Control and Instrumentation articles from August 2000

Control and Instrumentation archives from August 2000

Intergrating our markets.
August 1, 2000... C & I's publisher Centaur has come up with an exciting concept which provides an information platform for integrating business and manufacturing systems. At Centaur, we identified the need for a comprehensive information source dedicated to the...

Internet ready measurement and control.
August 1, 2000... REINFORCING ITS VISION FOR 'revolutionising' measurement and automation, National Instruments has introduced an Internet ready version of its LabView development environment. Version 61 of the package allows users to circulate control...

Agreement for factory floor e-enablement.
August 1, 2000... MANUFACTURING DATA Systems (MDSI) a CNC and soft motion control technology company specialising in Internet-enabled software has entered a joint technology partnership with Advantech Automation of Taiwan. Advantech, a $140 million...

Britain's manufacturing industry must unlock the power of data.
August 1, 2000... MORE AND MORE manufacturing businesses are collecting bigger and bigger volumes of data -- about their customers, suppliers, employees, components and processes. Rich seams of valuable business information lie within this mass of data, but, for...

ABB creates single organisation and follows customer led marketing policy.
August 1, 2000... ABB IS REORGANISING its structure to combine the UK automation and instrumentation companies and create a single organisation. The philosophy of the new company will be of a customer driven, industrial IT organisation. The new company will...

Baan's management board.
August 1, 2000... It has also agreed with Baan's management board to assume full control of Baan. Although it has only 75% of Baan's shares, instead of the 95% it originally wanted, Invensys has decided to implement a four-step program to save Baan. Baan...

IT services and solutions consultancy.
August 1, 2000... Following its institutional buyout from parent company Motherwell Bridge Holdings. MIS, the IT services and solutions consultancy, announced today that it has changed its name to Mi Services Group. Pronounced 'My Services Group', the name...

Chris Allen.
August 1, 2000... Chris Allen, a champion of fieldbus technology has taken early retirement from Fisher-Rosemount to establish CJA Consulting. The consultancy will operate from offices in Maidstone, Kent and will be available for help with-a wide range of...

GE Fanuc Automation.
August 1, 2000... GE Fanuc Automation has acquired the assets of DataViews Corporation of Northampton, Massachusetts. DataViews is a privately held company and a subsidiary of Dynatech Corporation of Burlington, Massachusetts. DataViews designs and manufactures...

UK Profibus Group.
August 1, 2000... The UK Profibus Group will be holding its first annual conference at OSPMA-FieldComms on 5-6th December 2000. The conference will be designed to cater for the needs of users, integrators and manufacturers of Profibus products, with...

Wonderware.
August 1, 2000... Wonderware has agreed to purchase the SPSS line of manufacturing software products. including the QI Analyst software package for $2 million in cash. Wonderware plans to offer employment to the SPSS team supporting these products and will...

Revenues from vision system suppliers swell as industrial usage continues to rally.
August 1, 2000... REVENUE GROWTH in the European industrial vision systems markets will rapidly accelerate as end-users continue to realise the core benefits of such products, claims a study by Frost & Sullivan. Published this Summer, the report illustrates...

Baan.
August 1, 2000... Baan has announced the general availability of BaanFrontOffice Interaction, a new E-Customer Relationship Management (E-CRM) suite for BaanFrontOffice. With BaanFrontOffice Interaction companies can create a call-or Interaction-centre channel.

Preactor international.
August 1, 2000... Preactor international has released a family of scheduling solutions aimed at small and midtier manufacturers. The flagship of the range is Preactor APS which is an advanced scheduling package.

Amplicon.
August 1, 2000... Amplicon has released the Agilent VEE proversion 6.0, a graphical programming environment for faster measurement results analysis. MatLab is embedded within VEE pro which now offers full script functionality at the added advantage of no extra...

Its all in the name.
August 1, 2000... TAKING INTO ENHANCEMENTS and market developments in its flagship plant information database, Automsoft is abbreviating the name of it Rapid Historian product, to Rapid. Tony Prylowski, CEO of Automsoft explained: "In spite of the success...

Targeting low cost of ownership.
August 1, 2000... USDATA HAS BEGUN SHIPPING the latest release of FactoryLink multi-user, real-time Scada product, which has been developed to run on the Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating systems and reduce the total cost of ownership. According to...

Wizcon adds IEC-61131 scripting.
August 1, 2000... EMATION HAS RELEASED of version 7.6 of its Scada software, Wizcon for Windows and the Internet, which now incorporates IEC-61131 programming for scripting and macros. Wizcon can connect to over 150 types of automation equipment and adds a...

Integrated solutions for NT platform.
August 1, 2000... ADVASOFT FOR WINDOWS NT from ABB allows process manufacturers to solve the problem of having widely distributed data, held in incompatible formats. The new software delivers a single integrated environment. Using an OPC interface, information...

Siemens reveals process plan.
August 1, 2000... Siemens has detailed its strategy for the process automation market following its acquisition of Moore Products. Paul Gay looks at the ramifications of the move SIEMENS AUTOMATION AND DRIVES has released details on the operating structure...

LIVING THE EXPERIENCE.
August 1, 2000... The growing popularity of DeviceNet was proved at the DeviceNet Experience held at the University of War wick's International Manufacturing Center (IMC) last month DEVICENET STARTED LIFE as an open Controller Area Network (Can) protocol...

Software streamlines environment sensitive cement manufacturing.
August 1, 2000... A man-machine interface at the heart of a networked PLC system provides automated monitoring and reducing the labour intensive element of a high output cement works WITH ITS DOMES AND TOWERS rising out of the tree-studded landscape in...

SAINSBURY labelling gets smarter.
August 1, 2000... A product tracking system at grocery giant Sainsbury will eventually log every item in the company's distribution chain using smart cards based on radio identification Advanced trials on product tracking using smart labels instead of bar...

Peugeot takes integrated APPROACH.
August 1, 2000... The recent launch of the widely acclaimed Peugeot 206 has brought with it the opportunity for the company's Ryton, Coventry plant to adopt a number of important new factory automation procedures The 206, which represents a [pounds]100...

EMBEDED SYSTEMS will dominate the workplace.
August 1, 2000... The use of embedded systems in the factory environment is becoming a fact of life. Microsoft recently launched its Windows CE3.0 operating system which bring real time computing to the embedded world Although the PC may be considered the...

Software suits mine automation concept.
August 1, 2000... What is claimed to be the World's first commercial mine automation system is implemented by Sandvik Tamrock at Loussavaara Kiirunavaara AB's Kiruna Mine One of Gensym's partners, Pronyx and system integrator Sandvik Tamrock have used G2...

Portable logger runs as chartless recorder.
August 1, 2000... THE MV100 MOBILECORDER, from Yokogawa, is a compact portable data logger with a large colour screen for the instant readout and monitoring of online data. Available with 2,4,6 or 12 input channels, the instrument has built-in signal...

Graphic chart recorders.
August 1, 2000... Eurotherm has launched a new family of graphical recorders, called the Chessell DAQ series 5000 which will meet a wide range of data recording functions across many industries utilising leading edge 32 bit Risc processor technology to...

Non contact absolute linear measurement.
August 1, 2000... Stegmann has introduced the new LinCoder non-contact absolute linear position measuring system, which requires only a moderately accurate linear guide, and offers robust protection IP66 protection making it suitable for a variety of...

Soft on reduced voltage starting.
August 1, 2000... MITSUBISHI HAS UPGRADED its range of reduced voltage soft starts motors from 5.5 to 800kw. The new starters are intended to give a simple and cost-effective method of starting squirrel cage induction motors at a fraction of the price of a...

Data logging for hire.
August 1, 2000... THE INTERLOGGER energy/power quality analyser and data logger for field use is now available on hire from Inlec UK, a company that has been providing rental test equipment throughout the UK and Europe for more than a decade. The instrument...

Valve system aided by FIELDBUS NETWORK.
August 1, 2000... BP AMSTERDAM'S distribution centre imports and exports a wide range of oil based products, including jet fuel, gasoline and gas oil, and has the storage capacity of 1 million cubic metres within 75 storage tanks. The terminal also has the...

PC software.
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