Feed Forward: Catching Up on Automation News

I've just been swamped lately. Lots of news plus new year planning and recovering from trips. Although Saturday, I'm leaving for Nuremberg and the SPS/Drives trade fair. Looks like lots of announcements from the European-based automation companies coming. Just in time to accompany the Thanksgiving turkey.

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Opto 22 has released a new product that it calls a sensor--but it's a sensor and more. It is designed for energy management and the smart grid with built-in sensing capabilities, connections for additional sensor input and on-board intelligence. Opto has always been at the confluence of IT and control, and this is no different as it includes IT friendly networking and industrial-grade networking. It's designed to help get energy information to the people who actually control how energy is used in near-real-time.See the product write up here.

与Omron的一些新管理团队开会。大多数人已经到位了大约三年,但是我没有机会见到他们。我一直发现北美行动是一个谜。而且推销的主管太多,方向的变化太多。听起来好像是格雷格·霍尔斯特(Gregg Holst)领导的新团队一直专注于基础知识,并使船上奔跑,而不是反对它。他们说收入非常好,他们很乐观。并非所有人中的每个人都可以说同样的话。这是一家值得关注的公司。

Check out this Web site.HylaSoft is working with adigital penand some software they've written to capture writing as operators and clerks fill out forms and ship the digital image or ASCII text to a computer. This holds promise of making data entry easy and painless. Just fill out the paper form once and eliminate the next process of entering into the computer. Great for Hazop and LIMS reports, digital signatures and the like.

Interestingnews on the Stuxnetfront. The target keeps pointing at Iran. Seems researchers have found code that points to a couple of specific variable frequency drives that control centrifuges essential to enriching uranium into weapons grade at an Iranian site. Hmmm.

Blevins and Mark Nixon have updated theworksheet Website他们的Control Loop Foundationbook. I've found the book to be an interesting read.

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