Fiber optic vs. copper: 5 ways fiber wins

Fort Lauderdale, FL – Fiber-optic cables are steadily replacing copper wires for signal transmission in many manufacturing, process control, and SCADA applications. Here are four reasons why fiber optics are preferable to copper cabling, plus one more reason you may not have considered.
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Shift to I/O level: Ethernet value moves down to devices

Dedham, MA – Industrial Ethernet's migration into the device or I/O level of the automation network hierarchy "signals its continued march downward in the enterprise architecture," says ARC Advisory Group. How far into double digits is the growth? How many Control Engineering subscribers use Ethernet at the I/O level?
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Extreme design: Controller board optical switch on controller board has 36 layers, does 2.5 Terabits/sec

Endicott, NY – A complex controller board serves as a blazing fast optical packet switch; learn who's involved and exactly how fast 2.5 Terabit per second is.
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Cyber threats: Improve security of process, SCADA software

Foxborough, MA – Providers of real-time process control / supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies will improve software security with a new partnership program. The move should help users with regulatory compliance at utilities, other industries, and with ....
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Wider vista: 67-inch curved, control room screen

Beaverton, OR – See your SCADA or other operations better on a large, contiguous, curved surface.
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In print: Green manufacturing looks at energy as a process variable

Making your processes "Green" or more sustainable might be a little easier and worthwhile than once thought.
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Online: Safe I/O system; mechatronics adds accuracy; less budget, less pay

• Intelligent remote I/O system gets safety approvals
• Mechatronics: OEM adds accuracy
• Fermilab: Time off, no pay is budget cut response