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ExperTune’s Loop Tuner/Analyzer, automatically checks your loop’s sample interval and tells you if it needs to be changed.

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Safety light curtains are an advanced method of safeguarding personnel around many hazardous machines. Safety light curtains offer freedom, flexibility and reduced operator fatigue when compared with traditional guarding methods such as mechanical barriers, sliding gates and pull-back restraints.

A digital multimeter (DMM) may look complicated and intimidating at first glance, but once you understand the display, dial, and port panel, you'll have a better grasp of DMM basics.

The maximum length of a 10BASE5 segment is 500 m and this would represent the network diameter of the Ethernet network if no repeaters were used. However, Ethernet can be expanded to a larger network diameter by using repeaters as long as the network diameter does not exceed the collision domain of Ethernet. This article will discuss those restrictions.

Increased awareness and better safety procedures increases safety. The NFPA 70E and OSHA 1910 describe electrical maintenance safety procedures for employer and employee

With security assessments and implementation of appropriate measures receiving the full attention of the water industry, we have been exploring how technology can contribute to these efforts.

To tune a control loop, analysis software must process some loop data. You must test or bump the loop somehow. For example a setpoint change in automatic or a controller output change in manual mode.

Using standard vibration measurement methods on reciprocating machinery, to determine its running condition, has demonstrated itself to be unreliable! For years we, as an industry, have applied the techniques which have been mastered for measuring and understanding rotating machinery, to reciprocating machinery, only to produce confusing results.