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Coming Of The Digital Control Age ISSUES & INSIGHTS

SOFTWARE & NETWORKS

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Plant Safety: Are You Safe Enough?

An integrated approach to plant safety includes independent yet interrelated layers of protection to deter, prevent, detect and mitigate potential threats.

By Honeywell Process Solutions

CONTROL POINT

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Combining the advantages of decentralised Cam Switch I/O architecture with application centralised engineering.

By Stefan Gutermuth and Hartmut Rüdele, scientists, corporate research, ABB

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Coming Of The Digital Control Age

Digital controls for power systems offer significant advantages over traditional analogue control systems.

By Jim Iverson, senior applications engineer, Cummins Power Generation

Getting It Right With Collaboration

The results of some recent aerospace and defense industry programmes point the way to process improvements for all. By Tim Nichols, director, Global Aerospace and Defense marketing, Siemens PLM Software

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Triumphing Over Tough Times

Siemens PLM’s Rajiv Ghatikar, VP and GM of Siemens PLM Software, ASEAN/Australasia, explains to IAA why PLM is still a worthwhile solution in difficult times. By Derek Rodriguez

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Digital Prototyping: Design For Success

Global manufacturing SMBs, through digital prototyping, may have an answer for their product development needs. By Samuel Tang, regional sales manager, manufacturing industry, SEA, Autodesk

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Reaping Rewards Of Reuse

Design reuse is now far easier and much more efficient, adding needed speed to the entire product development process.

By Matthew McGovern, director, vertical market strategy, PTC

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Forging Ahead

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There is no doubt that the recession has reached the shores of Asia now.

Dominating the headlines are words like ‘layoff’ and ‘restructuring’.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, finance minister of Singapore, believes that the worst is still to come. He says: “The foreign banks are still in the mode of contraction. I think every large global bank is still looking at building up its capital, much more than it’s looking at extending new loans. So we are still at that phase of the crisis where recapitalisation is still the priority and estimates of the extent of bad assets on their books are still on the upswing. So, we haven’t seen the worst yet.”

On the other side of the world, newly appointed US president Barack Obama, with his US$825 billion economic stimulus plan, hopes to save the world from the downward financial spiral. This massive package will be allocated strategically; large portions will be allocated to temporary tax cuts, spending and education.

Reportedly, this package also includes an eleven figure sum that will be pumped into the energy sector. This would provide funds for electricity transmission lines, tax credits for alternative energy producers etc.

With global energy requirements growing steadily and expected to expand by an average rate of 1.6 percent per year (pg 48), this is definitely good news to have, especially for green energy advocates.

One way to cope with the financial meltdown, is to simply be more efficient, to produce more at a lower cost. Energy efficiency techniques and products like energy efficient motors (pg 52) can assist in keeping productivity high while keeping utility bills to a minimum.

Energy efficiency can also be applied on an individual level in tightwallet times like now. Simple things, like switching off the lights when you leave a room or turning off the computer when you go out for lunch or a long meeting, can go a long way whether you are a tree-hugger or a slave to the dollar.

Awareness is a subject regularly discussed when it comes to energy and the conservative use of it. For many, as in the recession, only when they are directly affected will they be aware of it. Technology and fiscal policies are powerful tools but in the end, the onus is on us.

Energy efficiency can also be applied on an individual level

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This year marks our centennial, and to celebrate, we’ll be revisiting each decade over the coming months.

It all began in 1908, brothers E.H. and B.B. Bristol opened shop in an empty factory in Foxboro, MA— which proved to be the perfect fertile ground for their innovative brand of engineering. With hard work and ingenuity, The Foxboro Company was born. Within a few years, the Company began introducing the first of many innovations that would revolutionize an industry.

Industry News Cisco Launches Innovation Centre

(L – R) Doshi Hemanshu, MD, EPIC@SG, Cisco; Dominic Scott, director, public sector, Asia Region, Cisco; Leong Keng Thai, deputy chief executive & director-general (Telecoms), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore; Wim Elfrink, executive VP, Cisco services & chief globalisation officer, Cisco; Rear Admiral Lui Tuck Yew, senior minister of state for education, and information, communications and the arts (MICA); Chris Khang, president, Asia Operations, Cisco; Khoong Hock Yun, assistant chief executive, Infrastructure Development & Services, IDA

Singapore: Cisco will establish EPIC@SG (Enabling Platform Innovation Centre), a technology centre designed to help retail service providers (RSPs) build and deliver services over the Next Generation National Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN) in Singapore. The services will help enable Singaporeans to take advantage of the collaborative potential of an ultra-high-speed broadband platform.

With support from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), Cisco will invest up to US$18 million over the next three years for the development of the centre.

Cisco will also hire engineers and key managers to staff the centre, and expects to bring in additional talent to support on-going development work as needed.

The centre will provide government 8 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

agencies, enterprises and RSPs with a platform to conceptualise, develop, test and deploy new services for businesses and consumers. The creation of up to 30 next generation services and new RSPs developed through the centre is expected to add between US$150 million to US$270 million in revenues to the Singapore economy, as well as create up to 1,800 high-value information technology jobs by 2015.

“We are proud to collaborate with the Singapore government to launch what is Cisco’s first EPIC centre in the world. Visionary countries like Singapore understand that the network is the fourth utility, enhancing global competitiveness, innovation and standard of living,” said Wim Elfrink, executive VP, Cisco Services and the company’s chief globalisation officer.

Expected to be operational by

July 2009, the centre will also serve as a training hub for local technical talent in next-generation networking, applications and services. The centre will train local talent on the most advanced network technologies through internship programmes with local educational institutions and through on-the-job training with retail service providers.

It has been designed for government agencies, local and foreign enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, and startups. They can come into the facility to engage the services of experts from Cisco and other partners and make use of Cisco’s networking technologies. All applications will be standards-based, built on an open Internet Protocol platform and accessible on any device.

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Industry News

Singapore and China Sign Free Trade Agreement Singapore: China and Singapore have signed the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (CSFTA), a key step forward that will further enhance bilateral economic relations.

The agreement was signed by Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang and PRC Minister for Commerce Chen Deming at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and PRC Premier Wen Jiabao.

The CSFTA is the first comprehensive bilateral Free Trade Agreement concluded

by China with an Asian country.

Building on the ASEAN-China FTA (ACFTA), the CSFTA is a comprehensive agreement covering areas including trade in goods, rules of origin, trade

remedies, trade in services, movement of natural persons, investment, customs procedures, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures and economic cooperation.

The CSFTA will enhance bilateral economic relations by further reducing and removing barriers to trade. This will create opportunities for businesses from both countries to grow their links in each other’s markets.

Minister Lim and Minister Chen also signed an MOU on Bilateral Labour Service Cooperation at the ceremony. Under the MOU, both countries agreed to collaborate closely to enhance sharing of information, promote education of workers and employers, as well as exchange good labour practices.

ISA Partners With Singapore Polytechnic Institute Singapore: The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced a partnership with the Singapore Polytechnic Institute to deliver automation, instrumentation, and control training to professionals in the ASEAN region.

The Singapore Polytechnic Institute will work with ISA to conduct short courses in the region, starting with ISA’s ‘Introduction to Industrial Automation and Control’ course. Additional courses are under development and are expected to roll out during 2009.

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Industry News

Turck Strengthens Profibus SEA Team

IPS Selected For Nuclear Power Plants In China

Singapore: Turck Singapore has increased its team of certified Profibus Engineers. Robin Lim, Alex To and Dominique Chabauty attended the standard course and obtained the certification for Profibus DP Engineer. Mr To and Mr Chabauty also followed the extended PA module to get extensive knowledge of Profibus PA technology for the field of Process Automation.

With this latest addition, Turck Profibus’ team of certified engineers now covers Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, and is expected to include Indonesia in 2009.

Using this expertise, the company intends to increase its scope of service to offer added value solutions using this technology.

"Turck's product portfolio contains a large range of Profibus products, and a good knowledge of the technology is important to offer efficient support and services to our customers," says Mr Chabauty, product marketing manager at Turck Singapore.

Singapore: Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has been chosen to develop and implement four large-scale, fully digitised nuclear control rooms, equipped with the latest simulation technologies, critical control and safety systems for two new nuclear power plant sites in China. The agreement is worth approximately US$250 million.

In a drive to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and its reliance on coal-generated power, China has raised the target for nuclear capacity in its power mix to 5 percent by 2020. The Fuqing and Fangjiashan nuclear power projects, which are a part of this push to increase capacity, are located in Fuijan and Zhejiang provinces, respectively.

Under the purview of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), the two projects, each of which will have two 1GW plants, are contracted by China Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation (CNPE). The plants will be jointly designed by China Nuclear Power Operation Technology Corporation (CNPO).

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UPS’ New Hub In China Airport for ramp handling operations, an express customs handling unit, sorting facilities and cargo handling and cargo build-up areas.

The sorting capacity is projected to reach 18,000 pieces per hour with the flexibility to expand to 36,000 pieces per hour. The hub will initially employ approximately 400 people and represents an investment of US$180 million. The hub will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Singapore: To mark the 20th anniversary of UPS’s presence in Asia, the Shenzhen Municipal Government and UPS held a ceremony for UPS’s planned intra-Asia hub. The UPS Shenzhen Intra-Asia Hub, representing a US$180 million investment, is targeted to open in early 2010, pending government approvals.

“The hub is a strong testament of UPS’s commitment to support our customers’ growth in the intra-Asia region,” said Derek Woodward, president of UPS Asia Pacific Region. “Despite 10 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

the global economic slowdown, we are confident that the economies in China and the rest of Asia will continue to grow.”

By relocating its intra-Asia hub in Shenzhen, UPS will reduce its shipment transit times across Asia by at least one business day, significantly enhancing its service to customers.

The UPS Shenzhen Intra-Asia hub will be built on a land area of 89,000 sq m and include a dedicated 150,000 sq m ramp provided by Shenzhen

Daniel Brutto, president of UPS International, exchanging gifts with Dr Huang Chuan-qi, chairman of Shenzhen Airport (Group) Company.

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Industry News

OSEA2008 Shows 80 Percent Growth Singapore: Following the show’s 80 per cent growth in exhibition space from the previous event in 2006, OSEA2008 closed with 20,542 attendees, a 47 per cent increase from the previous event. Of these attendees, 35 per cent were from overseas.

Mr Tee sharing key highlights of this year’s exhibition.

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Tee Boon Teong, project director of OSEA at Singapore Exhibition Services (SES), the show’s organisers, attributes the surge in numbers to the buoyant oil and gas industry which continues to be promising in the long run despite the current global economic downturn.

Enticed by the burgeoning oil and gas industry in the Asia Pacific, the Energy Industries Council (EIC) led the UK pavilion at OSEA2008 with goals to pave further inroads into the Asian oil and gas market.

Mike Major, chief executive of the EIC was at the press briefing to highlight the allure of the Asia Pacific region to UK companies.

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The OSEA2008 International Conference was also well-received with an array of topics and panel discussions that dealt with practical and current issues facing the industry today from exploration to production, and gas technology and recovery.

Industry experts such as Dr Michael Smith from Energyfiles UK, and Edy Hermantoro from Indonesia’s Department of Energy and Mineral Resources presented Asian perspectives to the international delegates.

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Industry News

MTA2009 Cancelled Singapore: MTA2009, scheduled to be held from March 25 – 28, 2009 at the Singapore Expo is cancelled.

According to Singapore Exhibition Services, the organiser of the event, the prevailing economic climate has had a significant effect on the precision engineering and machine tools industry.

This industry forms the bedrock of all manufacturing activities, and lacklustre demand in vertical sectors such as aerospace, automotive and electronics has dampened the outlook of players in the market. This has led to poor response from exhibitors, including the non-participation of several market leaders, which have been strong supporters of the show in the past.

The cautious sentiments of most segments of the industry, along with the absence of perennial exhibitors, greatly diminish MTA’s effectiveness as a regional businessnetworking event.

In view of the circumstances, the decision to cancel the event was made promptly to allow exhibitors, visitors and partners sufficient time to react and make the necessary arrangements. Currently, no date has been set for the return of the event.

Vacon Opens Subsidiary In South Korea Seoul, South Korea: Vacon has established a subsidiary in Seoul, South Korea. The subsidiary, which started operations on January 1, 2009, will serve distributors and partners in the East Asian market.

“Vacon has for many years been Jae Kyu Lee, MD, partnering with a local brand label Vacon, South Korea customer and with several local distributors, and the partnerships with them will continue in the future. Our goal is to support our present partners and expanding our business in cooperation with them in East Asia,” says Jae Kyu Lee, MD of Vacon’s South Korea subsidiary.

“Local presence also provides us with better opportunities to conquer new markets eg among OEM customers, who require highly advanced AC drives knowhow. Our main segments in South Korea will be the marine and offshore industry, cranes and the metal and chemical industries,” says Mr Lee.

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ExxonMobil Demonstrates Energy Efficiency Expertise

3PAR Partners With PTC System

Abu Dhabi, UAE: ExxonMobil will demonstrate its expertise and commitment to energy efficiency, both in its operations and in consumers’ use of its products, at its exhibit at the 2009 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi from January 19-21, 2009.

The exhibit showcases ExxonMobil’s proactive approach to reducing its own energy use as well as assisting consumers of hydrocarbon-based fuels in reducing their energy use. On display will be a prototype automobile featuring parts made from ExxonMobil lightweight plastics and rubber. Lighter vehicles use less fuel; for every 10-percent drop in vehicle weight, fuel economy improves by seven percent.

The exhibit will also contain information from ExxonMobil’s Outlook for Energy that examines the importance of accelerating gains in energy efficiency, expanding all commercially viable energy sources, and developing and deploying technology to help mitigate the growth of emissions associated with energy use.

Singapore: 3PAR has expanded sales in Asia through a new channel partnership with data management provider PTC System, based in Singapore. PTC has agreed to sell and support 3PAR Utility Storage systems to enterprise customers in Southeast Asia—including Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia—as part of a focus on delivering storage integration for utility and cloud computing datacenters.

“Customers in Asia are facing the same challenges encountered by enterprises across the globe, such as the need to reduce costs, shrink datacenter footprint, ease data management, and speed time to resolution in support situations,” said SS Lim, MD, PTC. Under the terms of this partnership, PTC has agreed to sell the complete range of 3PAR hardware and software products.

“The partnership between 3PAR and PTC positions us both to capitalise on the accelerating adoption of storage and software-as-a-service and associated demand for cloud computing infrastructure in Southeast Asia,” said David Scott, 3PAR president and CEO.

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ASM International & SAFC Hitech Sign Agreement Almere, The Netherlands: ASM International and SAFC Hitech have entered into a certified manufacturer and partnership agreement for certain Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) source materials for advanced Ultra High-k insulators. The agreement provides certification criteria for the chemical source materials, a license to certain

ASM ALD patents and a partnership for the marketing and further development of these chemical source materials.

The newly developed ‘cyclopentadienyl’ source materials will enable ALD of next generation Strontium and Barium based Ultra High-k insulators with dielectric constants exceeding 100. An insulator with a

higher dielectric constant is expected to allow device manufacturers to produce much smaller capacitors for DRAM memory chips, and microprocessors with smaller transistors. These Ultra High-k materials are expected to be needed for production of 3x nm node memories, beginning around 2011.

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APPOINTMENTS & NOTICES Endress+Hauser Group Mourns Company Founder

Now Offering More Ports and More Functionality Endress+Hauser is mourning its founder Dr Georg H Endress. The entrepreneur died on 14 December 2008 after a brief, grave illness a few weeks before his 85th birthday, surrounded by his family in Arlesheim, Switzerland.

The core of Georg H Endress life’s work is the establishment of the Endress+Hauser Group. From small beginnings, the Group developed into an international company for industrial measurement and automation engineering with over 8,300 employees worldwide.

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Industry News

Frost & Sullivan Commends Honeywell Enraf California, USA: Based on its recent analysis of available blending solutions, Frost & Sullivan recognises Honeywell Enraf with the 2008 Global Product Value Leadership of the Year Award.

The product’s innovative engineering is evident in its blend controller, control valve and calibration components, which are instrumental in maximising the productivity of the blending process while minimising the lifecycle costs.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the solution that has provided customers with the highest ratio for value-to-cost. This solution is evaluated for its features and its competitive advantage in the industry.

On revealing exceptional responses to needs of customers, the solution continues to improve the uptime for the process, thereby positively impacting the profitability of customers.

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HP & ASU Demo Unbreakable Displays California, USA: HP and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (ASU) have announced the first prototype of affordable, flexible electronic displays.

Flexible displays are paper-like computer displays made almost entirely of plastic.

This technology enables displays to become easily portable and consumes less power than today’s computer displays. Popular applications for the technology could include electronic paper and signage.

The production feat is a milestone in the industry’s efforts to create a mass market for high-resolution flexible displays. Plus, from an environmental standpoint, the displays leapfrog conventional display processes by using up to 90 percent less materials by volume.

Mass production of such displays can enable production of notebook computers, smart phones and other electronic devices at much lower costs since the display is one of the more costly components.

The unbreakable displays were created by the FDC and HP using self-aligned imprint lithography (SAIL) technology invented in HP Labs, HP’s central research arm.

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SKF Awarded Contract By Fuwa Stockholm, Sweden: SKF has been awarded a contract for supplying of seals for the trailer axle by Guangdong Fuwa Engineering Manufacturing.

Fuwa is headquartered in Shunde city, Guangdong Province, China, with customers in a number of countries in Asia, Australia, Middle East, Americas, Europe, and Africa. This three year contract comes into effect 2009 and involves deliveries of 600,000 seals per year.

The seals will be produced in the SKF factory in Wuhu, China.

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Timken To Supply More Bearing Lines To India Ohio, USA: The Timken Company will supply large-bore bearings for critical applications in cement-making equipment used by Jaypee Group, India’s fourth-largest cement producer.

Timken will provide spherical and cylindrical roller bearings for use in vertical roller mills and fans installed at Jaypee Group’s plant in Rewa, India. The bearings will be installed in positions that are deemed critical for efficient operation of the vertical rolling mills.

A longstanding supplier to the Jaypee Group, Timken already supplies tapered roller bearings to the company for use in its heavy earth-moving machinery.

Jaypee Group currently produces 7 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of cement. Through planned expansion, the company expects to produce 30.5 MTPA by 2011.

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Industry News

Düsseldorf, Germany: Based on lithium-ion technology from Evonik and with Daimler expertise, both groups will drive forward the research, development and production of battery cells and battery systems in Germany. In the near future, Li-Tec cells will appear in electric vehicles of Mercedes-Benz Cars. This will represent an important milestone in the series production of electric vehicles.

En route to achieving its technological leadership in recent years, Evonik has invested around €80 million (US$104 million).

Evonik Group subsidiary Li-Tec is set to make a significant contribution to the success of this continued development. On 15 December 2008, Daimler AG took over 49.9 percent of Li-Tec. Evonik Industries AG already holds 50.1 percent. Both partners are seeking the involvement of a third shareholder in Li-Tec with expertise in electrical and electronic systems integration.

Furthermore, the companies will also establish a joint venture with a clear focus on the development and production of batteries and battery systems for automotive applications. Daimler will hold 90 percent of this joint venture, and Evonik 10 percent.

The lithium-ion batteries produced by the joint venture will be used in both the passenger car and commercial vehicle sectors. The capacity available at Li-Tec and the joint venture will initially concentrate on the needs of Daimler AG. Beyond that, the sale of cells and battery systems to third parties is planned.

Changes in the automotive industry are increasing the demand for clean and efficient vehicles. According to forecasts, the market size for high-performance lithiumion batteries will exceed the €10 billion mark within the next decade, with the market for battery materials exceeding €4 billion.

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Citect Extends SCADA Networks Sydney, Australia: Citect has extended its mobility solutions to allow operational and management personnel to monitor their factories, plants and mining sites from any location. These solutions enhance the capabilities of a SCADA network by providing access via a greater range of mobile devices.

“The ability to be continually connected to plant data leads to more intelligent plant decisions, which can in turn increase productivity,” says Stephen Flannigan, global director, SCADA, Citect. “A consistent user interface across a wide range of hardware systems can increase an organisation’s competitive advantage through the decision-making power it brings operations and management staff.”

The mobility solution allows CitectSCADA to be viewed over multiple hardware systems, such as thin-client terminals, PDAs and even mobile phones. The solution also includes a CitectSCADA Web Client, a maintenance free, fully functioning extension of a SCADA network that is accessed via Windows Internet Explorer. Citect’s mobility solutions also allow for all clients to be managed from a central location, reducing the operational overheads associated with control system maintenance.

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Profibus At OSEA More than 888 visitors dropped by the Profibus stand at the OSEA exhibition from December 2 – 5, 2008 and talked with the local experts,

which included Public Utilities Board, Worley Parson, Aberdeen Offshore, Prosafe Production, Lloyd Morgan, Blue Water Shipping, Halliburton, Oiltanking, Jurong Engineering, Keppel, Fluor, JEL, BP, Shell and many more. This showed the importance of this industry here in South East Asia.

The OSEA exhibition in Singapore was picked to be an automation showcase and technical support base to promote the development and application of Profibus in the region.

The stand provided by Profibus South East Asia showed the latest products from different companies which included a ‘live’ demonstration of the full capabilities of Profibus, with migration strategy for Foundation Fieldbus Technology.

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Beginning in the fall of 1998, PI (Profibus and Profinet International) achieved a milestone in industrial automation with its establishment of Profisafe.

With Profisafe, it is possible to implement safety functions via Profibus and Profinet, which are already established in all areas of industrial automation. The usual safetyrelevant hardware wiring (second relay level) can be eliminated. Also, the so-called black channel principle has been introduced for the first time.

This allows secure transmission from end point to end point via proprietary backplane buses as well as via Profibus and Profinet. Furthermore, Profisafe enables use of integrated safety functions in drives.

PI has implemented a series of quality measures in order to sustain its success. These include a certification programme for field devices and for safety controllers (F-Hosts) with Profisafe communi-cation, availability o f a d e v e l o p m e n t k i t w i t h p re certified Profisafe driver, and training sessions co-conducted with TÜV with the final exam for ‘Profisafe Certified Designer’.

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These so-called SIIS level-2 devices include generic sensors for pressure, temperature, position, inclination, etc as well as complex meters such as for multi-phase flow measurements or gas-in-oil monitoring.

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iA has released the CiA 444 three-part CANopen profiles for container-handling machine add-on devices.

The profiles specify the CANopen interfaces for crane spreaders (part 2) and for spreaders of straddle carriers (part 3). Part 1 specifies the general definitions.

The following companies among others have participated in the development of the profile specification: Bromma, NSL Engineering (RAM Spreaders), VDL Containersystemen, Gottwald, Stinis, ifm electronic, Sontheim Industrie Elektronik, Liebherr, Noell and Kalmar.

Implementing the profile the container-handling machine ‘speaks’ with its spreader in a standardised way using predefined ‘CANopen phrases’ thus exchanging configuration, control and diagnostics data. Add-on devices compliant to the profile are linkable with a minimum of time and configuration effort.

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The standardised communication interfaces are based on the internationally standardised CAN serial bus system (ISO 11898 series), which is used since more than 15 years in high volumes in passenger cars and many other application fields. The selected internationally standardised CANopen higher-layer protocol (EN 50325-4, also known as CiA 301/302) simplifies system integration by means of configuration tools available from different vendors. The CiA 443 profile specification standardises the process data, some configuration parameters, and diagnostic information.

In order to control and diagnose the subsea tree remotely from the offshore-platform, Ethernet-based (SIIS level-3) networks are used. The gateway to the CANopen-based embedded subsea tree network should be compliant to the CiA 309 specification. It specifies the communication services as well as an ASCII-based protocol and a ModbusTCP protocol.

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Foundation SIF White Paper Available The Fieldbus Foundation has made available a white paper on Foundation Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) from its website. Authored by the ARC Advisory Group, this paper describes the implications of Foundation SIF (FFSIF) technology for the global plant safety system market and end users.

According to the document, entitled Foundation Fieldbus Safety Instrumented Functions Forge the Future of Process Safety, successful beta testing of Foundation SIF means big changes in the way automation end users will approach Safety Instrumented System (SIS) implementations in process industry plants.

In May 2008, Fieldbus Foundation conducted a live demonstration

and press day for Foundation SIF technology at Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Demonstration attendees heard several leading energy companies describe the use of Foundation SIF in a wide range of industrial safety system applications.

In the white paper, Larry O’Brien, ARC Advisor y Group’s research d i re c t o r, p ro c e s s a u t o m a t i o n , describes how Foundation SIF is a critical part of the Foundation fieldbus automation infrastructure.

The white paper reviews the history and development path of Foundation SIF technology, and provides insights into topics such as: SIF product registration, conformance to international standards, diagnostics

functions and benefits, and future challenges. It also outlines key advantages of Foundation SIF at the safety system layer.

According to O’Brien: “FF-SIF meets the IEC 61508 standard for functional safety systems up to SIL 3, and allows users to build safety systems that adhere to the IEC 61511 standard for functional safety in the process industries. The protocol has already received TÜV approval, and suppliers are going to start submitting their products for TÜV approval over the next year. This means that we should see actual products that are certified

by TÜV available commercially some time in 2010.”

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End Users Present Fieldbus Technology In China The fieldbus educational seminar held on November 13, 2008, at the Ramada Pearl Hotel in Guangzhou, China, attracted a crowd of nearly 200 attendees from various process industries. Hosted by the Fieldbus Foundation China Marketing Committee (FFCMC) and organised by the Chinese Foundation Fieldbus Committee (CFFC), the event featured presentations by leading Chinese end users describing the operational advantages and business benefits of implementing the Foundation plant automation infrastructure.

The seminar kicked off with introductory remarks by the CFFC’s chairman, Harold Lin. Sam DeKey, technical director, National Instruments, provided an update on current Foundation fieldbus developments around the world. Xie HuaiRen of the Engineering Research Institute of China Petroleum & Petrochemical Industry described various Foundation fieldbus applications across China’s petrochemical industry. Shelly Lu, technical manager, Honeywell, also provided an overview of the current Foundation fieldbus engineering guide.

Harold Lin, chairman, CFFC, kicking off the seminar.

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Asia Omron Selects EtherCAT As Motion Bus Omron has selected EtherCAT as its next motion bus system.

Along with this step, the company has also decided to take an active role in the EtherCAT Technology Group in the Japanese and Asian markets so customers there will be able to transition to EtherCAT smoothly.

Eiji Ikeno, GM, motion control division of Omron states that the company will pursue the adoption of EtherCAT as a National Japanese Standard. They will also establish a conformance and interoperability test lab in Japan.

According to Mr Ikeno, Omron intends to develop EtherCAT-based servo motors and inverters, as well as motion controllers by summer 2009. These products will initially be targeted at both the European market as well as at Japanese OEMs exporting machines to Europe.

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Semicon Japan Following several appearances at Semicon West in San Francisco, the EtherCAT Technology Group in December exhibited at the Semicon Japan in Chiba.

At the booth several new Japanese EtherCAT products such as servo drives, controllers, valve manifolds, I/O devices and sensors had their world premiere. This further underlined the arrival of EtherCAT in Japan and Asia.

Mr Ikeno announces Omron’s decision at the SPS/IPC/Drives show in Nuremberg, Germany.

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‘Safety Over EtherCAT’ Wins Award No m i n at e d b y a j u r y t h a t included safety experts from TÜV, BGIA, VDMA and ZVEI and voted for by the readers of several safety magazines the EtherCAT Safety Technology ‘Safety over EtherCAT’ has won the Safety Award 2009 in the category ‘Safe Automation’.

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Martin Rostan, executive director, ETG, receives the safety award.

New Safety Drive Profile in an open fashion, the ETG enhancing the Safety-over-EtherCAT protocol with a safety-related device profile for drives (Safety DriveProfile).

Based on the functions defined

by IEC 61800-5-2, a control word is specified which enables the separate activation of these functions within the drive. Each function is represented by a bit in the control word. If a safety function is selected and operates within its boundaries, it is reported back to the supervision safety logic with a status word. All communication makes use of the underlying safety protocol.

The definition of a uniform control and status word allows the user to operate safety drives from different vendors in the same way with their safety controller. The variety of function blocks inside the controller is reduced and the

operation is simplified.

The configuration of the safetyrelevant drive functions is also standardised within the profile.

Typical implementations of the safety functions, which are defined by the IEC standard only in a very generic way, are considered and the corresponding parameters are described. Thus, an object dictionary is established, and the user receives a uniform implementation and a vendor-independent understanding of the embedded functions within the drive.

ETG also intends to make the Safety DriveProfile available to other interested organisations and technologies since, by design, the profile is independent from the safety bus system being utilised.

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Since current drive profiles do not cover functional safety, the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) is developing a safety drive profile to close this gap. With this drive profile, the safety functionality of EtherCAT drives with CiA402 (CANopen) or SERCOS drive profile can be used and configured in a ‘manufacturerindependent’ way.

The IEC 61800-5-2 standard defines safety-relevant functions for drives.

With these functions, safe stopping of the drive, eg Safe Torque off (STO) or Safe Stop 2 (SS2), or safe monitoring of motion, eg safe limited speed (SLS), can be achieved. With these features, dangerous movements at startup or during manual interaction with a machine can be avoided or limited in a safe manner.

In order to configure and control these internal drive safety functions

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issues & insights

Plant Safety:

Are You Safe Enough?

An integrated approach to plant safety includes independent yet interrelated layers of protection to deter, prevent, detect and mitigate potential threats. By Honeywell Process Solutions

nsuring safety requires reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that can disrupt normal operations. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment and the environment, it is important to consider safety from all aspects of a plant’s operation.

An integrated approach to plant safety helps customers improve their business performance. This solution includes independent yet interrelated layers of protection to deter, prevent, detect and mitigate potential threats.

An Integrated Approach Ensuring safety means reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that cost money. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment, and the 22 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

environment, as well as disruption of production capability, it is important to consider safety from all aspects of a plant’s operation.

Plant safety today requires a comprehensive approach including managing operator effectiveness, constant monitoring of distress indicators, personnel tracking and mustering applications, and ongoing asset monitoring and maintenance for asset health. This integrated approach demands not only understanding safety’s relationship to human error, but also the inter-relationships among root causes and interventions by plant systems and plant personnel.

Layers Of Protection The concept of layers of protection is widely recognised by the process industry, and the term is clearly defined in industry safety standards such as IEC 61508 and IEC 61511. Some layers of protection are preventative in nature (eg emergency shutdown), and some are there to mitigate the impact of an incident once it occurs

(eg fire and gas protective systems or plant emergency response systems).

Other layers of protection can deter incidents in the first place (eg plant and physical asset protection, constraint and boundary management, operator training, and asset management); while others can provide detection and alerting, and associated guidance (eg operator alarms, early event detection, and integrated operator procedures).

Layers can either be automated, s u c h a s e m e rg e n c y s h u t d o w n (ESD) equipment, or require human interaction such as operator responses to process alarms. Some layers offer easily quantifiable risk-reduction benefits, but require that the risks all be identified before. And still others are less tangible and offer softer benefits.

A t t h e c o re o f t h e l a y e re d architecture is a well-designed and implemented process design that is the embodiment of the business, safety, and production considerations necessary for effective operations.

The process must be controlled by a secure process control network that extends across the entire plant and business networks.

Managing the plant’s assets ensures that the process design continues to function as intended, all while protecting the plant from pending incidents with an early indication of failing assets.

As one moves through the layers of protection further away from the core of process design, mitigating risk due to human error is the key to ensuring safety. Implementing tools and procedures (such as boundary and alarm management and early event detection) for the purpose of managing abnormal situations reduces incidents and prevents escalation.

Appropriate operating windows need to be defined and managed, and properly designed emergency shutdown systems must be in place as preventative measures in the event that an incident escalates beyond

the inner layers of the sphere of protection.

Working across the various layers of protection, a plant or facility must operate in a secure and protected atmosphere, including protection of the perimeter, facility, people, and assets. With the correct work practices and technology in place, in the event that an abnormal situation does occur disrupting safe operations, an emergency response plan can be executed, controlled and monitored to minimise the impact of the incident.

I n o rder to maximise plant effectiveness and to ensure that the question “Am I safe enough?” can be answered, a systematic approach to safety is required. This approach must minimise risks to safety and security, and it requires independent but interrelated layers of protection be in place across an organisation.

Implementing The Layers Safety is more than just installing a

fail-safe controller. Since disruption can occur at every level and from seemingly simple issues, every layer must be part of the improvement process targeted at safety. Therefore, in order to mitigate the risk of threats, it is extremely important to consider safety in all aspects of operation.

For modern-day processing plants, safety standards are a crucial layer of protection. It is important that when we consider safety, we consider all the layers of protection in an integrated fashion. Since the lower layers protect against ever needing the upper layers of protection and help mitigate some of the costs involved with such incidents, each layer clearly has its own unique importance for ensuring plant-wide safety.

With the complexity of process units today, and given the current pressures on the business environment, mitigating risk involves more than just the proper application of hardware and software.

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issues & insights A plant must consider an integrated approach to managing the total enterprise when designing for risk management that maintains a safe operating environment. This plan must also include a goal of achieving operational excellence through best-in-class work practices and a commitment to achieving a world class safety record.

Safety success requires a structured approach that includes an integrated look at the process and system technology that is used at a site, the work process and practices that make use of and maintain this technology, and the people and their collective abilities that interact with both technology and work practices.

• Technology All plants have access to available technologies and the expertise required to benefit from this technology. The challenge is applying the right technology in the right context. Capital investments must be made wisely, especially when it comes to safety.

• Work Process & Practices The traditional safety study focuses on physical hazards and processrelated issues. However, true improvement requires crossing functional lines and recognising the way people interact with the process and the assets.

Implementing tools and procedures for the purpose of managing abnormal situations reduces incidents and prevents escalation.

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• People Operational excellence is achieved by continuously striving to operate at peak performance with no tolerance for upsets, product giveaway, or unplanned downtime.

This means minimising human error, ensuring plant integrity, and remaining agile to meet rapidly changing marketing conditions.

The most successful companies utilise this integrated approach as the basis for improving safety and productivity. Optimising work practices has implications beyond the realm of safety. For example, true enterprise management comes from seamless integration of functional lines such as crude purchasing, operations, maintenance, and marketing in order to achieve optimal results.

Safety Instrumented Systems Integration The process industries have employed a long and successful practice of applying redundant process control and safety systems to operate their profitable critical processes.

R e d u n d a n t p ro c e s s c o n t ro l systems and safety systems have achieved superior reliability and high availability by applying a very important architectural principle entitled the separation principle. The design criteria behind this principle calls for separate safety and control.

This separation principle is not new. It was recognised in the earlier days of plant automation and later consolidated in the IEC 61508 standard, the umbrella safety standard for all automated process applications.

The safety and control systems must be integrated to allow a smooth and safe plant operation, but only to a certain level. Dedicated safety-related parts, such as the actual safety-related application (during application design and the application as running on the dedicated safety hardware) must stay segregated, as they may not be changed without authorisation and must be subject to high safety integrity. Four levels of integration

Moral, regulatory, and insurance requirements must be met in terms of maintaining a safe and secure workplace.

are essential from a usability point of view.

First, the operational integration must allow the plant personnel to have a seamless, transparent interface to the process under control. Whether the actual strategy is running in the process controller, the safety system, or on a higher level makes no difference. All required information will be available on the operational level.

Second, peer-to-peer communication between safety controllers and process controllers is the key to integration. Information from one controller needs to be communicated to peers quickly in order to anticipate process startup or abnormal situations in a controlled manner.

Next, all data that is available in the lowest level of process and safety I/O can be transferred to the higher level of operations and turned into

information that is usable for various higher level applications.

Finally, builder tool integration only has added value if the point information is interchangeable.

This means that the user has a single point of data entry and all information entered into the database can be replicated to other databases. The information is available for use in all levels of the safety and control topology.

A Systematic Process Typically, a safety and security improvement effort is a systematic, multi-phased engagement aimed at reducing the risks involved with unsafe or potentially unsafe conditions at a processing facility.

The initial phase of this engagement includes an assessment and provides benchmarks of current safety work practices and competencies, while at the same time identifies and prioritises opportunities for improvement. The effort can be focused plant-wide, but initially can be primarily focused within a particular process unit.

Assessment, the first phase of improvement, identifies the unit’s safety and security performance, and provides recommendations for improvement with a structured methodology and technical expertise at the core of the assessment. The assessment output is an overall plan for future implementation. Throughout the engagement, the methodology is executed as a collaborative effort, thus promoting active participation from all those involved at every step.

The second phase of improvement is typically a design and implementation phase. Depending upon the outcome of the assessment, this may include activities such as developing personnel, facilitating org a n i s a t i o n a l a n d p ro c e d u r a l changes, implementing a metrics system for monitoring progress, and installing technology required to accomplish the job.

The final phase, and arguably the most important, of any improvement programme focuses on retaining and sustaining the benefits of

Improvement in safety requires crossing functional lines and recognising the way people interact with the process and the assets.

each improvement. With periodic performance monitoring and reporting, reassessment as necessary, and ongoing training, coaching, and facilitating as required, your investment in the improvements and work done in the previous two phases is protected.

Intermingled in these three p h a s e s a re f i v e k e y e l e m e n t s .

Any sustainable and successful programme of improvement must include a structured improvement process, systematic benchmarking, an integrated approach focusing on people, technology and work process, a cross-functional team approach that includes industry-specific domain knowledge and tools that enable and sustain work practice improvements.

Layer Of Safety The processing industry is facing real challenges as technology is forever advancing, seasoned industry professionals are retiring, and the business environment of the new global economy pressures managers in different directions. At the same time, moral, regulatory, and insurance requirements must be met in terms of maintaining a safe and secure workplace.

Research has shown that abnormal situations cost many millions of dollars. Manufacturers pay dearly for these catastrophes. There are numerous catastrophes that can be cited, but they all indicate the need for focusing on layers of protection to provide a safer work environment, while at the same time increasing process availability and reducing total cost.

Reducing the number of incidents and potentially decreasing the severity of such incidents when they occur, offers benefits to the operating companies, their personnel, the community, and insurers.

I n w h a t i s a n i n c re a s i n g l y competitive marketplace, the players in every sector of industry have access to the same technologies.

Implementing technology-driven solutions may provide some relief to the pending safety pressures.

However, not until a site considers independent yet interrelated layers of protection to deter, prevent, detect, and mitigate potential threats will there be a satisfactory answer to the question “Are you safe enough?”

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Partial Stroke Testing using Siemens PCS 7 A Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) can be characterized as a function that is designed to provide a specific Safety Integrity Level (SIL) for a certain process hazard.

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ypically, a SIF is composed of sensors, a logic solver and final elements. The SIF components work in tandem to first detect a hazard and then bring the process to a safe state. To ensure that it will actually function as intended when needed, the SIF equipment must be periodically tested.

A Partial Stroke Test (PST) provides a way to verify that a valve is not stuck in its normal position while avoiding process upsets or spurious trips. The valve is typically stroked between 10 and 20% of full scale. The actual amount that the valve is stroked is determined by factors such as the valve type/size, manufacturer’s recommendations and the operating conditions. Once the test position is verified, the valve is returned to its normal state. The Partial Stroke Test cannot verify all of the failure modes of a safety valve; it can only test failure modes related to the valve actuator. The most frequent error pattern in actuator systems are listed in the following table 1-1 which can be found in NAMUR-Recommendation NE106 under “Test Intervals of Safety Instrumented Systems”.

The Siemens Partial Stroke Test Application The Siemens Partial Stroke Test Application helps to ensure the safe and reliable operation of emergency shutdown valves.

The application uses the Siemens Safety System, namely the S7-400 F/FH, in conjunction with a smart valve positioner, to test a pneumatically-operated shutdown valve.

The Siemens Partial Stroke Test solution uses the positioner to partially close the

Process Hazard

SIF: Sensors Logic Solver Final Elements

A Safety Instrumented Function.

Process Safe State

valve, proving the valve moved to the commanded position and resetting the valve to the open position. The test is safeguarded by a failsafe discrete output which serves as an independent method of driving the valve to its failsafe position.

The analog output to the positioner, in combination with the discrete output, provides two separate emergency shutdown signals to the actuator, resulting in a 1oo2 “failsafe” voting arrangement.

The Partial Stroke Test method employed by the Siemens Partial Stroke Test Application is referred to as position control. Position control can be applied to both rotary and rising stem valves and requires a smart valve positioner to be installed with the block valve. The setpoint and feedback signals for the smart valve positioner can be connected by 4-20mA, HART or Fieldbus.

In addition to controlling the block valve during a Partial Stroke Test, test results can be collected and stored within the SIEMENS DCS HMI, namely PCS 7 OS, for test documentation and predictive maintenance.

ADVertorial Table 1-1: Most frequent errors in actuator systems Detectable Error?

Possible Causes of

Full stroke/ Full

Partial Error Stroke Test Rotation Test Solenoid valve does Solenoid valve Detectable Detectable not activate actuation defective Solenoid valve does Solenoid valve Detectable Detectable not activate defective Valve reacts too Pneumatic line to valve Detectable Detectable slowly crushed

Valve reacts too Valve moves stiffly Detectable Detectable slowly

Valve does not close Valve seat is marked, Not Detectable or does not close taper plug is enlarged Detectable completely Valve does not close Deposits on valve seat Not Detectable or does not close Detectable completely Valve does not close Valve shaft blocked Detectable Detectable

Error Pattern

The Siemens Partial Stroke Test application includes three components Siemens Partial Stroke Test Engineering Template: Consists of a STEP7 engineering template (i.e. preconfigured logic) to setup, run and monitor a Partial Stroke Test and optionally a Solenoid Test. This engineering template is comprised of a chart-in-chart that contains CFC blocks designed to run the Partial Stroke Test at configured intervals. This logic also includes PFD calculations to predict the time remaining until the next required Full Stroke Test. An interface to the PCS 7 OS is provided.

Error Detection Detection through position feedback signal Detection through position feedback signal Detection through time monitoring until position feedback signal occurs Detection through time monitoring until position feedback signal occurs Detection through valve reaction test not possible Detection through valve reaction test not possible Detection through position feedback signal

NOTE: A SIL Verification report for the Siemens Partial Stroke Test was produced by Exida and is available upon request from Siemens.

Siemens Partial Stroke Test Operator Interface: Consists of a PCS 7 OS block symbol and faceplate to visualize the operation and status of a Partial Stroke Test and provides integrated PCS 7 OS alarming and event logging.

Siemens Partial Stroke Test Report: Consists of a pre-configured report layout for PCS 7 OS to provide automatic logging and documentation of the Partial Stroke Test for a printout.

Overview Partial Stroke Test using Siemens PCS 7 with S7400 F/FH.

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control point equirements for industrial control systems widely differ depending on their respective task definitions. Accordingly, different control concepts and architectures emerged for the diverse industries and applications.

Due to this trend, vendors of control systems nowadays offer their customers differentiated product ranges. Starting from the elementary distinction between centralised and decentralised control architectures, the product ranges are diversified up to a very detailed level of granularity.

Apar t from purely technical c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f t h e c o n t ro l

increasing employment of function blocks in PLC programming languages according to IEC 61131-3.

Another step to decrease engineering time is the application of vendor-independent standardised software modules for the i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f f re q u e n t l y occurring tasks in control programmes. Especially in the areas of manufacturing automation and motion control function blocks according to the PLCOpen standard have proven to be useful.

advantageous to mechanical solutions due to the possibility of very simple changes and extension to the cam configuration as well as significantly reduced maintenance effort.

Common application examples of electronic cam switches can be found in all areas of machine building industries where actions have to be triggered high dynamically and synchronous to rotating mechanical components (eg a rotary disc). Such applications can be found in the

Best Of

Both Worlds Combining the advantages of decentralised cam switch I/O architecture with application centralised engineering. By Stefan Gutermuth and Hartmut Rüdele, scientists, corporate research, ABB

packaging, printing, manufacturing and plastics processing industries. equipment (eg maximum reaction time), customers increasingly consider the efficiency of the control system’s programming, configuration and commissioning.

A Solution An ideal control solution hence fulfils all the necessary technical requirements and additionally enables the user to perform an efficient and intuitive engineering according to the respective industry standards.

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Electronic Cam Switches Accordingly, the user’s dependency on single vendors decreases.

A frequently used application type in the area of manufacturing engineering is the electronic cam switch.

Electronic cam switches consist of an arbitrary number of electronic cams that activate or deactivate digital outputs according to a rotary encoder’s measurement value and their configured respective turn-on and turn-off angles. Cam tracks are created analogous to their mechanical counterparts by assigning several cams to a shared digital output.

Electronic cam switches are

Bus Modules ABB Stotz-Kontakt created a generation of bus modules (CI 511 and CI 512) for their PLC platform AC500. These bus modules are based on fast real-time capable Ethernet protocols and hence allow realising fast decentralised cam switches. EtherCAT was chosen as bus protocol due to its high bandwidth, on the fly processing and slave-to-slave communication.

Applications that put their focus on the support of complex and flexible fieldbus topologies and do not depend on the bus couplers’ optimisation for highly dynamic switching operations can gainfully employ equivalent bus couplers that support Profinet IO

switch’s usage in highly accurate and dynamic applications (eg the production of PET bottles).

Despite the possibility of a large number of bus modules, the parameterisation of the cams can be conducted centrally in a simple and concise manner. The engineering of the entire cam switch network occurs in a single place – the AC500 PLC’s programming environment.

In the IEC 61131 conforming programming environment PLCOpen function blocks of type MC_CamSwitch are created and parameterised (Figure 2). Hereby, the cams are assigned to specific bus modules and provided with all relevant switching information.

Figure 1: Topology of a decentralised electronic cam switch network

communication (CI 501 and CI 502).

These bus couplers additionally implement parallel standard Ethernet communication.

However, decentralised electronic cam switches rely on ver y high requirements concerning the buscouplers reaction time. Accordingly, the EtherCAT bus modules CI 511 and CI 512 are the preferred options for implementing decentralised electronic cam switches. The topology of a typical decentralised electronic cam switch is depicted in Figure 1.

The EtherCAT bus master is implemented as a communication module of the AC500. The first node on the fieldbus is a rotary encoder with an EtherCAT interface that transmits the absolute angle value of a rotating machinery component.

This node is succeeded by up to 254 bus modules.

The bus modules comprise either only digital input or output terminals or alternatively also analogue inputs and output terminals that can be configured for all prevailing analogue signal types. Each bus module can employ up to 16 cam tracks and up to 32 cams.

Spatial constraints of traditional electronic (or even mechanical) cam switches are resolved by the decentralised system topology, which allows distances of up to

EtherCAT AC 500 PLC

Absolute value rotary enoder

Digital I/O module

...100m

EtherCAT bus coupler

Digital I/O module

Digital/analog I/O module

...100m

Digital/analog I/O module

...100m

Digital/analog I/O module

...100m

Figure 2: Cam switch engineering

100m between the individual bus modules.

Cost Effective Spatially decentralised applications can be realised in a straightforward manner. An additional advantage of the decentralised solution lies in the cost-effective setup that contains only one AC500 and multiple inexpensive bus modules. Nevertheless the cam switch network achieves very low reaction times.

For instance, a cam switch network consisting of 40 bus modules can still switch its cams with an accuracy of ±200μs. This enables the cam

This information comprises the cam’s switch-on and switch-off angles (in 0.01°) as well as dead-time compensation.

The grouping of multiple cams to form a cam track is conducted in a graphical editor that is also used for the bus modules’ parameterisation.

Accordingly, the decentralised cam switch network is configured in a central place and hence combines the high accuracy and dynamic of a decentralised system with a centralised system’s efficient engineering.

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Coming Of The

Digital

Control Age

raditionally, on-site power systems depended on analogue control systems to provide reliable service to a facility’s electrical loads. Today, reliable, flexible and user-friendly digital control tech-nology is available for every on-site power system.

For traditional standby power systems that power only emergency lighting for a small building analogue controls may still be adequate.

However with larger on-site and standbypower systems, critical 24/7 power needs, more complex power distribution systems, and a mix of linear and non-linear loads, digital controls provide greater performance capabilities.

Analogue vs Digital Analogue devices in power system control are discrete components (resistors, switches, capacitors, coils and relays) that coordinate input and output signals, and perform rudimentary logic for specific control functions.

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Digital controls for power systems offer significant advantages over traditional analogue control systems.

By Jim Iverson, senior applications engineer, Cummins Power Generation

control hardware communicates system status and fault conditions with indicator lights, analogue meters or alarms.

In modern generating systems, there may be more than 200 typical alarm conditions having to do with the load, the utility, other paralleled generators, the engine or the alternator. As the number of potential status or alarm conditions has grown, analogue control systems have not been able to communicate this information to operators effectively.

A digital control system uses a microprocessor to control input, output and logic functions. System status can be graphically displayed on a computer, and operational adjustments are made through inputs on a keyboard or touch-screen. Changes can be made on the computer screen attached to the power system’s master control, or even on a remote computer connected via a local area network or the Internet.

Digital systems allow a high degree of control function integration, so one digital control can do the job of several analogue controls.

System Reliability Many power system end-users have learned to depend on their analogue control systems, feeling that they understand exactly how they work and how to fix them when they fail to work. If users don’t have experience with digital generator sets, transfer switches, or paralleling controls, they may be reluctant to make the change from analogue.

This attitude is ironic, since the decision to stay with analogue controls actually makes the system less reliable and burdens a facility with controls that are, for all practical purposes, obsolete when they are installed.

What’s more, in an analogue system, all system components need to function properly for the system to operate at all. In contrast, digital systems have builtin redundancy that significantly improves reliability by allowing the system to function properly even with a component failure in one portion of the control circuit.

Reliability is also enhanced because the physical electrical interconnections between logic functions have been eliminated with solid-state digital components.

On a more practical level, the number-one reason standby generators fail to start is due to dead starting batteries. Over 80 percent of all starting failures are from this cause. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, because the same thing happens in our own cars.

In order to test a battery, whether it is in your car, or

on a generator set, a service technician needs to test the battery using a load bank. Basically, the load is applied, and output voltage is observed at the same time. If the voltage drops too low, too fast, the battery should be replaced.

Digital power system controls have a function which detects a weak battery. With this function, battery voltage is monitored under load while the engine is cranking. If the battery voltage drops too far for too long, a weak battery alarm is sounded.

System Integration One of the primary advantages of digital controls is their seamless integration of the functional components of power systems. For example, the status of all components and values in a complex power system can be viewed and controlled from a central or remote computer screen.

In addition, electro-mechanical equipment (modern gas and diesel engines, alternators, transfer switches) can also be monitored and integrated into the control strategy.

This ability of digital systems to integrate diverse functions is especially important in modern emissions controlled diesel engines. Integrating engine control functions (fuel rate and injection timing) with fluctuations in generator load is critical for minimising exhaust emissions from diesel engines.

In fully integrated digital systems, these functions

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This illustrates the various analogue components required in a utility paralleling application. Note the number of separate components, wires and connections—all which detract from reliability.

are combined in the digital master controller and not isolated in a separate engine governor. The result is better engine performance under varying loads, reduced exhaust emissions, and more stable output frequency and voltage.

The ability of a digital control system to perform logic functions is also crucial in reducing exhaust emissions while starting the generator set. In most generator sets, the engine speed control system does not ‘know’ that the generator set is in a starting mode. Consequently, the control has a tendency to over-fuel the engine during startup, resulting in a cloud of black smoke from the exhaust.

This occurs because as power is applied to the governor control, it senses that the engine is a long way from proper speed, so it applies the highest possible fuel rate in order to quickly get the engine to proper speed.

With a digitally based system, the control ‘knows’ that the engine is in a starting mode, so it does not immediately

In a digital environment, all engine, generator and load control functions are combined in a small digital central control unit. Reliability is enhanced because interconnections have been reduced.

try to accelerate the engine to rated speed. Instead, when the engine starts cranking, it checks for engine rotation, and then provides enough fuel to accelerate the engine gradually to rated speed. This practically eliminates black smoke upon starting.

Finally, since a digital control ‘knows’ what the engine temperature is, it can adjust the governor settings based on temperature, making the engine more stable on starting and more responsive as it warms up.

Space Requirements The move to solid-state electronics and digital technology is not only more effective from a performance and reliability point of view, it is highly beneficial from a space-saving point of view. Depending on the application, digital power system controls can save from 25 percent to 40 percent in valuable mechanical room floor space.

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ummins’ diesel generator (genset) powered by QSX15 series comes in two models each for the 50 Hz (500 kVA and 550 kVA) and 60 Hz (450 kW and 500 kW) frequencies to cater to different electrical supply requirements in the region.

The genset meets advance international genset specification design for improved and lowered emission standards, specifically the European Union (EU) Stage II for 50 Hz and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Tier-2 for 60 Hz. Suitable for both standby and prime applications in any industry, the QSX15 platform comes with a 50°C ambient cooling package. The high base fuel tank has a capacity of 900 litres, allowing it to operate for more than eight hours without top-up.

The QSX15 engine is only 1,370kg and yet it can produce 500 KWm and 563 KWm for the 50 Hz and 60 Hz versions respectively.

At only 15 litres in displacement, it is also smaller in physical size and is space

efficient.

Coupled with lowered noise level (79 dBA at 1 metre at 75 percent load for the enclosed model), there is good flexibility in how and where to locate the genset.

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Digital paralleling control systems only require one digital master controller, regardless of the number of paralleled generator sets. This reduces the ‘footprint’ of the control modules in addition to centralising information and control into one input/output device.

Digital controls are also more environmentally rugged than analogue, allowing many control systems to be located with the generator set rather than being isolated in a separate dust and vibration-free room. The result is that digital systems occupy less floor space and require less environmental protection. These factors also help simplify installation, commissioning, and reduce maintenance and repair.

numerous options for making that information available in many parts of the facility or even remotely.

Building automation systems, communication systems, security, and safety systems can all make use of the information from the power system’s digital control system.

The availability of information makes it easier to manage a facility efficiently and economically.

Unlike analogue systems, digital control systems provide real-time status of all major components within the system. Engine oil and coolant levels and temperatures; batter y charge status; fuel levels; and the status of every transfer switch in the power distribution system are all available on a computer screen on the digital master control in the control room, or even on a secure remote terminal connected via the Internet.

With analogue systems, for example, the status of transfer switches can only be known by individual physical inspection of each switch—an antiquated approach that involves more labour and time and increases costs.

Digital controls for power systems offer significant advantages over traditional analogue control systems.

These advantages include higher system reliability, lower system life-cycle costs, smaller size, greater operational flexibility, longer equipment life, real-time and historical operating information, easier maintenance, easy system changes through software, remote monitoring and control, and better emissions control.

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Superior Protection Analogue devices, such as circuit breakers, provide protection for simple power systems by sensing overloads and opening to protect wiring and, in general, the generator set. However, analogue circuit breakers do not do a good job of protecting the alternator as required by electrical codes.

Excessive current in the alternator (due to even brief overloads) creates heat, which shortens insulation life and can lead to alternator failure. Molded case circuit breakers (MCCB) offer little protection against alternator overloads and heat buildup.

While today’s power grid is actually more reliable than it has ever been, the cost to end-users of a power failure has steadily increased, making any power failure of any duration unacceptable. If the reliability of the standby power system is compromised because of obsolete analogue technology, then the financial risk of a power outage goes up. However, digitally controlled power systems reduce an end-users’ financial risk by improving reliability.

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product HighlightS Beijer: HMI I/O Controller

Opto 22: I/O Modules

This I/O module enables interfacing with Beijer Electronics’ HMI and allows the user to implement simple monitoring and automation tasks without the need of a PLC. The HMI I/O Controller is developed for the plus version of the H-T40, the H-T40m-P, which features extended memory. This module can be easily mounted on the back of the H-T40m-P. The HMI I/O Controller features 12 digital inputs and four digital outputs. Up to 16 modules per H-T40m-P can be stacked up.

Monitoring and automation tasks can be developed with the H-T40m-P’s software, H-Designer which allows projects to be created in just a few minutes and offers instant off-line and on-line simulation.

Snap I/O for A-B systems offers advanced, distributed control functions for PLC-based control architectures.

By building or expanding these architecture with Snap I/O for A-B Systems, simple and advanced functions can be performed locally at the I/O level with no additional programming.

These advanced functions include PID loop control, high-speed counting and latching, quadrature counting, pulsing, thermocouple linearisation, analogue scaling, timeproportional output, and engineering unit conversion.

Snap I/O for A-B Systems communicates using the industry-standard EtherNet/IP protocol. Supplementing or expanding an exisiting system requires configuration using free software and no time consuming programming.

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GE Fanuc: Profibus DP Bus Interface Module

UEI: Ethernet I/O chassis

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ Profibus-DP Bus Interface Module (BIM) provides the interface between a Profibus-DP master and up to 32 8000 Process I/O modules. It is designed to t he P ro f ibu s D P v1 standard, which supports both cyclic and acyclic communications, and a pair of BIMs can be used in a redundant configuration providing for increased reliability and uptime.

It supports the pass through of HART variable and status data with 8-channel HART AI or AO modules.

Communications to popular instrument management software, including AMS and FDT- based packages, is over Ethernet. The FDT applications are supported through DTM software provided by GE Fanuc.

United Electronic Industrie s’ ( U E I ) DNR- 6 -1G 6 -slot, portable, Ethernet I/O chassis offers a l l t he fe atu re s of the company’s 12- slot model in a half-rack-width configuration.

Electrically compatible with cube form factors, I/O boards available in the cube form factor are available for the DNR-6-1G .

The HalfRack’s six I/O slots provide up to: 150 analogue inputs, 192 analogue outputs, 288 digital I/O, 48 counter or quadrature channels, 72 ARINC-429 channels and/or 24 Serial or CAN-bus ports.

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Getting It

Right With Collaboration The results of some recent aerospace and defense industry programmes point the way to process improvements for all. By Tim Nichols, director, Global Aerospace and Defense marketing, Siemens PLM Software

hen you consider the logistics involved in creating a new commercial airplane, fighter jet, ship or tank, it’s clear that these programmes represent product development at its most complicated.

Few other products must be supported throughout a more than 50 year lifecycle or meet such high safety and engineering standards. Few involve as many people (thousands at hundreds of global sites) or as many components (millions in many cases).

Yet for all this comple xity, a e ro s p a c e a n d d e f e n s e ( A & D ) programmes have not been spared the ‘faster, better, cheaper’ imperative.

In general, development cycles in this industry have been cut in half in the last 10 to 15 years, while innovation has given rise to products so technologically superior that cost comparisons between past and present models are impossible.

So it makes sense that when the companies, or more frequently the coalitions, behind today’s complex aerospace and defense programmes get something right, there are important lessons to be learned for all industries.

J Scheijen, Netherlands

Getting It Right In the last few years, we’ve seen multiple examples of aerospace and defense companies getting it right, especially when it comes to global collaboration, innovation and faster time to market. In fact, ‘getting it right’ really underestimates the transformations some of these programmes have experienced.

For example, during the initial assembly of a fighter jet being developed by an international coalition, parts from hundreds of global suppliers successfully came together with the hair-width precision required for a seamless fit.

On the commercial side, a new business jet went from concept to first flight in only 33 months while an aircraft engine manufacturer re d u c e d i t s d e s i g n c y c l e t i m e from 42 to 24 months and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in development costs.

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These and other recent accomplishments are not the result of tools such as Lean and Six Sigma, which look to production and manufacturing processes for improvement. Although initiatives such as these remain critical, current breakthroughs in innovation and faster time to market are now coming from practices that address a broader spectrum of the enterprise and more stages of the product lifecycle (from concept through to maintenance and overhaul, and ultimately retirement).

Total Collaboration One of the most significant aspects of these recent A&D programme accomplishments has been the introduction of enterprise information systems that enable collaboration across the entire value chain – customers, partners and suppliers, as well as service and operating organisations.

This is one component of what we mean when we talk about total collaboration as a best practice: that it encompasses everyone involved in a programme – even when it involves nine international partners, 40 design support partners and more than 100 sites worldwide, to give an actual example of one existing totally collaborative environment.

Another aspect of total collaboration is that it includes individuals involved with the product

Programmes in the A&D industry that have achieved total collaboration are using PLM technology.

throughout its lifecycle. With the advent of Performance-Based Logistics contracts in the military world and Power-By-Hour/Total Care service agreements in the commercial world, it is important that total collaboration includes participants in the afterdelivery phases of the product cycle.

With total collaboration, each person involved in a programme, regardless of geographic location, is part of a seamless digital working environment that provides access to up-to-date product information, tracks all key decisions, and supplies the process management functionality needed for effective collaboration.

And, of course, total collaboration provides for the security of information access, supporting military programmes with full ITAR compliance as well as protecting the crucial intellectual property of commercial programmes.

Programmes in the A&D industry that have achieved total collaboration are using product lifecycle management (PLM) technology as the digital thread that ties together various data environments.

With total collaboration, in other words, diverse processes such as design, audit, and certification all share in one global environment, made possible by PLM integration.

Flawless Change Management Change is inevitable in A&D programmes, at all stages of the product cycle. In these programmes, a simple engineering change might involve as many as 20 steps, and there are likely to be hundreds of changes going on at any given time.

Even a single change can involve hundreds of people because each

change must be properly integrated with upstream designers, downstream manufacturing staff and the supply chain.

The situation described above, where parts from hundreds of global suppliers came together perfectly in an initial assembly, offers an excellent example of change that was handled flawlessly.

A key part of flawless change management is having a single database of record for all product-related information. Even in environments of total collaboration, there may still be pockets where change processes are unique.

But having a single database of record allows everyone to be aware of the state of the design at the same time. The other part of flawless change management is creating a workflow, or process for registering a change into the database of record, that everyone agrees to.

Built in to this workflow are all the proper notifications, for example, so that nothing is left to someone’s memory or to chance. Both aspects – the single, shared database of record and the managed change workflow – are supported by PLM technology.

Inclusivity The A&D programmes we’ve been discussing have put processes in place that affect everyone in the programme, from the top of the hierarchy down to the tier-one and tier-two suppliers. But rather than imposing edicts about how they were going to do business, the successful A&D OEMs have worked hard to be inclusive and give all parties a say in defining the processes that affect them.

This is a wise practice for two reasons. One, it allows companies to capture a wide spectrum of knowledge and align it with their processes. Two, it creates buy-in at the supplier level, as well as respect at the customer level.

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Triumphing

Over Tough Times

Siemens PLM’s Rajiv Ghatikar, VP and GM of Siemens PLM Software, ASEAN/Australasia, explains to IAA why PLM is still a worthwhile solution in difficult times. By Derek Rodriguez he year 2008 has proved to be a tough year for many as Rajiv Ghatikar of Siemens PLM reflects: “Many companies across the board have barely managed to escape unscathed from the clutches of the economic downturn and many of whom have seen their budgets slashed significantly.”

Adopting a realistic approach to the economic downturn, he reckons it is not over yet and predicts: “With 2009 looking just as volatile as last year, companies will be looking for ideas and opportunities to stay competitive.”

Unique Proposition And one way to stay competitive, he believes, is by way of PLM solutions. He says: “A PLM solution is

still a worthwhile investment at this point in time due to its unique value proposition in optimising companies’ budgets.”

He continues: “Through enabling innovation and speed to market, PLM providers can benefit companies by helping them gain an advantage by bringing their products to market faster than before and getting things right the first time around.”

This will, in turn, “enable companies to enjoy a return on investment of approximately 70 to 80 percent of the total delivered cost of a product committed at the stage of design,” states Mr Ghatikar. “The lower

costs will in turn allow companies to save money or invest them in other areas so as to better sustain their businesses than their competitors.”

“We believe that there is still plenty of need for PLM solutions because it helps to further strengthen the strategic position of companies that will in turn allow them with a better competitive edge,” reaffirms Mr Ghatikar.

Customer Oriented Also, as Mr Ghatikar reveals: “Siemens PLM is focused on understanding customers’ requirements so that we can further add value to their needs and better justify their overall PLM investment.”

For the company, the Asian market, especially the ASEAN region,

Through enabling innovation and speed to market, PLM providers can benefit companies by helping them gain a competitive advantage Rajiv Ghatikar

remains a focus during this turbulent period. Mr Ghatikar says: “Despite the rough times, we are confident that both Siemens PLM Software and our customers will continue to prevail and will eventually emerge from this financial storm stronger than before.”

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Digital Prototyping:

Design For Success Global manufacturing SMBs, through digital prototyping, may have an answer for their product development needs. By Samuel Tang, regional sales manager, manufacturing industry, SEA, Autodesk

or many years, product manufacturers have been under enormous pressure to improve their operations.

Products must meet ever more specific customer requirements, designs must be completed faster, prices must be competitive, and quality must hold up to a lifetime of use.

For example, let’s take a look at the automotive industry: Manufacturers now offer a greater range of automobiles than ever before, from quirky subcompacts such as the Smart car to hybrid SUVs and trucks of all sizes; development cycles are being reduced from four years and more to less than 24 months; price competition is hotter than ever; and defect rates, particularly in notoriously buggy US automobiles, have gone down dramatically over the past few years.

Jim Lambert, design manager at (Bosch) Rexroth’s Industrial Hydraulics business unit in Welland, Ontario, ranked his company’s top three strategic imperatives as, first and foremost, innovation, followed by competitive advantage and faster time to market. Karl Thysell, HTC’s chief technology officer, listed faster growth, cost control, and competitive advantage.

The key to success is the abolishment of functionally unconnected ‘silos’ of activities

Key To Success To achieve these performance improvements, manufacturing enterprises, not only in the automotive industry but also in

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the aerospace, industrial machinery, medical devices, and consumer goods industries, have substantially changed their product development processes.

The key to success is the abolishment of functionally unconnected ‘silos’ of activities, such as concept development, design, engineering, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. At market-leading enterprises, these activities are now connected. Product data, design intelligence, project management, and performance analysis are linked and can be managed in almost real time.

These new processes rely on data vaults, networking, and Web-based collaboration. Beyond that, the addition of 3D modeling to 2D drafting, which will never be replaced completely, improves collaboration and helps to avoid misunderstandings about product intents.

Numerous research studies have thoroughly documented the benefits of this approach to corporate performance in product development. However, these studies have also demonstrated that the fully integrated approach to product development, referred to as PLM, is expensive, complex, and not always fully achievable.

PLM requires investments not only in applications software, implementation, integration with ERP applications, and end-user training but also in a well-staffed IT department to reliably run these applications. Clearly, full-blown PLM is not a panacea for every enterprise.

This holds true especially for worldwide small and medium-sized manufacturing sites and for small divisions of larger corporations. Just like large enterprises, these organisations have to deal with the gamut of challenges: cost competition from lower wage countries, performance demands from OEMs and end users, manufacturing

flexibility to satisfy the rapidly changing requirements from supply and demand chains, and little time and capital to invest in developing ‘irresistibly’ innovative and stylish products.

In reality, many SMB manufacturers have neither the technical savvy nor the time and capital required to invest in the automation of their procedures and to optimise their processes along the lines of the PLM concept. However, there is a way for SMBs to develop an effective method that is low cost and easy to use - digital prototyping.

The Advantage Now, let’s drill down and take a closer look at product development and the role of digital prototyping. Product development consists of two phases: the digital phase (with computer-aided design [CAD], computer-aided engineering [CAE], product simulation, product information management (PIM), and a bill of materials) and the physical phase (with product manufacturing, physical testing, maintenance, and retirement).

Over the years, the digital product development phase has expanded the number of digital design and simulation steps that replace and/or postpone the need for dealing with the physical product. This of course saves a lot of time and money and also opens the door for easier team collaboration and customer input earlier in the development phase.

The most important enablers of digital prototyping are conceptual or industrial design, detailed CAD, CAE, and PIM. Until recently, the comprehensive use of these categories of software applications for product development has been limited for the most part to larger enterprises, while many SMBs continued to rely on clay for styling, on overdesign for product quality, on paper files for product information repositories, and on phone, fax, and mail for collaboration.

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Flexible & Focused Autodesk’s definition of digital prototyping includes the basic functions of PLM – industrial design, design and engineering, data vaulting, and collaboration. However, there are several important differences to PLM: While PLM reaches from a product’s cradle to its grave, digital prototyping stops at the completion of the digital product and its engineering bill of materials.

As a result, the number of participants in the digital prototyping development loop is considerably smaller than the number of participants in full-blown PLM, and the collection, management, and sharing of data are less complex.

Furthermore, manufacturing can keep its product development activities separate from operations management and forgo the costly and time-consuming integration with the company’s applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and project and portfolio management (PPM), among others. Overall, digital prototyping is more flexible, more focused, and easier to use than PLM.

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Digital prototyping includes the basic functions of PLM – industrial design, design and engineering, data vaulting, and collaboration

While it is true that most SMBs replaced their drafting boards with CAD some time ago, the majority of product designs are still executed in 2D rather than in 3D. As a result, communication of a product’s features and functions from initial ideation to final launch is error prone, the look and feel of innovative p ro d u c t s m a y n o t m e e t customer tastes, and manufacturing may misunderstand a product’s intent.

Mr Lambert described his experience: “2D cannot communicate effectively, nor can it simulate real-world situations. The beauty of digital prototyping is that d e s i g n s c a n b e t e s t e d o u t b e f o re t h e y g o t o manufacturing.”

Innovation, Quality, Style Over the past five years, life for SMB manufacturers has become a daily struggle for survival. Clearly, companies with average products that rely primarily on price and acceptable functionality don’t stand much of a chance for survival. Manufacturers must target three goals. One

is technical innovation. As the recent success of Apple’s iPhone has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, customers worldwide are willing to pay premium prices for market-leading novelties.

However, technical innovation by itself cannot ensure lasting success. For vendors to attain long-term brand recognition, products also have to be market leaders in styling and quality.

But how to get there? Manufacturers have to create the right business environment: the right corporate culture to promote innovation, the right skills base among employees, and the optimum combination of in-house talent and outside partners.

This is an attainable goal for large enterprises, but until very recently, it would have been a risky and expensive strategy for SMBs to embrace. However, we are now witnessing a revolution both in available technologies and in end-user expertise that will level the playing field between SMBs and large manufacturing enterprises. In fact, we are at the confluence of a number of trends that will work to the benefit of progressive SMBs: • Growing end-user demand for superior styling of consumer goods • Availability of software applications for styling, design, quality engineering, and collaboration that are easy to use and cost-effective • PCs with amazing power and memory at affordable prices • A new generation of designers who are computer savvy and experienced in a range of styling, design, engineering, and collaboration applications.

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he most important steps of digital prototyping are conceptual or industrial design, detailed computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, and product information management.

Collaboration is an enabler of team-based but dispersed product development.

• Industrial/conceptual design The goal of industrial design is at least threefold: to create a product that is aesthetically pleasing, that is functional, and that has a unique appearance to help manufacturers and retailers to develop brand recognition.

• Computer-aided design CAD applications allow product

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design engineers to draw the detailed engineering files for product manufacturing.

• Computer-aided engineering The goal of CAE is threefold: to test a product’s ability to withstand long-term usage, to ensure product quality by digital simulation rather than by relying on overengineering, and to optimise the material selection for product costing, quality, and manufacturing.

• Product information management PIM serves as a repository for product intent, product structure, and development processes. It supports team collaboration within enterprises

and across business partner networks, speeds time to market of innovative products, and opens the door to extensive reuse of parts, components, and procedures.

• Collaboration Development teams are distributed across the globe, rely on input from a large number of sources, and have to satisfy demands from different global client constituencies. Without easy-touse workflow and visualisation tools worldwide, distribution of product development and manufacturing would be impracticable or even impossible.

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Reuse Of

Design reuse are now far easier and much more efficient, adding needed speed to the entire product development process. By Matthew McGovern, director, vertical market strategy, PTC egardless of industry, geography, or size, every product development company and design engineer can benefit from design reuse.

By using the design of an existing part or assembly as a starting point for a newer part or assembly, you can save time while reducing the risk of making fundamental design errors. Design reuse can also help you, the design engineer, to improve the overall quality of an evolving design by leveraging the expertise and engineering value that was invested into the original design.

At its most basic level, design reuse works ‘opportunistically’. That is, you’re assigned a new job, and you may recall that the part you’ll be designing is similar to a part that already exists. You start by finding the existing part by searching your CAD database by part number and you go from there.

With your new design underway, you probably keep a notebook of corresponding contextual information for your new part or assembly. You might record information such as: temperature ranges within which it will operate; results of vibration analysis; sizes and types of bolts or other connectors; and other pertinent information.

A year later, when your organisation is adding a new product to that particular line, it is up to another designer to remember your part, search on its part number, retrieve it along with any additional documentation you might have scanned from your notebook and then go to work on the next version. The new designer will probably ask for your accompanying notes.

Search Limitations Back in the previous century, searching by part number and scanning paper documentation was close to state of the art for design reuse. Today, it’s anything but. The fact is the 44 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

time you must spend searching and scanning deprives you of product design excellence for a number of reasons.

First of all, searching from memory or by part number is a hit or miss proposition. You may or may not find a usable part file, depending on the quality of your CAD database.

In additon, you may not find the best variation for your purposes; the only way to do that is to search all relevant part numbers and then try to determine the one that is optimum for your purposes.

If you’re designing a part for use in a jet airliner, for instance, you would want a part that handles vibration, heat, and other conditions especially well but you might be hardpressed to find out which part satisfies these criteria.

Although the part that you do eventually find may be the most recently produced, it may not be the best part to use. There could be a half-dozen Engineering Change Order (ECOs) associated with that part. Those are changes that the parts database doesn’t know about. True, you might be better off starting with a previous part design but you won’t know that unless you’re lucky enough to find out about the ECOs either by word of mouth or by searching an ECO (or field-service) database.

Non-Digital Documentation Even today, with the simplicity and ubiquity of engineering calculation software, many small and medium-size companies still rely on handwritten documentation scanned into the CAD database along with the model to describe the design intent and functional properties of part and assembly models. This method can cause problems in several areas.

Compared to digital data storage, manual data entry can waste time and invite inaccuracy. Handwritten notes are often difficult to read.

As well, the new designer might want to substitute different values, say for vibration tolerance. Now it’s up to you to read the results of the original designer’s revised calculations. With digital storage, messy handwriting isn’t an issue, and recalculating values is automatic and error-free.

Beyond these issues, non-digital storage means that no matter what functional information accompanies the part model, it cannot be used to help search electronically for the model; in other words, it can’t be turned into a category that’s visible to the search engine.

By contrast, digital storage enables the new designer to search on a variety of functional parameters from temperature ranges to usage context (eg supercharged engines only) and thus the user has a better chance of finding the best part or assembly to use as the starting point for the new design.

parts family, including suppliers, ECOs and recalls, from which this part or assembly is derived.

From a higher-level point of view, the reuse library will typically be fed by metadata that comes from product development processes, such as detail design, product validation, and change management.

Detail design will produce information on geometry decisions, design intent, and usage expectations; product validation creates data on simulation and testing; and change management creates info on ECOs, instructions for fixing problems, and so on.

With the metadata in place, you can then create categories for the search engines. The categorisation process will be continuous. Plus, it will take into account your business’s evolving needs and objectives, and it will let you continually fine-tune your categories to be more closely aligned with your own product development strategies.

The reuse library will be fed by metadata that comes from product development processes, such as detail design, product validation, and change management.

Design reuse can save as much as 75 percent of a design engineer’s modelling time.

Building A Reuse Library ‘Opportunistic’ design reuse will always play a part in product development, but today’s best-practice strategies are more about planning ahead by creating categories and indexes to build up a library, and then putting search tools in place to automate information retrieval.

To build the library, it’s important to practice solid programming ‘hygiene’ by standardising on names and labels wherever possible, and by creating search categories that can facilitate searches based on functional attributes as well as geometry features.

Functional attributes will come from digital documentation, ie metadata. That is embedded into part models. Metadata can include everything from recommended bolt and thread sizes for interconnections, to test and analysis results, to manufacturing and assembly instructions, to notes about design intent and expected usage environments.

Metadata may also contain the complete history of the

Reinventing The Wheel Now that all-digital product development is a reality and information collaboration is a fact of business life, the potential for reusing product design information is becoming a reality for small and medium-size businesses.

The benefits are also very real: based on PTC’s own research, design reuse can save as much as 75 percent of a design engineer’s modelling time, and product-quality improvements can be dramatic, with successive versions building on, rather than repudiating, the successes of their original family members.

To succeed, design reuse requires both commitment and effort on the part of the product development organisation.

But for nearly all businesses, the competitive advantages produced by design reuse, like faster time to market, better quality products, adherence to company best practices, are well worth the implementation efforts.

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Determine Machinery Health The

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The benefits of deploying wireless vibration transmitters include equipment reliability, health, safety, and environmental issues. By Henry Chua, senior sales manager, Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific

onitoring rotating machinery in process industry plants for signs of change yields useful information that can be acted upon to prevent failures and minimise costly downtime. Since rotating machines exhibit recognisable failure modes that are revealed by their vibration signatures, analysis of vibration information can lead to diagnosis of an evolving problem. This can be the difference between a plant or mill sustaining lengthy production runs versus having to shut down for unscheduled repairs.

Having timely vibration data can even prevent a catastrophic failure.

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was avoided when remote monitors informed control room operators miles away of an almost instantaneous jump in the motor’s vibration level from 0.1-in/ sec (low) to 8.156-in/sec (very high).

Because the vibration monitors were integrated with the process control system, operators were immediately made aware of the change and switched to backup equipment, saving the motor and pump from extensive damage.

Vibration monitors for specific potential failure parameters had only recently replaced a traditional shutdown protection system that generated no actionable information regarding the condition of the machine.

Fortunately the remote monitors were installed in time.

Data Collection Reliable and timely data collection is essential for recognising a significant increase or change in vibration level.

Techniques for collecting data and analysing vibration patterns have been evolving for decades.

Today’s most common data collection method is route-based, whereby a technician moves from machine to machine, attaching sensors at carefully selected points on each machine. Measurements are made using a portable data collector to obtain ‘snapshots’ of vibration levels from each of the different points at the moment of measurement.

Data gathered along the route is later uploaded to a computer loaded with software that enables a trained

analyst to correctly evaluate the data.

Collections are scheduled periodically based on the machine’s health history or its importance to the process, with critically important machines watched more closely in well managed plants.

Accurate and timely analyses give maintenance supervisors and managers the information they need to make intelligent repair/replacement decisions. Such decisions, based on field-generated intelligence gained from vibration monitoring and analysis, have produced impressive benefits in numerous well-documented cases: • 25 percent increase in equipment availability • Up to 35 percent reduction in emergency maintenance • 20 percent reduction in the cost of emergency maintenance • 28 percent reduction in time for scheduled maintenance • 250 percent return on project costs within 1.5 years Getting accurate information on the health of critical process machinery into the hands of operations personnel in time for them to make decisions is often the key to realising these kinds of benefits in any plant or mill. This is the value of predictive maintenance.

While data collected periodically can be used to predict future performance, it may not provide feedback that is timely enough. Some rapidly evolving potential failures can be averted only if information regarding the deterioration of key equipment is immediately available.

Thanks to several significant technical developments, detailed information on the health of production assets has become more accessible with less delay.

For example, an advanced routebased method utilises Emerson’s CSI 2130 Machinery Health Analyzer, which records vibration levels and analyses the data in the field for faster detection of problem situations.

This portable collector/analyser has the unique ability to advise the technician of a potential problem even before the sensors are lifted from a machine.

Automated Data Collection & Analysis Technologies are now emerging to automate the collection and analysis of vibration data and deliver a continuous stream of results into process automation systems.

Traditionally, full-time monitoring for in-depth information about the actual condition of a machine is generally reserved for equipment that, if stopped, would likely result in damage and shut down all or a major section of a plant. This ‘most

simultaneously can also be beneficial.

High vibration due to a bearing problem can typically be isolated to a specific bearing location, while vibration due to cavitation can be detected at every measurement location.

Automated diagnostics packages can augment the work of maintenance personnel by giving analysis results directly to operators in time for them to make adjustments to the process.

In turn, operators can request that a pump be examined by maintenance personnel only if a problem arises.

Analysis of vibration information can lead to diagnosis of an evolving problem critical’ category generally involves only about five percent of rotating assets, frequently covered by a CSI 4500 Machinery Health Monitor for online condition monitoring. The continuously generated data can be utilised by: • Evaluation using the AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager, which assigns a severity ranking to existing conditions and issues early warnings along with diagnostic suggestions; • Feeding live vibration information directly to operators, providing a real-time view of the effects of their actions and enabling them to exercise control schemes that will best preserve critical production machinery; • Summarising and prioritising ongoing alerts and events for an enterprise-wide view of asset health at any level.

Just below the ‘most critical’ category is another group of machines that would adversely impact productivity by more than 40 percent if they were to fail. Pumps moving vital fluids through essential processes fit into this tier of importance, which might be called the ‘next frontier’ for automated monitoring.

Being able to see the vibration readings at each measurement location

Online monitoring assures that the condition of essential equipment is continuously being assessed. At the same time, vibration data collection can be done less frequently on less important support equipment. Individuals are freed from routine data collection and analysis, giving them more time for troubleshooting and program improvement. And some machines not directly involved in production may not be monitored at all, allowing them to run as long as possible with only minimal maintenance.

The newest online monitoring systems utilise digital automation technology to give end-users what they’ve been asking for -- information that can be acted upon, not just more data!

Wireless Vibration Transmitters As a component of Emerson’s Smart Wireless solutions, the CSI 9420 Machinery Health Transmitter connects to roller element bearing machines, delivering vibration information over a self-organising wireless network.

In this way, vibration data is made available in data historians or any control system for trending and analysis with other process parameters. In addition to measuring overall vibration, this wireless vibration transmitter includes technology for advanced bearing diagnostics.

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With the continuing rise in global energy demands, the power generation market is set to experience strong growth.

By Augustine Quek

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he global power industry is going through a period of unprecedented change. Since the advent of the industrial revolution, the worldwide energy consumption has been growing steadily. According to the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2006 estimate, fossil fuels supply 86 percent of the 15 terawatts (TW) of world's total consumption of energy.

World primary energy demand is expected to expand by another 45 percent between 2006 and 2030 – an average rate of growth of 1.6 percent per year, according to the France-based International Energy Agency (IEA), assuming a business-as-usual scenario. Just over half of this growth rate can be attributed to China and India, while the Middle East contributes a further 11 percent to world demand till 2030.

Both agencies also predict fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) will continue to account for 80 percent of the world’s primary energy mix in 2030, similar to the situation today.

Of these, oil would remain the dominant fuel, though demand for coal would rise more than any other fuel.

Environmental Concern This rise in global fossil fuel consumption is set to drive up greenhouse-gas emissions and global temperatures, 48 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

resulting in potentially catastrophic and irreversible climate change.

According to IEA, the projected rise in emissions assuming no change in government policies, will double the concentration of those gases in the atmosphere to around 1,000 parts per million of CO2 equivalent by the end of this century. This would lead to an eventual global temperature increase of up to 6°C. Global energy-related CO2 emissions are projected to rise from 28 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2006 to 41 Gt in 2030 – an increase of 45 percent. The bulk of the increase in global energy-related CO2 emissions is expected to come from cities, their share rising from 71 percent in 2006 to 76 percent in 2030 as a result of urbanisation.

Three-quarters of the projected output of electricity worldwide in 2020 (and more than half in 2030) will come from power stations that are already operating today. As a result, even if all power plants built from now onwards were carbon free, CO2 emissions from the power sector would still be only 25 percent, or 4 gigatonnes, lower in 2020.

Therefore, reducing greenhouse gases requires converting to low-carbon energy sources, and operating

Automation of renewable energy sources would become important when finite fossil fuel reserves are depleted.

at higher efficiencies. For example, Singapore plans to build a S$2 billion (US$1.36 billion) coal-fired plant that will begin operations in 2011. Called the Multi-Utilities Complex (MUC), it includes a Biomass Clean Coal (BMCC) co-generation plant and a desalination plant.

Higher efficiencies can be expected by operating in cogeneration mode, while using low-sulphur and lowash coal substantially reduces the emissions of sulphur dioxide and waste generated. A waste-management plan will be implemented to recycle ash into value-added products, such as construction materials. In addition, by using efficient energy processes and biomass, the MUC will reduce its carbon emissions to a level that is equivalent to or better than the existing oil-fired plants in Singapore.

Automation Aid Automation can also help improve efficiency in power generation, allowing more power to be generated with fewer resources, and reduces fuel wastage.

Advanced Energy Solutions, from Honeywell, is an example of a suite of control, monitoring and optimisation applications designed for power generation. It allows industrial power and cogeneration plants to balance generation demands with operational efficiencies and regulatory constraints.

The Advanced Combustion Control module tightly coordinates control of fuel and air ratio for advanced

Alternative Assistance When finite fossil fuel reserves are depleted, heavier reliance on renewable sources of energy will be inevitable.

Automation of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, would then become very important.

Enercon, a German manufacturer of wind turbines, has developed and produced gearless wind power turbines that are equipped with microelectronic control technology. The main processing unit, which is the central element of the control system, is in continuous contact with the peripheral control elements, such as the yaw control and active pitch control system. Its function is to adjust the individual system parameters to ensure the wind turbines operate at optimum yield under all weather conditions.

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control of the combustion processes. This not only saves on fuel for the same amount of generated energy, it also helps to reduce emissions.

Another example is Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb architecture's network of predictive intelligence.

It detects problems even before they occur, enabling power generators to avoid unplanned outages and optimise plant performance.

An actual use of Emerson’s technology was the installation of its PlantWeb digital plant architecture with the Ovation expert control system and Foundation fieldbus technology in Units 7 and 8 of the Zouxian Power Plant in 2007.

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It is predicted that fossil fuels will continue to account for 80 percent of the world’s primary energy mix in 2030.

For solar power, photovoltaic is a well-known technology, generating electricity directly from sunlight.

Another method involves gathering solar radiation in collectors, concentrating the heat to tubes in their centre, and transferring it to heat exchangers close to the power plant. The heat exchanger transfers the heat into superheated steam, to run a steam turbine for generation of electrical power.

For automation of solar thermal plants, ABB is supplying a comprehensive power and automation solution for one of the world’s largest solar thermal power plants. The solution includes extremely accurate control equipment to enable the 1,248 parabolic troughs to capture maximum energy from the sun. It encompasses an array of power and automation products and systems for the 100 megawatt (MW) Extresol 1 and 2 solar thermal power plant and solar collector field in Extremadura, western Spain.

The solution also includes AC500 programmable logic controllers equipped with an advanced solar positioning algorithm especially developed by ABB for parabolic trough collectors and solar trackers. The algorithm enables the collectors to follow the passage of the sun to within 0.03 degrees of error, thereby absorbing the maximum amount of energy at all times.

Extresol 1 and 2 will each produce 50 MW of electricity from a vast solar field of parabolic trough collectors covering more than 510,000 square metres and avoid 298,000 metric tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. Extresol 1 is scheduled to start operation at the end of 2009 and Extresol 2 six months later.

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Renewed Hope According to several Frost & Sullivan research reports, renewable energy has been gaining widespread acceptance in Asian and Southeast Asian countries.

In China, the Chinese Government has passed its first renewable energy law that requires power grid operators to purchase resources from registered renewable energy.

In addition to the renewable energy law, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has proposed the promotion of renewable energy and aims to achieve 16 percent of renewable energy consumption through its middle and long-term programme of renewable energy development.

Similarly in India, the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources aims to install 10 percent of additional power generation capacity in 2012 through the gridinteractive renewable power programme.

Individual nations in the Southeast Asian region also have fixed renewable energy targets. For instance, the renewable energy target of 5 percent has been revised since the eighth Malaysia Plan. According to the 9th Malaysia Plan, the government has increased the target for renewable energy to 30 percent or 350 MW by 2010.

In Thailand, the government passed a landmark very small power producer (VSPP) legislation in May 2002, which mandates the utilities to allow solar, wind, microhydropower, biomass, or biogas generators up to 1 MW per installation to connect to the grid.

Power generation from both fossil fuels and renewable energy not only helps diversify the fuel pool, but also ensures energy supply security T h e p o l i c y w a s re v i s e d i n 2 0 0 6 t o i n c l u d e additional privileges for small power producers. The VSPP regulation allows for net metering arrangements a n d e s t a b l i s h e d s t re a m l i n e d i n t e rc o n n e c t i o n processes to minimise VSPP connecting costs.

Power generation from both fossil fuels and renewable energy not only helps diversify the fuel pool, but also ensures energy supply security. The global urgency in curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, coupled with the rising cost of oil and gas, has led countries in the region to introduce proactive renewable energy policies.

Given that energy consumption is unlikely to reduce, even with the most efficient systems, the power generation market is set to experience strong growth in the following decades.

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R eal Revolution!

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Employing energy efficient motors can help companies to lower production costs, decrease downtime and stay competitive.

By Charles Lim, customer support centre manager, Oriental Motor

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emphasis not only in reducing power consumption, but also to improve the lifespan, speed stability, vibration, temperature rise, etc.

Defining ‘Energy Efficient Motors’ Motor efficiency can be defined as the ratio of mechanical power output to the electrical power input.

Energy efficient motors are known to have better construction with lower electric losses and systems that enable them to consume less energy, with other advantages such as lower heat generation which will leads to

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a longer lifespan and thus, higher reliability.

To elaborate this through an example, the High Efficiency Closed Loop Stepping Motor unit from Oriental Motor, AR Series shows the temperature rise performance in Figure 1 in comparison to the conventional stepping motor.

The result is a close to 50 percent l e s s t e m p e r a t u re r i s e a g a i n s t conventional models, with a reduction in power consumption that would in turn reduce about 40 percent of C0 2 emissions to the environment effectively (Figure 2).

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l ec t ri c M o t o r s , in g e n e r a l, consume heavily on the electric power used in the world, with a wide variety of uses ranging from household appliances, to machines used in manufacturing industries.

With the recent concerns of global warming and sustainability of energy supply in various countries, resulting in the need for environmental management systems such as the compliance of ISO14001, companies in manufacturing are looking into the need of employing motors that are energy saving, yet delivering the same required output to keep systems moving.

To meet the growing demands, various types of energy efficient motors are developed, with the key

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The graph in Figure 3 shows the estimated average life characteristic based on actual data measured with regards to the motor case’s surface temperature. It shows that the lower temperature rise would result in a longer life for the grease in the ball bearings, enabling it to last much longer when compared to conventional models.

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Input vs Output Motors receive input in electricity and convert it into rotation power as the output. The difference between the input and output would be considered as the loss.

In relation to the term efficiency, the following formulas can be considered: Loss [W] = Input [W] – Output [W] Input [W] = Driver Input Current [A] x Driving Voltage [V] Output [W] = 0.1047 x Torque [N-m] x Rotating Speed [r/min] The lower the loss, the higher efficiency of the motor can be achieved.

As such, motors are more efficient when they deliver greater output for a

given input, or they are to deliver the equivalent output, with a lower input required. The challenge to electric motor manufacturers is developing products to increase the output and decrease the required input, at the same time considering manufacturing, design and material costs to be kept at the optimal level.

Inverter Technology Inverter technology has been one of the common solutions to replace existing system in order to reduce energy consumption. For the case of electric motors, inverter-based variable speed drives can be commonly found in manufacturing systems that exhibit the wide speed range and low energy consumption characteristics for a speed control motor.

Technically, it involves the process of converting first from AC power supply to DC, followed by inverting DC back to a 3 phase AC source using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) to drive a 3 phase input induction motor.

This process allows the changing of the power supply frequency, which is commonly 50Hz or 60Hz to a lower or higher frequency so as to vary the speed of the motor whenever required. Similarly, the voltage level output to the motor would also vary according to the load requirements encountered by the motor.

Therefore, the inverter would draw the right amount of electricity to drive the motor according to the load and speed conditions. This would make the system more energy efficient where it does not require the maximum current all the time when driving the induction motor.

However, the use of induction technology to drive the rotor of the motor still inherits high losses, therefore not maximising the use of electrical energy drawn to be converted into mechanical rotation.

The emergence of brushless motor systems, which exhibit higher efficiency, can be considered as the new technology to meet the growing needs of the lower loss, temperature rise, smaller sizes and value-added features.

Effective Use Of Power Brushless motor systems are the latest answer to the requirements of stable and reliable variable speed drive systems. Using the same working principle of servomotor technology, the brushless motor employs the use of permanent magnet for the rotor (refer to Figure 4) that enables the synchronous rotation, achieving less power loss compared to conventional induction motor systems.

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Figure 4: A brushless motor construction

Moreover, intelligent technology would enable the driver to draw the required input power which would be used according to different speed and torque requirements. In other words, it would consume the amount of current needed, so if it is running at no load conditions at low speeds, definitely power consumption would be much less compared to full load situations.

The graph in Figure 5 shows the speed-torque and current consumption characteristics for a 100W brushless motor system. The use of low-cost and reliable Hall Effect ICs for rotor and speed monitoring helps to make brushless motor systems more affordable as well.

There are in fact, more advantages such as more compact size, speed stability, wide speed range of up to 4000r/min, protection features with alarm display that can help to improve production, thereby providing more reasons of why energy efficient brushless motor systems can be the better choice over the conventional induction-driven types for the future.

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with the latest ranges available that can reach the identical speed and torque characteristics compared to a bigger model.

Reducing Energy Consumption For automated systems that need the accuracy of position and speed, stepping motors are one of the popular choices. As stepping motors rely on current flow to keep the holding torque at standstill, this

5 Phase vs 2 Phase Stepping Motors 5 phase stepping motor units are growing more in popularity for their superior performance in lower vibration (with or without microstep) compared to 2 phase types. In Table 1, it shows the comparison of two identical 5 and 2 phase stepping motors where two identical sizes were selected to be used in a comparison test.

For the 2 phase stepping motor shown, normally it would require an input power of 9.5W for input power; it has been adjusted to a lower power input to simulate a fair test with the 5 phase stepping motor. So during the test, it appears that holding

Comparison of Annual Power Consumption at Motor Standstill (per shaft) Cycle Condition: Operated for 10 seconds/Stopped for 50 seconds 350

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Correct Motor Selection There are various methods of choosing electric motors suitable for a certain applications; some are based on experience, or looking at an approximate size for the application requirements. Consider first that the larger output power is selected, the more power is needed to drive it – there may be a case of the motor being greatly oversized which may take up unnecessary power that saps up electricity in actual use.

A good measure is to consult the motor manufacturers for the selection services where the required torque and inertia values of a system can be calculated, and a motor selected based on those specifications with an appropriate margin for safety.

This may significantly reduce the size of the output power required, which not only reduces the cost to run it due to the reduction in power intake, also with the benefit of paying for a lower cost motor package, and able to downsize machinery or equipment in dimensions and weight.

The latest technology in the improvement of stator and rotor designs in the motor for better efficiency enables the downsizing of electric motors, where the smaller size would be able to meet the requirements of a conventional larger type. Therefore, the use of smaller sizes can be realised

builds up temperature rise and power consumption even though the motor is not rotating.

An alternative is to choose electromagnetic brake type stepping motors to provide the required holding torque when the motor stops, and during this period, the current to the motor is deactivated. The graph in Figure 6 shows about 85.4 percent of the power that can be saved when using this energy saving mode, available from the RK Series 5 phase stepping motor and driver unit.

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torque value is slightly higher for 2 phase, however running torque would be lower than the 5 phase.

The running torque of the 2 phase motor is approximately 71 percent of its holding torque; however it would be higher at 95 percent for a 5 phase motor.

Therefore, it is evident that the 5 phase stepping motor is more efficient as it takes a lower input compared to 2 phase stepping motor to achieve an equivalent output for running torque, and can also provide a higher output with the same given input.

manufacturing plants that uses up to hundreds of machines, which are running thousands of various motors in them.

Opportunities In Energy Efficient Motors I n t h e c ase of creating a new machine or system, it would be advisable to seek advice from electric motor manufacturers on the latest motor units that can exhibit better efficiency performance compared to conventional models available and to have it sized according to calculated results. This can

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Benefits Of Energy Efficient Motors Lower electrical consumption would be the key factor which would reduce the electrical bills needed to keep productions running. One would realise the long-term benefits such as reducing downtime in production due to a more reliable motor that requires less maintenance as it could achieve a longer lifespan compared to conventional models.

This can translate into lower maintenance and waste handling costs for a company.

Measures to downsize into smaller yet higher efficient motors can also lead to maximise use of production floors and cheaper freight costs in transportation. All these would contribute onto the environmental advantages such as fewer emissions due to less power consumption – particularly when considering large

prevent the occurrence of oversized or under-loaded motors in the design, thereby reducing energy consumption effectively.

For systems that are running at this time, by getting available replacement information on hand based on higher efficiency models would reduce the time on sourcing for new motors when the current unit fails.

This would enable a more effective replacement as there may be concerns of different dimensions (frame size, output shaft diameter, etc) or input/ output signal connections for the driver to controllers.

Replacing under-loaded motors through calculations of the current design, or replacing motors that had been used for several years as part of preventive maintenance can be good areas to look into as well.

Companies involved in procurement of systems can also do their part by insisting on employing energy efficient motors as part of the requisite for their preferred equipment packages – lower production costs, less downtime and maintenance that can translate to increase of profits, and staying competitive.

Brushless motor systems achieve less power loss compared to inverter technology.

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Rockwell Automation:

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espite the bleak global economic outlook, Rockwell Automation, as its Asia Pacific president Kieran Coulton reveals, remains optimistic and is set to build on a strong performance in 2008.

Says Mr Coulton: “We had a blistering 2008, especially in the emerging markets of India and China. In China, we had more than 25 percent growth and in India we also grew substantially. We feel very confident that we took share from our competitors in 2008.”

Identifying India and China as the fastest growing countries followed by Southeast Asia, Mr Coulton describes them as “our major ‘tigers’ of growth” and adds: “We would also expect to take share in Japan, South Korea and Australia. We think that we have a

Speaking exclusively to IAA, Rockwell’s Kieran Coulton speaks about the company’s plans for 2009 and discloses their goals for the year.

By Derek Rodriguez

value proposition that’s better than our competitors right now.”

Manpower is an area that the company focused on in 2008 and this will carry on in 2009. “We had a very aggressive hiring policy in 2008 and that’s continuing in 2009,” declares Mr Coultan. “We went out and employed over 400 new people in Asia Pacific and therefore we have a lot of capacity that we brought on board that will be hitting the streets fully trained this year.”

Manufacturing Value Another area of focus for Rockwell is the OEM business. Says Mr Coulton: “We have a very good product range and this has been expanded but we’re focusing on bringing value to our user base. We’ve done some major

Mr Coulton unveiling the plague at the Customer Briefing and Competency Center, officially declaring it open for business.

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investments in our OEM businesses.”

The ability to provide consultancy services for their customers is clearly a point of concentration for the company. Mr Coulton explains the importance of this as he reasons: “You’re seeing this movement of machinery builders that used to be headquartered in Europe and in the US moving to Asia. You’re also beginning to see the Asian machinery companies get much more attention from the global multi-nationals especially for their plants here in Asia. Therefore the OEM business is very important.”

To add to this, Rockwell aims to be a frontrunner in this segment. Mr Coulton says: “There is no leader in the OEM business today. We aim to establish ourselves as a leader in the technical OEM business and therefore

we need motion control, we need the integrated architecture, we need a good PLC, a good HMI etc.”

One of the company’s growth strategies is the building of partnerships. “We made significant investments in our market access strategy in 2008,” Mr Coulton conveys. “We enter the marketplace via distributors so partners have become ver y impor tant and of course, this expanded portfolio of products is more attractive to distributors.”

He continues: “For instance, in Australia we have some partnerships with some major global companies that have now become our market access partners. You’ll see more and more of that happening across the region and so, the ability to work with partners, the ability to get amplifiers to your business has become very important. You can’t do it all yourself, either from a market segment perspective or just the amount of people that you have.”

Efficient Productivity In this trying economic climate, efficiency is one way to keep competitive and Rockwell recognises this and intends to help its customers in this way. Says Mr Coulton: “One of the nice things about an economic downturn to Rockwell is, in theory, we benefit more from the up than from the down. Therefore we’re concentrating very much on asset utilisation, making factories more efficient.”

He adds: “One of the large areas that we’ve expanded and have continued to expand is the cash flow of business by, for instance, reducing energy bills which is straight cash.

By putting some fairly simple and low cost measures in place, money can be saved on utility bills be it water, steam, gas or electricity.”

Citing that Rockwell’s whole portfolio is designed around value, Mr Coulton says that the company is helping its customers in safety as well because “safety is now becoming productivity too as you’re not getting the downtime of the plants”.

No Slowing Down The economic slowdown will not dampen the company’s spirits as Mr Coulton says: “We’ll continue to invest; a testament to our strong commitment and confidence in the region. Our new Asia Pacific Customer Briefing and Competency Center in Singapore demonstrates this commitment, along with our dedication to customers. The centre showcases Rockwell Automation advanced automation products, integrated control and information architecture as well as provides an educational experience for professionals at all levels. Obviously we’re going to be wise in our investments, we’ll continue to hire, for instance, across Asia Pacific, and you’re going to see us concentrating on the same things we concentrated on in 2008.”

Indeed, there are some promising developments in store for Rockwell.

“You will see more of an emergence of the integration of our products such as Incuity (Incuity Software), such as Pavilion (Pavilion Technologies), more into the full line,” Mr Coulton lets on.

“A very exciting thing that’s almost wor th looking at separately is what we’re doing with Stratix and Cisco,” he adds, describing Cisco as a “powerful partner”.

Summarising his expectations for the year, Mr Coulton states confidently: “Our OEM business is going to continue to be strong, our market access in working with partners is going to continue to be strong.”

Kieran Coulton: “We feel very confident that we took share from our competitors in 2008.”

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Rockwell Unveils Customer Briefing & Competency Center

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ingapore: Since opening its first Southeast Asia sales office in Singapore in 1991, Rockwell Automation has increased its presence with a Asia Pacific Business Center (global centre for six Rockwell Automation business units consisting of selected business management, engineering and manufacturing operation), the acquisition of ICS Triplex and this Customer Briefing and Competency Center, now employing more than 550 total staff in Singapore.

The facility includes a customer briefing centre, OEM competency centre, commercial engineering facilities and two training facilities and will provide training, competency development and proof of concept capabilities.

The centre showcases Rockwell’s advance automation products, integrated control and information architecture.

It also provides an educational experience for professionals at all levels.

Training at the facility will align the latest Rockwell Automation worldwide training practices and will compliment and supplement

existing training facilities in the rest of the world.

The OEM competence centre will provide specific OEM’s with consultancy for new or conversion applications, machine architecture and design recommendations, code architecture and proof of concepts.

The Customer Briefing Center includes a working model of a complete integrated architecture solution, integrating discrete, motion, batch, process, safety, drives and

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information disciplines on a single platform. It also has a focus on the expanding process capabilities of Rockwell including process safety, high availability and asset management. Visitors to the centre will view convergence of information, communication, control and power technologies, and see opportunities to gain competitive advantage from manufacturing convergence through solutions from the company.

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Michel Crochon of Schneider Electric meets up with IAA to talk about the OEM initiative and how to be competitive in the current market. By Derek Rodriguez

pening its doors not just internally, but also to customers and journalists from around the world, the Schneider Electric OEM Initiative 2008 was the first such event of its scale organised by the France based technology company.

M i c h e l C ro c h o n , e x e c u t i v e VP, automation, underlined the importance of the event, saying: “This is a very special event because for us it is the first time we demonstrate a big change between the product driven approach and a solution driven approach so this is the reason why we made an OEM specific event.”

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intimacy with them. It’s by listening to customers that you can improve and then help them to be more efficient in their own market.”

Showcasing The Latest A key feature of the OEM Initiative was the introduction of several new products and solutions that would be released in 2009.

Mr Crochon discloses: “The first thing we want to show is the tested, validated, documented architecture.

This means that we are able to pretest and document the association of several products to make a solution, an architecture. And we have laboratories in China, US and Germany where we make this work.”

Schneider Electric also showcased

their capabilities in the specific areas of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), packaging, textiles, hoisting, elevators and elevators and material handling.

It did not end there. Describing Schneider Electric as “not only PLC fanatics, but control fanatics”, Mr Crochon explains that depending on the customers’ needs, the ‘control’ can be put in not just the PLCs or the motion controllers, but also the drives and HMIs. Yet another highlight of the event was the introduction of ‘the one download concept’. Illustrates Mr Crochon: “You prepare software, this is a step wherever you locate your intelligence in the machine, you can download it to the machine for the

HMI, for the PLC, for whatever you want. This is full flexibility and this is reusable, meaning if you have a design for the HMI, you take it, copy and paste and put it in the PLC.” Innovation – The Answer The thing on everyone’s lips and minds these days is the economic slowdown. The solution for OEMs, according to Mr Crochon, is being more efficient and more competitive.

He says: “Innovation is the real driver to progress and to help our customers.”

For Schneider Electric, a company which has doubled its size in the past four years, plans are also set up to enable them cope with the current financial situation. Stating branding and back office (human resource and finance) simplification as programmes that are in place, Mr Crochon maintains his view on the importance of “keeping the direction” and “keeping the strategy” and “adapting”.

Energy Efficiency One way of being more efficient is through energy efficiency, and this is part of the company’s offerings.

Says Mr Crochon: “With a specialised, dedicated approach going from capability to understanding the

The new economies will become demanding and conscious of energy saving quickly and even much faster than old western countries.

Michel Crochon

consumption pattern of the customers, we now can help them to first identify where there is spare energy, then we can help them to measure and come up with an action plan. Then we can help them to automate and be in a better shape than they were at the start of the exercise.”

“This is where we consider we have a big role to play and we present ourselves as the energy management specialist for our customers,” he adds.

“We can save up to 30 percent of the energy consumption.”

All Around The World The idea of energy efficiency is gaining popularity not just in Europe and the US but in the rest of world as well.

This includes Asia, where 19 percent of Schneider Electric’s business is, and China, which makes up 50 percent of this figure.

“In China or in Asia, people are Schneider Electric demonstrated applications in areas such as material handling, HVAC, and packaging.

now very conscious that they need to do something so there is a big demand. In India, our president was in India three months ago to attend a seminar about energy saving in buildings,” mulls Mr Crochon. “The market is ready, I think it is becoming first priority to everybody. When you travel a lot, you realise that in many countries, it takes different shapes.”

Continues Mr Crochon: “You go for instance in South Africa which is a big mining country with a lot of natural resources. The development of this country is limited by the amount of electricity it can use. So they are postponing some very good investment because there is not enough energy.”

“This demand will not stop with the decrease of the price of the barrel.

It is here for long and I feel that the new economies, personally, will become demanding and conscious of energy saving quickly and even much faster than old western countries.”

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On Show Flexible Machine Control The flexible machine control platform focuses on embedded intelligence in four hardware bases: logic controllers, drives controllers, HMI controllers, motion controllers.

Moreover, a single software, called SoMachine, provides customers with one tool, one connection, one project file and one download to develop, configure, programme and commission their machine control system.

The users can install all the components in one shot, access networked devices in pure transparency, plug their programming cable once and work in line with their machine project workflow.

OEM Initiative 2008

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chneider Electric hosted the OEM Initiative 2008 event in Monaco from December 3 – 4, 2008. This first event dedicated to OEMs organised by the company was expected to attract over 700 customers from 20 countries but instead saw a turnout of a few hundred over this number.

Taking place in the Grimaldi Forum located on Monaco’s Lavatto Seafront, the event aimed to draw attention to Schneider Electric’s technologies, applications and solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Participants of the OEM Initiative, which composed of customers and journalists, were able to participate in 51 seminars and conferences in four specific areas, namely customer testimonials, market trends and standards, machine solutions and new technologies.

This was complemented with 3,000 sq m of exhibitions space including over 60 live demonstrations and customer machines in action areas across 15 main zones, covering: tested, validated and documented automation architectures, and application solutions, end-to-end services and support and new technology (including machine power, the flexible machine control platform, motor control, HMI and safety and data acquisition).

Grimaldi Forum Monaco December 3 – 4, 2008

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TVD (Tested Validated and Documented) architectures and function blocks save 50 percent in control system design time through flexible and dedicated machine control open solutions, ready to use automation and application function blocks, predefined architectures and CAD panels’ designs and wiring diagrams.

This offer will be available both as automation architectures and as more focused and dedicated application architectures and function blocks.

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Hima: Safety System

HIMax is a safety system designed to provide uninterrupted system operation throughout the entire life of a processing facility. It is based on Hima’s Nonstop XMR technology that combines diagnostic-based SIL 3 safety integrity with a scalable fault-tolerant architecture that eliminates false trips and provides for unlimited changes, modifications, expansions, upgrades and regulatory proof testing without taking the plant off-line.

All safety-critical applications in the process industry can be implemented with HIMax. These include emergency shutdown systems (ESD), burner management systems (BMS), fire and gas systems (F&G), turbo machinery control (TMC), high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) or the automation of pipelines, among others.

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Harting: Open Connector System

Hirschmann: Scalable Mobile Control System

The Han-Modular series by Harting is a versatile, open connector system. A Ha n G iga Bit module supplements the 30 existing modules which handle electrical, optical and gaseous signals. It supports Ethernet transfer rates up to 10 Gigabits and meets cat- 5, cat- 6 and even cat-7 requirements. The modules are designed for 0.08 – 0.5 sq mm stranded wire and cable diameters in the 5 - 12 mm range.

They contain eight e a sily acce ssible crimp contacts (four data pairs) for 0.08 - 0.5 sq mm or AWG 28 – AWG 20 wire, and every data pair has separate shielding. Large diameter cable (5 - 12 mm) can be clamped using an InduCom crimp or screwtype flange.

Hirschmann’s scalable mobile control system can be used for controlling and monitoring machine functions a s well a s for sa fe lo ad indicator.

The controls are available in the protection classes IP20, IP66/67 and optionally IP6k9k. They a lso of fer a n e x tende d temperature range of between -40 and +70 degrees Celsius.

Through different 32 bit CPUs, the whole performance range is covered, from low-end to high-end controls. The system also provides performance level c (SIL 1) or d (SIL 2) in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1. This security architecture consists of a security controller, a security protocol developed by Hirschmann as well as a security task, which monitors the main processor and the main control circuit of the application programme.

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Ircon: Infrared Thermal Imaging System

Phoenix Contact: Serial Wireless Access Point

Ircon’s Maxline 2 system is available with a camera link interface supporting multiple thermal imaging cameras for a variety of automated process control and inspection applications.

The system’s software has a bu i lt- i n i npu t /output relay a nd network ing capabilitie s, enabling users to ma na ge multiple processes a nd communicate with other systems, if ne eded, for g re ater interoperabilit y and control.

Dedicated Ma xline 2 systems are available for specialised applications, such as automated image analysis, fibre-optic preform inspection, and torpedo car inspection.

The Maxline 2 system with camera link interface is a package consisting of all the hardware and cable assemblies required to operate the thermal imaging camera when interfaced with a camera link frame grabber.

The, R A D - ISM - 9 0 0 Data-BD-BUS supports R S -232/4 8 5/422 , Modbus RTU, AllenBradley DF1 and Profibus protocols.

This module is certified Class I Div 2.

With its Trusted Wireless technology, F HSS ( Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum), the wireless module performs transmission of process data in a harsh industrial environment over 2 km range.

With a tra nsmission speed of 250 kbps gross (115 k bp s ne t); t he w i re le s s m o du le supp o r t s bidirectional communication from one master with up to 253 slaves, either directly or via repeaters.

Power and status LEDs make local diagnostics possible on the slaves. In addition, it has the built-in remote diagnostics. The floating RF link contact and the analogue RSSI signal make remote diagnosis possible.

Enquiry no. 1809

Jetter: Strainometer Module

Saelig: RF Module

The JX3-DMS2 strainometer module is a periphery module from Jetter. It is connected either directly to the JetControl-3xx controllers or a JX3 bus head. The module has two differential short-circuit proof inputs with signal range of 1 mV/V to 400 mV/V, 16 -bit resolution plus oversampling, signal amplification of 0.5..1050, conversion time per two channels of 5..7 ms and maximum current per channel of 100 mA. The measuring accuracy and speed can be programmed with the software. Strain gauges can be connected to the two inputs.

They work in accordance with the principle ‘strain-resistance effect of electrical conductors’.

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Enquiry no. 1811

EmbedRF Integrated is a R F solution for economically and rapidly adding low power w irele ss capabilities to your own analogue or digital product, without requiring any net work lice n se fees or complex RF skills. It consists of the EmbedRF baseband processor, a low cost Microchip PIC microcontroller preloaded with EmbedRF OS firmware and Gerber design files for integrating an RF design directly into your own board.

The baseband processor handles the RF data transfer between two modules (base-slave or peer-to-peer). It has an intelligent search-and-link feature which enables a given module to initiate contact with only the EmbedRF chip in closest proximity.

Enquiry no. 1812

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Satel: Radio Modem

Turck: Quick-Connect Connectors

Satel’s Satellar digital system is a smart radio modem combining TCP/ IP-functionalities, a Linux platform, and a versatile modular structure. The central unit is essentially a computer with sufficient processing power and memory to run sophisticated software applications in addition to the operating system, IP-router, and web configuration server.

T he d i g it a l s y s te m o f fe r s different units that can be combined to construct a radio modem with the right functionalities for the specific location in question. The radio unit, which is the basic building block, can alone be used to access RS-232-based devices or act as a radio repeater. The central unit, with its TCP/IP-capabilities and a Linux platform, can be added to locations where more functionality is useful.

Turck’s 4 and 5-wire S12 Quick-Connect connectors mate to any fully threaded M12 on the market, regardless of the manufacturer. These connectors use advanced technology to simply push/pull the connectors on/off of any M12 connection.

A user can simply hear and feel the click of the connector to know that it is fully connected. Using the S12 Quick-Connect provides a cost effective method for component installation; including numerous junction box connections where installation time can be reduced by 85 percent.

The 4 and 5-wire cordsets use PVC jacket material. All connectors are rated for 250 Volts, 4 Amps and provide IEC IP 67 protection.

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Simio: Simulation Software

Westermo: SHDSL Ethernet Extender

Simio’s simulation software uses intelligent objects to make simulation easier for decision making. It can create 3D modeling components without writing code, saving time and extending the benefits beyond specialists.

The software is easy to learn and use, yet able to model a wide range of complex systems. In addition, it fully integrates 3D animation directly into the modeling process for real-world visualisation.

Engineers can create 3D graphical objects as easily as traditional 2D objects, using familiar graphical process flows. This enables those closest to the business operation to create life-like models of manufacturing and supply chain processes regardless of whether they know textbased computer code.

Westermo’s DDW-120 Ethernet extender allows existing twisted pair cables to be used to establish a remote connection between two Ethernet networks. With transfer rates up to 5.7 Mbits/s and an operating distance of up to 15 km at lower data rates, this is an alternative to fibre optic or radio systems when linking remote Ethernet networks.

The DDW-120 employs a transient blocking unit on each line interface to provide both over-current and overvoltage protection, allowing the line to handle indirect lightning strike transients, power induction and short circuit problems.

DDW-120 is transparent for multicast addressing, VLAN packet and allows VPN pass-through for IPSec. It can be used with protocols like Modbus/TCP and Profinet IO.

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EVENT PREVIEW

Hannover Messe 2009 reparations for Hannover Messe 2009 are already in full swing. This year’s event brings together 13 international trade fairs under one roof. Returning this year are Motion, Drive and Automation (MDA), Surface Technology and ComVac, all of which take place once every two years. Making its debut is Wind, which will be staged due to interest in wind energy.

This year’s line up also includes Interkama, a platform for process automation; Factory Automation, featuring innovations in mechanical engineering and robotics; Industrial Building Automation; Energy, a response to the growing demand for energy technologies; Power Plant Technology; Digital Factory, showcasing IT solutions designed to streamline production; Subcontracting; Research and Technology; and Microsystems Technologies and Nanotechnologies.

Around 90 special events, 1,800 lectures, and numerous interdisciplinary forums will augment the technology showcase. Top decision makers from industry, commerce and politics are expected to come together to swap ideas and experiences at the various congresses, discussion forums and displays.

The central technology forum at Hannover Messe, the World Energy Dialogue returns for the fifth time and will centre on sustainable energy and the intelligent networking of energy supply systems. For the fourth time, the programme will also include the presentation of the Energy Efficiency Award to an innovative industrial or commercial enterprise in recognition of a ground-breaking energy-saving project.

The show’s line-up will also include the presentation of the Hermes Award. Worth a total of €100,000 (US$133,000) to the winners, the competition is open to products and solutions (hardware, software, components) that are on show for the first time and constitute a genuine technological breakthrough.

A key theme at this year’s show will be energy efficiency. At Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes, a display in Hall 26, visitors will see energy conservation in action as reference models from a range of industries and technology areas are put through their paces.

The display includes live demonstrations of how intelligent solutions in industrial processes can not only save time and money, but can also prolong machinery service life.

April 20 – 24, 2009 Hannover Fair Grounds Germany ENQUIRY NO. 1901

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RFID World Asia 2009 he sixth annual RFID World Asia will be held at Suntec Singapore on April 22 - 24, 2009.

The event is a part of the global trust to exploit RFID technology to solve some of the world’s longstanding business and social challenges.

This event includes the high level two-day executive conference, one specially designed master class and the three day RFID trade exhibition that features global RFID solutions and vendors under one roof.

GS1 Singapore has collaborated with Terrapinn to stage RFID World Asia incorporating EPCGlobal Singapore Summit 2009. The two day conference will encourage multiple perspectives by different industry experts per topic where possible. This regional conference brings the top research, business and government minds together to address key issues relating to the application of this technology.

O n t h e e x h i b i t i o n f l o o r,

attendees can expect an array of seminars and activities throughout the three-day exhibition. This y e a r, R FID-in-action corner, brought to you by Microsoft and HP, will showcase the RFID asset tracking solution for

datacenters; ubiquitous live fish RFID traceability solution; and S3’s real-time visibility solution ( RT V S ) f o r p h a r m a c e u t i c a l warehouse.

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Product Highlights

Motex: RFID Machine The Motex RFID machine embeds inlay (antenna and chip) into labels. The machine is equipped with flatbed and rotary die cut systems. In addition, the inspection machine checks both HF and UHF (13.56 MHz & 900 MHz) inlay ranges.

NXP Semiconductors: RFID Chips NXP’s passive UCODE chip solutions bring transparency into the supply chain and make pallet, case and item level tracking reliable and cost-effective. They inhibit counterfeiting, speed up inventory checking, enhance theft protection, and verify authenticity.

SCM Microsystems: Desktop Reader The SCL010 is a multiprotocol contactless desktop reader, supporting various contactless applications such as electronic ID, payment and public transportation schemes and interacting with NFCenabled devices.

Worldlabel: RFID Label Conversion Machine Worldlabel subsidiary XtracK’s V5 RFID label conversion machine incorporates proprietary embedding, bad tag rejection and read and write technology, converting RFID inlays accurately onto paper and synthetic labels.

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Parting Shot...

NavyGoes On Bender An advanced tube bender provides on-demand production for submarine building projects.

tube bending machine is giving BAE Systems Submarine Solutions greater flexibility to fabricate complex part shapes required to build the UK’s Astute class nuclear-powered submarines.

Supplied by Unison, the all-electric tube bender features both right and left handed bending capability. This allows long and complicated tubular part shapes to be produced rapidly and in a single stage.

The 20 mm machine has been purchased to increase the production capacity and flexibility of the pipe shop at the company’s Barrow-inFurness shipyard. It joins a number 70 industrial automation asia | Feb/Mar 2009

of hydraulic tube bending machines.

As well as being the first right and left handed machine, the new equipment is also the shipbuilder’s first ‘allelectric’ tube bender with position control achieved via servomotorbased movement axes.

“We are driven by a demanding production schedule,” says Kevin Johnston, integrated work team manager at BAE Systems Submarine Solutions. “The versatility of an all-electric tube bender, and one capable of making both right and left handed bends, is a major asset for my department, which will help us to keep major shipbuilding projects such as

Astute running smoothly.”

“Naval shipbuilding is possibly the most demanding application there is for tube bending machinery,” adds Alan Pickering of Unison. “A constant stream of application-specific parts are required, and typically need to be produced just-in-time as work progresses along the vessel. The software-centric nature of all-electric tube bending machines with their attributes of fast and accurate set-up, and ultra-precise bending, provides versatile automation to support this highly dynamic work environment.”

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Raffles City Convention Centre Singapore Terrapinn Email: joan.ong@terrapinn.com Web: www.terrapinn.com

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Suntec, Singapore Semicon Singapore Email: cchan@semi.org Web: www.semiconsingapore.org

20 – 23 Renewable Energy Asia

BITEC Bangkok, Thailand CMP Media (Thailand) Email: naowarat@cmpthailand.com Web: www.thai-exhibition.com

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BITEC Bangkok, Thailand Reed Tradex Email: assemblytech@reedtradex.co.th Web: www.assemblytechexpo.com

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China International Exhibition Centre Beijing, China Koelnmesse Email: marcowang@windpowerasia. com Web: www.windpowerasia.com

September 16 – 18 Industrial Automation Vietnam 2009

Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hong Kong Exhibition Services Email: exhibit@hkesallworld.com Web: www.iavietnam.com

16 – 18 Clean Energy Expo Asia

Suntec Singapore Koelnmesse Email: c.hor@koelnmesse.com.sg Web: www.cleanenergyexpoasia.com

JUNE 10 – 12 OGA 2009

KLCC Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malasia Exhibition Services Email: ajones@mesallworld.com Web: www.oilandgas-asia.com

16 – 19 Communicasia 2009

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18 – 20 E5 The Engineering Series BITEC Bangkok, Thailand Bangkok Exhibition Services Email: elenex@besallworld.com Web: www.e5thailand.com

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