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2016

December 2016: Feature Articles

  • Temperature measurement within the plastics industry
  • Ethernet on the fly is just faster
  • Five future challenges for ­industrial Ethernet switches
  • Intelligent energy monitoring with the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite and TwinCAT IoT


November 2016: Feature Articles

  • Is your network infrastructure ready for the IIoT?
  • Economical and reliable network solutions
  • How can cognitive technology and AI be applied to manufacturing?
  • Is the geared motor dead?
  • Mechanical drives in a nutshell
  • PC Control telescope surveys the skies
  • Protect the wireless network
  • The replacement of Profibus DP with Profinet


October 2016: Feature Articles

  • Paving the way towards digitalisation
  • Accurate measurements for process and quality control of LNG
  • Critical connectivity elements for wireless AS/RS and AGV systems
  • eXtended Transport System
  • Flow measurement in pulp and paper applications
  • Schneider Electric’s expanded range of service-oriented drives
  • The Internet of Things is more than a vision


September 2016: Feature Articles

  • Banner Engineering’s L-Gage LTF
  • A short guide to lightning and surge protection
  • Diagnostics and error localisation with EtherCAT
  • Industrial automation system design
  • Leak detection systems for pipeline safety
  • Nick Denbow’s European report: Sales and marketing people to admire
  • Pocket-sized OTDR with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
  • Pokémon GO: reflections on the process industry
  • Ready for big data with TwinCAT
  • Take today add tomorrow
  • The Connected Enterprise
  • The future of vehicle crash testing


August 2016: Feature Articles

  • Understanding dynamic range and the versatile future of radar technology
  • Implementing intelligent CNC machine tools with EtherCAT
  • Intelligent photoelectric sensors
  • PC-based control in high precision manufacturing
  • SecureIT – basic cyber defence by Yokogawa
  • Traceability through serialisation deters counterfeiters


Technews Industry Guide - Industrial Internet of Things 2016: Feature Articles

  • Cybersecurity implications of the Industrial Internet of Things
  • Beckhoff solutions for Industrie 4.0 and IoT
  • Continuous networks from office to sensor
  • How to determine the business need for industrial Internet applications
  • Linking automation and cloud technology
  • Locally developed M2M solutions
  • Nick Denbow's Industrial Internet report: The future for IoT


July 2016: Feature Articles

  • Nothing is standard here
  • eXtreme fast control for conveyor belt monitoring
  • Improving OEM service performance with remote monitoring
  • Innovative new valve manifold
  • Integrating legacy serial devices into the IoT
  • Integrator for Industry 4.0
  • Safety over EtherCAT
  • Some things change, some stay the same
  • Successful control system cutover at Saudi Aramco processing plant
  • Yokogawa releases the EJXC40A digital remote sensor


June 2016: Feature Articles

  • Adroit Technologies lead in the M2M space
  • Control system upgrade at RBCT stabilises plant-critical operations
  • Process optimisation through integrated condition monitoring
  • Synchronising industrial Ethernet networks
  • Wireless connectivity for AS/RS and AGV systems


May 2016: Feature Articles

  • Endress+Hauser’s water flow measurement solution
  • A portfolio approach to operations IT solutions management
  • ABB Instrumentation for bleaching of pulp suspensions
  • Advice for using SNMP in I/O intensive ­applications
  • Compact and high-precision glass cutting machine
  • Interoperability: an EtherCAT factor of success
  • IT solutions for small server rooms and micro data centres
  • Safety in the block
  • Wireless communication saves the bottom line


April 2016: Feature Articles

  • Cloud-based solution for data collection
  • EtherCAT Automation Protocol
  • Implementing passenger Wi-Fi ­networks: five key considerations
  • Integrated energy data management enhances PC-based control
  • Products become solutions
  • Wireless communication in Smart Grid deployments


Technews Industry Guide - Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Optimisation 2016: Feature Articles

  • Asset Performance Management evolves
  • By your side
  • Maximised operating potential through data integration
  • Understanding the data and true value of a calibration certificate
  • Why organisations invariably underestimate the true costs of MRO


March 2016: Feature Articles

  • Meet challenges and beat the odds at X-Change 2016
  • Enabling efficient and visual substation network management
  • How exactly does IT support ­manufacturing compliance?
  • How fieldbus systems are really ­selected
  • Next-gen technologies pave the way for future manufacturing
  • Scalable control technology ­simplifies machine building
  • Vision technology for driverless transport systems


February 2016: Feature Articles

  • Production data for even more ­productivity
  • Flow measurement at a sugar mill
  • Increased productivity and process visibility at Pioneer Foods
  • Mitsubishi Electric’s new factory automation energy solution


January 2016: Feature Articles

  • Everything you need in a control valve
  • Advancements in HMI are ­changing upstream oil and gas
  • Cobre del Mayo mine chooses Alia
  • Compact explosion protection know-how
  • Endress+Hauser introduces new data manager
  • From motion tasks to intelligent Industry 4.0
  • IT organisations need to prepare for an uncertain future








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