Industrial Networking
and Open Control
|
Volume 7 Issue
2
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| First
Shout |
From
the editor: So far so good! |
| Newsdesk |
|
| New
Products Details |
|
| Exhibition
Review |
Hannover
Messe 2001 |
| Information
Bank |
catalogues,
CD-Roms and web sites |
| Diary |
|
| Features |
|
| Profibus
Integration |
How
Profinet opens up Profibus technology to the production and
corporate management levels in a company |
| HMI
Operating Systems |
Rockwell
Automation's Paul Herron looks at how using right operating
system can make a big difference to
operator interface terminals
|
| Valve
Islands |
Parker
Pneumatic hopes to revolutionise the design of electro-pneumatic
control and automation systems with
a miniaturised pneumatic valve system called Moduflex |
| Smart
Pneumatics |
The
Smart Suite, exhibited at the recent Hanover Fair, may not be
the latest fashion accessory but the products herald a new era
for pneumatics, according to IMI Norgren |
|
Bottling
& Brewing:
|
Pantek's
Duncan Fletcher looks at how investment in a new SCADA system
has made a brewing operation more efficient |
| Bottling
& Brewing: |
The
best canning line SCADA system in the world? Probably. Doug
Woodbridge of Dickinson Control Systems looks at the implementation
of SCADA at Carlsberg Tetley's Northampton plant |
| CANBus
Interface |
Two
universal controllers with CAN-Bus interfaces are now finding
applications in the wider mobile commercial machinery market
|
| Intelligent
Valves |
Asco
Joucomatic's Mike Reece looks at a recent development that puts
more intelligence into fieldbus connected valves and actuators. |
| Comment |
|
| Kevin
Prouty |
Looks
at the way embedded control has moved from a black art to the
mainstream as companies have realised where the opportunities
are. |
| 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 |
| Andrew
Bond |
Embracing
new technologies is one thing; adapting to the implications
of those new technologies is quite another |
