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Improving capacity, modernising an older production line design, speedier materials handling, and reduced energy consumption were some of the enhancements Promtek engineered when it overhauled a plant design and production line for St Gobain.
Control Engineering Europe - Products
Feb 12, 2024 · IDEC Corporation has updated its SmartAXIS touch family with the new FT1J Series combined PLC+HMI which combines a built-in full function controller, both onboard and expandable I/O, and a 4.3in touchscreen display, in a compact all-in-one form factor for visualising and automating a wide range of applications.
Control Engineering Europe - Products
Hardware gateway transfers PLC data to the cloud (01/05/2024) Softing Industrial has introduced edgeGate, a hardware gateway for industrial edge and cloud applications, designed to transfer production data from PLCs to edge and cloud-based environments.
Control Engineering Europe - Drives and motors
Jul 8, 2023 · Servomotors with functional safety (23/05/2024) Brusatori Electric Motors (part of the KEB Group) has introduced a new mechanical mounting system for safe encoders for its DL4 series of servomotors that meets the requirements with safety functionalities and can assume Functional Safety functions together with the approved drive system.
Control Engineering Europe - PLCs/PACs/DCS/controllers
Dec 15, 2023 · DCS system update boosts plant efficiency and future-proof operations (06/11/2024) The latest version of ABB’s Freelance distributed control system (DCS) is said to enhance plant connectivity, ensuring fast and reliable communication for optimal real-time data processing and control.
Control Engineering Europe - News
Dec 16, 2024 · The Appetite for Engineering team are delighted to announce that at the 2025 event, Kati Gastrow, a Senior Industrial Security Engineer at Mars Inc and Kevin Ruff, Director of KNR Management Services Ltd, both members of the IMechE Food and Drink Engineering Committee, will give a joint presentation about the growing importance of cybersecurity as more food production plants adopt digital ...
Control Engineering Europe - Drives and motors
Oct 7, 2023 · Repair, replace, or is there another way? (20/09/2024) Suzanne Gill spoke to Steve Hughes, Marketing and Sales Manager for Motion Service at ABB, about how the traditional ‘repair versus replace’ debate for variable speed drive systems is changing.
Control Engineering Europe - Process instrumentation
Apr 7, 2024 · Control valve improves process efficiency (09/12/2024) U.S. Vanadium, a supplier of vanadium compounds, relies on sliding gate valves to stabilise the process temperature during the production process.
Control Engineering Europe - Industry 4.0
May 2, 2024 · While circumstances impact sectors differently, the most powerful differentiator behind every new opportunity is Artificial Intelligence (AI). It's what drives industrial machines to be more intelligent – producing data, identifying metrics and gaps, and generating actionable insights, says Marcel van Helten.
Control Engineering Europe - Analytical instruments
Apr 9, 2023 · Listening to production noise to reduce costs (16/05/2024) Every factory or production plant is noisy, to various levels. It’s a consequence of machinery, pneumatics, hydraulics, motors, pumps, compressors, bearings, chains and other equipment used to manufacture and assemble products.