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Three Steps to Energy Efficiency

An experienced power quality engineer reveals how to cut energy costs. And it all begins with an energy audit

Using energy efficiently is cool again,” says Paul Twite, referring to the current high cost of energy. Twite is a power quality engineer, a Level ...

Talent quest

Raymond Foo, Group Editor

There is a very interesting trend happening in the world of manufacturing and that is multinationals moving their whole va...

Introducing an Industrial Network

Peter Welander, Control Engineering

If you have never created an industrial network in your plant, this tutorial can help direct your analysis.

For all the discussion of industrial networking and all the installations around the world, they aren’t as common as one might expect. In fact, many more plants aren’t networked than those that are. M...

Handheld Test and Measurement Instruments

Dick Johnson for Control Engineering

Demand for advanced capabilities continues as devices get smaller, faster, cheaper.

Form follows function. The phrase originated with American sculptor Horatio Greenough and was popularized by architect Louis Henri Sullivan, but its wisdom also applies to product design. As the need ...

Standardizing the Operator Interface

Jeanine Katzel, Control Engineering

As applications increase in number and complexity, demand is growing to establish common configurations and procedures that will make interacting with processes and operations safer, consistent, efficient.

The sources of the problems that thrust Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant into the limelight in 1979 we...

Auto-Tuning Control Using Ziegler-Nichols

Vance VanDoren, Ph.D., P.E. Control Engineering

The classic technique for tuning a PID loop has become even more popular with the advent of controllers capable of tuning themselves.

John “Zeke” Ziegler and Nathaniel Nichols may not have invented the proportionalintegral- derivative (PID) controller, but their famous loop tuning techniques helped make the PID algorithm the most po...

The Year of the CAT

Martin Rostan is Executive Director of the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG), the organization charged with advancing and promoting the EtherCAT industrial Ethernet network originally developed by Beckhoff Automation. CE Asia caught up with him on his recent visit to the region.

CE Asia: What is the reason behind your trip to Asia? Rostan: Although EtherCAT was invented in Europe,...

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Ultrasonic Transducers

Toan Nguyen, Christopher Frail, GE Sensing

Ultrasonic transducers are used for a variety of instrumentation and control applications, most commonly for flow measure...

A World of Automation

Rockwell Automation celebrated Automation Fair’s eighth anniversary

Over the years, Automation Fair has grown from strength-to-strength and this year’s event, held from October 24 to 26, on...

EDDL for machinery monitoring

Based on enhancements to the international standard Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL), Emerson Process Manage...

Clear operational insight

Proficy Plant Applications 4.3 is the latest version of GE Fanuc Automation’s Production Management software – which focuses on Efficiency, Quality...

Single, cost effective controller

Part of the Rockwell Automation Logix PAC family, CompactLogix delivers the benefits of the Logix control engine but in a smaller form factor. Suitable for small and midsized applications, CompactLogi...

Reusable RFID tag

Intermec is introducing a compact, reusable RFID tag ideal for harsh industrial applications where ruggedness, chemical resistance or extreme temperatures are a factor. The Small Rigid Tag, a companio...

DCS with enhanced alarm function

CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Release 3.08 is the latest version of Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s flagship integrated production control system. Enhanced fun...

Fieldbus device coupler for hazardous areas

The TG300 TRUNKGUARD Device Couplers from MooreHawk make connecting FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 or PROFIBUS PA fieldbus devices in Zone 1 and 2 hazardo...

Handheld readers for diverse applications

Simatic HawkEye 4x, from Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), is the name of the new series of handheld readers for identifying 1D and 2D codes. Th...

Visualize data from multiple SCADA

From Citect comes CitectSCADA Reports v4, which combines the openness of an embedded MS SQL Server with powerful performance to deliver an accessi...