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How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (3)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning. This is the third. https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-3/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can …

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How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (2)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning. This is the second. https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-2/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can …

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How to deal with global warming, from a control engineer’s point of view (1)

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I have just read these series of articles about global warming on the website of Control magazine, they are written by Béla Lipták. I found them quite enlightning: https://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2021/controlling-the-future-part-1/ About the author: Béla Lipták Béla Lipták is an automation and safety consultant and editor of the Instrument and Automation Engineers’ Handbook (IAEH). He can be contacted at liptakbela@aol.com.

To mux or not to mux

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When digital technology became available, the idea of improving the 4-20 mA signal became the goal for every major instrumentation supplier. Using newly available cheap microprocessors, manufacturers developed various techniques to include additional information to be encoded digitally into the 4-20 mA current signal loop. As far as I can remember, the three major contenders that attempted to do this were Foxboro, with its FoxCom protocol, Yokogawa with its Brain protocol and Rosemount with the HART (Highway Addressable Remote Transducer) protocol.

Configurando un DP/PA Link en TIA Portal

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Introducción El entorno de trabajo TIA Portal de Siemens es la herramienta preferida para la configuración y programación de los controladores Siemens más recientes. Es un entorno relativamente amigable, visualmente más atractivo que el tradicional Step 7, aun cuando los requerimientos de hardware son elevados si se desea trabajar con proyectos relativamente grandes. Y exige …

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10 factores para tener en cuenta cuando se realiza un diagnóstico de un sistema de bus de campo

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Texto original por Mirko Torrez Contreras Hace un tiempo atrás, como parte de un viaje de capacitación y certificación sobre redes PROFINET auspiciado por la firma Indu-sol , tuvimos la interesante experiencia de participar en un trabajo de ampliación y montaje de nuevos segmentos de red PROFIBUS DP en una empresa ubicada cerca de Hamburgo, …

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PITC/PICC Argentina: An account of our first five months

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The first PITC/PICC (PROFIBUS & PROFINET INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCE CENTER) located in Argentina started its operations in May 2017, with a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Engineer course. Since that first time experience we have hosted two Certified PROFINET Engineer courses, a Certified PROFIBUS DP PA Installer course, a Certified PROFINET Installer course and finally, …

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PROFIBUS and PROFINET Regional News – July 2017: Help and support in Argentina

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News from around the world includes a new PI Competence Center and PI Training Center in Argentina, events in Brazil, and a Profibus & Profinet Day in Italy. Argentina The first PI Training Center (PITC) and PI Competence Center (PICC) was accredited by PI in Argentina at Autex S.A., a Siemens Premier Partner located in …

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Siemens approach to the Smart IO concept: the Simatic Compact Field Unit (Simatic CFU)

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(Snapshots from the near future: Part 4) Introduction: The Next Generation Control System Initiative A couple of years ago, while reading an online magazine or a web page, I found out the initial details of the so-called Exxon Mobil’s Next Generation Control System initiative (let’s call it the NGCS).f This initiative originated in the following …

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