You may have noticed a recurring theme in my editorials of late. In
recent weeks, I’ve been to the Expertune/TiPs Users Conference, ABB’s
Automation World, ARC’s Forum, and the Invensys Process Systems
Customer Conference.
After these events, I reported how speakers talked about extracting
useful data from the process control system for optimization, financial
purposes, plant economics, collaborative manufacturing strategies, and
so on.
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Monday 4 June, 2007 06:27 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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Is advanced control-loop tuning a mystery?
Some
operators think so, observes Terry Blevins, principal technologist with
Austin, Texas-headquartered Emerson Process Management’s (www.emersonprocess.com)
DeltaV Product Engineering group. “They’ll tune a loop using some
procedure and get good performance. But the next day, the same loop
operates differently.”
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Monday 4 June, 2007 06:20 PM |
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Watching experts play darts can be an exciting experience, with
contestants using skill and concentration to land their quills on
target.
But seeing novices pick up darts can be a sign to run for cover as
darts go wildly astray, missing their targets and sometimes the entire
board.
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Sunday 3 June, 2007 05:40 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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Launching rockets to create a sulphur screen high in
the stratosphere is one way to counter global warming explored in a new
BBC documentary, Five Ways To Save The World.
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Sunday 3 June, 2007 05:36 PM |
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If you want the performance of a big engine and the fuel efficiency
of a small engine, VW's turbocharged/supercharged TSI thinks it has the
answer. JEZ SPINKS finds out how it works.
Volkswagen has doubled the typical outputs of a 1.4-litre engine with its 125kW/240Nm TSI that powers the new Golf GT. |
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Sunday 3 June, 2007 03:54 PM |
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Electrical & Process Control
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The term 'Virtual Reality' (VR) was initially coined by Jaron Lanier,
founder of VPL Research (1989). Other related terms include 'Artificial
Reality' (Myron Krueger, 1970s), 'Cyberspace' (William Gibson, 1984), and,
more recently, 'Virtual Worlds' and 'Virtual Environments' (1990s).
Today, 'Virtual Reality' is used in a variety of ways and often in a
confusing and misleading manner. Originally, the term referred to
'Immersive Virtual Reality.' In immersive VR, the user becomes fully
immersed in an artificial, three-dimensional world that is completely
generated by a computer.
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Tuesday 13 March, 2007 06:23 PM |
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MAJOR mining
houses are stalking the former Brett Kebble companies, Randgold &
Exploration (R&E) and JCI, ready to pounce as soon as a merger
between the two theft-ridden companies is complete.
This emerged after a fiery meeting on Friday at R&E,
where angry shareholders almost succeeded in booting the chairman,
Investec’s David Nurek, out of the company.
Speaking after the meeting, Peter Gray, CEO of both
R&E and JCI, said that “low-key talks” were being held with a
number of mining houses keen to buy the mining company that will emerge
when the remnants of Kebble’s two firms are stitched together.
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Tuesday 13 March, 2007 06:17 PM |
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The Brits may feel they have rightfully got their hands back on Aston Martin, the luxury car firm founded in the U.K., made in the U.K. and driven by James Bond, the archetyal if fictional suave Englishma
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Tuesday 13 March, 2007 06:13 PM |
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Environmental and Life Cycle
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A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he
says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that
claimed man-made global warming is a myth.
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Sunday 11 March, 2007 05:08 PM |
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