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Yokogawa to provide process automation tools to Oman petrochemical facility
The Liwa Plastics Industries Complex is being built in Sohar, on Oman’s northern coast. This package order is for 15 analyzer houses and associated analysis systems consisting of process analyzers and sampling instruments. -
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What Do Your Motors Really Do?
By Markus Brettschneider, ABB Food and Beverage This article explains how food plant managers can add a similar level of connectivity to retrofit most motors with smart sensors to bring their plants to the digital age. -
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Gateways, Partitions and Tenants: A Checklist for Building the Right Architecture for Cloud-based Historians
By Jan Pingel & Matthew Burd, Honeywell Process Solutions One of the most important characteristics of a connected plant is the ability to increase and enhance collaboration to help solve previously unsolvable problems. The emergence of the cloud-based historian is a key component, therefore, to bringing the connected plant to life because it greatly enables this type of collaboration. -
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Turck introduces range of 8 mm barrel inductive proximity sensors
The sensors with a cable outlet are provided with a cable suitable for E-chain use, and a semi-transparent LED ring at the sensor end, which shows the sensing state from any viewing angle. The sensors are IP67 rated, and have an operating temperature of -25 to 70 °C. -
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Microscan announces ID/MV-30 and ID/MV-40 MicroHAWK Dual Boot cameras
The ID/MV-30 includes USB connectivity, and may be plugged directly into the PC to power and go. The ID/MV-40 features Ethernet connectivity and a separate power supply. -
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GM International introduces HART Multiplexer System
The HART Multiplexer System by GM International is designed to offer the possibility to reduce the number of multiplexer modules, while maintaining ability to control up to 7936 channels. -
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Phoenix Contact announces line of serial device servers and gateways
This family of serial device servers and gateways support most common industrial protocols, with various combinations of HART, HART IP, Profinet, Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, Raw/ASCII, and EtherNet/IP. -
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One Network announces version 18.0 of Real Time Value Network
RTVN version 18.0 is designed to advance the company’s vision to provide intelligent consumer-driven business networks to organizations across a range of vertical markets, including Retail, CPG, Electronics, Automotive, Defense, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, and Logistics Services. -
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Aerotech releases QFOCUS QF-50 piezo nanopositioning stage
The QF-50 is designed for optical positioning applications requiring precision and throughput coupled with long travels. It offers 400 μm closed loop and 450 μm open loop travel, 0.01% linearity, sub-nanometer resolution, and 4 nm bidirectional repeatability. -
FeatureWhy the Life Sciences Need Robotics
Powerful market forces are driving exciting changes in the use and design of laboratory automation and robotics. -
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ABB to deliver friction hoist and control system to Canadian potash mine
For this project, ABB will supply the production hoist and all related mechanical and electrical systems at the South shaft of the K3 mine. Mechanical equipment for the friction hoist will include ABB’s synchronous motor and ABB’s SIL 3 rated Safety Brake System to provide safety, security and reliability for hoist operation. -
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Out of the Dark Age: How Data Can Transform Industrial Safety
By George Schuster, Rockwell Automation Many safety teams, in comparison, are stuck in the dark ages. That’s because they still rely on antiquated data-collection and reporting techniques. A Connected Enterprise provides an opportunity to close this disparity – and revolutionize industrial safety through the use of safety data. -
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Skkynet announces Francois van Vuuren as newest member of Skkynet Advisory Board
Mr. van Vuuren has been certified as a Certified Licensing Professional, and is currently in charge of service sales in the EMEA and APAC regions for Silicon Valley-based Harmonic, and will be a valuable asset in assisting Skkynet with complex partnership and sales negotiations. -
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Questions to Ask When Specifying a Frame Grabber for Machine Vision Applications
Standardization has changed the game in many industries, making life easier for engineers and manufacturers alike. Nowhere has standardization been more keenly observed than in frame grabbers. -
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Prysmian Group and Nanocomp Technologies announce technology cooperation agreement
The technology cooperation agreement is aimed at testing and improving the use of technologies in power transmission, power distribution, telecom networks, control and instrumentation applications. -
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OPC UA and the Industrial Internet of Things
By Jonathan Wilkins, EU Automation The combination of data from multiple platforms is now possible because of the OPC UA protocol - an in-demand feature - as the Internet of Things (IoT) gains traction. This article discusses how the open source protocol OPC UA is beneficial for automation. -
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Rotork provides LP actuators for Middle East oil refinery
One significant order involves the supply of 70 LP range linear pneumatic actuators for the operation of large gate valves. The order for these actuators includes the assembly and factory testing of local control panels with digital valve positioners. -
Industry Product
Laird announces Transport Locomotive Control Unit (LCU)
The Transport LCU, which is now available for supply, is installed inside the locomotive and serves as the controlling system for remote, wireless control movement of a locomotive through a railyard and is designed as a small space solution. -
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Automating the Hiring Process? FactoryFix Aims to Help Close Manufacturing Skills Gap
By Cory Fogg, Automation.com Smaller manufacturers wishing to automate, may not have all the specialists they need on staff. With hiring processes taking days or weeks, the FactoryFix automated platform is working to connect these manufacturers with specialists in minutes -
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University of Wyoming completes Rate-Predictive Control (RPC) performance and stability analysis
The Rate-Predictive Control (RPC) algorithm earned a United States patent in 2016 and is an inherently adaptive (or “naturally self-tuning”) process control algorithm.