According to IAC (Industrial Automation and Control) it is difficult to imagine more severe working conditions for device and media installations than those found in the oil and gas industry. Signalling components at these facilities must be able to withstand the destructive effects of extreme temperatures, humidity, dust, mud, oil and the potentially corrosive effects of chemical solvents. The danger of explosion presents an additional challenge that must be met by ATEX approved devices that are also capable of surviving in the harsh environment.
Systems that operate in hazardous locations have to meet stringent requirements and the data links are no exception. Hirschmann’s range of ATEX approved fieldbus and Industrial Ethernet components were designed to allow users to deploy safe, high-speed data communications under such extreme conditions. Key products in the ATEX approved range include:
* DIN rail mounted switches – broad line of Class 1 Div 2 rated, modular and compact switches with Ethernet port densities ranging from 4 to 28 ports featuring speeds up to 1 Gigabit and ring redundancy.
* Mach1000 and Mach4000 switches – modular rack mount switches for control room and extreme environmental applications.
* BAT wireless access points – complete line of 802.11 a/b/g access points, clients, antennas and accessories.
* Eagle firewall and VPN appliances – control network access for protection of industrial data communications.
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Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
The Industrial Security Harmonisation Group has released a joint industry perspective highlighting a critical truth in industrial cybersecurity: secure communication is not determined by protocols alone, but by how they are deployed and managed in real-world environments.
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The introduction of TwinCAT in 1996 marked a decisive evolutionary step for PC-based control. Today, the TwinCAT platform combines all automation functions in a strictly deterministic real-time environment, from PLC and motion control through CNC and measurement technology and beyond, to vision, robotics and pioneering AI tools.
Read more...Loop signature Part 2-4: Feedforward Control: Part 3 Michael Brown Control Engineering
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In the previous articles in this series, the basic theory behind feedforward control was discussed, and it was also shown how to apply feedforward in practice. In this article, it will be shown how well feedforward can work in practice by giving a couple of examples.
Read more...Control Station and Dimension Software partner to connect control performance monitoring with enterprise operations intelligence
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Control Station has entered into a strategic technology partnership with Dimension Software, a leading provider of industrial operations management platforms. The collaboration connects Control Station’s PlantESP control loop performance monitoring platform with Dimension Software’s Asset Intellect operations intelligence environment, enabling manufacturers to operationalise control performance insights across their organisations.
Read more...Precise, synchronised control for automated steel mesh handling system
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Automation specialist Hambi Maschinenbau has developed a world-first system that automates the cutting, handling and stacking of heavy reinforcing steel mesh – a task that previously required up to six human operators.
Read more...Loop signature Part 2-3: Feedforward Control: Part 2 Michael Brown Control Engineering
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Feedforward control tuning is not nearly as critical as feedback tuning, and fairly simple models are usually fine for the purpose in hand.
Read more...Upgrading radiological surveillance systems in nuclear facilities Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists
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Nuclear plant operators face an uncomfortable reality. Many of the control and monitoring systems still in use today were never designed to support the full operational lifespan of the facilities they serve.
Read more...Next-level CAN Software enables easy access to CAN XL Industrial Data Xchange (IDX)
Fieldbus & Industrial Networking
With the release of its PCAN-Explorer 7, PEAK delivers a major update that adds full support for CAN XL, multiple symbol files per connection, Python scripting and flexible licensing including floating licenses.
Read more...Loop signature Part 2-2: Feedforward Control: Part 1 Michael Brown Control Engineering
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Feedforward control is a powerful technique that can dramatically improve control variance in cases where load changes cause big deviations from setpoint and the actual process dynamics are too slow to allow the feedback controller to operate fast enough to catch these disturbances.
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