Industrial Networking
and Open Control
|
Volume 7 Issue
3
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| First
Shout |
From
the editor: The positioning game |
| Newsdesk |
|
| New
Products Details |
|
| Sensors |
Component
review |
| Exhibition
Review |
Embedded
Systems Show 2001 |
| Datafiles |
Exceptionally
useful... |
| Information
Bank |
catalogues,
CD-Roms and web sites |
| Diary |
|
| Features |
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| Embedded
control |
What
is a Programmable Logic Controller? Mitsubishi's Chris Hazlewood
explains, and also talks about the new Java plc |
| Building
control |
Increasing
safety requirements in building automation demand new procedures
for using bus sytstems in buildings
|
| SCADA
and Ethernet market reports |
ARC updates its reports on these two important markets |
| Combining
Ethernet and fieldbus |
Can
Ethernet take on the fieldbus tasks, enabling users to have
just one company-wide comms system? |
|
Intrinsic
Safety
|
Dr
Romilly Bowen explains how the cost saving of fieldbus dan be
realised in hazardous area installations |
| Petrochemical
industry |
Modbus
plus is proving its worth on an offshore gas gathering station |
| Comment |
|
| Mike
Williams |
Why
intelligent buildings? |
| Brian
Holliday |
Much
recent debate has centred on the further exploitation of Ethernet
and TCP/IP in industrial applications. |
| Jon
Severn |
If
you want to make full use of diagnostics, make sure you ask
all the right questions of the vendors to check that you can
do what you want to do. |
| Andrew
Bond |
The
ever increasing pressure on margins in the SCADA/HMI market
has led both Intellution and Wonderware to seek salvation in
the so-called MES space'. |
