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Vortec announces updates to online heat load calculator
This online tool is designed for a range of industries and applications, including industrial/manufacturing, food, chemical, water and other processing environments, oil refining and petrochemical processing, and others that have become dependent on microprocessors, PLCs, and VFDs. -
How to Increase Plant Efficiency and Safety with Level Measurement Technology
By Patricia Mattsson, Emerson Automation Solutions The widespread departure from manual measurements to automated solutions has helped improve worker efficiency while providing more accurate measurements. New level measurement technologies can do even more. -
Rockwell Automation announces enhancements to Machine Safety Portfolio
The additions to the machine safety portfolio are all designed to communicate over EtherNet/IP and are tested against machine safety standards to ease compliance. The products will also be included in the next release of the Safety Automation Builder software tool. -
Famic Technologies and Koganei releases pneumatic catalog for Automation Studio
This catalogue has been specifically developed to support automation and manufacturing markets and includes products of Koganei, a user and reseller of Automation Studio -
Emerson to help modernize Algerian gas processing plant
In its role, Emerson will update control and safety systems, fire and gas systems, field instrumentation control and isolation valves, and other equipment to improve production efficiencies. -
AutoQuiz: How to Measure Fluid Velocity Through a Pipe
The constant between pipes of differing diameters is the flow rate (and other fluid properties) is the same in both pipe lengths. -
Indegy helps City of Raleigh earn CSO50 Award for public utility security project
The City partnered with Indegy to implement an industrial security solution that provides visibility, protection and control to detect and prevent threats before they can impact the operation and safety of its water supply systems and utilities. -
Thorlabs announces acquisition of Norland Products' Fiber Optic product line
The Norland products will be incorporated into Thorlabs’ existing Vytran business unit, a 20,000 square foot facility located in Morganville, New Jersey. -
Cognex helps GM Canada develop chain drive stretching system based on vision sensors
Working with Cognex, engineers at automotive manufacturer General Motors of Canada Company (GM Canada) developed a chain drive stretching system that measures every link in real time and automatically marks non-compliant links without slowing or stopping the line -
ABB to enhance process and power management for Philippines petrochemical facility
The scope of supply includes 69kV high voltage air-insulated switchgear, UniGear medium-voltage switchgear, MNS low-voltage switchgear, power and distribution transformers, a capacitor bank, soft starter, IS-limiters and a process power management system. -
Endress+Hauser announces new German production facility
The building focuses on a sustainable energy concept, including a photovoltaic system installed on the roof that provides enough electricity to completely power the basic production load. -
AutoQuiz: Design Specifications for Building Automation Systems
Energy management, access control, lighting control, asset management, communications, life safety, fire alarm, and HVAC controls are all of interest when designing a building automation system -
Emerson helps Alberta refinery enhance automation technology
Using elements of Emerson’s Project Certainty methodology, North West Redwater Partnership reduced global automation engineering complexity and completed the instrumentation and control scope for refinery automation. -
Load Speed Regulation in Mechanical Transmission Systems Using Feedback and Feedforward Control [technical]
Researchers develop a method for controlling the load speed of a mechanical transmission system using both motor and load speed feedback, and design an adaptive feedforward action to reject load torqu -
exida announces channel partnership with MicroWatt Controls
MicroWatt specializes in flame and gas detection, burner control application consultation, training, and on-site installation assistance, as well as calibration and repair services. -
Robotic Revolution: Why Now? A hardware perspective
By Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, IDTechEx In this article, we draw from that report to consider developments in price-performance ratio of hardware components to make up a new robotics: transistors, memory, sensors, energy storage, and electric motors. -
AVEVA partners with TOMRA to embed SCADA technology for produce industry
The first Compac product resulting from this partnership is Smartline, which is built on Wonderware by AVEVA. Smartline features an operational dashboard for visualisation of line performance and a user interface designed to facilitate line control for packhouses of all sizes. -
Challenging Machine Vision Misconceptions
By Harel Boren, CEO, Inspekto As the machine vision industry goes on to embrace Autonomous Machine Vision, misconceptions remain. This article explains the truth behind some common machine vision misconceptions. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Continuous Sequence of Steps Performed by a PLC Processor?
The time it takes for the PLC to complete its scanning of all program steps in one operating cycle is called the scan time. -
ODVA announces Honeywell as a principal member of ODVA
The primary focus of Honeywell’s activities in ODVA will be through Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS), part of Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies strategic business group.
