A lot of control engineers do, especially in fields like water treatment, refrigeration, thermoforming, refining, food processing, and energy or building management.
There are a variety of temperature sensors on the market—ICTDs, thermocouples, RTDs, thermistors, infrared sensors. Accuracy, cost, wiring complexity, and environmental conditions are some of the factors that determine which one is best for your application.
Topics: Energy management, Process control, Food & beverage, Water & wastewater, Machine builder, optonews, OEM, Integrators, OptoNews 2015-06-17
Seen from space, light from waste flare gas in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota is nearly as bright as all the lights from the city of Chicago.
That's a lot of energy going up in smoke.
That's a waste of resources, says Pioneer Energy President Dr. Robert Zubrin.
Topics: Case studies, Videos, Process control, Remote monitoring, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-06-17
You'll have three chances in the U.S. to explore industry trends and new products in the next few weeks.
One of those trends is mobile. Come see how you can monitor or control your automation systems and equipment with a simple groov mobile operator interface you build yourself—with no programming.
We'd be glad to see YOU at one of these three events: CSIA Executive Conference, Del Mar Electronics & Design Show, or The Automation Conference.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, Electronics, optonews, Events & conferences, OptoNews 2015-04-29, Integrators
Have you wondered if Opto 22 PACs and the PAC Project software suite would work for your application?
Or maybe you want to demonstrate the software to someone else—say, a customer or your boss.
Here's a great free way to test it out: the PAC Project Demo, now with an additional demo screen and a small library of artwork pieces you can use any way you want to in your own HMI project.
Topics: Process control, optonews, PACs, OptoNews 2015-04-15
You've heard us talk about how you can control your system on your mobile with groov.
Why this flexibility? Because groov is based on the automation standard for interoperability (OPC UA), and on Internet standards for web browsers (like SVG and HTML5).
Topics: Videos, Process control, Discrete control, groov, PLCs, Remote monitoring
Now you can easily build mobile interfaces for virtually any automation system.
Allen-Bradley, Siemens, GE, Schneider, Yokogawa, Modbus: with groov 2 you can securely monitor and control these and many more systems—through a groov operator interface that you can use on just about any mobile device.
Topics: Process control, Discrete control, groov, Remote monitoring
In the Charter Township of Union, Michigan, staff used to have to travel to each equipment location to check on wells, pumping stations, and water treatment plants.
Wastewater Superintendent Michael Dearing and Chief Water Operator Shaun McBride added PCs running HMI software plus remote desktop software to view them, but it wasn't enough.
What they really wanted was a mobile solution to monitor even the smallest installations and check on key process indicators like flow, tank levels, and power consumption.
Topics: Case studies, Process control, Water & wastewater
Gavin Gray knew from experience about the problems you can run into when you're trying to set up remote monitoring from a mobile interface.
When a water treatment client asked for mobile capability, he wasn't at all sure he wanted to spend the time. A busy integrator and machine builder, Gray had plenty of other work to do.
Topics: Case studies, Process control, groov, Remote monitoring, Water & wastewater
We're hearing about all kinds of ways you're using groov HMIs.
Topics: Case studies, Process control, groov, Remote monitoring
