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AutoQuiz: Industrial Electrical Standards for Emergency Operations
The reset of an emergency stop circuit will not initiate a restart. -
How the Connected Enterprise Can Help Close the Manufacturing Industry Skills Gap
The connected enterprise offers a number of opportunities to address or offset the productivity challenges of the evolving workforce. -
AutoQuiz: What Are the Characteristics of a Piston Actuator?
An actuator is a device that applies the force necessary to cause a valve's closure member to move. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Length Limitation for Fast Ethernet Cable?
Because of the high speed of fast Ethernet, the use of twisted pair cable is limited to 100 meters (330 feet). -
AutoQuiz: How Is Fluid Velocity Affected When the Pressure Drop Across a Valve Increases?
The pressure drop refers to the change or drop in pressure from the upstream side of the valve to the downstream side. -
How IIoT Revolutionizes Real-Time Plant Maintenance and Analytics
Data from automation and monitoring systems, leveraged with analytics, monitoring, and reporting, creates the basis for a real-time maintenance program. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Most Appropriate Technique for Modeling Linear Relationships?
The multivariate statistical-process control excels at modeling unknown linear relationships for a large number of inputs that could be correlated. -
AutoQuiz: What is the Inherent Flow Characteristic of a Valve?
The "inherent flow characteristic" is the relationship between valve capacity and valve travel, and it is usually expressed graphically. -
AutoQuiz: How to Minimize the Effect of Feed Upsets to the Top of a Distillation Column
A distillation tower has feed upsets that are measured and used to create a feed forward signal. -
AutoQuiz: How to Install an Electromagnetic Flowmeter
The magnetic flowmeter conductor (fluid in pipe) moves through a magnetic field; a voltage is produced relative to speed of the conductor & magnetic field. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calculate the Transfer Function
A transfer function is a mathematical representation of the relationship between the input and output of a system. -
AutoQuiz: Which Orifice Plate Is Used to Eliminate Damming of Material at the Top or Bottom of a Pipe?
Orifice plates are in a straight run of smooth pipe away from valves and fittings so they do not interfere with the restrictor and readings. -
AutoQuiz: Which Fuse Has the Quickest Response to Over Currents?
Certain types of fuses have a very high speed of response to over currents. They provide excellent short-circuit component protection. -
AutoQuiz: Optimal Beveled Orifice Angle for Flow
An orifice plate inserted in the line causes an increase in flow velocity and a corresponding decrease in pressure. -
Is the American workforce ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
By Greg Scheu, ABB Innovation can be disruptive. History shows us that, in the face of major disruption, the winners embrace change and adapt. We now stand at a new crossroads. The Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought artificial intelligence, cloud computing and predictive analytics to the workplace -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Maximum Level of Precision Available Using Modbus?
To achieve more precision special programming or a specialized version of Modus is necessary. -
AutoQuiz: What is the Most Common Pressure Tap?
The purpose of pressure taps is prevent gas or vapor accumulations in the connections between the pipe and differential-pressure (dP) measuring device. -
Navigating the Aging Workforce Tidal Wave in Manufacturing
By Steve Gansen, Cisco With manufacturing there has been a real struggle with a slowing demographic and attracting new talent, causing a considerable amount of institutional knowledge to walk out the door into retirement. Manufacturers can no longer be complacent in dealing with talent. -
AutoQuiz: Standard NFPA Wire Colors
NFPA's mission is to reduce fire and other hazards via scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. -
The Challenges of Attracting Millennials to Industrial Careers
The challenge of the lack of interest in industrial careers by millennials is daunting.
