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High Availability Architecture for Ethernet in Manufacturing
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Summary: Outside of craft manufacture, like blacksmithing, or custom jewelry making, it is no longer possible to manufacture anything in any quantity without automation. In some cases, such as semiconductor manufacture, it is not possible to manufacture without automation at all. This white paper discusses the architecture for using Ethernet in manufacturing.
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．Views:200,056 | |
．Date:
11/28/2008 |
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Benefiting from Industrial Ethernet at the Device Level with Smart Remote I/O and Peer-to-Peer Technology
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Summary: There can be too much of a good thing, or so goes the old saying. Fortunately, new technology can come to the rescue, at least in certain cases. For example, an industrial enterprise can grow too big for efficient automation control using traditional technology. However, advances in industrial Ethernet can provide a solution, if such techniques as smart remote I/O and peer-to-peer technology are implemented. The result could be better and more flexible control, along with a change in the way Ethernet is used. This white paper discusses the benefits of Smart I/O and Peer-to-Peer Technology.
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．Views:461,540 | |
．Date:
9/9/2008 |
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Best Practices for Networking Automation Computers
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Summary: Automation computers can be anywhere, and do very many things. Modern automation computers are connected to networks that may be connected to other networks throughout the plant, and via TCP/IP to the entire world.
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．Views:180,791 | |
．Date:
6/26/2008 |
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Chasing Moore’s Law – The Truth Behind the OS and CPU Upgrades for Industrial PC Users
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SUMMARY: The COTS effect has been almost as big a revolution as that signaled by the phrase uttered by Alexander Graham Bell, “What hath God wrought?” COTS is a three letter acronym that stands for “Commercial, Off The Shelf,” and the COTS revolution has changed commercial computing, created personal computing, impacted telecommunications, and made huge changes in the industrial environment. Most of these changes have been incredibly beneficial. Some have made technologies practical and affordable for applications that were unthinkable thirty years ago. Some have been problematic and some have caused significant FUD. (FUD is another three letter acronym, standing for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.) This white paper discusses the effect of the ever-changing OS on industrial computers.
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．Views:5,928 | |
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4/23/2008 |
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The Advantages of Small Form Factor HMI
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SUMMARY: As embedded computers have become ubiquitous, so too the need for human machine interfaces has grown. Once found in only complex control systems, like distributed control systems in refineries and other process plants, HMI systems are now found in many guises and many locations, from games to industrial machines and tooling systems, with many stops in between. This white paper addresses the increased demand for Small Form Factor HMIs and how they are being used.
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．Views:5,915 | |
．Date:
4/16/2008 |
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Carrying Serial Devices into the Future
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SUMMARY: First in the laboratory, and then on the plant floor, serial digital communication was the earliest means of data transmission from device to device. What's the future?
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．Views:5,922 | |
．Date:
4/15/2008 |
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Embedded Hardware and OS Technology Empower PC-based Platforms
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SUMMARY: Everywhere we look we find computers. Many of them don't look like traditional desktops, or laptops. In industrial infrastructure, we find them in displays, in networking appliances, in machine controllers, in HMIs and in industrial controllers and PACs (programmable automation controllers). We find them in low power, portable devices, and even in field transmitters.
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．Views:5,913 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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Thanks for the Memories - Storage Media in Industrial Applications
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SUMMARY: When it comes to data storage for industrial applications, users no longer have to go around in circles. They now have a choice between rotating magnetic media – hard disk drives with spinning platters – and flash memory
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．Views:4,549 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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Don’t Get Run Over: The Evolution of PC Bus Technologies
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SUMMARY: Over the last decade, there's been an increasing trend toward the use of PC-based automation solutions. In the early 1990's, large automakers and other manufacturers began using standard PCs for machine control.
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．Views:5,918 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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The Evolution and Elements of Robust PC-Based Control
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SUMMARY: The combination of declining PC prices and increased robustness of operating systems and softlogic control applications have resulted in enormous growth in PC-based control since the mid-1990s. But while the basic PC is standardized, not all PCs are equal – particularly when it comes to operating reliably in industrial environments...
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．Views:5,917 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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Windows XP for Embedded Applications
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SUMMARY: The embedded version of Windows XP is a componentized version of the well-known Windows XP Professional operating system. Instead of everything being wrapped tightly into a single package, XP Embedded breaks the OS down into more than 10,000 individual components, allowing developers to create systems that have the functionality and familiar features of XP.
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．Views:5,915 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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Programmable Automation Controllers Find Their Niche...Everywhere!
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SUMMARY: In the beginning there was the relay and the timer. And in the process industries, there was the hardwired controller. Then, there was the Programmable Logic Controller (PAC). Today, it's the Programmable Automation Controller (PAC).
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．Views:5,914 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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High Bright Displays...Get The Picture!
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SUMMARY: In the old adage, seeing is believing. In today’s modern industrial applications, seeing is more than that. It’s the essence of control, since the human machine interface (HMI) involves the presentation of visual information. That’s why there’s such a demand for high bright displays in highly customized industrial computers and in stand alone industrial monitors.
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．Views:5,912 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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Gigabit Ethernet: Meeting the Future with Increased Bandwidth
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SUMMARY: Much has been written about the use of Ethernet in manufacturing. Ethernet has been around a long time. For computers and networking, it has been around practically forever. One of the great benefits of this fact is the time-tested and de-bugged nature of the Ethernet protocol for networking. Since the mid-1990s, Ethernet networks have become ubiquitous. They are used in offices, in homes, in workplaces, in building automation, and with increasing dominance, not just frequency, on the factory floor.
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．Views:5,915 | |
．Date:
1/7/2008 |
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