Control loop: Case History 140 - Report after optimisation exercise February 2015, Michael Brown Control Engineering There is a particular continuous process plant in South Africa that takes base layer control loop optimisation extremely seriously. (Many other plants unfortunately do not, which to me is terribly sad.) ...
Force monitoring for manual presses December 2014 German instrumentation specialist, Burster, has introduced its new ForceMaster 9110 to monitor both complex and simple manual press operations in manufacturing and assembly processes.
The device monitors ...
Pervasive sensing changes the fundamentals of automation November 2014, Emerson Automation Solutions Wireless technology coupled with a reduction in the cost of sensor technology is driving a new era in industrial automation.
Rockwell Automation’s high-pressure mist fire suppression November 2014, Rockwell Automation The Rockwell Automation installations of automation instrumentation for controlling conveyor belt speed and sequencing can include a fire suppression system in the form of a Fogtec high-pressure water ...
Process Dynamics: Citect Scada used to manage South African wind farm November 2014, Process Dynamics Situated in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa’s first wind farms can produce up to 27 MW of power which is mostly utilised by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. When it came to finding a solution for controlling ...
Control loop: Case History 139 - The importance of measurements and dynamics. November 2014, Michael Brown Control Engineering One of the first laws of process control states that you cannot control what you cannot measure. However, although instrument practitioners all know this they very often forget it.
I think this is largely ...
PlantStruxure PES shines at Xperience Efficiency October 2014, Schneider Electric South Africa Schneider Electric combines control applications, supervision and field devices under one integrated software platform.
Omniflex replaces annunciator system for Shell September 2014, Omniflex Remote Monitoring Specialists When Shell Lubricants in the UK needed to replace an ageing process alarm system with SIL certified technology, it chose Omniflex to engineer a replacement solution based on the state-of-the-art Omni16R ...
Control loop: Case History 138 - Bad actors. September 2014, Michael Brown Control Engineering Alarm management has become a subject of interest in many plants. With the advent of computerised control and HMI systems, it has become extremely easy to put alarms onto control loops. Nowadays operators ...
PC-based control July 2014, Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff’s Scientific Automation integrates robotics, measurement technology and condition monitoring into the standard control platform alongside PLC, motion control and safety technology. TwinCAT utilises ...
Afrilek: Afrilek enhances customer service through tailored divisions. July 2014, Afrilek Automation Afrilek, providers of automation and electrical solutions, has spent the past few months developing its existing divisions, adding new elements to the business and appointing an industry expert to head ...
Control loop: Case History 137 - The cycling pressure loop. July 2014, Michael Brown Control Engineering I have written much in the past about the peculiar problems inherent to integrating processes. The most commonly found of these are level controls, but some pressure control loops, particularly those ...
The re-invented high-bay warehouse June 2014, Beckhoff Automation Beckhoff’s TwinCAT 3 unites PC control and science for simplified cable robot operation.
