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  • Thumbnail for Think Afresh While Planning Your System Modernization

    Think Afresh While Planning Your System Modernization

    Register for this webinar and learn how to evaluate your migration and modernization options, and how Honeywell technology and services can facilitate seamless, hassle-free migration from any legacy system.
    15 October, 2020
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    Improving the Efficiency and Reliability of Water Systems with Variable Speed Pumps and Pressure Sensors

    Distributing water on a large scale has been a challenge that the world has tackled for decades. It is a particular challenge in high-rise buildings, and with a trend for designers to build up in urban areas, rather than out, it is a challenge that has become a new focus for design engineers.
    27 December, 2019
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    Hybrid Heuristics for High Speed Route Optimization

    This paper discusses the challenges faced in route planning and how existing algorithms are largely insufficient. It also discusses how the use of a hybrid heuristic method derived from the combination of straight line heuristics and real road distance metrics presents the best solution to solving the challenge of planning efficient routes at high speed for last-mile deliveries today.
    27 December, 2019
  • Thumbnail for How Robots Change The World: What automation really means for jobs and productivity

    How Robots Change The World: What automation really means for jobs and productivity

    The robotics revolution is rapidly accelerating, as fast-paced technological advances in automation, engineering, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and machine learning converge. The result will transform the capabilities of robots and their ability to take over tasks once carried out by humans.
    27 December, 2019
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    Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Technical Solution Design Principles

    This white paper is focused on helping readers understand in detail the Open Industry 4.0 solution reference architecture framework for interoperability. It provides a dive deep into key design principles of its members defined and supported end to end solutions
    21 November, 2019
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    What Do Engineers Need to Know about Encoders and Motors for Oil & Gas?

    Position sensors and motors are crucial components in oil and gas equipment and must operate day in and day out in some of the most challenging conditions.
    21 November, 2019
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    How Will the PLC Market be Impacted by the Manufacturing Slowdown?

    With the manufacturing sector facing a bleak outlook in 2019, we thought it prudent to share our projections for the growth and development of the programmable logic controller (PLCs) market in key countries and industries, calling out specific bright spots and those set to suffer more deeply.
    21 November, 2019
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    The Trillion-Dollar Question for Advanced Industries: How to extract full value from technology?

    As data, connectivity, and processing power expand, so do opportunities for industrial companies to extract value through innovative products, services, and business models. This McKinsey study delves further into how technology delivers value to today's industry.
    21 November, 2019
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    What Design Engineers Need to Know About Voice Coil Actuator Technology

    Originally developed for audio speakers, voice coil actuation technology is now being used to provide precise and reliable motion control for a wide range of medical, industrial process and space applications.
    21 November, 2019
  • Thumbnail for What Do Industrial Engineers Need to Know About Functional Safety?

    What Do Industrial Engineers Need to Know About Functional Safety?

    Engineers designing systems for industrial and factory applications are adopting functional safety design practices to reduce the risk of system failures that could result in costly damage or injury.
    21 November, 2019
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    A Case for an Internet Code of Conduct

    Self-regulation or legislation does not stifle innovation at all. It steers the internet in the right direction. It is just an example, albeit a very important example, of market feedback for engineers and innovators to develop the right products.
    21 November, 2019
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    Extending Connectivity to the Bottom of the Ocean

    If you have a ControlLogix PLC being used as the MCS, how can you make use of the OPC UA MDIS spec and bypass the old Modbus integration to the DCS? Softing has developed an OPC UA MDIS compliant server module that inserts into the ControlLogix chassis and creates the OPC UA provides a framework that can be used to represent field devices, for example.
    21 November, 2019
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    Bridging the IT/OT Divide

    Today’s smarter edge devices can streamline integration efforts while providing secure remote access for end users and machine builders, too
    20 November, 2019
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    The World Market for Gas Flow Measurement - 4th Ed.

    The World Market for Gas Flow Measurement examines the gas flow measurement market on both a worldwide and regional basis. It covers each flow technology used for gas flow measurement.
    20 November, 2019
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    A Guide to Customized PROFINET Validation

    While serial bus systems will continue to play an important role in the future, solutions based on Industrial Ethernet are becoming increasingly common with Industry 4.0 applications. The focus is less on cable measurements, signal levels or signal shapes, but in the case of standards such as PROFINET, utilization and the greatest possible availability of the networks are the focus of interest.
    20 November, 2019
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    How to Conduct an Energy Audit to Acheive Long-Term Savings

    The goal of an energy audit is to get accurate energy data that shows you where your facility’s energy went over the period; which equipment, circuits, buildings or divisions consumed the energy; and exactly when this usage occurred.
    20 November, 2019
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    Understanding The Basics: A Guide to Gas Spring Application

    An explanation of what a gas spring is, component parts, and how they are both constructed and operate. It gives the reader a basic understanding of the workings and terminology used when specifying gas springs.
    20 November, 2019
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    Industrial IoT Trends: WSN, LPWAN & Cloud Platforms

    Wireless sensor networks (WSN), low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and cloud-based platforms are driving growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
    20 November, 2019
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    What is An Energy Audit?

    The aim of an energy audit is to reduce usage and improve performance. It is becoming a standard practice for large industrial locations as well as smaller operations
    20 November, 2019
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    Data Protection Best Practices

    Protecting sensitive data created, stored and consumed by sensor-driven Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and applications is one of the foundations of trustworthy IIoT systems.
    20 November, 2019
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