Control Engineering 08/01/2008 Table of Contents

Control Engineering - August 01, 2008

Cover Story

Automation, IT Find Teamwork Pays
Controls and information system personnel are building joint teams that are optimizing manufacturing operations in new ways. Business pressures and technology advances both enable and encourage the collaboration.

Departments

Advancing Technology

The hunt for 60+% thermal efficiency

Back to Basics

Data acquisition: get it right

By the Numbers

By the Numbers

Editorial

The persistence of U.S. engineering

Global Perspective

Automated Olympics

Industrial Ethernet

Ethernet communication tips

Insight

Data deletion, or letting go is hard to do

Product Exclusive

Distributed controller has Profinet

Talkback

Industrial exemption, eCAD

Technology Update

'Cool’ design for power supplies

Think Again

Have use for 10,000 robots?

Features

Actuating Safety

Partial Stroke Testing

Inside Compliance

Inside Machines

Demystifying ZigBee and its Application
Motion Controller Accelerates NASCAR

Machine Vision

Inspection Systems Benefit from High-tech Components

Motion Control

How Encoders Make Automated Motion Safe

Product Research

Product Research: Flowmeters, users buy more; new technologies

News

Products and Software

Supplements

Automation in Packaging

Wireless Communications for Industry

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