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| Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | | | In this Issue | | | | Featured Articles | Nothing Like Good Connections
Control Design, July 2009
By Philip Burgert
A variety of factors come into play when choosing between different types of terminal-block connectors such as standard screw clamps, spring clamps and euro connectors that are used for wire and cable connections in machine control systems. Power conditioning - some common pitfalls
Design Product Applications, May 2009
Sensitive electronic equipment frequently suffers as a result of power quality problems. Facilities with numerous traditional power loads often generate power disturbances that result in a ‘low technology’ environment supporting ‘high technology’ systems. Power conditioning is the answer. Octopus’s garden: laying cables beneath the ocean waves
Power Engineering International, May 2009
By Tim Probert
The UK’s Global Marine Systems owns and operates a fleet of state-of-the-art vessels and subsea vehicles, such as Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), used to lay sub-sea cables connecting offshore wind farms. Hazardous Area Systems
Control Engineering Asia, April 2009
By Jeanine Katzel
The dangers involved in production and processing in explosive atmospheres may require the use of intrinsically safe (IS) devices under some circumstances, or explosion-proof enclosures in others. Which option is best for your application? When should it be wireless? What benefits does one technology hold over the other? The decision is not always simple or easy. Creative Control Rooms
Control Engineering Asia, April 2009
By Renee Robbins
Human factor engineering applied to plant control room design can help reduce errors and enable users to operate at peak efficiency.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the Control Panels, Cables & Terminations portal. | Live News Feed | | | | | Product Announcements | | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Control Panels, Cables & Terminations portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | Resources & Literature | Adalet announces ATEX control panel assembly certification
Adalet eliminates the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories for final equipment certification saving customers considerable amounts of time and money. igus publishes TechTalk on continuous-flex cables
Basic Guide to Continuous-flex Cables discusses the bundling verses layering technique for high-flex cables. Copper Development Association releases Power Quality CD-ROM
Version 3.0 contains several additional video case histories, new interviews and information from experts, and pertinent sections of the IEEE Emerald Book (Std. 1100-2005). Guide to using industrial fieldbus cable
By Northwire
Multi-pair fieldbus trunk lines simplify installations by merging formerly scattered control and instrument points into common bus segments and junction boxes. IDEAL introduces LanTEK II cable certifiers
Certifiers check LAN cabling to TIA, ISO and IEC performance standards. Complete Category 6/ISO Class E tests are performed in only 14 seconds.
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| | Application Stories | UPS protection for oil and gas platform off the South African coast
Oil & Gas Engineering News, July 2009
British company Carter Sullivan built a UPS to ensure that on-board gas detection sensors and safety systems remain operational during power outages. The company designed and manufactured an IP54 rated enclosure complete with in-built temperature controlled cooling systems. Fiberoptic Networking Powers Up Plant
Industrial Networking, July 2009
Black Hills Power and Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power use fiberoptic cabling and remote control I/O cards in field devices and expect to eliminate 54,000 ft. of hardwiring. Cable carriers minimise downtime costs
Process & Control Today, June 2009
GÜDEL Inc. uses reinforced plastic cable carriers from igus to minimise downtime across its range of automated systems—from multi-axis robots and press-transfer systems, to factory-automation equipment and gantry robots. The cable carriers guide and protect moving cables and hoses. Explosion-proof enclosures simplify maintenance of fire and gas detection systems
HazardEX, May 2009
PDC Systems, a supplier of hazardous area electrical instrumentation, is using explosion-proof enclosures from Cooper Crouse-Hinds to protect fire and gas monitoring and control systems that it supplies to a wide range of hazardous gas applications. Inverters accused of overeating IP65 enclosure saves the day
Process & Control Today, May 2009
Continued problems of inverter failure were plaguing a biscuit factory in Yorkshire with lost production time. The inverters were suffering from ingress of dust. Failures were a result of overheating or, as one termed it, the inverters were “overeating” the biscuit dust.
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| | Featured Training | Power Quality Seminar
October 13, 2009 Manchester, UK
Seminar will includes hands-on training on how to conduct inspections using a variety of power quality tools, as well as offering a free DVD, Case Studies and Application Notes giving advice on troubleshooting techniques and checking EN50160 compliance. Purge and Pressurization Systems seminar
October 21, 2009 Houston, TX
This one-day training session covers purging, how to determine the need, what is used to purge/pressurize an enclosure, and what types of enclosures and devices can be purged. Price: $350. SolaHD offers Online Learning Module on Power Protection
Module provides key points on today's challenging power environment and the damaging effects of transients and noise on electrical equipment.
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| | Company & Organizational News | ASI announces marking and labeling lease program
Lease program covers the EZ Mark plotter system, MARKINGenius, and Rolly 1000 high speed thermal print systems and the DIN rail cutter. Brendon Button wins Alberta's Electrical Apprentices Competition
Alberta’s top electrician apprentices converged at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Polytechnic (SAIT) for the 2009 Alberta Skills Competition, May 13 and 14. Weidmuller terminal blocks obtain seismic qualification
DIN-rail mounted terminal blocks have approvals for thermal aging and seismic qualification for cabinet-mounted instrumentation and control equipment. TURCK obtains FM Approval for quick disconnect sensor cordset
Quick disconnect sensors may be used in Class I, Division 2, Groups A, B, C and D environments when equipped with a TURCK lokfast guard. Fiberguide appoints Jack Kelly president
Kelly previously was President of the Remote Automation Solutions division of Emerson Electric.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Control Panels, Cables & Terminations portal. | | Featured Events | ISA EXPO 2009
October 6-10, 2009 Houston, Texas
ISA EXPO is focused on the technology and techniques of automation and control. Organized around the six core themes central to automation and control, ISA EXPO 2009 provides attendees unlimited opportunity to explore key technologies, discover professional growth, and interact with like minded professionals. Hannover Messe Middle East
February 9-11, 2010 Dubai
Deutsche Messe Hannover will be staging CeMAT Middle East, Industrial Automation (IA) Middle East, and Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) Middle East together.
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