Hygienic solutions from ProMinent August 2010 The food and beverage industry is traditionally an area with particular high demands on hygiene and its related technologies. This is necessary to maintain the high quality standards and shelf life of ...
Honeywell's newest version of Experion PKS August 2010, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA) Experion R400 protects manufacturers from the high cost of evolving technology and includes new turbine control capabilities for power generators.
Honeywell announced it has added several major enhancements ...
Control loop case history 113 July 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering Protuner tuning methodology revealed. Introduction by Michael Brown
Techmation has never previously published details of its patented Protuner tuning technology, which as far as I am aware is completely ...
Honeywell streamlines solar panel manufacture June 2010 Woongjin Polysilicon will use Experion PKS and wireless technology to maximise production at its new facility.
Honeywell has been selected to supply the process automation and control platform for a ...
Control loop case history 112 June 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering Tuning Part 1 – The myth: ‘Tuning can solve all problems’
Basic principles and methodology of tuning were covered in Part 1 of the Loop Signature Series (available on CD for persons outside southern ...
Improved mill operations May 2010 Honeywell and BTG Instruments optimise fibre line control in pulp mills.
Honeywell is collaborating with BTG Instruments, a leading supplier of high-quality instruments for the pulp and paper industry, ...
Control loop case history 111 April 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering Surge level control.
Recently a delegate on one of my courses who works in control on mining mineral processing plants related to me that he was doing some work on a mill sump level control and had found ...
PlantWeb - solid, quantifiable results February 2010, Automation Control Solutions, PI SA (PROFIBUS & PROFINET SA) Alpret Control Specialists – complete process control solutions
Control loop case history 110 February 2010, Michael Brown Control Engineering Incorrect perceptions result in poor control.
There is no doubt that one of the main reasons why the vast majority of regulatory control loops perform so badly is a general lack of understanding of the ...
Simatic S7 F expanded December 2009, Siemens South Africa New engineering functions simplify maintenance operations in the process industry.
Siemens’ Industry Automation Division has equipped its Simatic S7 F systems engineering tool with new functions for ...
Stringent requirements April 2009 Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals improves batch automation with Experion PKS.
Commencing operations in 1994, Orchid has emerged among the top 15 companies in the Indian pharmaceutical industry with ...
PET bottle excellence December 2008 PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is an extremely popular packaging material.
PET has become a widely used material in the food, chemical and perfume industries. Not only does it have excellent physical ...
Blackouts - no thanks! Audio frequency ripple control August 2008 B&R keeps the lights burning in Vienna.
A total outage of Viennese power is very improbable for structural reasons, but even a failure that only affects the street lights would be bad enough. To keep ...
XFC - an introduction: the new class of control performance August 2008, Beckhoff Automation With XFC (extreme fast control) technology Beckhoff presents a new, fast control solution: XFC is based on an optimised control and communication architecture comprising an advanced Industrial PC, ultra-fast ...
Safety instrumented systems: shedding light on SIL May 2008, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control) Safety integrity is the likelihood of the safety function being performed satisfactorily when called upon to do so
Integrated automation May 2008 Complete machine automation using one intelligent tool to implement the entire automation system has long been the philosophy of the Austrian automation specialists at B&R. Total solutions provide enormous ...
Integrating control and safety: where to draw the line October 2007 Some of the reasons for the basic requirement that every layer of protection, including both control and safety, should be completely independent, are to avoid common cause faults, minimise systematic errors and provide security against unintentional access, sabotage and cyber-attacks
