Mark Hoske
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How to automate 2024 insights: Your top advice from Control Engineering research
Control Engineering research shows the importance of control systems, motors and drives, process instrumentation and sensors, system integration and industrial networking. Advice focuses on how to automate.
2014 ARC Industry Forum: Optimize system integration project benefits
To optimize benefits in automation or controls system integration projects, avoid the madness and pitfalls by applying Tom Braydich’s, former director of electrical engineering at the Campbell Soup Co., principles of success.
2014 ARC Industry Forum: The mining industry in transition
Donovan Waller, head of automation and remote monitoring at Anglo American, delivered a presentation on the mining industry at the 2014 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Fla. He discussed challenges and solutions for catching the mining industry up to speed with similar global industries.
2014 ARC Industry Forum: The information-driven enterprise
Andy Chatha, president of the Arc Advisory Group, opened day 2 with remarks on the forum’s theme, “Industry in transition: The information-driven enterprise,” focusing primarily on the Internet of Things, cyber security, and interconnectedness.
AT&T Mobility, GE: Industrial Internet
Meredith Powers, M2M, manufacturing and healthcare, advanced mobility solutions marketing; and Mike Waitley, M2M Center of Excellence, explained how AT&T and GE are working together to advance the Industrial Internet.
Yokogawa process control advances
Mr. Masatoshi Nakahara, senior vice president, head of industrial automation platform business HQ, and Chet Mroz, president and CEO, Yokogawa Corporation of America, introduced Yokogawa’s new Centum VP system offering and explained how it will advance the company’s vision for Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant as the ideal facility for industrial automation.
Siemens-FDI Cooperation, new FDI style guide
FDI Cooperation announced the first public release of the FDI Usability Style Guide and a preview release of the Field Device Integration (FDI) developer toolkit, which together, will make it possible for automation suppliers to prepare for developing FDI-compatible products and host systems. The announcements were made at the 2014 ARC Forum.
Engineering in Balance – 2010-04-05 – 2010-04-05
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Texas Instruments tops ABI Research Mobile Internet Device Platforms Vendor Matrix Ranking
Texas Instruments has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. NVIDIA and Freescale Semiconductor claimed the second and third spots in the company's new evaluation of worldwide Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform vendors.
Wireless sensor networks can address industrial, economic, and societal issues
Beth Wozniak, president of Honeywell Sensing and Control, said the growing use of wireless sensors-and the increasing trend toward connecting multiple sensors on Internet-based networks-is creating an environment in which sensing technology is pervasive, and that "world of interconnected sensors," will produce tremendous industrial, environmental, economic, and societal benefits.
Industrial wireless implementation guide
So you've dabbled in wireless or thought it might save time, effort, or dollars. This primer helps with technology selection
Siemens: new CNC platform, services, contract
Elk Grove Village, IL —Siemens Energy and Automation Inc. introduced a new CNC system platform, as well as new traditional and electronic-based services, and announced a new CNC-related contract, in an Aug. 11 press event near Chicago. The “Sinumerik solution line CNC system platform,” new to the U.S.
Volkswagen properly seals 35 products with machine vision
Assembling automobile transmissions at a Volkswagen plant in Cordoba, Argentina, involves putting the top and bottom pieces of together. A robot applies sealant used to join the pieces. However, smeared or irregular sealant lines, or sealant falling into the bottom block, can result in a defective product.
Alltrista inspects home canning lids with machine vision
Alltrista Consumer Products Co., Muncie, IN, manufactures two-piece home-canning closures under Ball, Kerr, Golden Harvest, Mason, and Bernardin brand names. A critical quality check is inspecting the plastisol seal on the lid that preserves the vacuum, which ensures safe home-canned foods. Side-by-side Omron F160 vision systems inspect two lines of lids in the space of one of the former systems. As an early machine-vision adopter, Alltrista was using late 1980’s/early 1990’s-era vision systems to inspect lid seals.
Peddling the lifecycle can produce pain, gain
Feel like you're pedaling (and peddling) as fast you can without traction? How big is your automation budget? How big's your maintenance budget? Talk much with your chief financial officer about how automation can help meet and exceed business goals? Don't assume that others in the organization—in maintenance, operations, or finance—know the long-term benefits automation can bring ...