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Southern African Profibus competence centre launched
March 2004
The Regional Profibus Association (RPA) of southern Africa recently lent its support to IDXOnline in the formation of the continent's first and only Profibus Competence Centre (PCC). Profibus, internationally, ...

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Modbus communication card
March 2004
Red Lion has combined Modbus Communication with its PAX series of panel meters. This enables a panel meter to be far more than just a local display. Display values, setpoints, and reset values stored ...

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Yesterday's control goes USB
March 2004, Schneider Electric South Africa
Have you noticed that only a few modern laptops and desktop PCs still have RS232 ports? Once reserved only for peripheral, 'temporary' connection to backup devices, digital cameras, etc, USB ports have ...

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Reducing costs in Fieldbus I/O
March 2004, Access Control & Identity Management
As Fieldbus continues to grow throughout the processing and manufacturing industries, companies are continuously seeking for a more reliable and cost-effective solution for their installations. The new ...

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Multipurpose MOD-MUX I/O module
March 2004, Procon Electronics, Infrastructure
Procon Electronics is offering its multipurpose I/O module. This module incorporates both analog and digital I/O into a single product, and is ideal for applications that require remote I/O such as building ...

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Industrial Ethernet moves from theory to reality
January 2004
Ethernet-capable devices let companies develop products and processes around standard protocols, making such processes accessible through existing IT software and infrastructure

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Plugging a translation gap
January 2004, News
People who do not speak the same language find other ways to communicate. Machines and computers cannot. Whether it is a car or a chemical plant, different pieces of equipment are controlled by information ...

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Enhanced system support for HART field devices
January 2004
As demonstrated at both the HART Foundation and FDT Joint Interest Group exhibits at ISA EXPO 2003, Foxboro Automation Systems has introduced exciting field device tool (FDT)-based software tools that ...

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Profibus/MPI/PPI to Ethernet gateway
January 2004, Power Electronics / Power Management
Having earlier this year acquired new agencies (one of them is IHBSoftec), RJ Programmable Techniques offers S5 and S7 for Windows - and also this new gateway device. If an S7 200, S7 300 or S7 400 ...

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Private, optic superhighway for the entire organisation
December 2003, Siemens South Africa
OTN is a flexible private communication network based on fibre-optic technology allowing the user to integrate and manage all systems and tools (including PABX, PLC, CCTV and LAN) on a single network, with speed and efficiency, as well as a high availability

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AS-i four-channel analog modules with 'plug-and-play'
December 2003
The new AS-i Smartline and Classic 4 Channel Analog modules from IFM Electronic enable connection to an AS-i master according to the 2.1 specification by simple 'plug-and-play'. The analog values can ...

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Cabinet-free automation concepts offer potential savings in plant engineering
November 2003, Phoenix Contact
This article describes ways to pre-plan small functional units through control cabinet-free automation concepts, whose core components are to protection category IP67

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Wireless networking of weighing instruments
October 2003
The innovations seen over the last 10 years in both computer and measuring-instrument technology have been phenomenal; both in speed and, more importantly, the security of data communication between measuring ...

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Did you catch the right bus?
September 2003
While there are still proprietary fieldbus networks available, the trend is towards open networks

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Novel concept for networking process control measurement
September 2003
The Netsonix ultrasonic level transmitter is capable of measuring levels with a range from 100 mm up to 60 m

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Scada on the .NET framework
September 2003, Adroit Technologies
Codenamed VIZNET, this new generation product is set to take full advantage of the .NET framework and offer users the best of both worlds

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Process Automation Suite offers many system integration benefits
September 2003, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
The Process Automation Suite from Omniflex provides an easy to use, cost effective and expandable process control system

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Fieldbus protection products
September 2003, Temperature Controls, Security Services & Risk Management
The fieldbus system, by the very nature of the environment in which it will be placed, is at risk from surges across the fieldbus system. Because the fieldbus system is controlling and handling the data ...

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Data and safety in one cable
September 2003, Phoenix Contact , Security Services & Risk Management
The use of bus systems in mechanical and plant engineering offers savings potentials through low installation costs, easy maintenance, and convenient diagnostics. The S-Line installation from Phoenix ...

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Data network for New Athens International Airport
September 2003, Industrial Automation & Control (IAC)
In 1995 the consortium consisting of HOCHTIEF, ABB and KRANTZ-TKT won the order to build New Athens International Airport. Hirschmann partnered ABB in the design of a high-availability high speed network ...

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