Electrical & Process Control As things get bigger and more complex inevitably there is a greater need to monitor and control everything. Get up to speed on the latest in how engineers are tackling these problems in electrical and process control.
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The story of Baldor’s new adjustable-speed, direct-drive cooling tower motor and drive system began in the Fort Worth, Texas, home of cooling tower manufacturer Tower Engineering Inc. (TEI, www.tei-usa.com). TEI is a 27-year manufacturer of long-term performance, high-efficiency, field-erected water cooling towers. Company president Rod Applegate’s lifelong dream was to develop a “one moving part” mechanical drive system for use in water cooling towers. |
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Saturday 4 July, 2009 12:40 AM |
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The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) is investing S$16 million into a new initiative to encourage postgraduate students to specialize in integrated circuit (IC) design. The Integrated Circuit Design Postgraduate Scholarship (ICPS) aims to train 150 IC designers for the semiconductor industry. IC design has been identified by the EDB as a key enabler for existing electronics applications as well as for newer areas, such as green electronics and bioelectronics |
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Monday 29 June, 2009 11:26 AM |
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Emerson Process Management, a global process control and automation leader and a business of Emerson, has been selected by Switzerland-based Lonza Group Ltd. to provide engineering and design services and digital automation architecture and control technologies for a new Lonza biopharmaceutical plant in Singapore
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Monday 8 June, 2009 12:05 PM |
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The worldwide market for supplier-provided automation services will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of around seven per cent over the next five years, according to an ARC Advisory Group study.
The 'Supplier Provided Automation Services Worldwide Outlook' notes that the services business remains one of the best growth opportunities for automation suppliers today. |
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Tuesday 2 June, 2009 10:18 AM |
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Aspentech process modelling and simulation techniques have repeatedly demonstrated their engineering value as a means of designing plants and processes.
These techniques are also used for process analysis, trouble-shooting, de-bottlenecking, process improvement, developing control strategies and training operators. |
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Tuesday 19 May, 2009 10:01 AM |
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When McMaster University’s nuclear reactor first opened, a Conservative was Prime Minister, the economy was in recession, and nuclear-based research was on the upswing.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) first started up on April 4, 1959, and with today’s strong interest and demand in the nuclear energy and medical isotope industries, is more relevant than ever. |
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Tuesday 7 April, 2009 04:23 PM |
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Combining independent innovation with importing, digesting and absorbing of advanced foreign nuclear power technology, China's nuclear power technology now possesses research and development capabilities approaching advanced world renowned levels. While the construction, operation and management of China's nuclear power stations have already reached advanced levels. In addition, the capacity to manufacture nuclear power equipment has been increasingly raised, and self-reliance in equipment manufacturing has been continuously strengthened. Nuclear power has made important contributions to adjusting China's energy structure, ensuring energy security and environmental protection. |
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Thursday 26 March, 2009 12:26 PM |
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As the economic slowdown takes its toll on development budgets, embedded-system designers are turning to FPGA (field-programmable-gate-array) technology to shorten design cycles, combat obsolescence, and simplify product updates. By taking advantage of a huge and growing arsenal of FPGA-development tools, reusable-logic elements, and off-the-shelf modules, designers can craft high-performance embedded systems that you can reconfigure for changes in requirements with a minimum impact on engineering and manufacturing. Traditionally, board designers have used these devices to interconnect system components, but the latest |
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Thursday 19 March, 2009 01:24 PM |
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What seemed like both a regional and domestic political maneuver is now actually coming to fruition: Egypt is building its first nuclear reactor
At the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) annual conference in September 2006, Secretary-General Gamal Mubarak dropped a political bombshell: Egypt would be reviving its decades-old nuclear program, albeit for civilian purposes. Now, just over two years later, the economic reality of that seemingly political vaunt is emerging — and the story seems far from over. |
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Monday 16 March, 2009 04:28 PM |
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More than one billion wireless devices are sold every year. This enormous volume, in combination with the hardware and software complexity of the devices, has given rise to an uncountable number of technical advances. Seemingly small changes of pennies per unit in manufacturing costs, or a slip in the delivery schedule, can add up to substantial dollar amounts when combined with the sheer volume of devices to be manufactured.
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Thursday 12 March, 2009 10:06 AM |
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When designers must evaluate, select, and specify an electric motor for an application, the field usually will narrow to permanent magnet brush-commutated DC servomotors and brushless DC servomotors.
In cases where uniquely challenging operating or performance requirements must be realized, customized motor components hold keys to successful outcomes.
As an initial guide in selecting a brush or brushless DC motor for an application, designers can benefit from a review of basic motor dynamics and how these two motor types compare. A toolbox of options for motor customization can then empower tailor-made solutions. |
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Tuesday 3 March, 2009 11:10 AM |
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Testing has begun on one of Iter’s key components – The Divertor Test Platform Facility (DTP2).
The design and manufacture of the full-scale prototype, recently assembled in Tampere, Finland, has taken four years and has cost €7 million ($9 million), half of which was funded by the Euratom programme. It is the culmination of efforts from scientists all over Europe, working together with four industrial partners based in Finland, Luxemborg and Spain. |
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Saturday 7 February, 2009 04:58 PM |
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Twenty five years is an eon for a computer, and 1984 is the technological equivalent of caveman times as far as personal computer is concerned.
This makes it all the more remarkable that the Macintosh computer has made it to 25. No other line of computers has had either the longevity or the cultural impact of Apple's flagship system. The Mac has inspired a company, and an industry, and even an entire subculture.
But it hasn't always been smooth sailing. The various incarnations of the Mac have included some real clunkers over the years. So, as we toast the Mac on its birthday, we take a look at the best and worst machines ever to bear the brand. |
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Tuesday 27 January, 2009 12:55 PM |
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izhou Song , a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function. |
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Thursday 22 January, 2009 09:54 AM |
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This article explores the tools, techniques, and problems that designers struggle with when developing FPGA-based systems and, using a couple of real-world examples, attempts to offer solutions.
A well-known episode of the popular 1960's Star Trek TV series was titled "The Trouble with Tribbles." Zipping through some distance corner of the universe at warp 10, the Enterprise was mysteriously overrun by fuzzy little creatures possessing a couple of unreedeming qualities: a voracious appetite and a propensity to reproduce uncontrollably (in McCoy's words, "They are born pregnant"). |
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Saturday 10 January, 2009 12:07 AM |
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When the country's largest university and a Ohio power equipment company needed expertise for their next step in a product's evolution, they turned to the Dayton area — specifically, the Edison Materials Technology Center (EMTEC).
The goal: Help Liebert Corp. make their Uninterruptable Power Supply units — sometimes called "UPS" units — cooler, smaller and more powerful. |
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Wednesday 7 January, 2009 01:52 PM |
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TriQuint Semiconductor , a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced its North Carolina design center has moved into a new facility to accommodate its growing handset business. The North Carolina design center opened two years ago with one person and now hosts a team of highly advanced RF engineers. The team, with a dozen patents and more than 300 years collective experience in electrical engineering and technical support, develops TriQuint's latest advanced module solutions for mobile phone manufacturers. The new facility is double the size of the first location and will accommodate future growth. |
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Friday 12 December, 2008 10:52 AM |
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The mad rush to invest on the emerging Chinese semiconductor/electronics industry is slowing down. The fever has been in fact cooling since a year ago, well before the credit crisis hit the global market.
This is a result of "a hangover from the huge euphoria [of investors] over the past several years," said Ken Tsang, managing director at The Hina Group, an investment banking and private equity firm.
However, many industry experts put the blame squarely on Chinese domestic chip companies.
The top three Chinese IC vendors—Actions Semiconductor, Vimicro and Spreadtrum Communications—have been unable to build enough force to blow up anything substantial in the global market, suggesting that China’s seemingly infinite potential was just so much fireworks.
The three companies’ stocks have spectacularly fizzled. Vimicro’s stock dove to $1.88 last week, while Actions’ sank to $1.44 and Spreadtrum’s to 8 cents. |
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Wednesday 10 December, 2008 02:41 PM |
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We have been covering the photovoltaics manufacturing industry for quite some time in Solid State Technology and a variety of other PennWell brands, most notably Renewable Energy World, Laser Focus World, Vision Systems Design and Power Engineering. I’m delighted to announce that we are now launching a new magazine devoted specifically to this topic called Photovoltaics World, with the first issue due out in March 2009. We’re also in the process of creating a dedicated website, increasing the frequency of our PV Times newsletter to a weekly, starting in January, and compiling a buyer’s guide. |
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Friday 5 December, 2008 08:49 PM |
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Emerson Process Management is pleased to announce the formation of an alliance with Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA) of Orlando, Fla.
The alliance, which combines Emerson's proven expertise in power plant automation and control with Mitsubishi's experience in gas and steam turbine design and service, applies to North American and Latin American turbine retrofit projects supporting W251, W501D5, W501D5A, and W501F gas turbines as well as all models of Westinghouse technology steam turbines. MPSA has unique and valuable expertise on these turbines since they were involved in the design and development of the Westinghouse technology since the 1970s and continue to support and modernize the original Westinghouse technology platform.
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Friday 5 December, 2008 02:15 AM |
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The introduction of new materials into semiconductor manufacturing process flows is generating unprecedented improvements in integrated circuit (IC) performance. At the same time, the associated risks and costs are increasing exponentially. For semiconductor performance trends to continue, it will be critical to identify suitable combinations of new materials and integration approaches while containing development time and cost. This article presents results of applying combinatorial science to thin-film stacks early in the development cycle.
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Thursday 4 December, 2008 08:14 PM |
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