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Allan Kern

Allan Kern

Allan Kern, PE, has 35 years of process control experience. He has authored numerous papers on topics ranging from field instrumentation, safety systems, and loop tuning to multivariable control, inferential control, and expert systems. From 2001 to 2008, Allan served as automation leader at a major Middle Eastern refinery, where his responsibilities included deployment and performance of multivariable control systems. Since 2005, Kern has published more than a dozen papers on multivariable control performance. In 2012, he became an independent process control consultant serving clients worldwide.
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    HARTING announces opening of Polish production facility

    HARTING Customised Solutions (HCS) is now manufacturing tailor-made solutions in its 500m2+ facility. These products and solutions are primarily intended for mechanical and plant engineering.
    16 January, 2019 | 1 minute
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    L-com introduces series of shielded, plenum, Cat6a Ethernet cables

    L-com’s shielded, plenum, Cat6a Ethernet cables feature a plenum (CMP) and FT6-rated jacket that is fire retardant, making them compliant with building codes, appropriate for in-wall or in-ceiling installations and a suitable alternative to PVC jacketed cables.
    16 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Bill’s Deep Dive: HART PSK Modem Expands Applications with 8 Times Speed Increase

    Bill’s Deep Dive: HART PSK Modem Expands Applications with 8 Times Speed Increase

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) protocol, adopted worldwide, provides digital signal and measurement data from smart field instruments in a wide range of control, monitoring, and automation applications.
    15 January, 2019 | 4 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Mocana announces integration with Unified Automation’s High Performance OPC UA SDK

    Mocana announces integration with Unified Automation’s High Performance OPC UA SDK

    This integration enables industrial manufacturers and operators to replace OpenSSL, an open source crypto library, with Mocana’s cybersecurity software solution that is FIPS 140-2 validated and compliant with industrial cybersecurity standards.
    15 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Microchip Technology announces MCP6V51 zero-drift operational amplifier

    Microchip Technology announces MCP6V51 zero-drift operational amplifier

    The device provides precision measurement while minimizing the increasing influence of high-frequency interference by offering an operating range and on-chip electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters.
    15 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Dunkermotoren introduces SA / SC 38 series of three-phase linear motors

    Dunkermotoren introduces SA / SC 38 series of three-phase linear motors

    The three-phase linear motors deliver up to 3690 N and accelerate at over 200 m/s². The modular design is currently available as actuator version SA (with maintenance-free plain bearing system) and component version SC (for modules).
    15 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for IFS announces IFS Field Service Management 6

    IFS announces IFS Field Service Management 6

    IFS’s extended offering for service management, including the WorkWave suite of solutions is designed to address the entire market, from small and medium-sized companies to global enterprises.
    15 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Kaman Precision Products announces Extreme Environment displacement sensors and systems

    Kaman Precision Products announces Extreme Environment displacement sensors and systems

    With their design and all-welded and hermetic construction, the sensors and systems are suitable for rocket and turbine engine validation testing. They are also a choice for other applications, including nuclear reactors, steam and gas turbines, chemical processes, and high temperature processing.
    15 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Sensata Technologies introduces MHM5 and MHK5 Absolute Multi-Turn encoders

    Sensata Technologies introduces MHM5 and MHK5 Absolute Multi-Turn encoders

    These model MH encoders provide up to 16 bits per turn and 14 bits of turns counting. The packaging allows these encoders to be integrated into existing designs while an operating temperature range (-40 to +85C) and an IP65 rating makes them suitable for most industrial applications.
    15 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Schneider Electric announces partnership with Nozomi Networks

    Schneider Electric announces partnership with Nozomi Networks

    Under the terms of the agreement, Schneider Electric will collaborate with Nozomi to provide customers in the industrial manufacturing and critical infrastructure segments advanced anomaly detection, vulnerability assessment and other cybersecurity solutions and services
    15 January, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • Thumbnail for Hitachi Solutions America announces acquisition of Capax Global

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    15 January, 2019 | 1 minute
  • Thumbnail for WoMaster releases 2019 Smart City Guide

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    15 January, 2019 | 1 minute
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    How to Get Started with Effective Use of OPC

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    14 January, 2019 | 1 minutes
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    EXAIR introduces Gen4 Super Ion Air Wipe

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  • Thumbnail for Adesto Technologies announces SmartServer IoT edge server platform

    Adesto Technologies announces SmartServer IoT edge server platform

    Adesto’s SmartServer IoT edge server platform features built-in device and data management for sensors, meters, actuators and controllers in buildings, through various emerging and traditional protocols including BACnet, LonWorks, Modbus, and others.
    14 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for Cimetrics announces Secured by Cimetrics cybersecurity framework

    Cimetrics announces Secured by Cimetrics cybersecurity framework

    Among the offerings, Cimetrics will fully implement the impending BACnet/SC (Secure Connect) into all its BACnet related products. BACnet/SC is currently in public review from the ASHRAE BACnet Committee SSPC135.
    14 January, 2019
  • Thumbnail for ATEN Technology introduces VP 1000 Core Series and VP2000 Collaborative Series of presentation switches

    ATEN Technology introduces VP 1000 Core Series and VP2000 Collaborative Series of presentation switches

    Tailor-made with features to satisfy a variety of meeting space demands and various presentation environments, the switches are available in the VP 1000 Core Series and VP2000 Collaborative Series
    14 January, 2019
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    Selecting the Best Control System for Automation Applications

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    14 January, 2019 | 6 minutes
  • Thumbnail for PI releases Nanopositioning for Microscopy catalog

    PI releases Nanopositioning for Microscopy catalog

    Selecting the best drive technology for each application can become a tedious job for the microscope designer as well as the researcher. PI’s “Nanopositioning for Microscopy” brochure is designed to simplify this selection process with flow charts and application tables.
    14 January, 2019 | 1 minute
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