Ethernet
Top 5 Control Engineering articles February 17-23
Articles about the Engineers' Choice winners, process valve choices, cotton gin improvements, robots and drones in process facilities, and the top 2019 university articles were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from February 17-23. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Design advice for connecting IT and OT
High-performance infrastructure, including industrial Ethernet networks, helps with efficient, secure and reliable connections between information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems and software. Note the unseen costs of unmanaged switch and transition layer between IT and OT.
Continuous improvements help Alabama cotton gin increase yields
A cotton gin facility in Alabama upgraded its industrial network to better manage its increased production while running optimally for long periods of time.
Ethernet for process and discrete devices
Think Again: Separate efforts aim to extend Ethernet to process and discrete devices. Standards can promote interoperability for devices and software if standards are specific enough.
Food packaging company cuts compressed air costs by $250,000
IZ Systems minimizes equipment footprint and slashes energy requirements 45% by implementing PC-based automation and EtherCAT.
Ethernet/IP enhanced to integrate IO-Link devices
ODVA has published enhancements to The EtherNet/IP Specification, which outline how to integrate devices built to the IO-Link Communication Standard into CIP architectures
HART increasingly used for quick diagnostics
Pluggable disconnect terminals for process engineering control systems. HART can help control processes in 3 ways.
Control Engineering hot topics, October 2019
Control Engineering's most clicked articles in October 2019 included stories about the Engineers' Choice finalists, PLC naming conventions, digital engineering practices, RPC and model-based control, and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Ethernet group accepts addition to standard
The EtherCAT Technology Group's (ETG) technical committee has accepted EtherCAT G, introduced by Beckhoff Automation in 2018, as an addition to the EtherCAT standard.
Time-sensitive networking benefits for manufacturing applications
Time-sensitive networking (TSN) allows for increased automation and connectivity on the plant floor through industrial communication applications.