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Airfield Lights Using Wireless POINT I/O and Mobile Operator Interfaces
At the heart of the lighting systems are ControlLogix PACs utilizing Ethernet/IP wireless communications modules. Airfield lighting circuit status is served to a FactoryTalk SCADA operator console located in the Air Traffic Control Tower. -
Online Development names Mark Knebusch VP of Operations
In this expanded role, Knebusch will lead the company's business operations for all product development and will continue to focus on new business expansion. -
One man’s waste is another man’s energy
Granger Electric operates a landfill-gas-to-energy program that extracts methane from decomposing waste and supplies it to customers as an alternative "greenhouse" fuel. This story highlights the communication system used between the control center and customers’ sites, to remotely access and monitor energy consumption. -
Cellular provides cost-effective addition to satellite SCADA system
This article describes how a midstream oil company sought to improve their pipeline integrity by adding a dozen non-critical data points to their satellite SCADA monitoring system using cellular technology. -
AutomationDirect Technical Product Reference
AutomationDirect’s volume 14 catalog offers thousands of industrial automation products for a wide range of applications. The latest edition features product descriptions, technical data, and photos for PLCs, touch screen monitors, AC and DC motors, sensors, switches, drives and more. -
Wireless I/O Control System Proves Successful for Vehicle Manufacturer in India
India manufacturer of utility vehicles built a modern greenfield facility with state-of-the-art EMS conveyor enabled by Rockwell Automation control architecture and a ProSoft Technology wireless communication system. -
Industrial Wireless Update – where no wires have gone before
Automation.com, February 2011 While the intense debates continue over industrial wireless standards many automation professionals are applying industrial wireless solutions to achieve greater efficiency and profits for their companies. -
Belden installs WLAN Process Control solution for Shell
Belden designed and delivered a wireless Profinet infrastructure, which acts as an interface to the process control systems at Shell's Ethylene Cracker Complex in Singapore. -
Honeywell controls Petrovis fuel depot in Mongolia
Honeywell supplied a PKS control system, OneWireless, Digital Video Manager and Enraf Tank Gauging System to improve the efficiency and safety of a fuel depot near Ulaanbaatar. -
Semaphore Achieves IP68 Rating for Wireless RTUs
Products with the approval include the T-BOX WM Wireless Monitor and T-BOX LP RTU. -
Emerson’s Wireless Gateway earns Achilles Certification
Emerson Process Management has been awarded Achilles certification for its Smart Wireless Gateway. -
DOE gives On-Ramp Wireless a Grant to Improve Distribution Grid
The grant will enable On-Ramp to develop a wireless grid sensor and faulted circuit indicator capable of monitoring underground and other hard-to-reach distribution circuit locations. -
Emerson Wireless technology helps boost production in Argentina
Data from Rosemount wireless transmitters helps Tecpetrol increase production by $4 million while reducing maintenance costs by 62% and supervisory control costs by 35%. -
Banner publishes Interactive Catalog
The interactive catalog is sectioned identically to the print version, combining comprehensive and easy-to-reference product data with the convenience of online search capabilities. -
WIB Releases Comprehensive Cyber Security Standard
The international standard outlines a set of specific requirements focusing on cyber security best practices for suppliers of industrial automation and control systems. -
Copper Mine Optimizes Water Recovery with Honeywell Wireless
Codelco needed to optimize the water recovery process of the thickener pools at its Norte mine in Chile. It used wireless to connect field devices in the mine to its PLCs and control system. -
Accutech Wireless Doubles Manufacturing Capacity
Due to the success of the Accutech product offering in the marketplace, the manufacturing facility has doubled the size of its workforce and increased plant capacity. -
Emerson's Wireless saved Atlas Pipeline $725,000 in installation costs
The wireless network includes 99 Rosemount wireless temperature, pressure, level, and discrete-input transmitters that communicate with three Smart Wireless Gateways. -
R3 Sensors Joins ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
R3 Sensors joined the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) as a supplier member. -
Emerson's Smart Wireless technology enabling reliable control
As technology evolves, users are now moving beyond mainstream monitoring applications to gain the benefits of wireless measurements for control in harsh and remote environments.
