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November 6, 2009
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Wireless washouts make chemical plant safer: Valve position monitors offer Harcros Chemicals an opportunity to test the waters of wireless applications and improve safety.
Weigh I/O openness against standardization: Diverse portfolio might not be the favorite approach of veteran engineers.
The Anixter Infrastructure Solutions Lab wanted to determine what effect the new TIA–1005 industrial cabling infrastructure standard would have on the data throughput performance of real Ethernet data packets running between SmartBits test cards and various manufacturers’ 10/100 Ethernet switches in a real–world simulation. The test included five different IP20–rated switches and three different enterprise rack–mounted switches using various cabling channels made from both Category 5e and Category 6 cabling components and connector pairs that are allowable under the standard. The premise also asserts that the effect of the cabling channel interference will also vary from port to port and switch to switch because of the variable transmitter and receiver functionality.
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Control Design surveyed its audience to get a snapshot of the types of drive technologies currently being used on their machines, including servo drives, stepper motors and supporting components and software. Kevin Pauley, control systems engineer at Wrapade, joins Control Design’s executive editor Jim Montague to analyze the survey responses from a machine–builder perspective.
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Allie Herzog from Blog Talk Radio talks SCADA with CONTROL magazine’s editor–in–chief, Walt Boyes. Hear what he has to say.
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