Embedded control system designers are being pushed to provide better performance and more features, all while meeting tight deadlines and keeping costs down. As these demands grow, traditional design and verification methodologies are falling short.

While ethernet networking has been making inroads into the manufacturing plant, the need for a high-availability network architecture is far greater than in its traditional use as an IT network.

Precision and reliability are key concerns when selecting pressure transmitters. Using pressure measuring devices that utilise a ceramic measuring cell rather than an oil-filled pressure membrane is one way instrument engineers can increase accuracy, reliability and long-term stability.

Integrators frequently use OPC technology to connect one industrial automation or process control system with another so that data can be shared between the two systems. Because OPC technology is based on a client-server architecture, the challenge is that two OPC servers cannot communicate with each other directly.

The current increasing pressure on industry to clean up environmental performance is regarded by many as a direct conflict with one of industry’s primary goals - management of operational costs in order to increase profitability.

Temperature may be the most commonly measured physical parameter. Yet there have never been so many ways to measure it as there are today.

In August this year, the KSB Group signed a framework agreement covering the supply of pumps and mixers for 52 municipal effluent treatment plants in China. The order is for a total of 335 mixers and 466 wastewater pumps of different types and sizes.

With electricity prices set to double over the next few years and the federal government committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, buyers of new compressors should assess the energy-efficient benefits of variable speed drive (VSD) air compressors.

Something happens – a signal peaks or falls – and you need to know. A limit alarm trip can trigger the response needed to maintain normal, and safe, operations.

To manufacture high-purity chemical and isotopic products, American company EaglePicher engineered a new process in which five bulk products are transferred, weighed with a high degree of accuracy and conveyed to a mixing system.

This is an extract from ‘Hydraulics 1.0’ training by Custom Fluidpower registered training organisation (RTO).

Power over Ethernet (PoE) is one of the hottest topics in ethernet networking applications today. In addition to commercial IT applications, more and more PoE technologies are being deployed in industrial operations.

Moisture analysis during materials handling and processing presents a number of challenges that can be solved with appropriate use of online techniques.

Something happens - a signal peaks or falls - and you need to know. A limit alarm trip can trigger the response needed to maintain normal, and safe, operations.

Trelleborg Industrial Hose, part of Trelleborg Engineered Systems, launches a new compound for food hoses that prevents the accelerated wear usually associated with static dissipation when transferring powdered foodstuffs.