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Let Us Pick Your Brain

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Submitted by ajhand on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 14:55.

In upcoming issues of Control Design, we'll explore subjects that include:  read more »

  • How to design machine safety into your automation system.
  • What an integrated controls architecture means to design, commissioning and overall time-to-market.
  • What you need to know to compete globally.
  • What the real differences are among the various Ethernet flavors of fast motion buses.
  • The threat of electronics to pneumatics and hydraulics as power sources.
  • Where relays fit in today's programmable machine control.
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Automation Design Planning

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Submitted by kbonfante on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 13:55.

Are SIL levels an important consideration in your automation design planning? Let us know.

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Well Now. Nation, This Just Might Be Fun

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Submitted by joe feeley on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 20:39.

PLANTVILLE--An Innovative Online Game Simulates a Plant Manager's Experience Challenging Players to Increase Productivity, Sustainability and the Overall Health of an Industrial Plant  read more »

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Sort It Out

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Submitted by kbonfante on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 20:32.

Does your automation and control design responsibility include sorting out structural and mechanical issues like Omax did with the machine future in "Cut to the Market Chase"? Make sense to you?

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GAZE INTO THE FUTURE

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 17:16.

You don't need a crystal ball to see into the short-term future of machine controls and automation. Several trends have surfaced, but still more are on the horizon. What are you seeing?

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10 Years from now...

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 16:17.

As we near the end of the calendar year this is a good time to pull out the crystal ball and solicit your input on what YOU think automation systems in 2020 will be like?  read more »

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Let's Get Started

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 16:12.

Here we go, the most challenging of all steps is the first one so I will start safe (baby steps concept) by sharing with you the topics I hope to cover in this blog:

I intend to have the column focus on networks (including IP based ones), fieldbuses, wireless, and anything have to do with the field level devices (including process analysers). I will also likely touch on Asset Management and related materials as well. VERY broad – as long as it has to do with getting reliable measurements from the field to the Control system.  read more »

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