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ABB Supports New OPC Analyzer Integration Spec

Content Type  ABB plans to release products against the OPC-ADI specification, which provides a common method for data exchange for analyzer data models for process and laboratory analyzers.

Green Engineering Makes Sense On Many Levels

Content Type  From reducing dependence on oil to cleaning the environment, green engineering has caught on across all sectors of manufacturing as managers  seek greater efficiency and fatter bottom lines.

Robots Make Modules Manufacturable

Content Type  The problem was people.

Solar Manufacturing: A Sunny Forecast for Robotics

Content Type  As the market for solar photovoltaic technology heats up, robot vendors see a bright future.

Wireless comes to packaging

Content Type  Used for a decade in places such as warehousing and petrochemicals, where long distances make wired connections inefficient, wireless is now surfacing in packaging.

Wireless Applications: Catching the Big (Radio) Wave

Content Type More and more, sensors and instruments report without wires. Applications range from one radio, one sensor, to hundreds… even thousands… of radios sending to centralized networks. Not surprisingly, the application realities have a similar broad range, depending on where you are.

Do You Trust Your Data?

Content Type  Control engineers are using myriad tools to ensure that plant data is accurate. Plant data is inherently inconsistent, whether it’s from instrument error or process fluctuation.

Changing Perspectives Improves Asset Management

Content Type  Taking a new perspective on metrics and personnel, along with a shift in strategic thinking, can help manufacturers improve asset availability.

Lifecycle Maintenance Management Keeps Petrochemical Plant Humming

Content Type  “I am satisifed with Honeywell’s Lifecycle Management solution. It enables us to use controllable and predictive future costs to guarantee that our systems can be kept running and in good working status. In addition, future system upgrades can be done as part of our strategic plan, avoiding the complicated contract negotiations process.” Automation Manager, Shanghai Petrochemical.

Scoping the Next Generation of Automation Professionals

Content Type  What skills will be required of future automation professionals, and how do we get there from here?

Creating Dependable Automation

Content Type Automation Systems can be complex, with many solutions available to keep them running reliably. 

4 out 5 Virtual Doctors Recommend Digital Fieldbuses to Cure and Prevent Failures

Content Type  Diagnostics and prognostics keep machinery and processes active and healthy.

Sending Plant Data to the Enterprise System

Content Type  Plants are sifting through tons of plant data to get meaningful information to enterprise resource planning systems.

Vision and RFID: Your Eyes and Ears for Tracking Inventory

Content Type  Today’s information systems have an intense craving to know what’s happening up and down the supply chain.

Information Nuggets in the Track and Trace Data Stream

Content Type Track-and-trace applications provide more information and benefits than expected at implementation.

Building from Worker to the Queen

Content Type  With its Unified Architecture, the venerable industrial open connectivity standard known as OPC can be implemented on non-Microsoft systems, while retaining compatibility with older OPC.

Collaboration is Connecting Plants Inside & Outside

Content Type  Plants are sharing information with IT, maintenance and along the supply chain.

Don’t Rip Out Your Old Automation Just Yet

Content Type  Production of practically everything seems to be moving overseas these days, but the perception doesn’t always match reality.

Samsung Attacks Energy Costs

Content Type  Samsung Fine Chemicals Co. (SCF) recently revamped its heat power plant at its chemical facility in Ulsan, South Korea, in an effort to increase efficiency and reduce emissions. 

Corporate IT Helps Plants with Security

Content Type Control engineers must assure IT goals don't conflict with plant operations.
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