Control and Instrumentation articles from February 2001

Control and Instrumentation archives from February 2001

The end of a publishing era.
February 1, 2001... Readers will not be denied access to important information The current market conditions in the control engineering sector have forced us to take a hard decision -- the decision to cease publishing Control and Instrumentation in its...

Developing solutions.
February 1, 2001... Staffware, the business process solutions provider, has launched four new business divisions to help businesses transform processes in a business-to-business internet environment. The four new divisions will focus on providing e-business...

ABB realigns around customers.
February 1, 2001... ABB HAS announced its intention to transform its worldwide enterprise around customer groups, aiming to boost growth by helping its customers become more successful in a business environment of accelerating globalisation, deregulation,...

Shareholders approve Honeywell merger.
February 1, 2001... HONEYWELL'S SHAREHOLDERS have approved the proposed merger with General Electric at a meeting held in Morris Township, New Jersey. The company said approximately 74% of Honeywell's outstanding shares were voted in favour of the GE merger....

MINISTER FOR TRADE OPENS SOUTHERN MANUFACTURING SHOW.
February 1, 2001... RICHARD CABORN MP, Minister for Trade, will open the Southern Manufacturing exhibition at Thorpe Park, Surrey, from 28 February to 1 March. Caborn will give an opening speech at 9.30am in the seminar theatre, focusing on the engineering...

Growth in PC-based motion control.
February 1, 2001... CONTROL TECHNIQUES, UK manufacturer of industrial drives and servos, is furthering the growth of PC based motion technology by opening up its SLM technology to manufacturers of PC based, multi-axis controllers. CK Fong, vice president of...

Appointment of new president.
February 1, 2001... ROBERT L YEAGER has been appointed president of Intellution, supplier of industrial automation software. Yeager brings more than two decades of process control and software development expertise to the position. Yeager comes to Intellution...

Pro-face buys Xycom Automation.
February 1, 2001... PRO-FACE AMERICA, a majority owned subsidiary of Osaka based Digital Electronics Corporation, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Xycom Automation, a specialist company in the Industrial PC, VMEbus and PC-based control products...

Bosch Automation Technology.
February 1, 2001... Bosch Automation Technology has strengthened its presence in Scotland with a new sales partnership agreement with SP Technology. The partnership means SP Technology, which designs and manufactures special purpose machinery, is now able to offer...

Fisher Controls and Regulators.
February 1, 2001... The new Control Valve Handbook, available from Fisher Controls and Regulators, is both a reference work and a textbook covering all aspects of the most important part of any control loop, the control valve. Main chapters cover the control valve...

Fisher-Rosemount.
February 1, 2001... Fisher-Rosemount has acquired 100% of radar level gauging specialist, Saab Marine Electronics for some SKr800 million, around [pound]58 million. The former subsidiary will become Rosemount's centre of excellence for level instrumentation....

Michell Instruments.
February 1, 2001... Following a growth of 30% in its German operation, Michell Instruments has relocated its Morfelden facility to a new, larger premises in Friedrichsdorf. The investment in new premises will enable Michell Instruments to continue tomeet the...

TT Group.
February 1, 2001... The management team of Strainsall, has completed a successful management buy-out from TT Group. Strainsall specialises in load measurement and strain and stress determination, working in marine, transport, civil and industrial sectors, as well...

Software guides engineers through selection process.
February 1, 2001... ROCKWELL AUTOMATION has introduced Motion Book 3.0, the latest version of its sizing and selection software designed to save engineers time when specifying motion systems. The Motion Book 3.1 is an interactive, multimedia package which...

New rental program from PTC.
February 1, 2001... PTC HAS announced a new rental program for its Pro/Engineer suite of design and engineering software products. The program offers customers a new level of flexibility and convenience with short-term licenses for terms of 30 or 120 days that can...

High speed system.
February 1, 2001... The latest version of FactoryLink, available from Wizard Information Systems, now includes Microsoft Sequel Server. Claimed to be the fastest manufacturing software out of the box, FactoryLink 7 has been built on the Microsoft Windows DNA...

Software executed.
February 1, 2001... USdata has announced that DRS Infrared Technologies, a unit of DRS Technologies, one of the leading worldwide suppliers of defence electronics systems, has successfully completed the implementation of the company's xfactory production execution...

FACTORYSUITE LICENSE AGREEMENT EXTENDED.
February 1, 2001... WONDERWARE, ONE OF the leading suppliers of industrial automation software, has announced that it has extended its software licensing agreement with Siemens Moore Process Automation through to January 15, 2007. Under the terms of the...

Configuring saves on retooling times.
February 1, 2001... Siemens has introduced an improved version of its ProVision configuring software for the Simatic VS 710 image processing system. The new software for PCs and programming devices encompasses a range of functions that can be executed via Profibus...

Bus connection system.
February 1, 2001... NOW AVAILABLE from Hirschmann Electronics is EASi/oN, a new bus connection system, using plug-in modules which completely eliminate the need for tools. Cost and time savings are said to be as high as 70%, compared with traditional P20...

Pentium-class performance.
February 1, 2001... CONCURRENT Technologies has announced the release of its Pentium Based Terminal Controller for Multibus 11. The CC450/Pex is designed to provide the same functionality as older 80486-based products, with the benefits of Pentium-class...

Conalomeration rules OK.
February 1, 2001... THE NEWS THAT Schneider Electric and Legrand have decided to join forces to 'take full advantage of their highly complimentary business and geographic spread' has come as no surprise to industry pundits. Conglomeration is the order of the...

Hospital in hot water with flue isolation damper.
February 1, 2001... In order to achieve savings on standby boiler operations, the Bloxwich Hospital has installed flue isolation dampers on all of its boilers. C&l investigates. MANY BUSINESSES AND organisations need a secure, constant supply of hot water and...

Terminal gets tank TREATMENT.
February 1, 2001... A major oil terminal selects a Saab Radar Tank Gauging System to help provide integrated services at the highest safety and environmental standards Vopak is one of the largest independent tank storage companies in the World. Up to 23...

BASIC FUNCTIONS.
February 1, 2001... James H. Christensen, of Rockwell Automation Advanced Technology, describes the basic concepts and current status of the IEC 61499 standard for the application of function blocks in distributed industrial-process measurement and control...

HRT treatment for Lakenheath.
February 1, 2001... Built in 1940 as a heavy bomber station, Lakenheath has boasted a major air base for 60 years. First with the Royal Air Force, and then after the formation of Nato, as an essential installation for the United States Air Force (USAF). Even...

Degrees of DENSITY.
February 1, 2001... Iain Gordon of Solartron Mobrey looks at a variety of uses for densitometers and discovers what factors determine a good density measurement application Three variables affect the density of a fluid: temperature, pressure and composition....

Plug and play moisture analyser goes on-line.
February 1, 2001... Determining moisture content is essential in many areas of manufacturing Determining moisture content can be undertaken in a number of ways but some methods are complex and time-consuming. BL-Analytics has long been an advocate of NIR...

Firm benefits from soft starts.
February 1, 2001... THE NEW SAG M microprocessor controlled soft start units from Reo are designed for three-phase AC motors and include features which improve the efficiency and overall cost effectiveness of the unit, says the company. Most three phase...

Data systems for single workstations.
February 1, 2001... Thermo LabSystems has announced its Atlas Chromatography Data System (CDS) is now available for cost effective deployment in both workstation and client/server environments (from one to 1,000 channels). This is possible due to the launch of...

Measurements on multi channels.
February 1, 2001... PICO TECHNOLOGY, specialists in PC-based instruments, has launched the PT-04, a high resolution, high accuracy four channel temperature measuring device. The PT-104 measures temperature using platinum resistance thermometers (PRTs) and can...

Fluid control.
February 1, 2001... In response to the range of applications dependent on accurate measurement of submicrolite to nanolitre liquid quantities for analytical and research purposes, Borkert Contromatic has introduced a new Micro System capable of dispensing 50nl to...

Low profile on the shelf.
February 1, 2001... ARTESYN Technologies has announced the launch of a compact 10W AC/DC open-frame power supply. The new NLP150L has a small 3.8x7.8in footprint and a height of just 1.26in, enabling it to fit easily on a 1U high Shelf. The unit is power...

Icespy a new monitoring system.
February 1, 2001... DESIGNED FOR monitoring and recording temperature at different points around a site is the new Icespy system from Comark. The Icespy systems uses radio signals to transmit information from strategically placed sensors back to a central...

Registered flowmeter.
February 1, 2001... THE YOKOGAWA Admag AE range of electromagnetic flowmeters is now available with Foundation Fieldbus registration, confirming that it has been verified for conformance and interoperability to the Fieldbus Foundations specifications. Admag...

Take the stress out of screening.
February 1, 2001... Keithley Instruments has introduced two new systems designed to improve measurement performance while reducing the cost of environmental stress screening (ESS) in product development. The model 7708 40-Channel Differential Multiplexer Module...

Measurements at high speed.
February 1, 2001... IXTHUS Instrumentation has announced the availability of a high speed Tachometer System designed for use against all metallic and non-metallic surfaces, such as steel, aluminium, plastic or glass. The model FT1000-RMT, with custom designed...

Weatherproof sensor design.
February 1, 2001... The new Convir OS550 Series non-contact temperature sensor from Calex Electronics offers a choice of temperature ranges, viewing angles and analogue outputs to feed directly into panel meters, recorders, and data acquisition systems. Each...

Hour meter has enhanced display.
February 1, 2001... DESIGNED FOR maximum visibility in even the most adverse lighting conditions, the LH2H from Matsushita Electric Works features a bright and extremely visible two-colour back lit LCD - an industry first for an hour meter of this type. And to...

Probe options eclipsed.
February 1, 2001... THE BENEFITS provided by guided wave radar (GWR) level measurement technology have been extended to an even wider range of applications, thanks to the addition of single rigid rod and single flexible probe options to the Eclipse range of GWR...

People on the move...
February 1, 2001... Rhydulan Welson has been apponted global sales manager of Invertek Drives. Prior to joining invertek, Rhydian was export sales manager of a large drives manufacturer. Lee Slaymaker has been appointed area sales manager of Finder. He was...

Endress + Mauser Ltd.
February 1, 2001... COMPANY HISTORY Endress + Hauser Ltd, was established in Manchester in 1968 and has since then expanded to employ 155 people at its Sales Centre and Production Centre. Endress + Hauser is a market leader providing innovative...

Able Instruments.
February 1, 2001... Includes ABLE's comprehensive range of control and measurement equipment, industry news, application recommendations and case studies. Information on specialised measurement systems, complete turnkey solutions and project management is also...

Mitsubishi Electric.
February 1, 2001... From one of the widest ranges of automation products covering PLCs, AC Drives, HMIs, Motion Control, Robots, CNN, to Networking and I/O Solutions, to details information on the Climate Change Levy - you'll find the Mitsubishi Electric web site...

Red Lion.
February 1, 2001... Find out more about the latest products from Red Lion by visiting the Red Lion website. Everything is here from datasheets to the latest version of RLC Pro and the new protocol drivers for Edict-97, the configuration software for the Paradigm...

Saab Tank Control.
February 1, 2001... Saab Tank Control, market-leading supplier of radar-based tank level gauging systems for industrial applications. Over 40,000 Saab Tank Radar level gauges are in successful operation worldwide. Major chemical, petrochemical and oil companies...

PlantWeb.
February 1, 2001... Fisher-Rosemount proven PlantWeb field based process plant architecture reduces operations and maintenance costs, and streamlines Regulatory compliance. Join our user conference and Forum 4/5 April to find out how! www.frco.com

National Instruments.
February 1, 2001... National Instruments develops and manufactures hundreds of innovative integrated software and hardware products, which, when combined with computers, are used to replace and/or communicate with traditional instruments and to monitor and control...

Rotork.
February 1, 2001... See the range of Rotork electric, pneumatic, hydraulic actuators and associated control systems online. The latest nes, technical information documentation and global locations are available with "Rotork online". www.rotork.com

Extronics.
February 1, 2001... Extronics are specialists for intrinsically safe and explosion proof equipment. A full online catalogue with detailed information for download, including certificates of conformity, data sheets, instruction manuals and Ex info at your disposal....