Control Automation Features

'DLR': raising functionality while lowering cost and complexity

'DLR': raising functionality while lowering cost and complexity

With Device Level Ring (DLR) functionality now available in its Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 750 and 525 drives, Rockwell Automation can offer its users access to a powerful device-level networking topology that provides a raft of benefits covering time, cost, functionality and ease of use. Jonathan Smith explains the principles and the advantages.

Design to commissioning within a single engineering framework

Design to commissioning within a single engineering framework

Simon Keogh outlines the thinking behind Siemens' ‘Totally Integrated Automation' (TIA) Portal and highlights recent enhancements for TIA V12 that help illustrate why he believes it is the way forward for manufacturers tackling current and future industrial challenges.

Hackerspaces and new frontiers in wireless innovation

Hackerspaces and new frontiers in wireless innovation

New York is fast becoming a major centre for new technology fuelled by an increase of more than 30 percent in venture capital since 2007 prompting the emergence the natural outgrowth of Hackerspaces.

The proven value of wireless utility monitoring

The proven value of wireless utility monitoring

Wireless utility monitoring products from HWM’s Radio-Tech brand have been used by Verco Advisory Services to reduce a major UK food producer’s water consumption by almost 10 percent and gas consumption by over 5 percent in just five months, with projections showing savings of around £1m in only two years.

Sensing the future: humanoid robots

Sensing the future: humanoid robots

Last year, the Robot Studio decided to make a statement in the world of humanoid robotics when they aspired to replicate the form and function of arguably the most precise, versatile, and complex mechanical system to exist: the human shoulder, arm and hand.

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