Control Systems

Infectious diseases causing fever can easily spread due to international travelling. Early detection of elevated body temperature (fever) is crucial to avoiding this spreading. An effective disease-prevention strategy with infrared thermography needs to be in place.

The cost-down pressures inherent in all process industries mean that plant operators are consistently required to improve efficiency, at the same time as ensuring repeatable product quality. Moreover, these objectives have to be achieved within the required environment of high hygiene standards, where reliable assurance of clean and cleanable pipework and equipment is paramount.

Eurotherm has thrown down the gauntlet to other power controller suppliers with the launch of a new range of EPower Controllers which are now available from LC Automation. The Eurotherm Whitepaper ‘Energy Cost Reduction through Load Balancing & Load Shedding’ is also available to download.

ISaGRAF announced today that its flagship product ISaGRAF is the software of choice for CSE-Semaphore’s Kingfisher series of Advanced RTUs, which are now available with Secure DNP3 Authentication.

In keeping with the Government’s new Marine and Coastal Access Bill, Eimco Water Technologies has developed a comprehensive range of land-based and marine engineered water and wastewater treatment systems to prevent fish from entering water intakes.

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has selected ISaGRAF v5 for the new Automation Control Platform (ACP) option on their innovative and versatile OSIRIS™ Secure RTU.

Burkert is satisfying process industry demands for small and large systems that reduce costs and improve time to market, with a new extended design and build service for high-tech, pre-assembled MicroFluidic systems and custom- designed process control cabinets. Meeting the needs of markets such as food, beverage, process, chemical, pharmaceutical, medical/biomedical, water and oil and gas, the new extended service exploits Burkert’s unique ability to combine process and laboratory automation, valve elements, sensors, flowmeters, water treatment systems and networked communications into single source customised systems that deliver higher process efficiency and also higher yields with reduced wastage.

SERCOS International has announced it will provide an open source software driver library for the SERCOS lll real-time Ethernet communication system master implementation. SERCOS III thus will be the first high performance real-time protocol which makes driver software available as source code, without any license fees and without any usage limitations.

knitter-switch MERP12 rotary encoders have been designed to replace traditional rotary potentiometers in a wide range of applications and have the added benefit of being illuminated. The new MERP12 range will interest designers currently working on broadcast and professional audio equipment in addition to next generation building automation systems and test and measurement instruments. Rotary encoders offer significant operational benefits when operating “soft” menus.

The Doberman DGM-410 and DGM-410LCD are M2M (machine to machine) mini programmable controllers equipped with a cellular transceiver intended to monitor industrial equipments. Its purpose is to send real time data to the monitoring system in order to provide real time status and can handle a large amount of data. The optional GPS model can serve as a tracking system used in vehicle management or maritime system. DGM series is designed with GPRS/GSM module, an Ethernet interface, optional GPS module, 3 digital inputs and 3 digital outputs, 8 analog inputs, 2 RS-232 and 1 RS-485 port. DGM series are ideal for industrial rated environments due to its robust housing design.