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An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

Bitherm SL offers a variety of products including steam traps, a monitoring system, compact steam trap stations, manifolds and portable detection equipment.

Red says balance contents are not yet in an acceptable tolerance range, and green tells an operator to move onto the next weigh.

The Special Publication 800-82 references ISA/IEC-62443 on 39 separate occasions.

The service helps customers easily maintain spare parts, by offering free return shipping and testing of qualified automation parts

Courses cover PLCs, electrical controls and instrument maintenance.

April U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $384.81 million, down 8.1% from March’s $418.67 million.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

Fenion is Business Development Manager for motion control products.

By: Jeremiah Stone, GE Not too long ago, diagnosing a problem with a critical asset was a cumbersome process for the automation industry. The Industrial Internet is making the diagnostic process much more straightforward and manageable, particularly with the advent of powerful Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic (RM&D) capabilities. The Oil and Gas industry in particular has been quick to recognize the benefits of RM&D.

Industrial automation & manufacturing has been slow to adopt modern digital marketing practices, they have not embraced social media & mobile computing.

Digi-Key will distribute Lepton series thermal imaging cameras.

The facility will build fully integrated analyzer shelters for downstream oil and gas industry customers.

This listing allows the meters to be used in solar performance-based incentive (PBI) programs in California and in similar programs throughout the United States that reference the California standards.

The instrument complies with China’s post-Fukushima’s regulations (as well as those of other nuclear agencies worldwide) to install level measurement instrumentation in all spent fuel pools

Test your ability to match the name for valve symbol designations.

BJ-Gear in Denmark uses collaborative robots from Universal Robots to automate their production of gear wheels. This ushered in substantial cost savings on machinery, optimized work flows, and created a more varied and rewarding work environment.

Unlike the world market, the oil and gas sector is relatively small in China while the power and chemical sectors are especially large.

Available for download on iTunes and Google Play, this app is a compliance and training oriented approach to shared safety moments.