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Short–Circuiting Fieldbus Installation Problems
Abengoa Bioenergy learned some valuable fieldbus architecture lessons at its Ravenna, Neb., Greenfield site.
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Out of Control Comics
Process Automation Comics
Ted Williams, Control's resident cartoonist, sketches the light side of the trials and tribulations of life as a process engineer.
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New Mult–Trak Mulit-Point Mass Flow Meter System
Sierra's new Multi-Trak Model 670S featuring HMI technology is an advanced state–of–the–art instrument for measuring mass flow rates in very large ducts or stacks that have non–uniform velocity profiles, high turn–down requirements, dirty gas streams, wide temperature ranges and fast velocity and temperature changes.
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MTS's Temposonics Linear-Position Sensors
General Monitors' TS4000H Toxic Gas Detector
August 17 - 19
Basics of Gas Chromatography
August 17 - 19
WAGO Industrial Control Seminar
August 18
From Smart Dust to Smart Plants - The Evolution of Wireless Sensor Networking
August 18 - 19
Thermo Fisher Scientific – Laboratory Informatics Symposium 2009 – Mining Industry in Brazil
Maple Systems Class I Division 2 MicroOITs
Alphanumeric OITs with programmable user-defined keypads, 16 or 24 keys, two or four line LCD/VFD display.
W@M Life Cycle Management
Supporting your business processes. Learn more on the power of W@M.
Proactive Diagnostics: Get Network Errors Before They Get You!
In our professional lives we’re constantly reminded that it is better to be proactive rather than reactive. Taking a more proactive approach implies that we’re prepared and have a sense of what is happening within our environment. Why not extend this proactive approach to fieldbus network management? Download this white paper to learn how to extend preventive maintenance methodology to your plant fieldbus network.
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