Compliance incentives abound at the state and federal levels. Recognizing the business value of moving beyond simple compliance, Opto 22, a manufacturer of control, monitoring, and data acquisition hardware, stays ahead of regulations for business optimization reasons. It also passes on lessons learned to its customers.
Machine safety technologies promote sustainable production by emphasizing global standards, innovative technologies, trained personnel, and ongoing risk assessment as best practices to support and maintain future production.
Avoiding the need for hard wiring, the latest terminal blocks provide safe, secure connections with greater ease. Terminal block designs also offer more flexibility, space savings, accessory options, and integrated intelligence compared to prior designs.
A recent survey of Control Engineering subscribers illustrates the contradictions that exist in process and manufacturing plant engineers’ perspectives of sustainability as an industrial initiative.
Overcompensation has been a standard practice in engineering to ensure a system can handle whatever the user or environment might throw at it. In a world where excessive energy use is both impractical and costly, this practice must be revisited.
Frugal plant upgrades lead to connecting multiple controllers to the same HMI, allowing for the addition of new functionality and solving obsolescence problems without busting the budget.
Custody transfer of fuel products demands sophisticated flow analysis beyond volume readings. Product characteristics can be dynamic, requiring monitoring at the same time.
Careful and clever analysis of fieldbus segments can yield fault tolerance where it's needed most without adding hardware costs over less effective strategies.
Plant-level networking systems need to interact with central process control and manufacturing execution systems. TIA-1005 to address new structured cabling concepts for industrial installations.