
A thorough evaluation of every phase of manufacturing with appropriate executive leadership can lead to cleaner manufacturing that creates far less waste.
The ability of Ethernet to carry multiple protocols enables innovation in communication for effective manufacturing efficiency.
Plants are relying on new generations of more fully integrated control technology to run smaller, faster and more efficient machines.
Determinism is still an issue for high-speed wireless control, but some factory users are moving ahead.
It may be controversial, but wireless technology is already being used in process control applications. How far and how fast will this trend go? Will we ever see an "all-wireless" plant?
Gary interviews Jonas Berge, Director of
PlantWeb Consulting for Emerson Process Management in Singapore. He
discusses EDDL (electronic device description language), describing
what it is, how it is used and the overall system from intelligent
instruments to how the information is displayed in a client computer.
More information is available at www.eddl.org.
Microprocessor analyst, consultant and author Jim Turley talks with AW’s Wes Iversen about Intel’s decision to discontinue its family of x86 processor chips, and its impact on industrial automation users.


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