Industrial Networking
and Open Control
|
Volume 7 Issue
1
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| First
Shout |
From
the editor: Welcome to the launch issue |
| Newsdesk |
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| New
Products Details |
|
| Exhibition
Review |
Drives
& Controls 2001 |
| Information
Bank |
catalogues,
CD-Roms and web sites |
| Diary |
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| Features |
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| Safety
Fieldbus |
A
combination of self testing, redundancy and approved software
is enabling multi-channel PLC systems to meet plant safety requirements |
| Industrial
Ethernet |
Users
of industrial networks have been drawn to Ethernet, but there
have been a number of barriers to its use for real-time, plant
level control. Now Ethernet/IP is set to break down these barriers |
| Fieldbus
Options |
With
so many fieldbus options available, choosing the right bus –
or buses – for your application is no trivial task. We detail
all the key fieldbus choices, look at their particular strengths,
and consider what the future might hold |
| Field-Based
Architecture |
Smart
field devices are helping pharmaceutical manufacturers to manage
the pressures of getting products to market quickly and cost-effectively |
| DeviceNet
Conformance |
With
the number of DeviceNet installations increasing rapidly, effective
conformance testing has become crucial to ensuring all DeviceNet
products perform on a network exactly as expected |
| Comment |
|
| Richard
Piggin |
As
Ethernet takes a grip in the automation arena, what is the future
for fieldbus? |
| Jon
Severn |
Designing
and building a prototpye safety fieldbus is easy; gaining the
necessary approvals to allow the system to be used is a lot
harder |
| Geoff
Lock |
Exploiting the internet for conferencing is a good way to spread
knowledge and save time, but the public services for this kind
of event lag way behind the leading edge |
| Ignace
Verhamme |
Fieldbus
is more than a data pipeline - its value lies in its ability
to provide an unprecedented richness of data to applications
and services |
| Andrew
Bond |
Embracing
new technologies is one thing; adapting to the implications
of those new technologies is quite another |
