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PC-Based Control Delivers for Manufacturing

Frank J. Bartos Control Engineering

Increasing numbers of manufacturing applications benefit from the flexibility, access to software tools, and lower system cost attributed to today’s PC-based controls. Ease of connectivity to business systems ‘sweetens the pot.’

Influences of personal computer (PC) technology are all around us. Penetration of PC control into industrial communication, operator interface...

Welcome

Raymond Foo Group Editor

A very warm welcome to the inaugural issue of Control Engineering Asia – covering the control, instrumentation and automation marketplace in South Asia. We are very proud to be the next addition to th...

Three Ways to Easily Add PACs to Improve Existing Control Systems

Todd Walter National Instruments

While new, high-performance industrial measurement and control technologies are helping engineers design systems with higher efficiency and throughput, plant engineers today do not have the luxury of ...

Assess Risk

Dr. William Goble Exida.com

Using safety integrity levels (SIL) offers different, perhaps more flexible, means of assessing risk and augmenting safety at discrete manufacturing sites. Look at risk early and often.

“Just tell me how I’m supposed to build the stuff to comply with current safety requirements and avoid injuries, fines, and litigation.” That’s what engineers want to know. Yet most recent safety r...

In-line Instrumentation

Jeanine Katzel Control Engineering

Established technology remains relevant as refinements keep traditional measurement devices competitive in the face of non-intrusive technology advances.

In-line measuring, monitoring, and analysis is found in all process industries. Whether involving liquids or gases, in-line methodologies prov...

PLCs Maximize Machine, Motion Control

Dick Johnson Control Engineering

Control engineers now have at their disposal a wide variety of logic devices to program processes and machines. Computers and computer technology provide almost unlimited control possibilities no matt...

Control software for manufacturing applications

Steeplechase Visual Logic Controller (VLC) is said to be the fastest control software for manufacturing applications. According to Phoenix Contact, VLC’s runtime can achieve logic scan times as sh...

Data Acquisition

Dave Harrold, Control Engineering

DAQ download targets change along with operating systems, as technologies upgrade.

In its purest form, data acquisition (DAQ) is the process of gathering information in an automated fashion from analog and digital measurement...

Model Predictive Controller

Lew Gordon Invensys

Higher performance aids achievement of tighter production and efficiency targets.

Despite many challenges in applying model predictive control (MPC) to a process control problem, it is worth the effort. Performance of this technology can be significantly better than more familiar c...

New Coriolis meter finds hundreds of kilograms of ‘disappearing’ batch product

With the cost of chemicals these days, it’s nice to be able to keep good track of them.

It’s a common problem: the batch of a product has been processed, and is being pumped and metered to the next stage. Typically the flow meter starts empty, suffers the ‘hit’ from the onset of process ...

“It is important for the company to both understand and serve this region in a comprehensive fashion.”

David Johnson is Rockwell Samsung Automation Regional Director & Rockwell Automation Vice President and General Manager of Small Controller Business. He is also slated to lead the company’s Asia Pacific Business Center in Singapore. He comments on the importance of establishing the center.

CE Asia: Please comment on the significance of the Asia Pacific Business Center in the context of Rockwell Automation’s global strategy.</b...

“…. applications areas that were impossible to address with PLCs are now addressable”

Chandran Nair is the Managing Director of National Instruments Singapore, which is the company’s hea

CE Asia: How are technologies evolving in industrial measurement and control? Chandran: For the last decade a passionate debate has ...

Fluke announces acquisition of LEM Instruments

Fluke Corporation announced that it has acquired LEM Instruments, a division of LEM Group. LEM Instruments is a European manufacturer of test and measurement equipment including analyzers and syste...

India’s control systems market will double by 2009, reports ARC

Real time integration of information between manufacturing and business systems will experience a dramatic increase in India over the next few years, according to a study by Dedham, Ma.-based ARC Advi...

Tyco Electronics joins Ethernet Alliance

Tyco Electronics announced that it is a founding member of the Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology. Tyco Electronics said it wi...

Advantech expands into India

Advantech has announced the official opening of Advantech India (Advantech Co. Singapore Pte Ltd - India Branch). The branch is located in Bang...

Rockwell Automation establishes Asia-Pacific Business Center in Singapore

Rockwell Automation announced that it will establish an Asia-Pacific Business Center in Singapore, consisting of select business management, engineering, and manufacturing operations. The Center will ...

PIAB opens production facility in Singapore

PIAB announced that, together with the opening of the PIAB Production Centre Pte Ltd (PPC) in Singapore, it has expanded its sales organization to include China and India. According to the company, th...

Schneider Electric holds South East Asia Initiative in Thailand

Schneider Electric welcomed its South East Asian customers to familiarize themselves with its technology and applications in Bangkok in ...

Emerson wins $13 million contract to automate Korean power plant

Emerson Process Management announced it has been awarded a $13 million contract to install its PlantWeb digital plant architecture in units 3 and 4 of the Yonghung thermal power plant. Yonghung, wh...

GE Fanuc’s Singapore water project one of the largest integrated SCADA systems

GE Fanuc Automation Inc, a unit of GE Industrial, has announced it is working with CH2M HILL, a multinational engineering firm and designer of Singapore’s Deep Tunnel Sewerage System, on what is said ...

Invensys unveils enterprise asset management software in simplified Chinese

The Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems announced that its Avantis.PRO (R4.1) enterprise asset management (EAM) solution now supports Simplified Chinese language. According to the company, thi...

What is a smart sensor?

Peter Cleaveland

One of the biggest advances in automation has been the development and spread of smart sensors. But what exactly is a “smart” sensor? Experts from six sensor manufacturers define this term. <center...

Corrosion detection transmitters

CorrTran corrosion detection transmitters from Pepperl+Fuchs are available for intrinsically safe (IS) application. Isolation barriers work in...

IP67 data gathering modules

The IP67-protected sensor/actuator boxes from WAGO can collect signals local to the machine. This type of data acquisition provides an alterna...

Multifunction process calibrator

Fluke Corporation introduces the Fluke 726 precision multifunction process calibrator, which is specifically designed to provide the calibrati...

Modular assembly system

DAS 30 is a modular factory concept platform for light assembly, inspection, test, repairing and packing applications. It covers the en...

Variable speed drives for high-performance applications

Telemecanique Altivar 61 and Altivar 71 variable speed drives is characterized by the extent of its power range, a feature that enables contro...

UPS for industrial applications

Allen-Bradley 1609-P UPS is a line of double conversion online uninterruptible power supplies for industrial applications. Available in the 3 to 10kVA power range, the 1609-P complements the existing ...

Filling and dosing transmitter

Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters provide manufacturers of filling machines with a direct mass flow measurement, accurate to better than 0.1%. ...

Spring-loaded position sensors

GHSE/GHSER 750 Series LVDT position sensors operate from 24V DC, delivering an output of 0 - 10V DC over the full sensing range. One of the ne...

Reflective sensor assembly

Optek’s color sensor assembly combines a white LED with a reflective color sensor chip in a miniature plastic housing less than one quarter of...

Software for PC vision systems

OCVMax is a character verification technology that allows text to be verified, even when printed on curved or flexible surfaces or distorted d...

Coriolis transmitter for demanding applications

oxboro CFT50 digital Coriolis mass flow transmitter features patented flow measurement technology to measure traditionally difficult-to-handle...

Infrared thermometer for industrial process

MM Series Infrared (IR) thermometer provides enhanced continuous remote temperature monitoring, video surveillance and documentation capabilit...

Industrial Ethernet cables

Weidmuller has developed a full range of electrical and fiber optic industrial Ethernet cables for both patch and network installation....

AC/DC switcher for industrial and medical applications

ECM100 single-output AC/DC switching power supply from XP Power is said to be the world’s most compact unit of its type. Using innovative phys...