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FROM
THE EDITORS: Plug in to wireless networking
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Is
wireless networking ready for the plant?
ControlGlobal.com
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes tells us whether wireless networking
in process automation applications is ready for prime time
in this "special to the web" editorial for ControlGlobal.com.
Worried
about modifying Ethernet for your plant?
Industrial Networking, ControlGlobal.com
Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert notes that there is no
single vendor or independent organization that promulgates
Ethernet standards and that end users must modify commercial
standards for their own use.
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SPECIAL
TO THE WEB: ControlGlobal.com
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Are
you paying taxes on your data yet?
ControlGlobal.com
In this DigitalField Insider web exclusive, Managing
Editor Steve Kuehn reports on the Solaia patent case and how
it continues to weave its costly way through the courts and
U.S. industry. In a twist that is becoming a hallmark of contemporary,
high-stakes patent enforcement litigation, companies using
the computer-controlled factory automation technology are
being targeted—many of whom, and perhaps not coincidentally,
are Rockwell customers.
CANopen
specifications for free download
CAN-CIA.org
Beginning this month, CiA (CAN in Automation) is providing
some CAN (Controller Area Network) open specifications on
its web site for free-of-charge download. Specifications available
for free download include all with draft standard status.
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FEATURED TOPICS: Insight you
can use
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Still
worried about deterministic networks?
Industrial
Networking, ControlGlobal.com
If Ethernet has any hope of becoming an automation control
standard, time-deterministic control must coexist within a
single message format with non-real-time data.
Will
short-range networks save wireless for process?
Industrial
Networking, ControlGlobal.com
Is mesh network technology gaining favor in real-world
industrial applications or are OEMs and end users still holding
back? Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt goes looking for
evidence of its current state of deployment.
Are
you sure you caught the right bus?
Ferret.com.au
FIELDBUS is now widely accepted as a valuable communication
method between industrial control systems and field instruments.
It is rapidly becoming the method of choice for communication
between process control systems and field instrumentation.
The standard is finding its greatest success in greenfield
sites, particularly in developing countries where new large-scale
processing projects are more common.
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Be
a CONTROL Insider!
Every
year we invite our readers to send us stories, suggestions,
Tales from the Front submissions, and just talk back
to us. This year, we want you to join a select group of people
willing to be asked questions about issues in the process
automation arena. You won't be quoted unless we ask you specifically.
These people will become our official CONTROL Insiders, and
will receive special notice of events and even some free stuff
from time to time. If you want to be a CONTROL Insider let
me know at WBoyes@putman.net.
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UPCOMING EVENTS: Shows, seminars,
conferences
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Automation
& Assembly Summit 2005
SME.org
This upcoming event (created by members of the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers' Automated Manufacturing & Assembly
Community) will focus on the technologies and applications
needed to meet advanced automation and assembly equipment
goals. To be held April 18-20, 2005 in St. Louis.
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CONTACT US
We welcome your editorial comments and suggestions. Please send
these by e-mail to the Editor in Chief of CONTROL magazine, Walt
Boyes, at wboyes@putman.net.
Technical questions and customer support issues can be sent to support@putman.net.
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