PLCs, DCSs & Controllers


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Advanced PLC controls crash tests at Stuttgart
February 2003
The decisive factor for the choice of the MELSEC System Q controller was its high processing speed

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Controllers offer ease of configuration
February 2003, Festo South Africa
The launch of Festo's self-styled Front End Display (FED) 50/90 marks the arrival of a versatile human machine interface, capable of visualising and allowing intervention into program sequences, while ...

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Palmtop HART configuration tool
February 2003
DMT is offering the HPC301 from Smar Research. It is a configuration tool for HART field devices based on a Palm OS platform for handheld products. Together with the HPI311V-HART Pocket Interface, it ...

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A soft PLC that is not so soft
February 2003
The subject of soft PLCs in the automation and control industry usually raises, or lowers a few eyebrows, depending on what the particular eyes have seen happen with soft PLCs. The one lobby claims that ...

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Low-cost PLC about to hit South Africa
February 2003
A new brand of PLC is coming to South Africa. Flexible Electronic Systems says that the new PLC (also referred to as a smart relay) will cost less than a set of two timers. The PLCs are made in China ...

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Mobile HMI for wide-ranging applications
February 2003, Phoenix Contact , Residential Estate (Industry)
Thin client terminals from Phoenix Contact provide a basis for modern networked operation and monitoring. These diskless embedded PCs (up to 750 MHz), protection category IP54/65, have a robust and compact ...

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Is it a PLC or a PC? A new breed of industrial systems emerges
January 2003
This new option for control takes the best features of the PC: the processor, RAM, and powerful software; and mixes it with the reliability and ruggedness of the PLC

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Hard realtime control: moving PLC technology to the PC
January 2003
PC-based control solutions that provide hard realtime control guarantee that the control function runs as a higher priority task independent of Windows

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More flexibility in automation
January 2003
Simatic PCS 7 grows with the expansion level of the plant, expensive reserve capacities are eliminated, and reduced spare parts inventory results in further reductions in costs

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ASi controller with fieldbus interface
January 2003
The new ASi controller family from IFM Electronic is modular in design with a choice of one or two ASi masters, a serial and fieldbus interface integrated into a compact housing. The ASi master features ...

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Controllers have come a long way
December 2002, Temp-Tek
Users and suppliers have much to be grateful for when it comes to the microprocessor that is built into modern temperature and process controllers. It gives us all a ready source of highly accurate and reliable controllers - and all this at a cost that will not break the bank.

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Instrumentation supplier offers its fastest digital process controller
December 2002, Temperature Controls
Temperature Controls has just released the state-of-the-art RKC HA 900 series digital PID controllers with a high speed sampling time of 25 ms (0,025 seconds). This super-fast digital PID controller ...

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High-speed interface cards
December 2002
The PCL-846 Series from Advantech are four-port, high-speed RS422/485 interface cards with transmission speeds of up to 921,6 Kbps. Each port has a 16C550 UART with an on-chip 16-byte FIFO buffer for ...

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PLC Review: Ana-Digi Systems
November 2002
LG GM6 and GM7 PLC. LG PMU 300BT HMI

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Adding multiloop temperature control to a PLC system
November 2002
An OEM that builds extruders wanted to integrate dedicated PID controllers, and an Allen Bradley SLC503 PLC, into a single operator interface. The DLC - dual loop controller was chosen to perform the ...

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Precise PLC data capture and analysis made simple
November 2002
The increasing complexity of automation control systems makes it more difficult for system designers to eliminate every possible fault. But a new PLC analysis tool could help. Increasing time and cost ...

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PSY systems for variable speed control refurbishment/integration
November 2002
In today's markets, manufacturing control systems do not only require scadas and PLCs to perform the control system functionality, they also require variable speed controllers to complete the overriding ...

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Compact and powerful HMI/controllers
November 2002, Siemens South Africa
Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has added two new Simatic-C7 devices to its family of control systems for controlling and HMI. Simatic C7-613 is a low-cost device equipped with a four-line text display ...

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Controller system with full motion controller functionality
October 2002
In the System Q family, integration and modularity are paramount

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Safety relay versus safety PLC: safety control architecture
October 2002, Rockwell Automation
The key to achieving success in developing a safety control system is in understanding all of the variables and making decisions that maximise functionality while reducing long term costs

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