Control Engineering

JANUARY 4, 2023

Understand the shift toward the smart factory and the challenges process manufacturers face. Learning Objectives. Learn how IEC 61499 and IEC 61131-3 are impacting universal automation. Learn about universal automation’s benefits and how technology such as Ethernet-APL and edge devices will improve users’ intelligence.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 30, 2023

Global efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions from industry are gathering pace as a variety of environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the development of sustainable energy sources such as green hydrogen. The growing viability of hydrogen as an energy source is changing this.

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Control Engineering

JULY 9, 2023

Safety, reliability and increased production are still critical drivers for industrial process manufacturers. Figure 1: In a boundless automation architecture, a single cohesive software platform will unify the edge, the cloud and the intelligent field to better meet the changing needs of process manufacturers.

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Control Engineering

JULY 31, 2023

They are no longer just monitoring tools but are shaping the future of smart factories, thanks to open system architecture and the ability to integrate data from IT and OT sources. To achieve Industry 4.0 goals, modern SCADA systems must provide advanced functionalities and flexible data access for informed decision-making.

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Infinite Uptime

MAY 10, 2022

This article discusses Predictive Maintenance, a new age approach for plant maintenance, and why an IoT-led Predictive Maintenance approach can solve most of your maintenance worries for your cement plants. Finding the root cause of machine failure, sourcing & transporting the spare parts takes a long time.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Obtain a 360-degree overview for manufacturing, processing companies 360 views: Relevant data takes many forms and originates from an exceptionally wide range of sources and systems across all levels of a business, sometimes even external to the business. Process data is needed to inform analytics efforts.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 25, 2022

Dyes are used across multiple industries, and are a known source of pollution and health risks for humans. Equated to oil and water, researchers performed visual tests to study the synthetic polymer, and discovered that it grabs onto the dyes and then is later able to be separated through a draining process.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

IIoT projects focused on connecting with these data silos to provide monitoring and visibility, and enable analytics, are key to integrating all available source data. However, companies commonly use a wide variety of systems and technologies, making it difficult to integrate various data silos.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Digital transformation can help process manufacturers improve sustainability. Process manufacturers can use key performance indicators (KPIs) to reduce inefficiencies caused by steam traps, pressure relief valves (PRVs) and more. Keywords: sustainability, process manufacturing . Learning Objectives.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software was initially designed to aggregate information from distributed sources and provide operators with the information needed to best control processes. SCADA connections to MES and other areas 3.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s essential to diversify clean energy sources. Yet clean energy sources such as wind and solar power are still heavily dependent on atmospheric conditions. While fossil fuels have had the advantage of being able to deliver power daily, wave power could give renewable energy the same reliability.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 13, 2023

The ever-changing technological landscape is seeing the emergence of edge computing – the analysis of data at source. As well as allowing water networks to use the carbon reduction to evidence sustainable operations, engineers are able work to a hybrid pattern for improved productivity and a better work/life balance.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It enables efficient management of the interactions between critical asset items, permitted work, and isolations of power, fluid, or motive sources in one centralized platform. Monitoring safety critical asset items and linking them to permitted activities will provide significant benefits to plants.

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Control Engineering

JULY 13, 2022

For example, pressure-reducing regulators control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process. Use a pressure-reducing regulator to control pressure from a source before it arrives at the main process and a back-pressure regulator if you need to control pressure from upstream. Courtesy: Swagelok.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The lab may also look into embedding more components into the prototype, such as on-board power sources, sensors, computational resources or wireless communication capabilities. – Edited by Chris Vavra, web content manager, Control Engineering , CFE Media and Technology, cvavra@cfemedia.com.

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digital twins encompass first principle-based process simulation, data-driven ML models, asset models and connections to real-world data synchronized from multiple sources including operational data, engineering data, maintenance data and financial information.

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Control Engineering

MAY 25, 2023

Tighten the valves to recommended levels to prevent misalignment and poor connections, which may be a source of leakages and fugitive emissions that can cause fire accidents or employee exposure to harmful gasses. Damaged actuators can be a source of fugitive emissions in a facility. Torque requirements.

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Control Engineering

MAY 11, 2023

These templates are most often graphics with only one parameter and they expose a simple property that can link to any source of data. Variable templates Variable templates offer more functionality compared to static templates, as they allow you to create custom components.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

She said about two billion people worldwide use a drinking water source that has some level of fecal matter in it and can cause health issues ranging from diarrhea to stunted growth – especially in young children. Emily Bedell (PhDEnvEngr’22) is the lead author on the paper from the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. Patent Office.

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