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Wireless: Automation Unplugged
Madanmohan Rao reports.A number of new launches in recent months has widened the spectrum of wireless offerings for the plant, and users are keen to try out the latest technologies.
Networked automation via wired, wireless and hybrid systems is helping companies improve safety, reduce costs, increase access to information and improve productivity. Real-time access to information ...
Editor Comment
Something in the air
Bob Gill, Group Editor
Ten years ago, if you saw a guy walking down the street in apparent animated conversation with himself, you might have thought him a possible escapee from the local psychiatric hospital or at least no...
Inside Process
EDDL: Unlocking Device Information
Jonas Berge explains how enhanced Electronics Device Description Language (EDDL) simplifi es device confi guration, calibration and diagnosis, and brings benefi ts to the bottom line.
The breadth and depth of intelligent devices available to open interoperable systems necessitates a structured, flexible and scalable approach to administration of the software used to manage the...
News
Top automation services provider identified
In a recently published study titled “Automation Supplier Provided Services Worldwide Outlook”, industry analyst ARC Advisory Group ranked ABB in the leading market position in this rapidly growing ma...
New office for Weidmuller
In the last four years, the Singapore branch of Weidmuller, the regional HQ for the industrial connector, network and power equipment company, has experienced “unprecedented” growth, said outgoing Vic...
Honeywell engages with users
Held in a different location once every two years, it was the turn of Kuala Lumpur to host the 2007 Honeywell Process Solutions User Group Symposium for Southeast Asia. The threeday event attracted ov...
Fieldbus Foundation celebrates 10 years in Asia
The Singapore marketing committee for Fieldbus Foundation marked a decade of success in Southeast Asia with an informative evening talk, a chocolate birthday cake, plus plenty of wine to boost the con...
Invensys launches online seminar series
Invensys Process Systems is launching a new series of free, on-line seminars (Webinars) designed to provide valuable and convenient insight on current practices and trends in “asset performance manage...
LONMARK concludes successful Asia tour
LONMARK International has concluded the Asian segment of the LONMARK Sessions 2007 tour, which saw participants at the series of one-day seminars discussing the benefits of LON based, open building co...
One year for GE Energy CAC
GE Energy’s Optimization and Control business celebrated the first anniversary of its Asia Customer Application Center (CAC) in July. Located in Singapore, the CAC provides product demonstrations, tra...
Asia launch for Proficy Process Systems
To mark the launch of its new offering for the process industry sector, in August, GE Fanuc Automation held a series of seminars throughout the Asia Pacific region. A three-city tour of Australia was ...
Infrastructure guide for EtherNet/IP
As advances in Ethernet technology and reduced component costs fuel the growth of Ethernet in plant floor networks, ODVA publishes a guide that represents the combined knowledge of experts from compan...
PROFIBUS hits 20 million
It has been announced that more than 20 million PROFIBUS nodes are now on the market around the world. This means that the doubling of installed nodes from 10 to 20 million predicted to occur by the e...
Automation on show in Shanghai
Deutsche Messe is joining forces with its subsidiary Hannover Fairs China to stage the fifth Industrial Automation Show (www.industrial-automation- asia.com) at Shanghai New International Expo Centre ...
Yokogawa to supply largest Thai petrochemical plant
Yokogawa (Thailand) has received a contract to supply control systems, field sensors, and other devices for a petrochemical plant complex construction project of Map Ta Phut Olefins Co, a petrochemica...
Excellence award for Control Engineering Asia
At the Asian Publishing Management Awards held in Kuala Lumpur in August, Control Engineering Asia magazine garnered an Award of Excellence in the Magazine Franchise Category. The Awards were given...
Inside Information
Towards Top Class ERP
A new study from the Aberdeen Group reveals what it takes to become a best-in-class enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementer.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategies are not driven by a single dominant external business pressure. One company might be responding to accelerated growth, another to the need to improve cust...
New Solutions
Create new control architectures
The launch of CitectSCADA V7.0 from Citect provides companies with many new architecture options, such as supporting clustering across multiple sites, hybrid solutions of centralized and distributed c...
Live diagnostics for Coriolis meters
A M S S u i t e : Intelligent Device Manager 9.0 from Emerson Process Management now includes the Meter Verification SNAPON application for Micro Motion ELITE Coriolis meters, providing real-time, on-...
Connect to four industrial Ethernets
The open I/O system from Beckhoff with protection class IP 67 supports twelve different fieldbus systems, including four Industrial Ethernet variants: Ethernet TCP/IP, EtherCAT, PROFINET, and now also...
Extending PLC serial bus range
Applications such as public mass transport system control and monitoring require a serial fiber network to deliver signals fast and accurately with the high noise immunity, high signal quality, long n...
Integrated panel PC system
The B&R Panel PC 300 and the Automation Panel work together to form the integrated Panel PC system, which provides an optimum automation environment especially when space is limited. The Panel PC 3...
Access to flowmeter expertise
Comprising up-todate flow technology, applications and product specification information, the A-Z Flow Meter Literature CD from McCrometer is a free, comprehensive tool to help engineers select the be...
Wireless device server for 802.11 a/b/g
The MOXA NPort W2150 Plus and W2250 Plus connect serial devices, such as PLCs, meters, and sensors, to a wireless LAN, and are the first device servers that supports 802.11 a/b/g, giving users a versa...
Automation system for large plants
Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has refurbished and added new functions to its Simatic TDC multiprocessor system for automating large plants in process engineering and power generation. Simatic TD...
Executive Insight
Delivering the X Factor
CEA: How is Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) structured in Asia Pacific? Teo: We are headquartered in Shanghai as part of the Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) group, one of the division...
Inside Networks
Connecting the Bits
Peter Welander delves into bit-level networks for small sensors and actuators used in machine automation applications.
Discrete manufacturing and some traditional process areas depend on vast numbers of small bit-level devices to monitor and perform critical functions. These devices do not generate scalar data, but si...
