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- Cooperate
- A Little Help
- Ups and Downs of Taking the Bus—Part II
Hardwiring, fieldbus, Ethernet, enterprise-level, wireless and other networks are bumping elbows on the plant floor. Here’s how
users and integrators simplify and coordinate their networks to get them to get along with each other.
There are only two kinds of important people in this world—those who are suffering and those who are helping them.
An early adopter of fieldbus technologies overcame a few start-up and commissioning issues and qualified a control system.
AutomationXchange Solution Provider Profile
Find out how leading solution providers such as Phoenix Contact can help improve the performance of your machines at CONTROL DESIGN's 2008 AutomationXchange. Phoenix Contact is a leader in the development and manufacture of electrical connection,
electronic interface and industrial automation technologies. For more information on attending this invitation-only event, visit automationxchange.com.
Profibus DPV1 for CompactLogix
ProSoft Technology's PROFIBUS DPV1 PS69-DPM Master and PS69-DPS Slave modules for the Rockwell Automation CompactLogix platform
support CIP messaging and are PROFIBUS PNO certified and Encompass-approved. Slaves can be configured via Master FDT style software
or via RSLogix5000.
Asish Ghosh on Process Safety
In this edition of the monthly Control/ARC podcast series, Walt Boyes and ARC's Asish Ghosh talk about process safety and
why it seems so hard to accomplish, even after years of trying.
In Part II of the PC Automation white paper series, we discuss networking automation computers. Download this white paper to
learn more about how the performance of the network is the critical path to optimal performance of the entire plant. If you missed
Part I, "What Does an Automation Computer Look Like?" visit ControlGlobal.com and be on the lookout for Part III
coming in June.
Power Supplies/Circuit Protection
Our Control Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents face their toughest battle yet to protect the security and integrity of the results
of our newest user study, "Power Supply and Circuit Protection Use." See how they overcame a near-catastrophic CHAOS threat
and then learn about the power supply and circuit protection product preferences and implementation choices of our respondents.
Networking Technologies
Keith Larson, Putman Media vice president of content and long time editor of Control, reviews the ongoing development and increasingly
prevalent use of digital communication protocols to communicate and integrate process control and plant information streams.
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