Due to overall lifetime costs of one of Chicago’s downtown structures, the customer implemented a plan to upgrade the 500,000 sq ft building three years ago. The redesign process was in an effort to save energy, facilities maintenance, and personnel costs. The return-on-investment was achieved by installing a dedicated building automation network using Contemporary Controls’ industrial-grade Ethernet Skorpion switches, eliminating the hard to maintain outdated existing DDC system. Contemporary Controls is an industrial networking manufacturer located in Downers Grove, IL, specializing in Ethernet switches marketed under the trade name CTRLink®. Click here to read full article...
Six ways outsourced maintenance saves
By Ron Hoffman, MAG Maintenance Technologies
Manufacturers of all sizes can benefit from outsourced maintenance. There are six primary areas where a maintenance partner can optimize the capital investment and provide cost savings through lower total cost of ownership and increased return on investment. Click here to read full article...
Manufacturers of all sizes can benefit from outsourced maintenance. There are six primary areas where a maintenance partner can optimize the capital investment and provide cost savings through lower total cost of ownership and increased return on investment. Click here to read full article...
The Reality Of Our Construction Process
By: Harry Kohal, Eagle Technology, and William C. Pegues, WDG Architecture
Report from the TFM – Construct 2009 show in Indianapolis. Authors say building automation is in a grim state of affairs when a lawsuit is the final step in the construction process. Click here to read full article...
OPC and XML in Building Automation
By Softing
LOYTEC, an Austrian manufacturer, embedded the OPC XML/DA standard into L-OPC, one of its building automation products, using Softing’s OPC Easy Connect Suite. The L-OPC implements access to a user defined set of data objects through the use of Web services. Click here to read full article...
LOYTEC, an Austrian manufacturer, embedded the OPC XML/DA standard into L-OPC, one of its building automation products, using Softing’s OPC Easy Connect Suite. The L-OPC implements access to a user defined set of data objects through the use of Web services. Click here to read full article...
Climate Control Keeps them Hopping
Minnesota native Gordon “Gordy” Vadis has a passion for bugs. His interest dates from his youth when his father taught him the family minnow business. Knowing how to trap, maintain and sell a wide variety of live goods became as natural to Gordy as video games are to kids today. By combining his passion for success with a retailer's eye, Gordy conceived the next great innovation for insect eating pets: pre-packaged live crickets. With this idea, Bugco was born. Read full article...
Contemporary Controls and Automated Logic Make the Pieces Fit Together
Commissioning a building automation system (BAS) is not necessarily a simple project, but it's made easier with an attached laptop doing the work. Click here to read full article...