Control and Instrumentation articles from June 1997

Control and Instrumentation archives from June 1997

'The bigger they come, the harder.... (Control and Instrumentation)
June 1, 1997... Openness may be about to cost industry dear! Yes, it's not all roses - and ironically, first to fall could be among its biggest and most prominent proponents. Look at last month's C&I Show; if one had to pick just one striking observation...

New govt: new dawn? (prospects of engineering)
June 1, 1997... Engineering accounts for 40% of the British GDP. So why are engineers so undervalued? Mike Heath is passionate about engineering. Which is encouraging, as he is the incumbent director general of the Engineering Council. Last month, the DG,...

CORBA, OLE and more. (networked monitoring systems)
June 1, 1997... In this second part of our two part feature on OLE, OLE2 and the COM/DCOM/OLE/OCX/ActiveX world versus the CORBA and open ORB technologies (see May, page 33), we look at aspects like security, scaleability and inter-networking for openness in...

Developing project software? (computer hardware and operating systems)
June 1, 1997... If you're about to embark on developing software for a new real time system, consider your hardware and operating system options before you commit too far From time to time, project managers need to step back from day-to-day decision-making...

Instrumentation displays: display and computing technologies are leading a sea change in devices - from indicators to recorders.
June 1, 1997... Because displays are everywhere, we can be forgiven for taking the technologies. behind them for granted. Yet the fact is, they've come a long way since the old moving coil meters. Although still around today in both linear and circular displays,...

Pollution policies pay: environmental regulations could start tightening if new policies are enforced to improve industry spend.
June 1, 1997... An ever-tightening elastic band was the way environmental policy was explained to C&I some years ago by the Department of the Environment. In reality, this meant 'only when industry did not object', according to John Gummer, former Secretary...

How about a breath of fresh air please. (environmental monitoring)
June 1, 1997... Hands up all those who remember the Rio summit Who really remembers when The Environment went irrevocably on the international political agenda, and thus urgently beckoned a commercial gemstone second to none? Answers on a postcard please. Then...

Getting CEMs right first time. (continuous emissions monitoring system)
June 1, 1997... It's OK to look to the benefits of continuous emissions monitoring - but you might need help getting through the selection maze Environmental protection legislation world-wide has made it essential for companies to monitor their emissions on a...

Neural nets practically better. (neural networks)
June 1, 1997... Improving quality where real time data was hitherto not feasible is what neural nets now bring to the party Previously confined to the world of academia and imagination, neural networks have been making inroads into the process industries,...