Control and Instrumentation articles from June 1996

Control and Instrumentation archives from June 1996

Level gauges and systems survey.
June 1, 1996... Level systems continue to maintain diversity, are getting easier to maintain, and also need less installation work Lifetime system costs are being given more and more weight when it comes to selecting a level system. This could affect the...

Pollution control laws: are further delays healthy? (United Kingdom)
June 1, 1996... Should the UK's pollution control industry be considered? Does stricter and more enforceable environmental control for industry destroy jobs or create them and will tougher environmental legislation make industry more or less profitable and...

Environmental opportunities. (United Kingdom)
June 1, 1996... Does the UK need to stimulate investment in the environment? The UK environmental industry is losing its world-wide market share due to lack of environmental legislation in the UK. The Department of the Environment has just announced that it...

On-line analysers: the advantages of NIR. (near infrared technology)
June 1, 1996... Food industry application are having to extend to measure a wider range of process variables Effective process control depends upon input from sensors which can faithfully and reliably track the continual variations within a material during...

Neural nets and fuzzy logic.
June 1, 1996... Graphical tools and open environments are making these formerly arcane technologies available to us all Neural networks and fuzzy logic - they're two very different intelligence technologies, but increasingly being linked. And, although...

Auditing safety critical systems. (assessment of Programmable Electronic System)
June 1, 1996... A code of practice for assessing PES systems using IEC1508 is emerging. Will this mean more third party work and cost? If you decide to use a Programmable Electronic System (PES) for safety and it fails to work, will you end up being held...

Going very open - but keeping very safe.(Control Systems)
June 1, 1996... Windows NT, Foundation Class and OLE are crucial for enterprise-wide systems - but there's more The launch last month in Brussels of Honeywell's main control system, TDC 3000, on Microsoft Windows NT gave, yet again, the clearest possible...