AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Control and Instrumentation articles from August 1999
Set up an RSS feed
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Control and Instrumentation archives from August 1999
E-commerce makes its impact.(Siemens Automation and Drives Division)
August 1, 1999... Automation and drives users are changing the way they purchase products with the development of the Internet and E-commerce. Following in the footsteps of the consumer markets, industrial equipment suppliers are taking advantage of IT...
Heat is on for analogue vs digital temperature control.(includes related articles on Eurotherm Series 2000 controller and on infrared thermometry)
August 1, 1999... Very tightly controlled batch production processes, such as those found typically in the food, pet-food and pharmaceutical industries, now mean that manufacturers in these and similar areas are looking hard at the accuracy, and repeatability...
ControlNet used in Rover's paintshop.
August 1, 1999... C&I reports on a new paint plant automation system at Rover's Oxford facility which uses ControlNet to reduce cabling and improve information flow across all areas
When Rover took the decision to invest in a new paint plant, the brief...
Fieldbus where are we now?(includes related article on IEC)
August 1, 1999... The promise of standards-based digital fieldbus technology which was first demonstrated by Foxboro's I/A Series system included intelligent field devices and remote intelligent I/O designed to communicate with the system via a standard...
Chemical plant weighs in.(load cells at Croda Application Chemicals)
August 1, 1999... Croda Application Chemicals contracted Negretti Automation to provide a solution for weighing bulk liquids into 25 tonne blending vessels with minimal plant disruption. David Edwards from Negretti reports
As part of the plant upgrade at...
Operator overload: when is an alarm not an alarm?(essential components of an effective alarm management system)
August 1, 1999... Information technology has brought to our attention the need to apply meaning to data in order that it becomes useful information. The same can be said about many of today's software based alarm systems which have followed the trend away from...
