Control Systems

Aspen Technology,announced the release of aspenONE V7 software in nine languages — Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish — adding to the existing English language version.

To modernize the safety technology used in its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage facility in Brunsbüttel (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), Nordsee Gas Terminal GmbH & Co. KG will rely on three H51q systems from HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG as emergency shutdown (ESD) systems. The systems help ensure safe operations at the only LPG sea import terminal in Germany.

Emerson Process Management announced today that it has won a contract to install its Scenario® simulation technology at the new 515-MW Paju Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Plant. The contract was awarded by the Korea District Heating Corp. (KDHC).

Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract to update the instrumentation and controls on units 5 and 6 of the largest lignite-fired power plant in Europe, the Belchatow Power Plant in Poland. This project is part of a major reconstruction and modernization program that is intended to improve plant performance, increase availability and reduce environmental impact.

Machine tool builders are demanding ever shorter mounting and commissioning times for the electrical equipment on their machines. Particularly for safety-related machines and systems, they need position encoders that deliver safe, redundant position values over a fast serial interface to a dual-channel control. These topics are among the focal points of HEIDENHAIN, the control and encoder specialists from Traunreut, Germany, at this year’s EMO.

The new linear drive based YASKAWA handling system combines absolute precision with maximum dynamics and long service life. The system picks up, moves and precisely deposits weights of up to 1.5kg at cyberspeed.

Foremost Electronics, anounces the introduction of the next step in control functionality. The Navimec switch concept from leading switch manufacturer MEC offers soft-touch joystick functionality making it possible to navigate up, down, left and right with the provision of a centre function that will typically be used as an enter key. Navimec™ switches are available with or without illumination and the non-illuminated versions may be over-printed with appropriate legends.

SERCOS International announces that an open source software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation is now available via the sourceforge.net online-portal. The software can be used by interested users according to the LGPL license, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa Deutschland GmbH, has received an order from MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH to supply an automation and control system for the La Brea Combined Cycle Power Plant that is being built by MAN Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH and Eisenbau Essen GmbH for Trinidad Generation Unlimited . This power plant is being built near La Brea, a town on the south side of Trinidad Island. With a capacity of 720 MW, this will be the largest power plant in Trinidad and Tobago, a country with a vibrant economy that is rich in oil and natural gas resources. Scheduled to be completed in July 2011, the plant will meet the country's rising demand for electricity.

Although it has been supplying the food industry with dough kneading machines for almost a century, Diosna Dierks & Sohne of Osnabrück prides itself on always making the best use of modern technology in its machines. And it has found that the latest controlgear products from Eaton’s Moeller Business provide important benefits.