Control and Instrumentation articles from November 2000

Control and Instrumentation archives from November 2000

No end to the spending.
November 1, 2000... A problem of greater magnitude and more costly than the Y2K fix Imagine a problem of greater magnitude and more costly to solve than Y2K compliance? Pundits in the USA have found it and it's all about a new technology approach to an age old...

Building on capability.
November 1, 2000... ABB is building on its capability in critical applications, strengthening its focus on the UK water utilities market for revenue metering. Known for its traditional role in providing electronic metering solutions primarily for large,...

President for 2001.
November 1, 2000... Gambica, the association for instrumentation, control and automation has announced the appointment of James Plenderleith, managing director of Moeller Electric as its president for the year 2001. He takes over from Mr. John Hemming....

GE buys Honeywell in biggest industrial sector takeover.
November 1, 2000... GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) has agreed to acquire Honeywell in the biggest industrial merger ever. The tax-free merger is valued at $45 billion plus assumed debt. As part of this definitive agreement, Honeywell shareholders will receive 1.055 shares...

SpaceWorks secures aerospace success.
November 1, 2000... SPACEWORKS, a business-to business (B2B) sell-side web commerce software company, has announced an order from Pratt & Whitney for its SpaceWorks Web BusinessManager Suite. Pratt & Whitney is a leader in the design, manufacture and service...

OMRON TO SHARE COMMON LINK WITH ROCKWELL AUTOMATION.
November 1, 2000... ROCKWELL Automation and Omron have developed their partnership with the announcement that Omron will endorse Ethernet/IP on the factory floor and will share a common link with Rockwell Automation in providing customers with an...

Winder system for South African mine.
November 1, 2000... A TECHNICALLY advanced mine winder system has recently commenced hoisting men and materials from a depth of 2.3km at AngloGold's Moab Khotsong mine near Orkney in South Africa. Alstom Industry of South Africa was responsible for completing...

Honeywell supplies technologically advanced building management.
November 1, 2000... HONEYWELL has been awarded orders to design, supply and commission a technologically advanced building management system as well as a fire alarm, access and security, CCTV, lighting control, public address and voice alarm systems for the new...

GE Fanuc.
November 1, 2000... GE Fanuc has announced an agreement with Invensys of London, to be a global preferred supplier of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and additional 1/0 products. Working with Invensys will allow GE Fanuc to provide its industrial control...

Royal Philips Electronics.
November 1, 2000... Royal Philips Electronics, one of the world leaders in consumer electronics products, has named National Instruments as its preferred supplier of computer-based measurement and automation tools for its research, engineering and manufacturing...

Industrial connection system.
November 1, 2000... A new sales, support and training centre has been set up in Telford by one of Germany's leading manufacturers of industrial connection systems and interface products, Phoenix Contact. The new Telford centre has been set up in response to...

Yokogawa.
November 1, 2000... Yokogawa UK has recently appointed DP Instrumentation of Dundee as its distribution partner in Scotland. DP can now offer its customer base the full Yokogawa range of analytical, flow, pressure, temperature, recording and controlling products...

ABB's Board of Directors.
November 1, 2000... ABB's Board of Directors has appointed Jorgen Centerman, currently head of the company's automation segmentm to succeed Goran Lindanl said after 30 years with the company, 15 of these in corporate management and four years as CEO, he felt it...

Rockwell Automation.
November 1, 2000... Rockwell Automation has acquired the batch software and service business of Phoenix-based Sequencia Corporation. The acquisition includes the development, support, services and administrative personnel associated with Sequencia's batch software...

Baldor opens global motion control centre.
November 1, 2000... ELECTRIC motor and drives specialist Baldor has opened a new global centre for motion control in Bristol, UK. The facility houses an engineering lab and assembly line for precision motion control and servo motor electronics, and a new regional...

TEN QUARTERS ON THE TROT.
November 1, 2000... NATIONAL Instruments has reported record sales for the tenth consecutive financial quarter as revenues grew by 24% and net profits climbed 33% in the company third period of this financial year. "Record revenue of $102.2 million for the...

Scada system designed to offer single user interface.
November 1, 2000... InduSoft Systems has announced the availability of InduSoft Studio version 3.0, a system designed to allow Scada/HMI applications to be developed for Windows 2000, NT, 9x or MS Packet PC through a single common user interface. At one end of the...

Free support package for industrial controllers.
November 1, 2000... Free on request from Omron is the new SYS-Config version 2.0, an advanced software support package for setting up temperature controllers, process controllers and intelligent signal processors. Using state-of-the-art ActivX technology, the...

Powerful suite of software tools.
November 1, 2000... EUROTHERM has developed a powerful suite of software tools for use with the company's range of data recorders. Using a standard PC running Windows 95, 98 or NT, engineers will be able to view on-line live data from a number of remote...

Users empowered with Analyst system.
November 1, 2000... WONDERWARE has announced the introduction of QI Analyst 4.1 statistical process control software, a complete SPC software system designed to empower every member of the quality team. QI Analyst 4.1 is one of the initial product offerings...

OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY FOR ROBOT APPLICATIONS.
November 1, 2000... PANASONIC industrial has launched the Desk Top Programming and Simulation (DTPS) system, a calibrated offline package designed to optimise the efficiency and minimise the downtime of industrial robot systems, Suitable for the offline...

Last minute deal buys Honeywell.
November 1, 2000... Jack Welch, chairman of GE for two decades puts together his biggest deal at 64 to buy Honeywell. Paul Gay looks at events leading up to the deal and analyses the effect it will have on the control sector ONLY MONTHS before he was due to...

TRANSMITTER SELECTED FOR TEMPERATURE RANGE.
November 1, 2000... A ROTRONIC 1-2000 humidity and temperature transmitter forms part of an environmental test chamber installed at LTC, one of the UK's leading independent automotive development centres. Clive Hurley Environmental Engineering, manufacturer of...

Plant Web automates waste water treatment.
November 1, 2000... PLANT WEB field based architecture has been chosen by Mallinckrodt Medical Imaging to automate the waste water treatment plant at its manufacturing facility near Dublin. The PlantWeb automation solution at Mallinckrodt includes the...

German brewer hits the bottle.
November 1, 2000... WHEN GERMAN brewer Emil Petersen & Co needed to ensure its bottle labels were applied correctly, the Omron F10 mini vision advanced sensor proved to be a cost-effective solution. In order to increase efficiency at the brewery, a complete...

[pound]250,000 package for Norwegian sea platform.
November 1, 2000... STATOIL has fulfilled its overpressure and instrumentation protection requirements with a [pound]250,000 package of high pressure safety relief valves and instrument enclosures from Tyco Engineered Products. The package has been supplied...

Dancers suspended at the Millennium Dome.
November 1, 2000... A FIVE axis servo and Scada system, designed and commissioned by Control Techniques, has helped with the production of an aerial ballet at the Millennium Dome. The rapid, multi-axis motion control and positioning system is used in the...

Controllers used in small furnaces.
November 1, 2000... FLAME SAFETY controllers marketed by Honeywell Satronic have been used in a range of small glass furnaces, manufactured by Micromelt Systems of Wickford. The furnaces are designed for the production of small quantities of glass in schools,...

Leading the race in sensing technology.
November 1, 2000... TURCK BANNER, supplier of electronic sensing devices, is sponsoring a Vauxhall Astra GTE car in the Janspeed Road Saloon Championship. The car is fitted with sensor technology to provide the driver, Simon Jackson, with important...

MAKING LIGHT OF BAGGAGE TRANSPORTATION.
November 1, 2000... BAGGAGE DIRECT, an RFID smart label tracking and delivery service using disposable tags, is now in use at Heathrow Airport. Developed by systems integrator KTP, using Texas Instruments' Tag-it 13.56MHz smart label technology, the Baggage...

Flush of success at the Millennium Dome.
November 1, 2000... CONTINUOUS on-line analysers from ABB Instrumentation are monitoring the quality of water being treated to flush some 600 WCs at the Millennium Dome. The ABB 4600 Series analysers for measuring turbidity, conductivity, temperature pH and...

DIGITALLY MASTERED.
November 1, 2000... Using digital valve controllers to test emergency shutdown valves can help compliance with IEC 61508, suggests Norman Render of Fisher-Rosemount As most industrial operators would agree, the introduction of the international standard on...

TRIED & TRUSTED.
November 1, 2000... The Texas City plant of Sterling Chemicals has gained significant benefits following the installation of safety systems from ICS Triplex Sterling Chemicals plant at Texas City is a 290 acre site producing bulk chemical intermediates such as...

SAFETY AS STANDARD.
November 1, 2000... To comply with the functional safety standard IEC 61508, Charter Tech implemented a burner management system at Huntsman Group's Middlesborough plant Like many other companies involved in the design and implementation of controlling...

Remote monitoring improves EFFICIENCY.
November 1, 2000... Remote monitoring in the waste incineration to energy industry improves operational efficiency and reduces engineering time. Control and Instrumentation looks at a particularly effective installation. Data acquisition is one of the most...

Developing Coriolis WITH A DIFFERENCE.
November 1, 2000... The dual curved tube Coriolis meter has solved many of the problems that plagued early models but this design does not meet the needs of all users. In some applications, process considerations demand a single straight tube meter Customer...

Elect to visit the show.
November 1, 2000... This year's Elec exhibition will focus on the integration of communication technologies and new information. C&I investigates Organisers of Elec2000 are hoping to build on the success of Elec98 by focusing on the integration of new...

GO WITH THE FLOW.
November 1, 2000... Electromagnetic flowmeters are one of the most popular methods of flow measurement. Khrone's Peter West offers a guide to the latest systems Most electromagnetic flowmeters (EMFs) available today boast an accuracy of greater than 0.2% of...

A drive to improve quality.
November 1, 2000... JOSHUA WARDLE has installed a variable speed drive to help improve the quality of its product. Based in Staffordshire, the company dyes and prints textiles for clothes. Alstom's Alspa MV3000 drive has been fitted to a fan on a dyeing...

Servo package achieves critical tolerances.
November 1, 2000... CONTROL TECHNIQUES Unidrives and Unimotor servomotors are providing stable and precise control for Cabelte, a Portugese cable manufacturer setting up a machine to produce fibre optics. By guaranteeing stable preform rates (of as low as...

Software development puts machine at forefront of field.
November 1, 2000... A major supplier of radiator tubes, specialising in export to the US market, is phasing in three new high-speed cut-to-length machines, which using Quin's Mk2 PTS servo controllers. Quin Systems has been working with a UK machine builder...

Temperature and vacuum controlled in single unit.
November 1, 2000... BY CREATING a special vacuum control function for its Model 2704 Controller, Eurotherm says complex processes like those found in vacuum heat treatment furnaces may use a single combined function controller to save cost and space. This...

Compact mass airflow sensor.
November 1, 2000... The sensing and control business of Honeywell has introduced the AWM720P1 microbridge mass airflow sensor, a compact system developed for dry-filtered air medical and analytical instruments. The sensor provides in-line airflow measurement...

Barcode systems kept in check with CLO5.
November 1, 2000... TO PREVENT labelling mistakes Lucas Power and Control's Barcheck have developed a fast, reliable bar code verification system which uses the latest barcode scanners together with Red Lions CLO5 text display interface and control unit. On...

Operator interfaces come with Ethernet.
November 1, 2000... Machines can communicate across factory floors over Ethernet to Allen-Bradley PLCs simply with CTC PowerStation operator interfaces now available from PBE systems. The interfaces come bundled with software including a new A-B driver at no...

On the pulse movement.
November 1, 2000... DEZURIK says its new Intelli-Pulse Digital Valve Controller is designed to accurately position globe and rotary control valves three times faster than industry standards. Incorporating a patent-pending non-contact position sensor, and...

Field devices, monitored with Browser technology.
November 1, 2000... THE NEW FieldBrowser from Neles Automation has been developed to monitor any field device on a HART network, capture data for computer automated diagnostics, and send alarms via e-mail, Internet, or mobile phone. The product is an...

External sensing.
November 1, 2000... QUIN HAS developed external sensing capabilities for its line of Linmot industrial linear motors for use in high precision positioning applications where the repeatable accuracy of the in-built sensing equipment is inadequate. For...

Simplified panel design.
November 1, 2000... Eurotherm Drives claims it has simplified the design and configuration of drives panels with the launch of the DRV option for Its 590+ series DC drive. Whilst a conventional panel might require the drive to be combined with an AC line...

Intelligent meters.
November 1, 2000... TO MEET the requirements of OEMs designing machines for packaging, mechanical handling, food processing and other applications, Omron has developed K3GN, a 1/32 DIN, smart digital panel meter offering features such as scalable functions and...

Silicon implants high accuracy in transducers.
November 1, 2000... DRUCK'S LATEST developments in resonant silicon pressure transducer technology (RPT) have resulted in the introduction of a high accuracy transducer designed specifically for applications which require very precise and stable measurements of...

Tilt safety system in operation.
November 1, 2000... The SBL1S Tilt System from Graham & White Instruments has been developed to provide a dual channel operating system for safety critical applications such as crane, excavator, and access platform operation. The system has no moving parts, with...

Calys 5 designed to measure up.
November 1, 2000... FOLLOWING the success of the Precical PJN Series, AOIP is launching a new process calibrator, the Calys 5, which is capable of measuring and simulating temperature sensor and process signals with a 200,000 count resolution. The Calys 5 is...

System keeps bearings in mind.
November 1, 2000... AMOT CONTROLS has introduced a Bearing Temperature Monitoring System specifically designed to minimise the failure of big end bearings in large diesel or gas engines Bearing burnout may destroy critical and expensive engine components such...

Portable devices.
November 1, 2000... The latest version of the DP6 portable thermocouple calibrator/simulator from Cropico is linearised for the ten most popular thermocouple types. The units display may be scaled in [degrees]C, [degrees]F, K or mV and automatic reference Junction...

Low flow metering.
November 1, 2000... ABB Instrumentation has introduced its latest range of electromagnetic flowmeters for water and wastewater application. The MagMaster Loflo range allows minimal night flows to be metered with greater precision, and those that previously...

Training takes the risk out of risk assessment.
November 1, 2000... SUBSTANCES AS diverse as flour dust, hydrogen sulphide and cyclohexane have come under renewed scrutiny in a recent Health and Safety Commission consultation on occupational exposure limits. Toxic risk is just one area of concern to...

COMPANY PROFILE: Rotark Controls.
November 1, 2000... WHAT DOES YOUR COMPANY DO? Rotork Controls is one of the world's largest independent designers and manufacturers of valve actuation and control equipment. COMPANY HISTORY? Rotork was founded in 1957 at Bath in Somerset, which is...

People on the move.
November 1, 2000... Don Firkins has been appointed managing director of Yokoqawa UK, supplier of enterprise technology solutions for the process instrumentation and control sectors. Jay Lakhani has been appointed senior applications engineer for HBM UK, the...

survey flowmeters.
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