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Understanding Wireless Technology for Process Industry Applications

Gabe Sierra and Lara Kauchak, Emerson Process Management

Wireless has become a “hot topic” as more manufacturers in the process industry investigate the viability of deploying this technology into their respective facilities and distribution operations in order to minimize risk and/or optimize their asset utilization.

A number of automation end-users have recently begun implementing some wireless solutions in their facilities to solve ‘n...

Process opens up

Raymond Foo Group Editor

Interkama at this year’s Hannover Fair was abuzz with new and innovative process automation products. According to Dr.-Ing. Gunther Kegel, CEO of...

Process Standards: Pursuing Best Practices

Richard Phelps Control Engineering

In the race for the highest quality solution, standards lower the hurdles so individuals can achieve more. Results may vary, but innovation lives on.

Most professionals know that ISA-84 is a safety-instrumented benchmark-standard. Interestingly, while the committee was c...

Medium-Voltage Drives Shine Offshore

Frank J. Bartos, P.E., Control Engineering

Among many diverse applications for medium-voltage (MV) ac drives, offshore deep-water oil/gas exploration projects pose one of the harshest and most demanding environments.

Less numerous than their ever-present low-voltage “cousins,” medium-voltage (MV) ac drives are out there in growing numbers, doing heavy-duty motor control in diverse, rugged applications. They span i...

Medium-Voltage Drives Shine Offshore

Frank J. Bartos, P.E., Control Engineering

Among many diverse applications for medium-voltage (MV) ac drives, offshore deep-water oil/gas exploration projects pose one of the harshest and most demanding environments.

Less numerous than their ever-present low-voltage “cousins,” medium-voltage (MV) ac drives are out there in growing numbers, doing heavy-duty motor control in diverse, rugged applications. They span i...

Operator Interface Terminals

Dick Johnson Control Engineering

Demand for advanced display features, communication options soars as older OIT-related technologies stumble.

If “eyes are windows to the soul,” as the French poet, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas rhapsodized back in 1578, then operator interface terminals (OITs) are surely windows to the process—continuous, ...

Beyond the Third Dimension

Hank Hogan for Control Engineering

New capabilities expand CAD’s versatility, to speed design and lower cost of automation-and-control system development.

It’s hard to imagine anyone using the old drafting table and instruments to design anything today, but Tegron LLC used to employ labor-intensive techniques to create and revise drawings to automate cu...

Interview

Ming-Chin Wu is President of Advantech Co. Ltd. CE Asia met with him at this year’s Hannover Fair to discuss his company’s business and offerings, as well as his vision of an open ‘eAutomation’ world.

CE Asia: Give us a breakdown of Advantech’s business and the industries it serves? Ming: If you look at our ann...

Emerson supplies digital architecture to Brunei Shell Petroleum platform

Emerson Process Management announced that its PlantWeb digital automation architecture and system integration services have helped Brunei Shell P...

Experts explore role of digital technologies in oil and gas business optimization

Invensys Process Systems joined BP, Chevron, and Shell in a presentation and panel discussion on PRODML, PRODuction xML, a new open standard for digital technology for production optimization in the o...

Stäubli Robotics signs strategic partner agreement with Cognex International

Cognex Corporation, supplier of machine vision systems and industrial identification, has announced the signing of a partner agreement with Stäubli robotics, a major supplier on the robotics market. T...

Invensys implements operator training simulators for TOC Glycol plant in Thailand

Invensys Process Systems announced it has recently implemented SimSci-Esscor operator training simulators (OTS) being used at a new EO/EG (ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol) plant for TOC Glycol Company ...

Electromechanical switch products: Asia-Pacific region witnesses strong growth

According to a study recently published by VDC, the Asia-Pacific market for electromechanical switch products will experience the strongest growth within the regions covered in the report (including A...

Rockwell Automation opens Asia Pacific Business Center in Singapore

Rockwell Automation unveiled plans for an Asia Pacific Business Center (“The Center”) in Singapore that began operations in May 2006. The company expects to hire approximately 400 employees by 2008 ...

Singapore announces manufacturing excellence award

Singapore’s manufacturing sector is getting a boost in the form of the Manufacturing Excellence Award (MAXA). Presented by the Economic Developme...

German Technical Services Company TÜV SÜD Acquires PSB Corporation & PSB Certification

Technical services provider TÜV SÜD announced that it is acquiring PSB Corporation (PSB Corp) and PSB Certification (PSB Cert) as part of its expansion in Asia Pacific. According to the company, TÜV S...

Explosive RFID-tag growth projected in next 5 years

Over 1.3-billion radio frequency identification (RFID) tags were produced in 2005, and by 2010, that figure will soar to 33 billion, reports market research firm In-Stat. The company says that product...

Bristol Babcock acquired by Emerson

Emerson Inc. has acquired Bristol Babcock from Loughborough, U.K.-based FKI plc for $121 million. Bristol Babcock has a worldwide presence in the supply and commissioning of products, services, and en...

Autodesk Solution Day 2006 to showcase new technologies in design

Autodesk Inc. announced that its annual conference platform, Autodesk Solution Day, will this year showcase new technologies and best practices aimed at helping local designers in the manufacturing, c...

Survey reveals gap between manufacturers, vendors view on digital manufacturing technology

Recent survey conducted by Manufacturing Insights, an IDC company, reveals inconsistencies in the perception of value between manufacturers and vendors using and supplying Product Life-Cycle Managemen...

Wonderware announces adoption of ArchestrA technology has doubled

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., announced that customer adoption of ArchestrA technology in the manufacturing marketplace has doubled. According to the company, approximately...

Network monitors Chinese train safety

China Academy of Rail Sciences and Sifang Rolling Stock Research Institute have standardized on Echelon’s LonWorks networking platform for safety monitoring on next generation passenger trains—eff...

HMI hardware market grows fastest in Asia Pacific

HMI hardware market is growing fastest in the Asia Pacific area, a recent IMS Research study indicates. World market for operator interfaces is expected to increase to more than $1.9 billion by 2009,...

Omron begins fullscale entry into India

Omron Corp., a $5.5 billion/yr, manufacturer of automation and sensing products, has established Omron Automation PVT Ltd. (OEP-IN), a wholly owned subsidiary in New Delhi, India. The move marks t...

Rugged Network Connectors

Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering, with input from Jerry Morelli, Pepperl + Fuch product engineer

Myriad industrial network options are only exceeded by the styles and brands of rugged connectors—designed to protect the points linking measurements, logic, actuation, and points in-between and beyon...

High performance compact inverters

Frenic-Multi Series inverters from Fuji Electric are wellsuited for vertical and horizontal conveyance. Impacts are detected mechanically and n...

HMI/SCADA application for change management

FIX users can now experience the latest features of Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX 4.0 from GE Fanuc Automation, including new ...

USB data acquisition system

National Instruments announced a new USB-based modular data acquisition system – NI CompactDAQ – a new platform for sensor and electrical measur...

Remote automation technology

Expanding its recently acquired Bristol ControlWave remote automation technology, Emerson Process Management introduces the ControlWave Express...

Intelligent diagnostic concept

Pilz has now developed the intelligent diagnostic concept PVIS for its control technology, the objective being to reduce machine downtimes to a ...

Simple part tracking and detection

Cognex Corporation announced Checker 101E, a new model in the Checker family of sensors. Checker sensors use patterns to detect and inspect par...

Enterprise control system

InFusion enterprise control system combines capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and ...

Serial device server

NPort 6650 comes in 8-port and 16-port models for connecting higher densities of serial devices to Ethernet. When connecting large numbers of ...

CompactPCI Express dual gigabit ethernet board

One Stop Systems introduces the CompactPCI Express dual Gigabit Ethernet board. The board features a native PCIExpress ...

Automation market of the future - Festo in India

Whenever globalisation is mentioned, people automatically think of China. The fact that India, the world’s second most populous country with steady economic growth of 7 – 8 % per year, is at least equ...