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- PC reliability?
- Windows, real time
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- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
- PC reliability?
- Windows, real time
- PID loops
- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
Fortune
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're
guessing.
guessing.
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What is your experience with SSD disks used in work stations, eventually on single stations?
Display array of string.
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By Trevor Ousey on 26 August, 2009 - 6:23 pm -
Sorry, I should have elaborated more:
I.E. N7[4],SC5 will give you ten bytes (five integer...
By Trevor Ousey on 26 August, 2009 - 8:48 am -
It is the same as RSView32 and SLC5's, as listed below taken from a
technotes.
Add the SSxx...
windbox pressure and flame scanner cooling fan pressure
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By Phil Corso on 26 August, 2009 - 2:16 pm -
SonicJoe...
1) What is the fuel?
2) How many burners?
3) How many scanners per burner?
...
GE Mark-II control system upgrading with latest and reliable control system.
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By Bobby Mukaisu on 26 August, 2009 - 12:59 pm -
This post might have been relevant in 1988. The Triconex PLC was originally a Safety Shutdown...
I am a trainee engineer who wants to know about the connections of teh HV transmission line
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By Phil Corso on 26 August, 2009 - 11:32 am -
Responding to Harsharmn's 24-Aug-09 (02:58) query... please provide a simple hand-drawn sketch or...
Synchronize/Parallel ZNyn11 vector group transformer to Dyn 11 vector group transformer.
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By Phil Corso on 26 August, 2009 - 9:59 am -
Responding to Vimal's 26 Aug-09 query... off hand the voltage ratio is too high!
A diagram of...
Looking for a free modbus driver that will work with .NET.
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By M Griffin on 25 August, 2009 - 11:53 pm -
So far as I can tell, "OPC" and "free of charge" (or even "cheap")...
By Mustafa Al-mosawi on 25 August, 2009 - 6:25 pm -
I think any search will come up rather empty, or direct you write your own TCP/IP stack and...
By bob gantt on 24 August, 2009 - 12:26 pm -
Need a free modus OPC server, that can work with multiple modbus RTU serial devices. Kepware works...
from the Automation List department...
Looking for ready made RTU units or PLCs for a Computer Assisted Railway Control SystemRTU units or PLCs for computer assisted railway control
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By Barrett on 25 August, 2009 - 11:38 am -
You definitely need Opto22. Opto22 is perfect for that application and is an Ethernet based TCP/IP...
GE Frame 5 limited below Rated Power
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Hello MIKEVI,
Thanks for your detailed response. Once, I get to the site I will have more...
Dear Colladjl, as you are well aware the more information you provide, the better information this...
I have a S7 PLC network with PROFIBUS protocol. There are WinCC HMI PC. How to integrate additional field devices by extending PROFIBUS
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Please help me by your kind suggestions,
Thanks...
I want to procure IS passive barriers for analog inputs like pressure, temp and flow transmitters. Flow transmitters are basically vortex type transmitters with local display cum tantalizer in a separate enclosure.
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There are some good technical papers in the MTL website http://www.mtl-inst.com/
The 4xxx range...
Better go with MTL 40** series. I used it....
Web HMI for HVAC
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You may use our http://pvbrowser.org
...
By Sergey Sorokin on 22 August, 2009 - 6:11 pm -
Try www.controlsystemworks.com, it may work for you: it's web-based, it supports writes, it works...
from the Automation List department...
Feasibility of tripping a Gas Turbine on LUBE OIL TANK level LOW LOWTrying to reason out why tripping of a Gas Turbine is not considered on LUBE OIL TANK level LOW LOW.
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I, too, have never heard of a high L.O. tank pressure trip. That's not to say such a thing was...
Dear Gary,
for frame-V machines, frankly speaking, I have never heard of anything like high...
By Gary on 20 August, 2009 - 9:19 am -
Dear Sirs:
We have Frame 5 GTG but we got another issue the lube oil tank. We have high pressure...
Looking for GSD file for UD73 -- Control Technique Unidrive
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go to emersonct.com and click downloads.. software... drives... and it is in the list... You may...
Vijeo Citec Vs Wonderwere
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By James Ingraham on 20 August, 2009 - 6:22 pm -
I vote for Wonderware. It's the gold standard.
-James Ingraham...
By Sachin on 20 August, 2009 - 2:28 am -
Hi
from last 3 years i am working on Wonderware & Vijeo Citect both
i must say you go for...
Difference of Diaphragm Seal type (capsule, welded, clamp, etc)
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By Ralph on 20 August, 2009 - 3:32 pm -
Hi,
you also may want to check out this European company called Badotherm. They are supposed to...
Seeking product information about electrical rails.
Braking / instant stopping a single phase induction motor
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By Ken Emmons Jr. on 18 August, 2009 - 8:04 am -
Nothing stops instantly. This problem needs more definition.
KEJR...
By Phil Corso on 18 August, 2009 - 7:32 am -
Shilpa... I suggest you search the Control List Archives.
Regards, Phil Corso (cepsicon [at]...
how can I generate 12 volts AC or DC using only household water pressure, and what is the smallest this generator can be? Can it be smaller than 120cc?
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By Mingwah on 17 August, 2009 - 11:41 pm -
I would like to offer a better solution or better question to the answer. If you would like to...
Doubts about "generic" instrument
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Ricardo,
You might be better giving us more details/better context to judge the use of these...
Hi Mr.Ricardo Almarza,
Get different answers with different SIL selection techniques..
Which...
Looking for on-line tutorials, manuals for Siemens S7 Docs
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By Marco on 15 August, 2009 - 6:34 am -
Hello Bill Sturm,
here you can find everything you will need to know how to program Siemens...
By Mik on 15 August, 2009 - 3:19 am -
This is definitely a web site you're looking for:
...
By kevin grey on 15 August, 2009 - 2:44 am -
Hi, You can download pretty much of their manuals. what are you looking for? do you have any PLC...
By M Griffin on 15 August, 2009 - 1:40 am -
Useful information is buried somewhere deep in the Siemens web site. Digging it out probably takes...
By Ronald on 14 August, 2009 - 11:43 pm -
Did you try www.automation.siemens.com/support?
...
We are looking for a solution provider that can supply gas flow metering skids...
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By Samir Metwally on 15 August, 2009 - 5:31 am -
>We can provide the complete mass flow metering skids from Yokogawa Singapore with Yokogawa Mass...
I have a Bosch alpha 2, and I can't change any parameters...
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If the machine comes to start the screw-cutting and the axes are in position, which they probably...
Flow measurement of highly viscous material as line is over sized and this velocity is low,thereby decreasing accuracy
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By Roy Matson on 14 August, 2009 - 1:27 am -
What about a straight tube coreolis, that shouldn't create a bottleneck, more expensive than a mag...
Gas Turbine Training Course in Malaysia or Indonesia
Reading Type K thermocouple from 25 m distance
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By dilip on 13 August, 2009 - 12:12 am -
Compensating i.e. Thermocouple extension cables have the same metals as used in a TC junction....
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