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DESIGNING FOR SAFETY

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ALARM NOTIFICATIONS WITH IIOT In the age of IIOT and wireless devices, alarm notifications and management adopt new methods of alerting.

ENERGY MONITORING WITH IOT Intelligent energy management is in a prime position to be impacted by IoT.

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HOW DO YOU LOCATE A FAULTY SENSOR IN A BIG PRODUCTION PLANT? Imagine a production plant with thousands of machines. Downtime due to one faulty sensor can be costly and a nightmare for any maintenance engineer, with troubleshooting taking hours to weeks. How can we quickly and easily identify the exact point of failure?

INTRODUCING IO-LINK, THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATIONS AT THE SENSOR LEVEL The internet of things (IoT) is a giant of connected things – from sensors, controllers, robots to other items – that are able to collect and exchange data. Through years of innovation, IoT can now be applied to the individual sensor level via IO-Link.

IO-Link is an I/O technology for communicating with sensors and actuators to be adopted as an international standard (IEC 61131-9). It enables continuous and intelligent communications at the sensor level, opening up new opportunities in automation in the manufacturing industry.

3 KEY ISSUES FACED BY CUSTOMERS Customers face a number of key issues when it comes to operating a production plant. Modern production facilities have a myriad of sensors. When one sensor fails it can be painful and costly to locate the fault and production facilities may need to be shut down until the fault has been fixed.

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As such, the engineer can take the necessary replacement parts and head to where the abnormality occurred and recover the equipment in the shortest time. This works also with wire disconnection detection, for both output wires and power lines.

misconnected or unconnected sensors and installation mistakes.

Also it is possible to program multiple sensors at once using the command language used only for the controller. This allows the checking to be done in batches, improving system commissioning and changeover efficiency, saving precious manhours and costs.

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With a response time of 1ms, the IOLink Photoelectric Sensor is able to monitor the light incident level. When the light incident level exceeds the instability detection threshold, the maintenance engineer will receive the notification on his display, and perform predictive maintenance before false detection occurs.

identification of product failure points to reduce man-hours. This precise identification in batches removes the need to check thousands of sensors for problems during system commissioning and changeover.

During system commissioning or changeover, operators have to perform the I/O check for each of the thousands of sensors installed on the line. Going through every individual sensor takes up an enormous amount of man-hours time, which can be very costly to the plant.

If a sensor is installed wrongly, or an error occurs, precious time is very much further wasted in error rectification. With an IO-Link Photoelectric Sensor/Proximity Sensor, engineers need not manually check through thousands of sensors. He can instead access the sensor identification (manufacturer/sensor type/number) system to easily check for mistakes such as

IO-Link offers an opportunity to leverage the industrial IoT and realise its full potential in the industrial space, offering bi-directional communication between sensors, actuators and higher-level controllers, automation systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).

The vendor-independent interoperability aspects of IO-Link make it an attractive option to many in the industry, and the technology offers a number of features that can address some of the main concerns of customers. Namely, reducing recovery time, predictive maintenance, and reduction in manhours.

The integrated intelligence of IO-Link opens up new opportunities in automation which resolves many of the current problems faced in the manufacturing industry in regards to a robust industrial bidirectional communication platform that is also interoperable and vendor-independent.

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Modernising The Industrial Ethernet Network With Increased Visibility

The Internet of Things (IoT) is impacting many sectors, intelligent energy management is in a prime position to be impacted by this technology. By Sven Goldstein, Beckhoff Automation

The factory of the future will be increasingly automated. Industry 4.0 will play an important part in this transition. By Michael Vermeer, Panduit

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Thanks to its integrated middleware, Turck’s robust DCC module connects RFID solutions directly into ERP, MES and other data systems without any additional detours. By Bernd Wieseler, Turck

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Security Paradigms For Smart Factories

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Alarm Notification in the Age of IIoT

In the past, alarms were restricted to control rooms and machine panels that were monitored by operators on-site. In some cases, general alarm notification, such as calls to phones and messages to handheld pagers, was used. By Craig Resnick, ARC Advisory Group

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Distributed grids have many advantages over centralised distribution. As the cost of renewables comes down and the cost and convenience associated with storing that energy drops, it is expected we will see more distributed networks as more people take to generating their own electricity rather than consuming it from a utility provider. By Andrew Tan

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RETHINKING ALARM MANAGEMENT When the Internet of Things (IoT) is mentioned it is seen as a transformative force across a multitude of sectors. However, alarm management is not a sector discussed enough when it comes to discussions involving IoT. Alarm notifications and their management are an increasingly important topic in industrial automation because of the dramatic increase in sensors and signals that need managed because of industrial IoT. Only mission critical alarms should come to the operator's attention.

It used to be the case that alarms were restricted to control rooms and machine panels, however, in the mobile age, with the proliferation of IoT and wireless devices, we are entering a new age. The means important alarms can reach the right people anytime, anywhere, with mission critical alarms highlighted first, while less important alarms can be dealt with later. In such a system it is important that nuisance alarms do not get in the way and restrict the operator’s response time to those alarms that matter most.

Plant floors are increasing their assets, often automated and now connected to a wider network. As plant floors become increasingly automated fewer people will find employments with such environments. This decreases the cost for the organisation, but in such as environment it is important that an important topic such as alarm management is well thought out and mission critical alerts are not ignored or missed. With production processes often running 24 hours, 7 days a week, it is not economical that a person should be on-site awaiting an alarm, instead remote notifications are a necessity.

Access to reliable analytic software and alarm filtering management are necessary to effectively execute such as system. In this issue of IAA we cover alarm management, in addition to topics on process automation, IoT, solar power systems, and oil & gas.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Helps Hong Leong Asia Build Materials Group Accelerate Regional Growth Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced it was selected by Building Materials Group, one of the business units of Hong Leong Asia, to design and implement a new SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.

Jimmy Yam To Lead Eaton’s Electrical Business In East Asia As VP Of Sales Power management company, Eaton, announced that Jimmy Yam has been appointed as VP for sales, electrical sector, East Asia.

ABB’s YuMi Collaborative Robot Named ‘2016 Best Industrial Robot’ ABB has announced that its YuMi robot solution was honoured with a Golden Finger award as one of the best industrial robots of 2016 at the China International Robot Show (CIROS) in Shanghai, China.

National Instruments And University Of San Carlos Sign Labview Academy Partnership National Instruments has entered into a strategic partnership with the Philippines’ University os San Carlos to eastablish the first Labview Avademy in the country’s Central Visayas region.

Singapore: Henkel has officially opened its global supply chain hub in Singapore.

This is a major milestone which follows the successful setup of the company’s global supply chain headquar ters in Amsterdam. Working closely together, the two hubs in Amsterdam and Singapore will steer the company’s strategic initiative to consolidate all its supply chains companywide around the world.

A single global supply chain is a key initiative of its strategic priority to continuously simplify the organisation in order to drive operational excellence and build a scalable business model, increasing Henkel’s competitiveness in terms of speed, agility and efficiency.

The global hubs will centrally manage the purchasing, production and logistics processes of its three business units — adhesive technologies, beauty care and laundr y & home care. The ef for t spans across supply planning, sourcing , manufac turing , inventor y and distribution. This harmonisation across the entire company will lead to hig her proce s s s t andardis at ion, improved customer ser vice levels and enhanced ef f iciency.

Singapore also serves as a conduit to the trade routes that extend to India and

the Middle East and Africa region. Both Singapore and Amsterdam are amongst the largest seaports and logistics centres in the world. With their strategic locations, the two global hubs are well-positioned to manage the supply chains that connect all our markets globally.

Notably, the new global supply chain hub builds upon the success of Henkel Singapore, which was established in 1983 and serves as a strategic business and technical services sub-regional hub for the company’s adhesive and beauty care businesses in Southeast Asia. In terms of sustainability, the Singapore hub is partnering with suppliers and business par tners to continually improve the sustainability impact across the entire value chain.

Digitalisation is a key component of the global supply chain hub, enabling the standardisation and harmonisation of data and processes across the businesses and functions. It creates transparency on the vast amount of data on customers, products, raw materials and logistics.

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Zebra Technologies’ Total Wearable Solutions Blue Wireless Deliver Double-Digit Productivity Gains Launching Internet Broadband Service increase operational visibility to ramp up efficiency and productivity, the company For Business In is introducing a collection of products Singapore designed for warehousing tasks.

Singapore: Zebr a Technolog ie s ha s released the Asia-Pacific results of its latest Warehouse Vision Study. The global survey compares input from over 1,000 IT and operations warehouse professionals from retail, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, and wholesale distribution sectors across countries — including Australia, China, and India — on expectations for 2015 through to 2020.

The study shows that enterprises are expected to increase the number of warehouses as global online sales continue to grow. Warehouse executives surveyed say they plan on equipping staff with new technologies to meet the needs of increasing shipment volumes.

In response to the industry’s need to

According to the Warehouse Vision Study, in Asia Pacific, 74 percent of respondents have plans to outfit their warehouse staff with technology, specifically to raise investment in Internet of Things (72 percent), barcode scanning technologies (70 percent), tablet computers (69 percent), big data/data analytics (67 percent), and warehouse/truck loading automation (64 percent) in the next five years.

Half of the respondents said warehouse investments are mainly driven by the need to reduce transportation costs, while 41 percent demand shorter delivery times, and 38 percent see the need to accommodate new supplier and trading partner locations.

Other factors include change to inventory policies (33 percent), talent/skill shortages (28 percent), and omni-channel pressures (21 percent).

From now till 2020, companies surveyed verbalised expansion plans in terms of total volume of items shipped (74 percent), automation of processes (69 percent), annual inventory turns (64 percent), number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) (57 percent), and employees (56 percent).

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Singapore: One of the world’s mos t connected cities is getting more internet access options with the launch of Blue Wireless Internet Broadband service for business. The company has unveiled its new business packages designed to provide flexible internet access for small business locations such as a small store, kiosk, construction site or office shop house. All typical locations where fibre broadband is not available or require weeks of waiting time to install and require customers to sign up for long term contracts.

Blue Wireles s is disrupting this traditional model by offering internet access with next day delivery and month by month plans, making it suitable for businesses that need flexibility to serve changing customer demands.

Blue Wireless uses a MVNO model, buying 4G mobile network capacity from Singapore mobile operators in bulk and focusing on sales, service and support to business customers. Unlike traditional MVNO’s who are bound to a single network, the company leverages all three 4G mobile networks in Singapore and select the right network for a specific customer location, always ensuring optimal connectivity. And for customers who have even higher expectations, a dualnetwork option is available.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Helps Hong Leong Asia Building Materials Group Accelerate Regional Growth Singapore: Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced it was selected by Building Materials Group, one of the business units of Hong Leong Asia — to design and implement a new SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. This solution has helped the company achieve greater operational efficiency, improve its disaster recovery capabilities and lower the total cost of operations.

As a result of this successful deployment, Building Materials Group is now able to focus on its core revenue-generating business, while remaining nimble and accelerating the growth of its business across Asia.

Hong Leong A sia’s Building Materials Group, an industrial materials conglomerate, sought to accelerate its business oppor tunities in Singapore and Malaysia. As part of the company’s expansion strategy, it recognised the need to move away from traditional, manual management and operational processes for tasks like data entry, order processing and billing to enable faster and more efficient business transactions.

The company decided to migrate to a SAP ERP platform, which could better handle the increasing variety and volume of transactions.

The new platform helps the Group better manage a range of business functions — including finance, sales and distribution, materials management, production planning and project systems — more efficiently, aligned to business requirements in real-time, at a lower cost. It has reduced transaction completion time from days to a matter of hours, delivering the automation and integration of various processes including logistics, fleet management, order taking and inventory tracking. Ultimately, this allows the business to quickly capture new market opportunities.

The new system also offers business critical information in a single view, eliminating unnecessary data duplication and improving the accuracy and reliability of data. This provides employees like operations managers, plant managers and management with accurate and reliable data they can act on immediately.

Jimmy Yam To Lead Eaton’s Electrical Business In East Asia As VP Of Sales Singapore: Power management company Eaton announced that Jimmy Yam has been appointed as VP for sales, electrical sector, East Asia. Mr Yam joins Eaton from Emulex Corporation where he served as VP for sales, Asia Pacific and Japan.

Mr Yam, based in Singapore, will be responsible for driving the growth of the company’s Electrical business in the East Asia commercial organisation, which includes three zones — North Zone (Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, Magnolia), South Zone (Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia), and Central Zone (Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Lao, Cambodia). He will manage the zones to drive demand, orders, customer service, logistics and warehousing, and will work closely with the product groups in the region. He will report directly to Brian Brickhouse, president, electrical sector, Asia Pacific.

Efacec Singapore Announces Project Completions On Three Fronts Singapore: Efacec Singapore (Efacec), par t of Körber AG, has revealed the completion of three projects in Singapore with a global Oil & Gas company, an educational institute, and a contract logistics and freight management company.

Spanning a variety of industries and applications, these projects comprise new installations and an upgrade of a 15-year old warehouse facility, which saw the company implement a series of automated logistical technologies — including its Automatic Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS), Finished Goods Transport System, and Rail Guided Vehicles (RGV).

Since its entry into the Asia Pacific region, it has demonstrated that versatility is one of its strengths, through customising its warehousing solutions to support manufacturers from a variety of vertical markets.

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Dell Global Study Shows Business And IT Decision Makers Are Aligned On Key IT Trends Asia Pacific, Japan: Dell has announced the results of a new Dell State of IT Trends 2016 global study, which finds Business Decision Makers’ (BDMs) and IT Decision Makers’ (ITDMs) understanding of current IT trends are much closer than they are generally perceived to be.

In the past, business and IT leaders had different levels of understanding of IT trends and technologies. However over time, business and IT leaders’ perceptions of technology have evolved and more closely aligned as new technologies have entered the market and become increasingly critical drivers of an organisation’s success.

The study reveals a greater sophistication and alignment in understanding of IT trends between the two groups. The results indicate that IT and business leadership are better collaborating and having indepth conversations about not only how technology works but how it can propel the business forward.

In today ’s data-driven economy, companies need IT that is agile, efficient, scalable and capable of responding to business applications in real time. According to the Dell State of IT Trends 2016 survey, increasing business productivity is the main IT consideration for both ITDMs (81 percent) and BDMs (77 percent), followed by growing the business (71 percent and 69 percent, respectively).

Global decision makers, in companies of all sizes and in both developed and developing markets, are most closely aligned on the following IT trends:

• ITDMs (62 percent) and BDMs (51 percent) agree that cloud computing is the most important technology trend for their companies.

• The ability to burst to public cloud as needed is important to both ITDMs (83 percent) and BDMs (74 percent) • Eighty-eight percent of ITDMs and 80 percent of BDMs say their organisation

Renesas Electronics Expands Renesas Synergy Platform For IoT Markets In Asia Pacific Singapore: Renesas Electronics Singapore has announced that the Renesas Synergy Platform is now available in Asia Pacific markets. Renesas Synergy is a complete and qualified platform with fully integrated software, a scalable family of microcontrollers (MCUs), and unified development tools to speed embedded system developers’ time to market as they innovate new products for IoT device applications. At the heart of the Synergy Platform is the Synergy Software Package (SSP), which is qualified, supported, warranted, and maintained by Renesas. The SSP consists of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), extensive middleware, communications stacks, and more – all accessible through a robust Application Programming Interface (API) to free customers from struggling with lower-level details. Developers can start MCU software development immediately at the API level so that they can focus on differentiating their own product instead of doing repetitive non-differentiating work.

Additionally, system developers can lower their total cost of ownership, and remove many obstacles that prevent them from starting new designs. System developers in South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India can now access the full service of the Synergy Platform, using the Synergy Gallery website where simple click-through licensing is all that is needed for immediate download of professional software and development tools with no fees or royalties. In October this year, the launch will be extended to Mainland China/ Hong Kong region and Taiwan region, completing global availability of the Synergy Platform.

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Sixty-two percent of IT Decision Makers’ (ITDMs) and 51 percent of Business Decision Makers (BDM) agree that cloud computing is the most important technology trend for companies.

is considering adopting a SoftwareDefined Data Centre (SDDC), is in the process of transitioning, or has already completed the transition to one.

• Global BDMs are more likely to say they are considering adopting SDDC, while global ITDMs are more likely to say they have already star ted the transition.

• Both groups agree the benefits of SDDC are flexibility, simplicity, efficiency and cost-savings, although ITDMs also place a greater value on increased scalability (57 percent) than BDMs (40 percent).

• By 2:1 margins, both ITDMs and BDMs say they will use more open data centre technologies in the future.

• Eighty-six percent of ITDMs and 85 percent of BDMs agree that computecentric is the best approach to gain a flexible, scalable and open data centre.

In terms of technology spending for 2016, cloud is the main priority among both ITDMs (67 percent) and BDMs (59 percent). This is followed closely by data storage upgrades or purchase (54 percent and 48 percent, respectively).

The Dell-sponsored research was performed by PSB, which conducted 1,200 online interviews between April 15 and May 4, 2016, in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India and China. The respondents consist of 700 ITDMs and 500 BDMs.

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ABB’s YuMi Collaborative Robot Named ‘2016 Best Industrial Robot’ Zurich, Switzerland: ABB has announced that its YuMii robot solution was honoured with a Golden Finger award as one of the best industrial robots of 2016 at the China International Robot Show (CIROS) in Shanghai, China. CIROS is organised by the China Machinery Industry Federation and the China Robot Industry Alliance, and is one of the three largest robot technology events in the world.

2016 was the first year for the Golden Finger awards, which were jointly setup with CIROS and China’s Machiner y & Electronics Business newspaper as part of the beginning of the country’s 13th Five Year Plan and Made in China 2025 Strategy.

The strategy aims to transform China into a global manufacturing leader; robots will play a key role in improving productivity and shifting the country’s manufacturing focus from being ‘big’ to being ‘strong.’

One out of every four robots sold today is sold in China, which is the world’s leading robotics growth market. According to the International Federation of Robotics, some 68,000 units were sold in China during 2015,

which is a 17 percent increase over 2014.

In industries such as personal electronics, the need for more customised products and higher quality expectations are changing the nature of manufacturing. Production is shifting from mass producing the same product for a long time to producing small lots of more diverse products for a shorter business cycle. Robots offer the flexibility and agility to remain productive and improve quality while adapting to meet increasingly diverse consumer needs.

The company’s YuMi robot solution was specifically designed to help consumer electronics meet these challenges by unlocking new collaborative manufacturing solutions where people and robots safely work together on shared tasks.

In April 2016, the company’s YuMi robot solution was recognised for achievements in commercialising innovative robot technolog y wit h t he Invent ion and Entrepreneurship Award (IERA) during the Automatica trade fair in Munich, Germany.

Maverick Uses DCSNext Solution To Move Major DCS Migration Project Into Final Phase Illinois, US: Maverick Technologies has announced the completion of the second phase of a major DCS migration for its client INEOS Styrolution, a polystyrene manufacturer. The company applied its DCSNext solution, which takes an approach to DCS migration by considering opportunities for improvement across the entire operation.

Thanks to a thorough planning process and team-based dynamic, the entire project was funded upfront; this allowed it to be implemented in concurrent phases during planned outages with no additional downtime.

L e v e r a g i n g t h e c o m p a n y ’s f u l l capabilities through DCSNext was critical to the project’s success. INEOS Styrolution had never before conducted a major DCS migration at their Channahon facility, and

its staff was already short on engineering resources. The company brought in experts from its operations consulting, design, automation services and field services teams to support Styrolution before, during and after the migration.

The upfront funding approval was achieved through a comprehensive FrontEnd Loading (FEL) process. Early FEL helped define the overall scope and strategy while outlining the costs, risks and gaps. This allowed Styrolution a clear look at what the full spend would be, and gave the polystyrene manufacturer confidence that it could hit all major milestones without exceeding the proposed budget or timeline.

Subsequent planning was then performed in parallel with execution to move the project

forward without interruption.

In order to eliminate unnecessary downtime, it was essential that all work be completed during the plant’s planned maintenance window. An embedded construction manager from the company’s field services group oversaw the entire installation and startup, freeing Styrolution staff to focus on other critical tasks during the outage.

By applying the latest technolog y and innovations, the team expects to help improve productivity, profitability and agility across the entire operation.

Ultimately, this will also include upgrading the existing HMI to a high-performance HMI, which will help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of facility’s HMI graphics and screens.

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National Instruments And University Of San Carlos Sign LabVIEW Academy Partnership Munich, Germany, and Los Angeles, US: National Instruments (NI) has entered into a strategic partnership with the Philippines’ University of San Carlos to establish the first LabVIEW Academy in the country’s Central Visayas region. The two parties recently signed an MoU at the Rigney Hall in Talamban Campus.

NI LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment that delivers hands-on learning and supports research applications. Enabled in partnership with institutions of higher learning, the LabVIEW Academy programme provides a curriculum tool and solutions for educators who want their students to learn the NI LabVIEW System design software and gain competitive advantage when they graduate.

The LabVIEW Academy at USC aims to promote more LabVIEW trained and certified developers and engineers to support the local Electronics and Electrical Engineering industry. In addition, the academy facilitates greater research collaboration between NI and USC and supports the University’s focus on talent development, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and training.

Under the new MOU, USC will now have access to LabVIEW Academic Software Teaching Licences and support LabVIEW-certified instructors in conducting courses using LabVIEW. Buoyed by the strong performance of industries such as manufacturing and semiconductor and electronics, the Philippine economy has grown fast and steady in recent years. From April to June 2016, the Philippines posted a seven percent growth in GDP, making it the fastest growing economy in Asia for the second quarter.

RS Components And EBM-Papst Sign An Agreement To Deliver EnergyEfficient Fans And Motors Worldwide Munich, Germany, and Los Angeles, US: RS Components (RS) has renewed its agreement with ebm-papst to supply high efficiency fans and motor products throughout the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.

The par tnership between the two companies spans more than three decades, and today RS retains the most comprehensive stocked offer of ebm-papst products in the market, covering a range of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, fans and thermal management products and accessories.

Latest innovations include the ACi 4400 and S-Panther fan series, which utilise motors with ebm-papst’s GreenTech EC technology to improve performance at a fraction of the energy usage and cost of conventional motors. GreenTech EC motors are used across the ebm-papst range of fans and provide maximum energy-

(l-r): Steve Keep, global account manager, RS Components; Jochen Friess, director global sales, ebm-papst

efficiency and low operating noise for diverse cooling requirements.

RS also stocks a wide selection of ingress protected IP68 fans from the company designed to perform in harsh environments such as high dust, high humidity or direct water exposure, both indoors and outdoors. A range of fan kits and assembly options is also available to RS customers, providing quick and efficient ventilation solutions.

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By Infineon’s Contactless Security Chip

Munich, Germany, and Los Angeles, US: Whether at the beach, on the daily jog, or at the gym: from now on, everyone can carry money discreetly on the body.

NFCRing Inc. has introduced the world’s first EMVCo compliant payment ring based on a contactless security chip from Infineon Technologies. The tiny, water-proof smart wearable works like a contactless payment card. Users can pay by simply holding their finger with the ring closely to any EMVCo contactless-enabled payment terminal. The ring uses Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to communicate data over short distances of a few centimeters.

Almos t half of all payment chip cards issued in 2015 worldwide use security solutions from Infineon. To make cashless payment even easier and more convenient for consumers, the company has optimised its contactless technology for payment applications with even the smallest smart wearables.

As a global standard, EMVCo facilitates worldwide interoperability and acceptance of secure payment transactions. Management of specif ications and related testing processes is driven by EMVCo’s six member organisations American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, UnionPay, and Visa.

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CyberArk Secures Enterprise Cloud Orchestration And Automation Singapore: CyberArk has announced new capabilities for reducing cyber security risk in the cloud. The company enables organisations to integrate privileged account security into their cloud environments and better secure and manage cloud orchestration and automation tools, such as Chef and Puppet.

The CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution allows organisations to secure, manage, control access, rotate credentials, monitor and audit all privileged accounts in the cloud. Working with automation and orchestration tools such as Chef, Puppet, Windows PowerShell, Jenkins and others, the company helps build privileged account security into cloud environments with automatic provisioning and integration during cloud migration and on-going management. Enhanced REST APIs available in CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution v9.7 enable broader cloud automation capabilities and greater security for DevOps environments.

Within organisations’ cloud environments, the rapid creation and deletion of instances and their associated administrator accounts must be closely managed. With that pace of change, organisations cannot rely on after the fact periodic scans to assess vulnerabilities.

To decrease exposure time for potentially vulnerable and unprotected new accounts, it helps automatically provision accounts newly created by cloud automation tools, rotate their credentials based on company policy, and monitor and record access to that account.

Working with automation tools, the company can immediately apply privileged account security policies and safeguards across these dynamic environments to further limit risk.

CyberArk secures assets running in the cloud, but also integrates privileged account security into DevOps processes, facilitating cloud migrations and enabling organisations to get the full benefit of the agility and elasticity of the cloud. Key benefits of utilising the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution include:

• Reduction of the Attack Surface — Manage and secure credentials required by automation tools for typical workloads without exposing credentials to the risk of compromise.

• Instant Protection — Instantly provision privileged accounts in newly created instances by cloud automation tools; eliminate the need for a separate, periodic discovery process and avoid delays.

• Consistent Controls — Gain repeatable processes for provisioning privileged accounts in the cloud to enable the implementation of consistent, secure controls that mitigate the risk of human error.

Faro Expands Metrology And Factory Automation Offerings With Acquisition Of BuildIT Software & Solutions Florida, US: Faro has announced the acquisition of BuildIT Software & Solutions, a process-configurable 3D metrology software solutions company with hardware agnostic interfaces. The company will introduce the configuration power of the BuildIT software in a new ‘Your Product, Your Process, Your Solution’ campaign aimed at providing major customers with customisable, in-process solutions that integrate metrology devices and sensors from multiple manufacturers.

Located in Montreal, Canada, BuildIT’s software is used daily on the production lines of five of the 10 largest aerospace and defense manufacturers. The software is hardware independent, giving customers the flexibility to utilise different hardware offerings to maximise productivity and efficiency.

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DHL Announces Major Investment In US E-commerce Market

Chicago, US: Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced a US$137 million investment plan for the US domestic and cross-border e-commerce market. The Group’s objective is to exploit the global B2C e-commerce market for shipments crossing borders which is expected to grow from US$400 billion today to a total global volume of US$1 trillion in 2020. Since US online merchants take the leading role in selling internationally, DHL eCommerce will make investments in the US in the next years and expand its capabilities to serve businesses selling abroad. The announcement was made in conjunction with the DHL eCommerce and DHL Supply Chain divisions further implementing regionalised fulfillment centres in Los Angeles, Columbus, Ohio, and New Jersey, significantly increasing the companies’ order fulfillment capabilities in North America collaboratively.

DHL eCommerce is looking to profit from these developments and to increase its e-commerce footprint in the US. In line with the Strategy 2020, the Group has made and will continue to make significant investments. After the first order fulfillment centre opened in Columbus, Ohio, last year and followed by a facility in Los Angeles, DHL eCommerce will establish further regional centres of this kind in New Jersey and other locations in 2017. Additionally, DHL Express celebrates the opening of a new, US$1.3 million service centre facility in Chicago to meet heavy demand from e-commerce customers. And just one year ago, also DHL Global Forwarding opened up a US$35 million distribution centre in Chicago.

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Software AG Applies Digital Business Platform To Operationalise Blockchain Singapore: Software AG has announced the availability of next generation Digital Business Platform capabilities that enable financial institutions to operationalise blockchain by gaining greater integration of, visibility into, and action upon public/ private blockchain applications.

Financial services organisations globally are investigating the benefits of using blockchain, but few are thinking beyond the perfect use case. With the Blockchain predicted to reduce banks’ infrastructure costs by US$15–20 billion per annum by 2022, it could potentially be the game changer for the financial industry. To fully leverage the opportunities offered by Blockchain, the industry must employ the right technology that can maximise the benefits without disrupting existing business processes.

Once an organisation has decided on the blockchain application that suits its business, the next step is to move it out of the incubator and tightly incorporate it within its enterprise applications.

Organisations implementing blockchain do not want to add additional IT ‘spaghetti’ on top of their exis ting technolog y infrastructure. They must be able to rapidly and seamlessly use blockchain to gain the advantages of the technology immediately without having to run complex, costly and lengthy re-architecting programs.

Blockchain technology is poised to change financial services dramatically.

But organisations must ensure that their infrastructure can support it.

GE Oil & Gas Awarded Three-Year Frame Agreement To Support ONGC’s Exploratory Drilling Campaign In India Singapore: GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a multi-million dollar Frame Agreement by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), India’s largest exploration and production company. Under the agreement, it will provide an estimated 55 subsea wellheads (SG5) over the next three years for the operator’s offshore drilling campaign, in shallow to medium waters offshore India.

The two companies have a heritage that spans many decades, with GE Oil & Gas providing ONGC with subsea production equipment for more than 30 years, including large-sized conductors, subsea wellheads and subsea trees for its offshore drilling and completion projects. Since ONGC’s foray into deep water a decade ago, GE has been a major supplier of subsea wellheads, including those used to drill two of the deepest wells in the world to date (3,174m and 3,165m). The

two companies have long been expanding the technical frontiers in Indian waters.

The first wellhead under the contract will be supplied in Q4 2016, with GE manufacturing part of the scope in India for the first time, in Kakinada, with engineering and project management support from regional teams in Singapore. While this is a key step towards local manufacturing, GE also has a multi-modal facility in Pune, created to support India’s vision of selfsufficiency in manufacturing under the country’s ‘Make in India’ plan.

This deal follows a contract awarded to GE Oil & Gas last year, for the supply of subsea production systems to ONGC’s Vashishta (VA) and S-1 fields, located off India’s Amalapuram coast in the KG Basin, ONGC’s first foray into deep water development in India.

CIMdata Appoints Gerard Litjens As VP, EMEA Michigan, US: CIMdata, the global strategic PLM management consulting and research firm, has announced the promotion of Gerard Litjens to the newly created position of VP Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Mr Litjens, who joined CIMdata in 2000, has been serving as the company’s director of european operations since June 2010.

Mr Litjens has more than 30 years of experience in information and communication technology, product and plant lifecycle management, and other business-enabling solutions for research, engineering, and manufacturing organisations worldwide. He has held various positions in consulting, management, business development, business analysis, education, and ROI development of PDM/PLM, supply chain management, ERP solutions, and Software Engineering. He is also a regular speaker at national and international events.

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Dropsuite Partners With ICONZWebvisions To Help SMEs In Asia Protect Their Data Singapore: Dropsuite, a cloud based software platform enabling Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to easily backup, recover and protect their digital assets, has partnered with Singaporebased ICONZ-Webvisions (iWV), a Cloud and Managed Services provider.

Dropsuite now provides one-click data backup to iWV’s network of 40,000 customers in Asia. iWV’s customers include small and medium businesses, in addition to larger enterprises such as 3M, Cycle & Carriage, Drew & Napier, OSIM, Hong Leong Finance, and MCL Land.

Under the agreement , Dropsuite recognises iWV as a gold partner and official reseller of Dropmysite’s Website Backup, Dropmyemail’s Office 365 Email Backup & Archiving and DSE Server Backup, each a simple one-click solution for website, email and server cloud backup.

Dropmysite is also the cloud-backup service of choice for businesses purchasing bundled professional services from iWV. The global disaster recovery market for SMEs is expected to be worth US$6 billion by 2019, according to SME Cloud Insights (Parallels Research 2014); meanwhile, according to ODIN, 41 percent of SMEs want online storage and backup as part of a US$98 billion global SME IT Cloud market.

The iWV partnership comes weeks after the company partnered with LeaderTelecom, a Netherlands-based premium telecom service provider and European market leader in online security. In April 2016 Dropsuite partnered with US based Ingram Micro.

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Singapore Houses Connected Lighting For IoT With Philips Lighting Application Centre

Philips Lighting and Singapore’s Economic Development Board launch Philips Lighting Application Centre in Singapore. (l-r): Patricia Yim, market leader, Philips Lighting ASEAN Pacific, Lim Kok Kiang, assistant MD, Singapore Economic Development Board, Eric Rondolat, CEO, Philips Lighting.

Singapore: Philips Lighting has announced the opening of its new Lighting Application Centre (LAC) at the Philips APAC Centre in Singapore. Philips LAC is supported by the Economic Development Board and serves growing demands for the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected systems in growth markets — ASEAN Pacific, India, Japan, Middle East & Turkey, Russia & Central Asia, and the Africas. With Singapore as the company’s regional hub, its LAC supports the testing and development of innovative applications for connected and sustainable systems. In fact, the company is already in collaboration with CapitaLand, Toll Holdings, as well as educational institutions Temasek Polytechnic and Admiralty Secondary School to demonstrate the value of such systems and drive the next wave of innovation.

In addition, the LAC will showcase the latest digital lighting innovations: interactive multimedia pixel wall, multi-experience stadium lighting, visual light communications for indoor positioning, warehouse lighting, Power-over-Ethernet for offices, luminous panels and textiles, connected street lighting, and more. The LAC serves as the largest and only demonstration space for Philips Lighting in ASEAN Pacific with indoor and outdoor applications for innovative lighting, with 80 percent of the centre covered with technologically-advanced LED luminaires that are programmed with interactive and connected features.chain from design consultation to systems integration and service management.

Adlink And Wind River Announce Joint R&D Centre Adlink, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and communications platforms, and Wind River announced the establishment of joint lab facilities in Shanghai, China and San Jose, CA, US, to promote the adoption of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV). The Research & Development centres will feature Wind River Titanium Server software running on the company’s hardware platform based on the Modular Industrial Cloud Architecture (MICA) open framework. The combination of technologies will offer a platform for software manufacturers, system device suppliers and service providers to test software rapidly through preliminary platform verification and system optimisation, as such accelerating the application of NFV in the communications industry.

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ESCRYPT And GlobalSign To Join Infineon Security Partner Network With Smart Factory Solutions Munich, Germany: With ESCRYPT Embedded Security and GlobalSign, the Infineon Security Partner Network (ISPN) welcomes new partners. Both companies offer dedicated security solutions for Industry 4.0 applications based on OPTIGA Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) from Infineon Technologies. The ISPN is a network of security players who offer hardware-based security to IoT device manufacturers and service providers.

Industry 4.0 — also referred to as industrial internet — combines embedded system technologies with smart processes to raise overall production efficiency. At its core are smart factories connecting industry and production value chains. They must be protected adequately, as security breaches could lead to espionage and theft of intellectual property or cause massive production downtimes.

As part of the ISPN, ESCRYPT provides a cryptographic Key Management Solution adapted for embedded systems. Among these are Infineon’s automotive microcontroller AURIX™, industrial controller XMC ™ and secure elements OPTIGA™ Trust and OPTIGA™ TPM. GlobalSign’s Identity and Security Solution allows Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to embed robust device integrity and authentication features into their devices.

The provisioning of the devices during the manufacturing stage is integrated with a cloud-based or on-premise hosting service. The crypto co-processor safely stores a private key, allowing users to identify the origin of the device and prevent counterfeit products from connecting to their system. Once in operation, a secured connection can be established with a company’s system using the certificate and private key on the device.

Launched in 2015, the ISPN is a platform of security experts who address a broader IoT ecosystem with hardware-based security solutions that can easily be implemented.

With their expertise in specific applications and markets, the partners cover the value chain from design consultation to systems integration and service management.

Huawei Joins Zigbee Alliance Board Of Directors

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Munich, Germany: The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of companies creating, maintaining and del i ver ing op en , g lob al s t andards for the low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT), announced t hat Huawei — a supplier of ICT solutions — has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its Board of Directors.

As an international technology market leader, this development s treng thens the mission and direction of the ZigBee Alliance and its 400+ members toward a meaningful, interconnected world.

Huawei is the 15th member of the ZigBee Alliance Board of Directors, joining Comcast Cable, Itron Inc., The Kroger Co., Landis+Gyr, Legrand Group, Midea Group, NXP Semiconductors, Philips, Schneider Electric, Silicon Labs, SmartThings, SOMFY, Texas Instruments and Wulian to drive progress forward.

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ISA Announces Beamex Donation To Process Measurement And Control Division Scholarship Fund US: The International Society of Automation (ISA) reports that Beamex, ISA’s Premier Strategic Par tner for calibration, has donated US$4,155.00 to ISA’s Process Measurement & Control Division (PMCD) educational scholarship fund.

The contribution is derived from a training event—2016 Best Calibration Practices: Interactive Workshop—that was co-hosted by ISA and Beamex August 18, 2016 at the Space Centre Houston in Houston, Texas, US. The workshop brought engineers and technicians together to share ideas and learn the best techniques for streamlining calibration processes and troubleshooting when unanticipated situations arise in the field.

The event, in its second year, was well attended and received highly positive feedback from attendees. Beamex had previously announced that a portion of the revenue generated from the August workshop would be submitted to ISA’s PMCD to help suppor t the division’s scholarship fund. However, Beamex recently made the decision to donate all of its revenue from the event to the division’s scholarship fund.

Furthermore, Beamex announced that all registration fees collected from the upcoming Strategic Automation Leadership Conference, to be held October 12, 2016 at ISA’s headquarters in North Carolina, also will be donated toward the division’s educational scholarships. The October conference is targeted to managers and executives seeking to enhance processes and achieve operational excellence—in both financial management and plant safety.

The donations will fund scholarships awarded to college or university students who demonstrate outstanding potential for long-range contribution to the fields of automation and control. They support tuition and related expenses and research activities and initiatives.

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By accomplishing the development of Field Device Integration (FDI) technology Profibus & Profinet International (PI) and its partner organisations have passed a milestone. Not only because the technology will greatly facilitate the device integration in the future. But — and especially — because FDI is the joint result of a trusting and intensive network of manufacturers and organisations for industrial communication. Strong user interest in a uniform and practical integration technology for process automation was the motivation. The goal was consistent, simplified device GOT A QUESTION? Make An Enquiry.

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integration. The boundary conditions were maximum manufacturer-neutrality as well as use of proven elements of existing technologies.

The completion of the FDI technology is evidence that a targeted intensive cooperation of different organisations in industrial automation can be successful and can provide users with operational technologies for their solutions. This includes the specification of FDI, EDDL, tools, and components to support efficient product development.

Work Completion After completion of work in the FDI Cooperation LLC, the establishment of FDI technology in the market is an important next step. Key elements to promote the market penetration of FDI are the tools and components. Another element

is the joint establishment of testing, certification, and registration rules. To ensure these goals in the long term, PI and FieldComm Group have signed a contract to continue their cooperation to provide a common development, maintenance, and deployment on the market.

Karsten Schneider, PI Chairman confirmed the importance of this cooperation: “The FDI project is a prime example of how users, manufacturers, and user organisations can trustfully and successfully communicate and cooperate. FDI will significantly simplify the integration task in process industries.”

“This ground-breaking body of work enables the immediate adoption of FDI Technology by the automation industry,” said Ted Masters, president and CEO of FieldComm Group. “We are excited with the response this technology has received by leading automation instrumentation and host system providers.”

Offering Support To support device manufacturers in integrating FDI in their devices, an across-protocol development tool (Integrated Development Environment, IDE) has been provided. It supports the efficient development, testing, and generation of FDI Device Packages, as well as a low-overhead pass-through of existing EDDs in an FDI Device Package.

It enables device manufacturers to create FDI Device Packages for Profibus, Profinet, Foundation Fieldbus, and HART devices using unified processes. Another important result for FDI is definition of architecture for FDI Host Components that allow a uniform treatment of Device Integration Packages in various FDI Hosts. The implementation of such a component that has been created in the context of our activities will serve host manufacturers as a reference while implementing FDI in their tools.

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Mapping Of J1939 To CAN FD The J1939-21 application layer specifies how to use the CANID and the protocol that transmits the Parameter Groups (PG). The PGs and the single parameters are described in SAE J193971. Traditionally, the J1939 application profile is mapped to the Classical Extended Frame Format (CEFF) data link layer protocol using the 29-bit CAN-ID. Some European Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) of trucks need more bandwidth on their CAN-based in-vehicle networks. Additionally, they require higher throughput when downloading software or uploading diagnostic data. For this reason, some CiA members have started to specify the mapping of J1939 messages to CAN FD. It is intended to run the communication at higher bit-rates (eg: 2 Mbit/s) and to use the extended payload of up to 64 bytes.

Another requirement of the OEMs is the compatibility to Autosar. In order to allow a simple mapping of PGs as defined in J1939-71, a MultiPDU (Process Data Unit) is used in the CiA 602-2 specification. Such a MultiPDU can comprise several C-PDUs (Contained PDU). The C-PDU combines a PG and a 4-byte (short) header as described in Autosar. A legacy PG is always 8 bytes long. This means you can map in maximum five traditional GOT A QUESTION? Make An Enquiry.

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CiA members have mapped SAE’s J1939 application profile to the CAN FD data link layer. The related CiA 602-2 specification will be released soon. By Holger Zeltwanger, CAN in Automation

PGs into one 64-byte CAN FD data frame considering the header. In the future, there may also be shorter and longer PGs, which gives the user more mapping flexibility. Of course this approach is a compromise. It requires some protocol overhead: 4 bytes per C-PDU. FD Base Frame Format (FBFF) as well as FD Extended Frame Format (FEFF) messages are supported. The 11-bit CAN-ID has the benefit that the ‘slow’ arbitration phase is as short as possible. In both approaches, the CANID contains the J1939 Source Address (SA). The J1939 PDU format and the PDU specific are part of the Autosar PDU short header. Consequently, ECUs (Electronic Control Unit) need to parse all messages. Normally, CAN acceptance hardware filters cannot be used.

Besides the J1939-21 information (PDUF and PDUS), the C-PDU header also comprises a 3-bit Type of Services (TOS) field, a 3-bit information about the

optional safety/security ‘trailer’, and an 8-bit PG length indication (necessary, when other than 8-byte PGs are used).

With this information, the receiver can interpret the received C-PDU. The 11-bit CAN-ID provides the 8-bit SA and the 3-bit Protocol Indicator (PI). The PI distinguishes between MultiPDU container (Autosar compliant), Autosar CAN-NM (network management), SAE address claiming, XCP (extended calibration protocol), J1939 TP connection management (TP. CM), J1939 TP data transfer (TP.DT), and TP extended addressing functional as well as physical (both are defined in ISO 15765-2). The usage of 29-bit CAN-IDs is specified, too. However, this would eat some bandwidth due to the longer arbitration phase (about 20 bit-times not considering stuffbits). For this approach, CiA needs to request dedicated PDU 1s and PDU 2s from SAE, which is still on the ‘to do’ list.

The Multi-PDU as defined in CiA 602-2 can be mapped into 11-bit as well as 29-bit CAN FD messages; the J1939 C-PDU contains one Parameter Group and a 32-bit header compliant with Autosar.

The usage of a security/safety trailer is indicated by the 3-bit TL (trailer length) sub-field. There may be no trailer, either a security or a safety trailer (32 bit or 64 bit), or a combined security/safety trailer (32 bit + 32 bit). These are placeholders, because the definition of security and safety protocols is not in the scope of CiA 602-2.

The mapping of the BAM or CMDT protocols as specified in J1939-21 into CEFF messages will not be changed, meaning the Data Length Code (DLC) is always eight. The mapping of these protocols to FBFF and FEFF messages is under development. The idea is to extend the TP.DT frame to 64 byte using 63 byte for the payload and one byte for a sequence counter. The total message size would be 16,065 byte (255 x 63 byte).

Proof Of Concept The concept of CiA 602-2 has been proofed by Vector and ZF. They simulated a traditional truck communication between ECUs. They opened the simulated J1939 network, introduced a simulated CiA 6022 network using 500 kbit/s in the arbitration phase and 2 Mbit/s in the dataphase. The two bridges mapped the received J1939 messages into Multi-PDUs and sent them on the CAN FD network and vice versa. The time waiting on J1939 messages was increased in order to optimise the

mapping of C-PDUs. This improved the achieved protocol efficiency, because most of the CAN FD messages used the maximum possible payload. On the other hand, when waiting too long, there was some time-outs on the application level.

This straightforward implementation is not really optimised by any means. It is just based on existing J1939 application software. The simulation was compared with the results in a real truck: The J1939 network was opened, two CAN FD bridges introduced, which communicated via a real CAN FD network. The results were the same as the simulated ones.

There was a throughput win of about 80 percent. The busload decreased from above 50 percent to less than 10 percent. Of course, not just the data-phase speed was increased to 2 Mbit/s, the arbitration bit-rate was also doubled (from 250 kbit/s to 500 kbit/s).

Optimisation regarding the periodic transmission, the length of PGs, and the usage of Change-of-State triggering can additionally decrease the busload.

Summary And Outlook The CiA 602-2 specification will be released soon as a Draft Standard Proposal (DSP). It can be used with unchanged J1939 application software, just adding a small bridge program mapping the PGs into MultiPDUs. Additionally, the CiA 602-2 protocol stack can also accelerate the download of application software and calibration data as well as the uploading of diagnostic information.

The CiA 602-2 protocols can also be used for other J1939-based solutions such as Isobus (ISO 11783 series) and NMEA 2000 (IEC 61162-3). In the ‘CAN 2020’ seminars (free-of-charge for CiA members), they are a topic, too.

Test set-up for the proof of concept.

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HART Communicators For Hazardous Areas

FieldComm Group announces the 2016 FieldComm Group General Assembly End User Seminar to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on October 17, 2016 at the STC Group. This year’s theme is ‘Device Integration and The Industrial Internet of Things’. The End User Seminar will feature a compelling mix of technical and management presentations focused on device integration and the IIoT. This educational and networking event includes presentations from NAMUR on Next Generation Field Devices in the age of IIoT and Industrie 4.0, a case study from MOL Danube Refinery and Keynote from Keith Larson, VP Content and Group Publisher, Putman Media. This body of work enables the immediate adoption of FDI technology by the automation industry,” said Ted Masters, president and CEO of FieldComm Group. “We are excited with the response this technology has received by automation instrumentation and host system providers. All of the major host system suppliers and instrument vendors representing nearly 80 percent of worldwide field instrument supply have licensed technology development kits for FDI. This activity and support provides confidence to end users that FDI technology will be supported worldwide.”

Technology presentations on Foundation Fieldbus, FDI, HART and WirelessHART will focus on recent enhancements and their role in the digital transformation occurring throughout

ProComSol has announced the addition of new HART Communicator kits for hazardous areas. The communicators use the popular TAB-EX series of Android Tablets from ecom instruments. The kits include the tablet, HART modem, and the DevComDroid DD based Smart Communicator App for Android. According to Jeffrey Dobos, president of ProComSol, Ltd: “For a price point lower than a HART Communicator only device, a full featured productivity platform is now available for hazardous areas. It is a HART Communicator and so much more.”

The DevComDroid App is a full functioned HART Communicator. The entire DD Library from the FieldComm Group is included and regularly updated with subscription. New DD’s can also be added by the user. The App can perform full configurations of valves, multivariable devices, and complex devices such as radar level and coriolis flow meters. The user interface is designed to be intuitive.

The Com-Tablet is preloaded with the DevComDroid App. Other Apps are available from the ecom instruments website or from the Google Play Store.

With the addition of device management, inspection, and safety Apps, the ComTablet becomes a versatile and time saving tool for hazardous areas.

The Bluetooth wireless interface between the HART modem and tablet provides user safety and comfort. There are no wires to tangle or trip over.

All components are certified for use in hazardous areas. Hazardous areas covered include CSA (Class 1, Division 1), ATEX, and IECEx. There is also a Windows version for Class 1, Division 2 hazardous areas.

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End User Seminar Integrates Field Communication Technologies With Industrial Internet Of Things

The 2016 FieldComm Group General Assembly End User Seminar is to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on October 17, 2016.

the industry. The event concludes with a panel discussion with the experts followed by a networking reception and product showcase. The one-day event brings together the best minds in process automation and includes tabletop exhibitions from major automation suppliers from across the globe. This no-charge event is open to all users.

Registration is required and seats are limited. For more information regarding location, transportation, seminar agenda and registration, visit go.fieldcommgroup. org/FCG-GA2016.

“This special seminar brings together the best and most knowledgeable field communication individuals from across the globe,” said Ted Masters, president and CEO of FieldComm Group. “We are excited to offer such an information-rich agenda which promises to be educational and practical so that users can return to their companies with a better understanding of how they can participate in the digital transformation. We encourage users to attend and network with technology and application experts as well as other users to discover exciting solutions to their process automation initiatives.”

Asia EtherCAT Conformance Test Tool Version 2.0 released

The Technical Working Group, Conformance within the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has released version 2.0 of the EtherCAT Conformance Test Tool (CTT).

The Technical Working Group, Conformance within the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has released version 2.0 of the EtherCAT Conformance Test Tool (CTT), which features an extended test set for EtherCAT devices.

Manufacturers of EtherCAT slaves especially benefit from the new version, which is distinguished mainly by new functionalities for device configuration and EtherCAT development. Additionally, fully automated testing of EtherCAT devices in Distributed Clocks (DC) mode is now available.

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The EtherCAT Conformance Test Tool, or CTT, is the official reference tool for specifying compliant implementation of EtherCAT technology into EtherCAT slaves. The CTT enables the hundreds of EtherCAT device manufacturers to ensure reliable interoperability in the field. The first version of the CTT was created in 2008 and all subsequent updates have proven to be stable in practice. To maintain continuity, version 2.0 retains all functionalities and tests from the first version while adding new features.

Version 2.0 Updates With the updates in version 2.0, central extensions become available.

Over and above the main job of the tool, which is to conduct device tests

and detect possible errors, CCT 2.0 extends functionalities that support and simplify EtherCAT development.

This includes the ESI editor which can be used to edit the device description file, SII control to generate the EEPROM content, as well as additional functionalities such as the possibility to upload the object dictionary from the device and save it for the ESI. In parallel to the extensions of the new version, test coverage has been increased systematically, leading to a much higher number of possible test cases. Furthermore, CTT 2.0 supports the operation of devices in the highly accurate synchronisation mode (Distributed Clocks) which can now be tested via a fully automated process.

Additionally, one can create any number of configurations in one project for an EtherCAT slave — even automatically.

This enables the developer to test the devices comfortably and quickly in all available configurations. The test results themselves can be exported for documentation into Microsoft Excel or .csv format.

The test logic, and as such the tests themselves, are defined and released by a special working group within the EtherCAT Technology Group, the Technical Working Group, Conformance.

The test software of the CTT, which conducts the logic defined in the tests and evaluates the behaviour of the EtherCAT devices with the given logic, is developed and maintained by Beckhoff Automation. This ensures continuous development of the tool which also includes new functionalities in the built-in configurator, as well as support of all Windows operation systems, including the new 64-bit architecture.

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ARTICLE TAG Process Safety, Risk Management, Engineering Software

A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS

Staying On Schedule With Plant Safety Design SOFTWARE IN THE PROCESS SECTOR IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN PLANT SAFETY DESIGN.

BY RON BECK, ENGINEERING DIRECTOR AND SUNIL PATIL, DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS CONSULTING, ASPENTECH

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eeping projects on schedule, while managing risk and costs, is of paramount importance with any oil & gas, chemical and petrochemical project. Moreover, identifying and mitigating potential hazards quickly is vital to ensuring the protection of personnel and plant equipment.

Regardless of the type of project, greenfield or brownfield, process safety analysis is of critical importance.

Many companies are still deploying traditional manual methods to design their process safety systems and using external, specialist software or internal, rudimentary tools to deliver them. This workflow can introduce inaccuracies, which may result in dangerous over or under design of relief valves. Today, with greater demands on projects, engineers require more efficient ways to perform overpressure protection analysis in the design of plant equipment and in routine maintenance to ensure safety standards are fully met.

On the one hand, E&Cs who serve the owner-operators on projects need a robust set of integrated safety tools, which allows companies to standardise their relief system calculation and documentation company-wide. This provides engineers with the confidence that the calculation methodologies across the company are high-quality and accurate. On the other hand, for owneroperators, it is vital to ensure safety records are upheld and reputation is maintained. Both parties can keep their projects on schedule by saving time on their process safety analysis with the use GOT A QUESTION? Make An Enquiry.

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Excellence in process safety starts by ensuring that facilities are designed, operated and maintained in a way that minimises the potential for process safety incidents.

of appropriate process safety tools helps to eliminate manual errors, mitigate hazards and gain a more accurate view of plant behaviour.

Understanding Plant Behaviour Pressure relief valves are the last line of defence in the event of a process upset; there are many other ways in which engineers can ensure safe operations at their facilities. Excellence in process safety starts by ensuring that facilities are designed, operated and maintained in a way that minimises the potential for process safety incidents. Risk is managed by assessing consequences and implementing prevention and mitigation measures. Without a reliable control system, the slightest fluctuations can dramatically impact an entire system.

Making the task more difficult, control schemes cannot be modelled or analysed using steady state process simulation. Dynamic simulation provides a convenient and powerful way to

ensure that the response of the control systems results in safe operation. As dynamic simulation allows engineers to explore the behaviour of a process over time in response to changes in conditions, it offers a means of troubleshooting unplanned behaviour, like loss of cooling, or planned events like startup and shutdown.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, w i t h d y n a m i c models, engineers can increase their understanding of the process to make better decisions, lower capital and operating costs by designing equipment and process more intelligently and also make economic decisions about how to handle an under-performing unit (ie: replace it or change the operating policy). All of these advantages are applicable to plants in both design and production phases.

Engineers can perform dynamic modelling tests to isolate the cause of the disturbance and then determine how to correct the fault. This ability to

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respond quickly and intelligently helps reduce plant downtime. Furthermore, engineers can use dynamic simulation to train new operators, allowing them to gain good insights into plant behaviour and why incidents occur, as well as how to best respond.

Process Safety Software Many companies have adopted AspenTech’s aspenONE Engineering software to improve FEED and perform revalidation studies to find capital savings and improve process safety and reliability. The company’s process safety software tools offer solutions for completing pressure relief analysis projects. Companies can conduct safety studies, including pressure safety valve sizing, flare system design and rating, and dynamic analysis for start-up, shutdown, emergencies and compressor surge — all with the option to use simulation data from Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus.

By integrating the Safety Analysis Environment within the Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus simulators engineers can leverage the thermodynamic engine when completing pressure relief analysis projects in addition to adding and sizing relief valves early in the design process using API 520, 521 methods.

Further, this pressure relief analysis can be continued to the discharge of those sized relief devices by automatically

importing sized pressure safety valve results in Aspen Flare System Analyser to streamline flare system designs.

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics allows engineers to convert steady state Aspen HYSYS simulations into dynamic models. It runs entirely from within the Aspen HYSYS environment and uses the same input data and thermodynamic models.

The latest version of aspenONE contains improved relief load calculations for exchanger tube rupture, external pool fire and control valve failure to expand the relief sizing and safety modelling capabilities. These enhancements reduce the time to conduct pressure relief analysis workflows and improve the accuracy of the analysis by eliminating manual data transfer steps and subsequently transcription errors. Ultimately, with process safety software tools E&C engineers gain benefits, including: •

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Save engineering time by up to 50 percent.

Reduce mistakes and manual transfer to ensure data accuracy.

Increase ability to integrate results into flare system models.

Increase scope of relief load calculations.

Avoid unnecessary capital investment through under designs or over designs.

Avoid the consequence of inaccurate pressure safety valve sizing.

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Uphold quality safety standards.

Ability to model multiple scenarios.

Automate regulatory reports and documentation for compliance.

Tools support engineering knowledge and ease of use

Safety In Hand Safety is the mainstay of any sustainable business. Ultimately, risk is managed by identifying hazards quickly, assessing consequences and probabilities, and implementing effective mitigation measures. As plants become increasingly complex, owner-operators and E&Cs can successfully work hand-in-hand with the adoption of integrated safety engineering software that helps engineers to manage risk more effectively and improve overall operational conditions for clients.

With the use of pressure safety valve sizing and flare design tools, companies can achieve significant savings, reducing time spent sizing relief valves by approximately 50 percent and increase data accuracy with a streamlined workflow that eliminates the need for manual transfer of data. An integrated safety environment makes analysis faster and easier, enabling greater accessibility to users of all levels of expertise, which leads to safer designs and reduced maintenance costs.

By adopting easy-to-use process safety software, businesses will improve safety performance across their operations, keep projects on schedule and achieve the highest standards in operational excellence.

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ARTICLE TAG Instrumentation, Safety, Mobility

What Wireless Technology And IoT Mean For

MEASUREMENT SAFETY

IAA INTERVIEWED JEREMY ANG, MARKETING MANAGER (ADT/KEY VERTICALS), INDUSTRIAL GROUP, FLUKE SOUTHEAST ASIA ON THE COMPANY’S APPROACH TO THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) AND MEASUREMENT SAFETY.

BY MARK JOHNSTON joining all this data together enabling engineers to predict the performance of the machine. In addition, predictive maintenance has a big impact on safety, as it becomes apparent when a system starts to degrade, and maintenance is required before there is any danger to the operator.

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luke has been in the industry for more than 65 years, and their tools are used widely in the industry.

The instrumentation sector has been going through changes because of the introduction of new technologies, especially in regards to wireless and the cloud. The company’s aim is “to connect the tools, data, and people together,” as Jeremy Ang, marketing manager, Fluke Southeast Asia remarked.

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technology to develop new solutions?

Jeremy Ang (JA): The feedback we get is that a lot of people face challenges in finding the root cause of a problem, fast. They are also interested in predictive maintenance, but they are not sure where to start. In order to start predictive maintenance, they need to collect the data before they can plot a trend. Our Fluke Connect platform allows us to collect this data and perform some analysis. The technician or the engineer will use the tool to take daily measurements and beside looking at the reading, they can also upload it to the cloud, which makes it accessible from any computer with a web browser.

With this data saved in the cloud f urther analysis can be done by

IAA: Does an engineer have to physically measure the data or is there a sensor that transmits data to a server?

JA: There still needs to be an engineer available to measure electrical signals.

What we have improved upon is the process by which we acquire those readings and analyse them. We are now in a better position to read the relationship between data.

What will change is the way people do maintenance. Fluke Connect makes the process a lot easier, saving time and resources. It puts the engineer in a better position to measure and see the relationship between voltage change, current, and frequency. This enables the problem to be seen faster and as such troubleshooting is made simplier.

IAA: What do you do in terms of safety?

JA: In regards to safety there are two areas of interest here, firstly being able to communicate clearly is important, especially in a noisy environment.

Language can also be an issue, as some of the engineers or technicians may prefer to communicate in their native language.

Making use of wireless technology the engineers and technicians can now hook up a few tools and work alone if desired.

Previously a small team of engineers may need to work together, which may present challenges in a multilingual or noisy environment.

The second feature here is

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interlocking. As an example, in the automotive industry if the body of a car needs to be painted, and the system designed to paint the vehicle detects that one of the doors is open, the system will close the door before the painting begins. This is an example of interlocking. However, if the door has problems then the vehicle cannot be painted. If this happens then the engineers will begin troubleshooting to find a solution. They may end up bypassing the sensor to perform a test, but this is dangerous. With wireless technology it is possible to remotely monitor what is going on, without needing to be in close proximity to the operating mechanics. This improves the overall safety of the situation.

IAA: How do you innovate around the IoT trend?

JA: We want to solve the problem fast. The world in getting impatient

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so we are constantly looking out for better more efficient ways of doing something. When we talk about risk recovery the boss gets very impatient.

He wants a fast recovery. In order to do that the engineers need to leverage on new technology to help them see and remedy the problem. Wireless connectivity and our Fluke Connect platform allow us to do that.

IAA: What other capabilities does Fluke Connect have?

JA: It enables us to see readings with mobile devices and it makes reporting very fast. It also allows us to get help easily. For example, if the consultant is based in Germany, but I am in Singapore, and I face a problem that I cannot solve, then I can connect via VoIP. I can turn on the video and show him the connection and with Fluke Connect he can also see the data, so the problem can be solved very quickly.

Fluke Connect enables measurements to be taken on instruments and then read and analysed on computers or mobile devices.

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ARTICLE TAG Energy Monitoring, IoT, Smart Metering

INTELLIGENT ENERGY MONITORING WITH IOT

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s part of a project to explore energy monitoring and smart metering technologies, Grundfos, Microsoft and Beckhoff have equipped the ‘Grundfos Kollegiet’ student dormitory in the Danish town of Århus with intelligent PLC systems that transmit data to an energy monitoring system in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. The dormitory is near the town’s port district and was built in accordance with the most advanced energy efficiency standards and equipped with the latest building and automation technology. The energy monitoring system creates a database for optimising building operations. By including the residents of the ‘Living Lab’ in the project itself, the building owners can increase efficiency without reducing the residents’ comfort.

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THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) IS IMPACTING MANY SECTORS, INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT IS IN A PRIME POSITION TO BE IMPACTED BY THIS TECHNOLOGY. BY SVEN GOLDSTEIN, PRODUCT MANAGER TWINCAT, CONNECTIVITY & IOT, BECKHOFF AUTOMATION

shorter and the amount of data needed for the seamless analysis of current and historical conditions larger, administering this IT infrastructure became increasingly expensive in terms of both money and personnel. Protecting access to all this data by various groups of users also required increasingly complex systems. In order to meet these requirements in the future, the parties involved in the project decided in 2015 to redesign the project and migrate the server infrastructures to a cloud-based system.

As part of this change, Beckhoff’s scalable control technology demonstrated its flexibility, providing a retrofit of the

local building automation platform with a link to the cloud. The PLCs and I/O subsystems now transmit the energy data to the cloud-based system via TwinCAT IoT software, which is easy to configure and does not require programming.

Cloud Platform Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform provides everything necessary to create a fast, scalable infrastructure for processing and storing the data. Access to the energy monitoring data from the ‘Living Lab’ can be defined and enabled for a wide range of user groups. The information is made available to the

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building’s residents and management, as well as to the research and technology department of Grundfos. By conducting various studies in connection with the residents and the building management system, Grundfos hopes to use the data to identify new usage options for its current products, as well as for new product offerings and business models.

Also involved is the University of Århus, which analyses the connection between resident behavior and energy usage.

The energy monitoring system is used to store and analyse all energy consumption data, as well as for managing alarms. The 12 floors of the building house 156 residential units, with 3,000 sensors that collect energy data every three seconds and transmit them to the higher-level system. The sensors are linked to Beckhoff BC9191 Bus Couplers and CX9020 Embedded PCs. A central Beckhoff Industrial PC runs the TwinCAT IoT Data Agent software to collect sensor data via OPC-UA and functions as the gateway to Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in particular the Azure IoT Hub. The TwinCAT IoT Data Agent effectively separates the PLC systems from the cloud environment. Thanks to the publisher/subscriber mechanisms and communication via the Azure IoT Hub as a central message broker, there is no need for the devices and services involved in the communication process to divulge their addresses to each other. They communicate exclusively via the central broker, which handles all message addressing functions.

From the perspective of the firewall placed in front of the gateway PC, the data communication provides an encrypted link for both transmitted and received messages, and the firewall makes it possible to completely block all incoming communications, as such preventing any unwanted access from the outside. This protects the residents’ personal data, the companies’ intellectual property and building operations from accidental or intentional manipulation.

Data Agent The Data Agent’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) makes it easy to configure the

sensor data for transmission to the Azure IoT Hub. Through various parameters, the administrator can also define when the transmission will be initiated: cyclically, when certain values change or when certain actions are executed.

Internal buffering mechanisms also ensure that any missing sensor data will be transmitted after a power failure.

If the connection fails, the TwinCAT IoT Data Agent records a timestamp. As soon as the connection has been restored, the Data Agent retrieves the missing data from its internal memory and sends it to the Azure IoT Hub. As a central and secure messagebased connectivity service, the Azure IoT Hub is responsible for receiving and forwarding the energy data to all participating cloud services within Microsoft Azure. Further analysis of the energy data is possible with the help of the Microsoft IoT Suite, which administers the devices and collects raw data for processing via the Azure SQL Data Warehouse and PowerBI. Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Machine Learning

are used to detect anomalies. Special algorithms in these services recognise whether the values detected by the sensors over a specific period fall outside the normal range or could possibly not be recorded. If such an event occurs, the system issues an alarm via e-mail.

In addition, the various user groups such as the student residents can access the energy data via a special programming interface to develop their own apps or algorithms, as part of a project or to meet college course requirements, for example. The programming interface, which includes a function for retrieving historical energy data, is based on the Azure Service Fabric. The data is protected via Azure’s Active Directory and Application Insights services, which authenticate the various user groups.

As this project demonstrates in impressive detail, the Data Agent can be used to easily retrofit older, existing control systems with new technologies and connect them to the cloud. This is all possible without having to modify the actual TwinCAT automation project, protecting the investments made in existing systems. Using cloud-based services also makes it possible to flexibly adapt systems to changing needs without having to invest in your own hardware or software, which also significantly reduces operator costs.

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ARTICLE TAG Industry 4.0, Industrial IoT, Ethernet Network

Modernising The Industrial Ethernet Network

WITH INCREASED VISIBILITY THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE INCREASINGLY AUTOMATED. INDUSTRY 4.0 WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART IN THIS TRANSITION. BY MICHAEL VERMEER, PRODUCT LINE MANAGER, PANDUIT

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he Internet of Things (IoT) and smart manufacturing have become two of the hottest concepts in today’s industrial automation world.

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of data that can be used for powerful new insight and intelligence.

Core to the Industrial IoT is the phenomenon of a highly automated ‘smart factory,’ powered by connected devices, smart technologies, and seamless processes. This is the next big advancement in modern manufacturing that promises to make room for major operational efficiencies, unparalleled flexibility, productivity gains, and increased profit margins.

Despite these benefits, the factory of the future may seem like a daunting and expensive path to take for many of today’s industrial facilities, which are constrained with hefty investments in

legacy equipment, implemented the same way they were decades ago at a time when proprietary communications protocols did not need to talk to each other.

B e fo re n ow, t h e re we re o n l y a few nodes to connect, control, and monitor, allowing automation engineers, controlengineers and technicians to effectively manage and troubleshoot their networks using programming software tied to the automation system. While this made deployment more complex at the time, it was inherently less risky since it created inherent network segmentation of different parts of the system.

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Software can be used to help provide better visibility, diagnostics, and analytics for a manufacturing facility or plant.

reality of the smart factory is not a far-fetched vision of the future, but manufacturing companies must begin to adapt and innovate now, or risk being left in the dark.

Considering just 10 years ago, smallto mid-sized manufacturing facilities were effectively managing 10-12 Ethernet devices at each of their plants and are now running upwards of 300 devices, this is an extraordinary growth. Moreover, executives in the manufacturing industry anticipate that 95 percent of companies will take advantage of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology within three years, aiming to further automate their manufacturing processes by employing smart manufacturing and IIoT concepts and technology on their plant floors.

This will radically increase the number of connected industrial devices on the plant floor in the future.

A s i t s t a n d s n o w, n u m e r o u s components on the plant floor are interconnected, including I/O devices, PLC controllers, Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs), drives, process instruments, and IP cameras.

A Schematic Of A Highly Connected Plant Floor With the IoT expected to add an astonishing 50-100 billion connected devices to the network in a short few years, manufacturing facilities are faced with the almost unfathomable task of

overcoming a number of significant hurdles before realising the advantages of the Industrial IoT. But, by adhering to the following three steps, manufacturing facilities can successf ully unlock the many benefits the Industrial IoT promises to offer; some of which can be reaped in a mere six months: 1. Modernise the Industrial Ethernet Network 2. Adopt a proactive and preemptive approach to maintenance 3. Gain complete plant-level awareness and visibility To b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d h o w manufacturing facilities can transition into the Industrial IoT and achieve complete plant-level awareness and visibility, let us first briefly look back at the backbone of manufacturing — the Ethernet Network; why it became the popular network choice in manufacturing, and how it compares to Industrial Ethernet.

Industrial Ethernet vs.

Enterprise Ethernet If you were a fish, knowing the difference between saltwater and freshwater would be vitally important. Likewise, you would not wear a hard hat in an office setting, nor would it be a wise choice to wear flip-flop sandals on a factory floor with potentially hazardous

equipment. Similarly, there are many subtle differences between Industrial Ethernet and enterprise Ethernet, each with their own benefits to be gained (or disadvantages) for the plant floor and office environments.

Decades ago, Ethernet became the popular network standard communication for enterprise office settings, given its cost-effectiveness, reliability, and overall high performance.

For similar reasons, Ethernet made its way onto factory floor networks in the form of Industrial Ethernet, which uses the same standard-based networking protocols as enterprise Ethernet, but is uniquely designed to work in the harsh and rugged industrial environments of a plant floor. Such factors include extreme temperatures, humidity, vibrations, and other disturbances with manufacturing equipment that far exceed the ranges (and requirements) for IT equipment, which work just fine in their controlled office environments.

While enterprise networks tend to be bandwidth-limited, manufacturing facilities are more concerned with timing and collisions of traffic on the network than bandwidth. Using standard Ethernet protocols along with the high speed needed for manufacturing environments, Industrial Ethernet on the plant floor quickly became standardised; replacing

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The plant of the future requires more automated communication throughout the supply chain that only a modernised, well-architected and managed industrial Ethernet network can provide.

its fieldbus networks predecessors in the factory. As a result, Industrial Ethernet networks have since become the universal preferred choice for manufacturing and automation systems and business systems. It simply provides a baseline for all manufacturers to work together, offering a consistent and robust system to easily connect computers, networks, data centres, machines, and a variety of automated devices.

Shifting Toward A Proactive Approach With Increased Visibility Now, with the vast number of connected devices entering the plant floor, Industrial Ethernet Networks are reaching the point of no return.

Homegrown flat networks can no longer bear the requirements being placed on them by new applications. This, combined with the lack of visibility into these networked automated devices, which are fundamentally responsible for a facility’s overall production output, is making detection, diagnosis and problem resolution a costly, timeconsuming and a highly complex and painful undertaking. This too will all change as a byproduct of the Industrial

IoT, including the way the plant floor works at many facilities, as automation and controls engineers need to integrate older proprietary and serial industrial networks, with new networked systems based on an IT infrastructure. Essentially, for the first time ever, the technology gap between Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) is closing.

Meanwhile, several manufacturing companies are falling into bad habits of looking the other way (whether deliberate or not) to apparent issues throughout their automation system, knowingly awaiting the impending problems that will follow and only continue to rise.

When we monetise the cost of ignoring disruptions in the manufacturing world, over time an entire company could either go under, or pay a hefty price. For many companies, an outage could mean losing revenue at a rate of US$2.50 to as much as US$350/second.

For example, a major grocery retailer recognised widely disruptive Ethernet connectivity issues across almost their entire plant network. Specifically, devices on the plant automation network would inexplicably cease communications. One of their dairy farms, which produces

120,000 gallons of milk each day, experienced a network disruption so dire, they suffered from nearly a full day of downtime.

They were encountering data interruptions arising from certain Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

Using IntraVUE application software, which provides visibility, diagnostics and analytics, the plant’s team uncovered several PLCs with duplicate IP addresses, which were causing the network to act erratically. The IT team used IntraVUE software to isolate various devices on the network, locating an undocumented, non-industrial device that was mounted above a false ceiling, and removed it, which resolved the issue.

This grocery retailer has since standardised with IntraVUE software across all 33 plants primarily using it as an analysis tool for when problems occur as well as using its’ alerting features to inform of any sudden changes in network behaviour.

Unlike the above example, nearly 80 percent of companies have insufficient or ineffective preventive maintenance programs. There is a need not being met — and the demand for a reliable plant network infrastructure has never been higher. To evolve, manufacturing companies must shift away from the current reactive response approach (ie: responding only when a disruption occurs) to a mindset of pro-activeness. This is the only way manufacturing facilities will greatly improve both the uptime and performance of these critical, real-time networks while also better ensuring valuable time and cost savings; an especially critical component to realising the true benefits of the Industrial IoT. Achieving Full Plant-Level Awareness Of The Industrial Network The bread and butter to the IoT are actionable intelligence and insight, which allows industrial controls professionals to make better-informed decisions. For the Industrial IoT, having the ability to know which devices and systems are connected where — and pinpointing what is creating specific disruptions that force downtime — will be critical.

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With real-time visibility, monitoring and insightful analytics into and from the entire network, those responsible for plant output can assure network uptime and quickly address risks as they appear, before they become an actual problem.

With a tool like IntraVUE software, automation and controls engineers have at their fingertips access to real-time information on how their automation system infrastructure is performing.

They can use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and analytics capabilities to monitor performance and quickly resolve issues as they occur, such as duplicate IP addresses (eg: as in the example above), device failures, intermittent connection problems, switch resetting, and large file transfers between devices.

Achieving full plant-level awareness ultimately empowers industrial controls professionals with visibility into the growing complexity of their plant’s entire automation system. And, with

the Industrial Ethernet connectivity landscape that narrows the scope of where connectivity issues are occurring, plant technicians can get to the root of the problem faster. IntraVUE software allows a complete view into the industrial network, provides actionable insight, improves overall uptime, and reduces network support costs and response times by more than 50 percent.

The Industrial Internet Of Things (Industry 4.0) The plant of the future requires more automated communication throughout the supply chain that only a modernised, well-architected and managed Industrial Ethernet Network can provide. While each manufacturing company has its own unique challenges, the influx of connected devices expected from the Industrial IoT will inevitably increase the possibility of disruptions, making the need to rapidly detect those disruptions

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even more important.

Implementing a comprehensive tool that can reduce the potential for intermittent communication disruptions, enable continuous real-time monitoring, and provide remote support, can offer valuable time and cost savings to manufacturing facilities of all sizes today, and in the years to come.

With full awareness and real-time visibility into the entire Industrial Ethernet device architecture of levels of devices and connectivity, operational f ield technicians can eff iciently communicate with IT resources, who are also confidently armed with vital information to allow a shift from a reactive response approach to one that is proactive and comprehensive.

This, with access to real-time insight and actionable intelligence to enable better-informed decisions are the keys to successfully unlocking all the benefits of the Industrial IoT.

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ARTICLE TAG Industry 4.0, RFID, Manufacturing

Integrator For

INDUSTRY 4.0 THANKS TO ITS INTEGRATED MIDDLEWARE, TURCK’S ROBUST DCC MODULE CONNECTS RFID SOLUTIONS DIRECTLY INTO ERP, MES AND OTHER DATA SYSTEMS WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL DETOURS. BY BERND WIESELER, DIRECTOR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT RFID SYSTEMS, TURCK

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ndustry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things are currently hot topics in the automation sector.

These approaches and visions share the fact that industrial production in the future will enable customised mass production through increasing flexibility and maximum automation right through to the automatic control of production processes.

Identification solutions such as RFID represent a key technology on the way towards mass customisation.

Only through the unique identification of workpiece carriers or workpieces is it possible to create a large number of different product variants in a single production line. For example, it is possible for different configurations to be stored for this purpose directly on the tag on the workpiece. RFID is ideal for the identification tasks of modern production and logistics as not only the recording of process parameters but also the writing of data to tags or bulk reads — the simultaneous reading of multiple tags — are possible.

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Intelligent Solutions As very few systems are designed from scratch and newly implemented as part of the evolution of customised mass production, it must be possible to integrate intelligent sensors and identification technology later in existing production systems. Three things are indispensable for this upgrade: the identification solutions must be easy to implement. The user does not want to write for each application a separate program for preparing the RFID data for its corporate networks and performing the relevant actions. RFID solutions therefore have to be simpler and require less programming than today. Secondly, the interfaces of the industrial hardware for the corporate IT networks and their languages must be opened. And thirdly, IT technology is required, which is suitable for use in industrial systems and the appropriate protection types.

The DCC module enables RFID applications to be retrofitted compactly and quickly in production plants at a later time without any real programming required. Based on the robust TBEN-L module platform with IP67 protection, it offers another eight freely definable digital inputs/outputs as well as connection options for four RFID read/

write heads in HF or UHF technology.

Communication with higher level ERP or MES systems is implemented via Ethernet TCP/IP. The smooth running of the module is ensured with an ARM Cortex A8 controller with Windows Embedded Compact 2013 and a 800 MHz frequency, 4 GByte NAND Flash memory and 512 MByte DDR3-RAM. This level of performance enables the standard tasks of a middleware — from data pre-processing and filtering right through to the multiplex operation of several read/write heads — to be performed directly on the module.

Without any knowledge of programming you can use the software of the DCC to set the parameters and identification tasks of the connected devices as well as preselect the data. The actions of the connected sensors and actuators are also set up in the DCC, for example, in order to define trigger signals.

The USB Connection is used as a memory interface or for transferring data or software to the device.

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Simple Data Transfer The data transfer is implemented via standard interfaces such as web services, CSV file storage or Windows Eventlog files. This enables the processed data to be forwarded directly to ERP and MES systems or Cloud servers. If the functionality of the TBEN-L-DCC is not enough, it is also possible to communicate directly with the Graidware middleware of Turck system partner Sigma Chemnitz. Graidware is a highperformance middleware which not only manages devices, roles and users, and logs Key Performance Indicators (KPI), but also enables the collection, processing and saving of signals, the plausibility checking of data, the evaluation, statistics and visualisation as well as the data exchange with third-party systems such as SAP or other ERP systems.

Cheaper Than IPC Solutions Users can implement simple RFID applications directly in the field with the TBEN-L-DCC. This eliminates the need to install a separate industrial PC for preprocessing data. Besides the costs saved for the IPCs, this also saves the mounting and wiring effort involved with a control cabinet solution — particularly when additional actuators or sensors have to be connected via interface

converters and GPIOs. Thanks to its internal switch, several TBEN-L modules can be wired directly in series in a linear topology via the TCP/IP interface. This keeps the wiring requirement down to a minimum.

The compact size and robust design of the device are particularly useful for installations in existing plants.

Particularly with retrofits, the space provided in existing control cabinets is not always enough for the additional I/O and IT technology involved, even though designers wish to avoid installing additional cabinets.

Applications In Industry And Logistics T h e e a s i l y co n f i g u re d m u l t i p lex operation and the possibility to also connect UHF read/write heads make the Turck DCC modules particularly suitable for applications in logistics, such as for gate control with several UHF read/write heads in multiplex operation. In logistics applications, data is also transferred directly to databases and ERP systems more frequently than in production, where the data is mostly processed first by machine controls.

The modules are also highly suitable for use on fork lift trucks due to their high degree of protection and small size. Additional protective enclosures

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are unnecessary. Even wireless data communication can be implemented via external Wifi or LTE modules. The possibility to connect actuators and sensors via the module brings additional benefits: the ejection of NIO parts on a production section, for example, can be easily implemented.

Outlook The merging of IT and industrial hardware required for Industry 4.0 has been efficiently implemented in the TBEN-L-DCC. The module is open for communication with IT systems and is at the same time robust enough for use in the harshest environments. Proprietary solutions for connecting RFID technology to databases, ERP and MES systems have become unnecessary.

This also offers a key to Industry 4.0. The connection of decision making systems with the production level must be simple. Programming services are expensive and therefore present an obstacle in establishing an intelligent production process. Turck’s TBEN-LDCC considerably reduces this hurdle.

The TBEN-L-DCC will be available in the third quarter of 2016 with Windows Embedded 2013. Further versions based on alternative operating systems are scheduled to follow.

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ARTICLE TAG Embedded Security, Smart Factories, Manufacturing

Security Paradigms For

SMART FACTORIES

WITH THE RAPID RISE OF SMART FACTORIES, SECURITY HAS BECOME A KEY THEME. HAVING SECURITY EMBEDDED INTO THE HARDWARE RATHER THAN JUST A SOFTWARE BASED APPROACH IMPROVES TRUST AND ENABLES SECURE OPERATION OF IT AND OT DEVICES. BY ERIC SEOW, SENIOR STAFF ENGINEER, TECHNICAL MARKETING, INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES (ASIA PACIFIC)

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T h e ra p i d a n d p r o g r e s s i v e development of smart factories worldwide is presenting new security challenges to manufacturing companies. The future of manufacturing is about decentralised, automated smart factories that rely heavily on network technologies. This increase in connectivity makes them vulnerable to attacks from outside and accentuates the need for more robust security.

Faulty firmware updates, counterfeit components, malware as well as manipulation and fraud are all digital threats that can bring entire production lines to a standstill and lead to significant costs for manufacturers. Any security gap in a company’s infrastructure may result in unintended interruptions of processes or theft of sensitive data that can even harm the brand reputation.

Security is therefore a top priority in the manufacturing sector. Within the architecture of Industr y 4.0, security is vital. Authentication of devices and components, monitoring and safeguarding system integrity,

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protection of data and communication, and protection of Intellectual Property (IP) are typical security applications and use cases required in the industrial internet. Dedicated security components that work as hardware-based trust anchors are pre-determinants of the next generation of industrial environments.

Security Paradigms In Industry 4.0 Dedicated hardware-based security components have proven their value in other industries, including the PC and

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Typical security challenges for smart factories.

server segments for several decades.

Chip cards and identification documents use similar technology to effectively protect private data for many years now. A hardware-based tamper resistant trust anchor provides cryptographic functionalities as well as secured storage for critical credentials such as cryptographic keys and certificates.

Silicon manufacturers use highly

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What To Choose: Microcontroller Or Dedicated Security Chip There are microcontrollers coming with an integrated hardware crypto engine.

This is fine when performance rather than security is emphasised. Such enhanced standard microcontrollers usually do not provide the security benefits of dedicated security controllers. These chips offer an environment that is completely separated from the processor to run the cryptographic algorithms.

Standard microcontrollers also lack the types of countermeasures that can avoid physical attacks. To achieve significant improvement in security, dedicated security controllers are the way to go.

Scalable Solutions Smart factories have a broad range of specific requirements for each level of the respective system. Nodes, sensors,

and I/O modules require a basic level of security in the form of authentication.

Authentication to prevent counterfeit is only the first step in increasing security level of an industrial automation system. Additional security functions are essential to safeguard sensitive information (eg: customer data and intellectual property) and the overall operating procedure.

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secured, certified processes to personalise these security controllers, for example, assigning a secured identity to individual security chips. In many cases, this involves storage of keys and certificates on the chip. For industrial applications, a hardware-based tamper resistant trust anchor such as a dedicated security chip has clear benefits and can add real value for manufacturers.

Using security chips is beneficial for manufacturers, because they do not have to do an additional step for encrypting keys that are transferred to their devices. This saves security infrastructure costs at the factory while increasing process security.

Security chips also provide greater flexibility in production. When a device manufacturer outsources production, for example, keys can be securely transferred from the personalisation server to the hardware anchor. This means a manufacturer has more options available in choosing a contractor, because it is no longer a must for thirdparty companies to meet the highest security requirements.

Security incidents should not interrupt the production line. Therefore, security is not about securing a single PLC or securing a single sensor. It is a systemwide approach which makes it complex.

Before smart factories are connected to each other, the communication infrastructure needs proper security measures implemented. For example servers, gateways and terminals that send information to another factory shall be enriched by a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to protect and verify the integrity of the equipment.

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controller provides robust protection for these keys and can lower overall security costs for device manufacturers. ‘ Scalable Security With Flexible Interfaces Besides scalable security solutions it is important for solutions to offer various communications interfaces, such as I2C, SPI, UART and LPC allowing for a more flexible integration into various devices.

Creating Synergies Through Collaborations As the IoT solution space is a vast and rapidly changing ecosystem, it is important for security solution providers and system integrators to create synergies and collaborations to address the broad IoT Security Requirements.

Typical architecture of a Smart Factory.

Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) Trusted Platform Modules are suited for high-end devices in a smart factory.

Based on the TPM standard defined by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), it is a security chip that realises a more secure computing environment. TPMs are primarily used in the computer industry but in recent years, other industries, including industrial automation, have started to appreciate the value of TPMs in protecting industrial applications.

The ability to reuse existing s o f t w a re a n d p ro ce s s e s re d u ce s security risks, because these professional solutions available on the market have already undergone numerous and rigorous test cycles to provide the high level of assurance that they have met strict requirements.

To increase the trustworthiness of the device a unique endorsement certificate and a corresponding secret private key is embedded in each TPM during production. This is done, by the silicon manufacturer, using a secured and certified process. With the endorsement certificate and corresponding private key, the manufacturer can use a cryptographic process to check that the TPM is from a trustworthy source and not a counterfeit. The endorsement

certificate and private key can also be used to establish an encrypted line of communication with the customer personalisation system and facilitate further injection of keys securely into the TPM, which is housed on the device to be protected.

Once the key material has been stored on the TPM, it serves as a powerful hardware trust anchor for a wide range of security measures. The security

Typical TPM use cases.

Conclusion As industrialisation accelerates towards Industry 4.0 and the new concept of distributed manufacturing takes hold, the critical success factor for smart factories lies in the protection against cyber threats. In order to achieve this, it is recommended to leverage on the rich experience and innovation gained by security experts. Hardware Based Security solutions complement the security functionalities of Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories.

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ARTICLE TAG Alarm Management, IoT

ALARM NOTIFICATION

In The Age Of IIoT

THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) IS CHANGING MANY SECTORS, ALARM MANAGEMENT IS ONE SUCH SECTOR SET TO BE TRANSFORMED BECAUSE OF IOT. BY CRAIG RESNICK, VP, CONSULTING, ARC ADVISORY GROUP with companies leveraging an increasing base of IIoT-connected devices, it is critical to make appropriate individuals aware of alarms at any time from any location, thanks to the use of wireless and mobile devices, but in an orderly fashion that ensures that the most critical alarms are addressed first, and nuisance alarms do not distract attention from the critical alarms.

Global economic forces require companies to maximise the utilisation and availability of a growing number of machines and other plant floor assets, including those assets connected via IIoT. These

assets are being monitored by fewer people who also often have other responsibilities.

With production processes often running 24/7, it is not cost effective or efficient for operations personnel to be on-site around the clock to monitor the in-plant control panels awaiting possible alarm notifications.

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n recent months, ARC Advisory Group has been looking further into alarm notification, an increasingly important and sophisticated component of industrial automation that has only recently been recognised as a strategic component of the automation ecosystem, especially with the increasing number of assets being monitored thanks to IIoT. In the past, alarms were restricted to control rooms and machine panels that were monitored by operators on-site. In some cases, general alarm notification, such as calls to phones and messages to handheld pagers, was used. Today,

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Alarm management has a central role in plant management and safety.

and remotely, regardless of the day and time or their physical location at the time.

Monitoring a greater number of machines and IIoT-connected assets also results in an increasing quantity of alarms.

This requires better analytic software tools for alarm filtering management, so only the most critical alarms receive the greatest attention and fastest response by operators who are often remote from the control room.

Alarm Notification vs.

Alarm Management While ‘alarm notification’ and ‘alarm management’ are often used interchangeably, in fact, they are very different, especially with the proliferation of IIoT-connected assets.

Alarm management in industrial automation largely relates to the ANSI/ ISA 18.2 alarm management standard, which covers areas such as baselines for alarms; benchmarking; visualisation and labeling of alarms; alarm documentation, auditing, and enforcement. In contrast, alarm notification deals with areas, such as what alarms are most important, whom and to what communication devices should the alarm be sent, how aggressively should the alarm be sent, and how should alarms escalate if they are not acknowledged or addressed by the person notified.

While seemingly simple, the science of

alarm notification in the era of IIoT is often exceedingly complex. A simple, easy to manage user experience that effectively filters the most important alarm information from the noise requires a lot of complexity ‘under the hood,’ much of it invisible to the user.

IIoT is increasing the number of alarm notifications received by operators. Only a subset of total alarms, often about 10 percent, are critical enough to warrant notification. That is why alarm analytics software must help filter these increasing number of alarms. For example, instead of getting 100 notifications of 100 related alarms, which would cause devices to be constantly signaling alerts, it is better to receive one notification containing the 100 related alarms.

Alarm Notification With IIoT Alarm notification typically involved connections with various data sources, often via open standards such as OPC DA, AE, and UA; BACnet, and SNMP. Automation companies also provided specific device drivers to enable direct, native data connections with HMI/SCADA, PLC, PAC and DCS applications. This enabled alarm acknowledgements from any device to be automatically recorded and visible in the core controllers or systems.

Today, thanks to IIoT, there is an enormous proliferation of communication from devices that are not connected to the

automation systems, but directly to the cloud. Users have a variety of preferences on what devices and communication methods are connected and used. That means that the alarm analytics software that provide the functionality that controls how alarm notifications are routed, escalated, and filtered must be adapted for IIoT and devices that are cloud connected and not part of the control systems, but still require operator attention.

Alarm Notification Software Must Support IIoT And A Wide Variety Of Devices Today, alarm notification software must support IIoT and a wide range of communication devices and methods.

These include smar tphone push notifications and alarm displays for major smartphone and tablet devices in HTML5 format; including Android, iOS, Windows phones/tablets, and the range of operating system versions that go back at least two iterations.

Conclusion ARC predicts that, in the not-too-distant future, alarm notification will become a ubiquitous component of the automation system, with increasing importance and sophistication. This is especially critical now as the IIoT continues to gain traction, providing connectivity to an ever-increasing number and assortment of plant assets, some of which are connected to the cloud and not connected to the control systems, and creating the need for additional alarm notifications of issues, problems and conditions to remotely located operators via their smartphones and tablets.

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Connected devices born out of IoT will have a major impact on how plants are managed in the coming years.

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TOWARDS DISTRIBUTED ENERGY GENERATION

DISTRIBUTED GRIDS HAVE MANY ADVANTAGES OVER CENTRALISED DISTRIBUTION. AS THE COST OF RENEWABLES COMES DOWN AND THE COST AND CONVENIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH STORING THAT ENERGY DROPS, IT IS EXPECTED WE WILL SEE MORE DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS AS MORE PEOPLE TAKE TO GENERATING THEIR OWN ELECTRICITY RATHER THAN CONSUMING IT FROM A UTILITY PROVIDER. BY ANDREW TAN

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e are going through a time of great change. The energy sector is no exception. Decentralisation is a huge trend across many sectors, from finance, to infrastructure, to governance.

Distributed energy is energy which is generated on site and not centrally. There are huge advantages to this, in regards to network resilience, for instance.

Whilst it has been possible to generate energy in a decentralised fashion, it is now more affordable and easier.

A bottleneck existed whereby it was prohibitively expensive to store enough energy on site to make a difference or the requirements of the user. This is changing, as storing energy is now a lot more affordable and user-friendly.

Existing energy sources, such as conventional power stations, be it coalfired, gas, or nuclear plants, as well as hydroelectric dams, and large-scale solar power stations are all centralised.

Generating huge amounts of energy for a large population and then distributing it out to resistants. Distributed or decentralised systems on the other hand are modular and ultimately more flexible, generating power on-premise or close to the load they serve.

Such systems make use form renewable energy sources, including small hydro, biomass, biogas, solar power, wind power, and geothermal power, and increasingly play an important role for the electric power distribution system.

If smart grids are employed, good use

can be made out of these distributed networks, making it possible to sell excess energy back into the power grid.

Household energy generation and storage is within reach and it is getting cheaper year-on-year.

Distributed Solar Solar energy is particularly perfect for distributed networks. Panel cost have continued to drop making it easier to make use out of solar energy. Adoption is at an all-time high because of this. This has created a tense relationship between distributed generation advocates and a more centralised approach favoured by utility operators.

Unfortunately for the utility providers, looking at the industry and the way the sector is moving, it becomes immediately clear that the future is distributed. Fuel cells, for instance, are enabling this transformation to self-made energy.

Meaning For Utilities What does all this mean for utilities? If they understand this trend, which they appear to do and they want to change then there are opportunities for them.

They will need to reassess how they do business and be willing to adapt and update their business model. It has even been said by some within the utility sector that utility is dead. Many in the industry are seeing stagnation and are looking for the next growth opportunity.

There are those utility operator’s who are trying to adapt and make a profit from this new reality. However, many seem to be in denial.

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UTILITY-SCALE AND DISTRIBUTED SOLAR ENERGY GENERATION SOLAR IS A VERSATILE SOURCE OF ENERGY, AND CAN BE APPLIED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, FROM UTILITYSCALE GENERATION TO DISTRIBUTED GENERATION. Solar energy technologies take energy from the

What Is Utility-Scale

sun and convert that energy into useful work by

Solar Energy Generation?

the capacity factor needs to be taken into

way of electricity. Devices can be designed to

Morocco is in the process of building the

account when deciding whether or not the

leverage this energy. Devices can be small, they

world’s largest solar plant in the desert. The

plant should be built. Typically, for a solar

can be portable, and they can act to amplify

complex aims to provide electricity for more

energy power plant, the capacity factor can

radiation from the sun into useable electrical

than one million people when complete.

be seen as firstly how much of the sunlight

energy. They can be applied at scales ranging

The aim is for the country to supply most

is converted into electricity, and secondly,

from the utility level to distributed generation.

of its electricity needs from renewables by

how much of the time the plant itself can

2030. This is an example of utility scale solar

operate. The second point is a factor not

energy generation, whereby a large amount

just of how long the sun shines, but also

of electricity is transmitted from one location

how storage is available to the plant. The

to many users through the transmission grid.

more stored energy there is available the

As the world moves away from fossil fuels

longer the plant can operate when the sun’s

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to more renewable sources of energy, high levels of growth are expected in utility-scale solar development.

Adapting To Change Established utility providers should take notice of start-ups. It is the innovative spirit of many young agile companies that will benefit the most from these changes. New business models and new opportunities will arise that are ideal for entrepreneurs to innovate and create something new and noteworthy. One approach for established operators is to acquire young innovative companies leveraging this new realm of opportunity.

Another component in advancing decentralised energy is investor support.

This is gaining steam with banks and new financing schemes being set up to fund research and trial projects.

not shining.

However, solar cells are not the most efficient ways of capturing energy. Only

A major challenge associated with solar

about 10 to 20 percent of the solar energy is

energy, however, is intermittent sunlight due

converted into electrical energy. There are

to changing weather conditions. There is also

however initatives to improve his conversion

no sunlight during the night. This is where

rate, like, for instance, the development

energy storage is important. With the cost

of a new material, by Stanford University,

and ease of storing energy coming down, it is

that lowers the temperature of solar cells.

only a matter of time before such a capability

As solar cells cool, their efficiency will rise.

becomes commonplace. One example of this is

This ultimately leads to significant gains

Tesla’s PowerWall, a device that stores enough

in the amount of energy harvested from

energy to be useful and is affordable enough

the sun.

for most households.

Distributed energy has many advantages to a nation and to individuals, but business models need to be found and competition sought to take it to the next level.

In regards to solar energy power plants,

Other methods to increase the

Another way to guard against variable

conversion rate of solar cells is to use high-

weather condition and intermittent sunlight

performance semiconductors, concentrating

is to have a hybrid system. Hybrid systems

lenses, and dual-axis tracking.

work together with more traditional forms of energy, from say fossil fuels. On a national

What Is Distributed Generation?

level, smart grids place a large role in ensuring

Electrical energy is typically generated in

enough energy is being generated and stored,

centralised locations, and then distributed

using energy from renewable when possible,

out to those that need it. However, if the

but having other sources of energy as well.

network is distributed then the energy is

All of which is managed by the grid itself.

generated locally on individual premises, such as homes, business, hospitals, etc. In

What Is a Capacity Factor?

addition, if enough energy is generated,

The capacity factor is defined to be the ratio of

a portion of it can be sold back into the

an energy plant’s actual output over a period of

electrical grid. Distributed generation is

time, to its potential output if it were possible to

typically more resilient than centralised

its full theoretical capacity over the same period

generation. This makes distributed generation

of time. The capacity factor can be calculated

attractive in places where infrastructure is

by taking the total amount of energy the plant

underdeveloped, resulting in frequent power

produced during a period of time and divide

outages, or in places that experience severe

by the amount of energy the plant would have

weather conditions or natural disasters, such

produced at full capacity.

as tornadoes, earthquakes, and so on.

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Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter

EVALUATIONS ON CO2 RICH NATURAL GAS

THE ULTRASONIC GAS FLOW METER HAS MANY VARIED APPLICATIONS. BY JOERG WENZEL, EKKEHARD RIEDEL, SEBASTIAN STOOF STOOF, DR VOLKER HERRMANN, SICK

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ltrasonic meters are moving beyond the realms of fiscal metering and into upstream applications like allocation metering, along with less conventional applications like biogas, power-to-gas operations and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), as well as the measurement of natural gas from marginal gas fields with carbon dioxide (CO2) rich natural gas.

For most of these applications, ultrasonic gas flow measurement technology is the ideal solution since they typically require large turn-down ratios with minimal pressure drop and little to no maintenance effort. In addition, ultrasonic meters also enable the use of diagnostic GOT A QUESTION? Make An Enquiry.

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information for pre-maintenance and process control in field operation.

Admittedly, those applications are still challenging for several reasons, above all being the measurement of natural gas with rich CO2 or even pure CO2 content. The challenge for USMs is always the strong signal attenuation depending on the actual CO2 concentration and the impact on signal strength and quality. The key process factors that define the meter performance are: CO2 content, pressure and pipeline size. Once these are known, ultrasonic meter manufacturers can determine the best meter design taking into account the transducer frequency and path layout (path length).

More recently, a follow up to the previous studies investigates how USM used in CO2 applications can be calibrated and what accuracy can be achieved in comparison to traditional

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metering solutions such as orifice plate meters. The evaluation also provides insight into the impact of changing process conditions in terms of pressure and gas composition. cybersecurity threats through a variety of Information Technology (IT) solutions.

Evaluation Of Flow Test In March 2014, an 8-inch ultrasonic meter was tested with natural gas and with a mole fraction of CO2 exceeding 40 percent at the flow loop of CEESI, Nunn. Colorado.

The USM under test was a 2-plex (4+1 path) meter with 200 kHz transducers in a 4-path direct path Westinghouse design. The integrated and independent 1-path check meter system was used for verification. In series is an orifice plate meter (8-inch orifice meter with β-ratio of 0.69). The reference meter used for the natural gas flow rate is a turbine meter.

The gas composition was measured with

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Fig. 1A: Comparison of test 1, 2 and 3 for the USM. Fig. 1B: Comparison of test 1, 2 and 3 for orifice plate meter.

Fig. 1A

a dual column gas chromatograph, which was used to determine the natural gas components including CO2.

The test plans were for four flow points at 10, 20, 30 and 55 ft/sec for the followings: • Test 1: Flow test with 2 percent CO2 natural gas at 30 bara / 435 psia • Test 2: Flow test with 42 percent CO2 natural gas at 30 bara / 435 psia • Test 3: Flow test with 42 percent CO2 natural gas at 20 bara / 290 psia The test lab data has an uncertainty of ±0.35 percent for the turbine meter, which has to be considered for the results of the ultrasonic meter. The uncertainty of the orifice is mainly given by the discharge coefficient uncertainty, which is approximately ±0.69 percent (calculated from the ReaderHarris-Gallager Equation). Based on the theoretical considerations, the expected deviation between test 1 & 2 should not exceed 0.15 percent for the Flow Weighted Mean Error (FWME). Hence, the FWME deviation between test 1 and test 3 is expected to be less than 0.1 percent, as the Reynolds equivalence is closer.

Evaluation The initial baseline of the ultrasonic meter at 30 bara and 2 percent CO2 showed an offset to the reference of 0.44 percent FWME. For further comparison the baseline was factor-adjusted, thereafter the CO2 content was increased to 42 percent. The graph (Fig. 1A) shows the results for the USM comparing 2 percent and 42 percent CO2 concentration at 30 bara. The FWME bias to the baseline is 0.04 percent. The linearity remains

Fig. 1B

unchanged. The influence on accuracy of the higher CO2 concentration at 30 bara is significantly lower than the calculated max. of 0.15 percent.

The result of the orifice meter can be found in Fig 1B. The baseline at 2 percent CO2 was not adjusted, as the FWME of -0.05 percent was negligible. At 42 percent, the curve shows an increased non-linearity. Qmin at 10ft/s as well as Qmax at 55 ft/s are above the uncertainty of the discharge coefficient. The FWME of -0.27% shows a negative bias.

For test 3, the pressure was lowered to 20 bara. The result shows a negative bias of -0.13 percent to the baseline. The meter performance remained constant. All diagnostic indicators have a high remaining margin. Reliable operation is ensured.

The bias in the FWME between baseline test and Test 3 slightly exceeds the expected maximum additional uncertainty of 0.1 percent from the theoretical considerations. However, the deviations to be detected are smaller than the flow lab uncertainty and therefore difficult to validate. The linearity of the orifice plate meter is improved at 20 bara compared with 30 bara and close to the as-found curve with 2 percent CO2. The FWME is -0.11, which is -0.06 to the baseline and +0.16 percent to the 30 bara result. The accuracy is within the uncertainty of ±0.69 percent.

Taking the flow lab uncertainty into consideration, the calibration result for the USM even at high CO2 concentrations is excellent.

Additionally, the diagnostic values compared between both conditions show that the meter is in normal operation. The speed of sound value

indicates the change in gas composition as the value dropped from 1,320 ft/s to 1043 ft/s which is also shown in the diagnostic data.

It has been proven, that the effect of high CO2 concentrations in natural gas on the USM accuracy correlates with the theoretical consideration.

Conclusion Based on theoretical evaluations it could be shown that the maximum deviation between a calibration with natural gas and an application with pure CO2 is less than 0.4 percent. The performed tests at CEESI, Nunn, show that USM for custody transfer applications can be flow calibrated under standard natural gas conditions and can be used in CO2 rich natural gas process conditions. The principle of Reynolds

Gas is used for both domestic and commercial cases across a wide spectrum of sectors and industries.

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equivalence between different gases at different conditions is applicable.

Moreover, compensation measures for CO2-rich applications can be taken during meter calibration by considering the equivalence factor and applying a

Diagnostic data at 55 ft/sec, 42 percent CO2 and 30 bara

higher test pressure in order to maintain USM meter accuracy from calibration also in the target application. Furthermore, the diagnostic values such as speed of sound give further insight into changing process conditions and meter performance.

The comparison between the results of the orifice and the USM supports the conclusion that USM can be used in CO2 rich applications while overcome the limitations of traditional methods of measurement such as the orifice meter.

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ARTICLE TAG Oil and Gas, Cyber Security, Safety

Countering The Threat Of

CYBER ATTACKS IN OIL AND GAS

WITH THE RISE OF IOT THE IT AND OT DOMAINS ARE MERGING, EMPLOYING CYBER SECURITY METHODS TO COUNTER THREATS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, FOR INSTANCE, IS INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT. BY SVEN GRONE, SAFETY SERVICES PRACTICE LEAD, ASIA PACIFIC & MIDDLE EAST, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC Credit: Daniel West, Sacramento, CA, at

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oday we live in a world where the Internet of Things (IoT) is in abundance — everyone wants everything to be connected whether at home or at work. The oil and gas industry is no different — although the industry has been highly automated and connected for decades, IoT will touch nearly every aspect of oil and gas operations and customer engagement.

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accessible, and information sharing and production performance can be improved. However, such increasing machine-to-machine communication requires constant system upgrades, while connecting industrial control systems and OT are making oil and gas companies become more and more susceptible to cyber-attacks.

There are an increasing number of cyber-attacks being seen in the energy sector in recent years. According to the US Department of Homeland Security, this particular industry faces more cyber-attacks than any others. One of the few notable examples would be the self-replicating Shamoon virus in 2012, which infected as many as 30,000 of Windows-based machines of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and

gas firm. In 2013, Dragonfly (also named Energetic Bear) attacked energy grid operators, major electricity generation firms, petroleum pipeline operators and energy industry Industrial Control System (ICS) equipment manufacturers across the US and Europe.

In Asia Pacific, cybersecurity is an even more pressing challenge, given the region’s size and complexity combined with its unique political, socioeconomic and cultural distinctions. In fact, a recent survey of security decision makers in Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore discovered that 80 percent of companies in the region have been attacked at least once in the past 12 months.

Traditionally, oil and gas companies place safety and security issues in

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the highest regard as they are very much aware of the potential impact it could cause to the local habitats and even the global economy if there are any incidents or wrongdoing. It is no surprise that companies in this industry are concerned about their system vulnerability and are therefore taking measures to address the potential cybersecurity threats through a variety of Information Technology (IT) solutions.

Companies Need A More Integrated And Sophisticated View Of Cybersecurity However, many companies are still holding IT solely accountable on the cybersecurity front while neglecting the necessity of integrating a joint process safety and cybersecurity management system against virtual attacks. Conventional methods such as anti-virus programmes and patching are widely used on the IT side, but the OT systems are often left out of this process as they are seen as outside of the cybersecurity scene. It is true that there are some OT systems which are built to provide unidirectional communication and run legacy operating systems, but as we are moving towards the era of IoT, the OT systems should no longer be treated separately from the IT-front but become an important part of the cybersecurity

cycle. We should not overlook the integration of such two systems as well as the people and process management protocols when trying the eliminate the risk exposure for our systems.

Process Safety And Cybersecurity, Stronger Together Certainly, some may argue that there are obstacles when it comes to integrating process safety and cybersecurity as the two practices are possibly led by two isolated teams who were trained separately and approach problems differently. However, as long as the two teams are becoming more and more involved with each other’s activities at every stage, common ground could surely be found as the two teams share the same safety and security vision for the company.

Developing a cyber security design is similar to developing one for process safety, the process normally starts with training, development of a corporate philosophy on cyber risk assessments which culminates with implementation of a pilot facility.

Cyber security and process safety share a penchant for layering. A strong cyber security defense requires redundant systems and measures to ensure that one or two failures will not lead to a breach. In the process world, safety integrity levels are all about the reliability target of the protection layer.

In both cases, creating a design involves making assumptions about the most likely and dangerous scenarios. Cyber security risk analyses and process safety analyses highlight the most dangerous possible breaches or failures and monitor for problems not predicted by the model.

For both process safety and cyber security, it is also vital to compare the performance of solutions to the expectations. On the process safety side, there would be leading indicators which demonstrate the health of protection layers used to prevent the loss of primary containment. These indicators would then function as a stress test to measure the gap between the presumed and actual failures required for a full security breach.

On the networks side, a holistic safety system would act like a strong fence, absolutely undefeatable by all levels of cyber-attacks coming from all sources, including but not limited to a process controls network, business network or maybe even the internet directly in some way. This is an ideal approach to internal health and external threats as ensuring systems are ‘healthy from all angles’ before they experience extreme demands.

However, system designs can never eliminate all risks. We also need to move from a reactive approach to a proactive one, where safety performance is automatically monitored and constantly validated against design criteria. If there is a divergence over time, this needs to be revealed to the safety leadership team so that either the design or the operation/maintenance of the system is re-evaluated to ensure continuity of operational safety integrity is maintained. This way, potential issues can be identified and made visible to the right people at the right time, and acted upon before an incident can occur.

By finding such ways to foster continuous, effective working relationships between IT and OT, and ensuring that plant safety and cybersecurity teams are working closely together, oil and gas companies will be able to protect their operations from cyber-interference, and avoid any compromise to the safety and security of the plant, its people and the environment.

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ARTICLE TAG Digitalisation, Manufacturing, Industry 4.0

DIGITALISATION

Of The Manufacturing Sector

HOW CAN ASIAN MANUFACTURERS MAINTAIN THEIR COMPETITIVE EDGE IN THE NEXT 40 YEARS? THE ANSWER LIES IN ITS EVOLUTION TOWARDS AN INDUSTRY 4.0 MANUFACTURING MODEL. BY IMTIAZ AHMED, ASIA PACIFIC MOBIL SHC BRAND MANAGER, EXXONMOBIL LUBRICANTS

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or the past 40 years, the Asia Pacific region has played an important role in the global industrial manufacturing sector. The region adopted a modern industrial infrastructure quickly and developed knowledge and aptitude in order to sustain success and adapt to the changes of global demand.

As a result, manufacturers in the region built a competitive edge over their global counterparts and have been creating highly sophisticated products that require technologically advanced equipment and competence. This begets the question — how can Asian manufacturers maintain their competitive edge in the next 40 years? To enjoy continued growth and success, manufacturers in the region need to think about how to stay ahead and differentiate themselves from their competition globally and regionally by focusing on productivity and proficiency.

To achieve this, the next step would be to evolve towards an Industry 4.0 manufacturing model. Otherwise known as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 describes how manufacturing technologies will undergo automation and digitisation and will see the shift towards the development of ‘smart factories’.

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Evolutionary Integration This evolution will require greater levels of integration among information, communication, and manufacturing processes that we have never seen before. The first two industrial revolutions introduced mechanisation to factories and mass production respectively. The third revolution automated the manufacturing process due to the proliferation of digital computing in factories.

Industry 4.0 is the next phase of digitisation within the manufacturing

sector made possible with cyber-physical systems, such as Internet of Things and cloud computing.

Big data analytics and vertical system integration are some of the technological advancements we can expect to see in Industry 4.0. Digitisation and advanced analytics in the manufacturing sector enables industry players to get more accurate and practical insights at a faster rate to improve their productivity and performance.

This also includes gathering insights and looking for solutions to improve equipment performance, address environmental concerns, and minimise health risks.

However, not many companies are fully aware of the technologies available. A McKinsey survey reported that only 48 percent of manufacturing leaders consider themselves prepared for Industry 4.0.

Another report cited how the manufacturing industry may have

PwC states that more than half the manufacturing companies in Asia Pacific are expected to invest up to six percent of their revenue on digital solutions in the next five years.

experienced some of the most tumultuous times with the recent economic crises in 2001 and 2008. Companies who were quick to invest in new technologies to improve productivity and performance found themselves facing slow returns on their technology investments when the markets suddenly crashed.

Manufacturers today are inclined to exercise caution given global economic uncertainties. However, experts advise that despite the risks involved, manufacturing industry players need to embrace the technological revolution that is transforming modern factories. As early adopters, they should seize the opportunity to get head of the curve in terms of productivity and provide a competitive edge to their customers who are also looking to gain from innovation and technological advancements.

In a separate report, PwC states that more than half the manufacturing companies in Asia Pacific are expected to

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Companies unfamiliar with the testing process could encounter delays in production.

invest up to six percent of their revenue on digital solutions in the next five years. Additionally, according to the IDC Manufacturing Insights Spending Guide, manufacturing spend in the Asia Pacific region, with the exception of Japan, will grow at a CAGR of 4.8 percent between 2015 and 2019.

This includes an increase in technology spending due to the changing focus on operational efficiency and the need to combat environmental and safety issues in manufacturing.

Digitising Analysis Data Vertical system integration in Industry 4.0 digitises and integrates processes across the organisation. Data managed and analysed for operational planning, efficiency and quality management can be made available in real-time and optimised in an integrated network.

Data analytics in vertical integration provides valuable insights that facilitates productivity and improves equipment maintenance. It is reported that 82 percent of companies in Asia Pacific expect data analytics to have a significant influence on their decision-making in five years’ time.

This includes digitising oil analysis data to simplify and improve the paperreliant process. The traditional oil analysis

process is laborious and costly, and may cause unscheduled downtime and reduced operational efficiency. Companies unfamiliar with the testing process could encounter delays in production.

Furthermore, the diagnosis from the analysis could also impact their productivity, safety, and environmental goals.

Industrial lubricant and greases makers have come to realise that their customers

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ARTICLE TAG Cloud, Version Control, CAD

How Google Solved

THE VERSION CONTROL PROBLEM

BY USING A CLOUD-BASED CAD PROGRAM IT IS POSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR VERSION CONTROL, AND IMPROVE BOTH SECURITY AND PRODUCTIVITY. BY JOHN MCELENEY, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, ONSHAPE Credit: phil Ray, Portadown, Co Armagh, pm

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The use of cloud technology solves the problem of version control.

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utside the CAD world, nearly everyone behind a keyboard has experienced a ‘version control’ problem. Few of us may label it that way, but everyone knows what it is.

How many times have you worked on a document and shared it with your colleague for approval or further input? You email it to her, she makes revisions and comments and sends it back. Meanwhile, you go home and have dinner and then change a bunch of things in your original draft.

You save your file as John.doc. Your colleague names her revised version as John1.doc. Neither one is the original, so what do you do for the next draft? Is it easier to take your changes and add it to her document or is it easier to do the reverse?

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picky they happen to be — the results can be madness. Every new contributor might rename their revised file with ‘V1, V2, V3’ or perhaps add the date or their initials. Your desktop can quickly become a junkyard of different versions of your document as you keep downloading the latest email attachments.

Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature has been a popular way for multiple editors to communicate and make revisions within the same document, but it unfortunately does not address the confusion of multiple versions.

The fact is, whenever multiple people have to work on the same ‘disk’ file, only one person can work on it at a time. So the benefit and fun of teamwork is eliminated by the technology. Teamwork is serialised to one editor at a time, which is not teamwork at all. Teams are not working how they want to work. They are working how the software makes them work.

In 2006, Google purchased Writely, a web-based word processing application and morphed it into Google Docs, an online alternative to Microsoft Word. Using Google Docs, writers and editors for the first time could simultaneously collaborate on the same document.

How Kids Are Learning To Collaborate In Real Time According to Business Insider, more than 40 million students, teachers and administrators around the world are now using Google Docs, ‘including the majority of the top 100 universities in the U.S.’ They can simultaneously collaborate with each other on a project with no need to email documents back and forth.

Students are tomorrow’s new employees and they already have different expectations on how collaboration should be.

The first time I ever saw Google Docs in action was when my son was in

the eighth grade. He was working on a capstone project, a research paper and oral presentation about Ferraris and the design tradeoffs between aesthetics and power.

At 11 pm on the night before his report was due, it was fascinating to see my son collaborate with his teacher in real time.

The teacher was one paragraph ahead of him and as she made comments and suggestions, you could see a red box around her paragraph (this was an early version of Google Docs) and you could clearly see that it was her. And my son was in a yellow box and making real-time edits and modifications. Those of us who use Google Docs now take it for granted, but seeing this dynamic play out for the first time was amazing.

Changing Behaviour: What Happened To The Save Button?

Have you ever had the miserable experience of your computer crashing before you clicked the Save button and losing 10 minutes of work or more? Once it happens to you, it instills a Pavlovian need to keep clicking Save.

Because it automatically backs up everything instantaneously and redundantly in the cloud — almost to the last keystroke — Google Docs got rid of their Save button. According to Writely founder Sam Schillace, who helped build Google Docs, this move strangely felt like yanking away someone’s security blanket.

“It is obviously better to never have to think about saving, but we are all conditioned to think about it, worry about it, and so on. We have been trained to do work for the computer, which sucks,” he told The Verge, a technology news site.

“So, we really wanted to take that out, but it freaks people out when they ‘cannot save’ their document. I think it is funny — as though, if save were broken, your act of clicking on the screen would help the

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Editing documents in the cloud solves many of the traditional problems associated with traditional desktop software.

computer get that job done magically.”

6. Saving Revision History — Google Docs saves versions along the way, as snapshots, and allows you to quickly return to any stage of the writing process.

7. Eliminating Confusion Over Multiple Versions — Collaborating on the same document in the cloud means there is no longer a need to rename files

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and email revisions back and forth.

That last point is the most significant of all. When creating contracts, proposals, marketing materials or any business documents in Google Docs, there is no longer the chaos around which copy is ‘the copy.’ There is now only one copy. There is only one version of the truth.

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1. Accessing Your Work From Anywhere — You no longer have to be at your laptop or desktop to work on a document or need to download an email attachment. You can work from any Internet-connected device.

2. Collaborating on Documents in Real Time — Instead of having to wait for colleagues to make their revisions and email them, you can see their edits and respond as they happen.

3. Controlling Who Sees Your Work — Administrative controls allow you to give and withdraw read-only and editing permissions to individual colleagues.

4. Tracking Changes — In Suggesting mode, multiple collaborators can make edits that are subject to the final approval of the lead editor.

This feature prevents collaborators from overwriting each other’s work.

5. Backing Up Your Work — Using multiple servers across the world, Google Docs instantly records every keystroke redundantly in the cloud.

No need to ever click ‘Save.’

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Document Collaboration Has Changed Forever Microsoft Word is still the dominant word processing program used by corporations around the world, but the tide is changing.

Millions of business and educational users are now paying for the formerly free Google Apps (which includes Google Docs, Gmail, Hangout and other business applications).

This momentum was evidently enough to convince Microsoft to come out with its own cloud-based version of Word in Office 365.

Pushing the Battle of the Titans aside, Google Docs has dramatically changed the way we write and edit business documents in the following ways:

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ARTICLE TAG Smart Factories, Industry 4.0, Machine Tools

Case Study:

SMART FACTORY

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

SMART FACTORIES ARE AN IMPORTANT SPOKE IN A FUTURE DECENTRALISED SOCIETY. TOOLS ARE BEING DEVELOPED TO HELP ACCELERATE PRODUCTIVITY AND LOWER COSTS. CONTRIBUTED

BY CECILIA TAN, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, SCHAEFFLER (SINGAPORE)

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achine Tools 4.0, which is part of Schaeffler’s efforts to digitise the production process, connecting existing technology, from sensors to the cloud, to new digitised components, has been deployed within its own volume production.

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in use for six months at the Höchstadt a. d. Aisch production location in precision soft steel machining of large, customerspecific rolling bearing rings with threads, milling, fits and so on. Just two years ago a project team started formulating the requirements for the future ‘Industrie 4.0 Production System’ in Höchstadt, Germany, which is representative of many other production processes: • Produce small lot sizes cost efficiently • Have short set-up times • Rapid and lean engineering processes

• High process stability, despite very small lot sizes • Flexible production units, • Maximum delivery reliability and shortest throughput times • Lowest possible defect costs even with the smallest lot sizes.

These requirements not only went into the design of the Machine Tool 4.0 itself, but also determined the selection and modification of the direct environment of the machine tool. So we are talking about

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The networking of the machine with the peripheral devices and intelligent processing of the data made it possible to implement self-optimising processes. a 4.0-compatible production cell, which also includes a 3-D measuring machine, a tool preset device, a new kind of clamping system and a laser marking system integrated into the machine tool. With the latter, each part is clearly labeled per data matrix code. With the individual identity of each workpiece thus determined, all drawings, process data and quality data from the machine and the peripheral devices are stored in the cloud specifically created for this purpose.

Self-Optimising Production Cell The networking of the machine with the peripheral devices and intelligent processing of the data made it possible to implement self-optimising processes.

For example, the basis was established for an adjustment of the clamping forces during operation. The NC program, measuring machine and clamping system form a control loop. Higher clamping forces during rough machining permit greater rates of feed and lower clamping forces during smoothing

lead to smaller form tolerances more productivity with more precision at the same time truly adds value.

The specialists accomplished a similar scenario with the tool preset system: The tools are measured optically, the geometric data are digitalised and made available to the machine and/or NC program online.

The NC programs are as such no longer compiled on the basis of ideal tool data but with real tool data that also includes tool wear. This results in less adjusting and retrofitting work on the machine.

Automatic Lubrication Of The Linear Recirculating Guidance Systems A further control loop of the production cell consists of a standard linear recirculating roller guidance system with acceleration sensor, evaluation electronics and the automatic lubricator FAG Concept8. The acceleration sensor records minor deteriorations in the lubricant condition in the carriages via minimal changes in the oscillation pattern and initiates relubrication with the

PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE 4.0 SOLUTIONS A CALCULATION TOOL RETRIEVES DATA FROM THE CLOUD AND CALCULATES THE REMAINING USEFUL LIFE BASED ON THE DIMENSIONS OF THE MACHINE AND ACTUAL LOADS Schaeffler presented solutions for digitalised production and machine monitoring with its ‘Drive Train 4.0 technology exhibition’ at Hannover Messe 2016. These solutions are part of the company’s drive towards predictive maintenance 4.0.

Its focus on two new digital services for drive train types included an automated rolling bearing diagnostics and the calculation of rolling bearings based on real load spectra.

FAG SmartCheck, a ‘condition monitoring’

system

allows

the

condition of rolling bearings and machine components to be diagnosed automatically. In addition, storing the data in a cloud also permits them to be used for other calculations, such as drive train and rolling bearing simulations relating to their static and dynamic strength.

These calculations are carried out cyclically and automatically during operation, allowing the operator to view the remaining useful life of every bearing in the machine using an By connecting machines, work pieces and systems, a network is created in which specialists will be able to collate big data to make decisions.

internet-capable end device.

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Two effects are important here: The lubricant requirement is reduced by up to 30 percent and at the same time the smoothness and the oscillation behaviour of the recirculating system are constantly monitored and thereby the quality of the manufactured work pieces is guaranteed.

Real Load Data How much are machines and their components actually utilised and how long will they hold up? With the measured load data and the actual load spectra determined from it, these questions can be determined for the first time with a machine tool in volume production. The studies led to two new data-based services: The calculation of the remaining useful life of rolling bearings on the basis of real load spectra and automated rolling bearing diagnosis, which was realised with intelligent processing of oscillation data. The continuous calculation of the remaining useful life of rolling bearings opens up the following possibilities: • Active control of machine utilisation with respect to predictive maintenance and repair • Greater utilisation of individual axes and whole machines • Needs-based maintenance intervals on the basis of real loads and • The use of real field data and load spectra for design optimisation and re-engineering of machines by the manufacturer

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volumes of data.

development of digital services and business

These data are collected and bundled

models from data from industrial production.

in so-called ‘data clouds’ at the company.

According to Dr Dennis Arnhold from

The problem is ensuring that an exchange

Digital Factory production processes: “Data

of data between manufacturing companies,

have become ‘the new gold’. How we dig

machine manufacturers, or logisticians for

it up and use it in a sustainable manner

service development is carried out using a

remains unclear, in particular when the

simple and secure procedure.

data are to be used across the company.

With the new project we also want to

Project Basis

develop standards and methods for this

This is where the smart service factory joint

purpose. Furthermore, the value that can

project will provide assistance and ensure

be generated from the obtained data must

that all the gathered knowledge is made

also to be determined. It must always be

available in the cloud in a secure manner

ensured that the valuable data are used in

and according to customer requirements.

a safe and transparent manner.”

The aim of the project is to generate new innovations, product ideas, and in particular services that are closely related to production and to organise these together in a productive and professional manner. This means, for example, that a maintenance company could acquire the product knowledge about machine components in an encrypted form, and pay

The engineers are also implementing the FAG ProCheck, a conventional condition monitoring system that also offers optional collision detection. This is about being able to evaluate the severity of a collision in the future and creating a connection between the collision and possible initial bearing damage. The plan: This system is intended to make recommendations available to the operator in the future as to whether to continue operating the machine after a collision, whether to

for this knowledge upon each use.

This knowledge will then be offered in addition to further knowledge from other component manufactures for the preventive maintenance for an entire machine.

Generating Values The company is a project partner alongside Friedrich-Alexander University ErlangenNürnberg (FAU), the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), with its Nuremberg-

The aim of the project is to generate new innovations, product ideas, and in particular services that are closely related to production and to organise these together in a productive and professional manner.

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The possibilities of generating added value from the ‘field data’ for various interest groups have as such not been exhausted by any means.

reduce the performance or even whether a maintenance team must be requested.

• The correlation of operating forces with quality characteristics and process parameters, • A parts-related and machinerelated energy performance certificate and • Process simulation in advance as a supplement to process monitoring, key word: digital twin.

Dipl.-Ing. (DH) Roberto Henkel, director of high-precision bearings lead segment in Höchstadt, remarked: “Our overall goal is to digitalise the value flow of the machine from the horizontal, ie: accelerate the upstream engineering process and reduce the time to the first cut, as well as include additional machines, systems and production cells in the digital cycles.”

A 4.0-compatible cell will have all drawings, process data and quality data from the machine and peripheral devices stored in the cloud for retrieval, either on the machine or online.

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Additional Research Projects T h e s e i n s t a l l e d a n d i n t e g ra t e d technologies and concepts have created a nucleus from which further developments can grow. Most important here are the unused potentials that result from the standardised access possibilities, transparency and the processing algorithms of the data. The possibilities of generating added value from the ‘field data’ for various interest groups have as such not been exhausted by any means. In the coming months and years the company will push additional research projects, including:

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ARTICLE TAG Technology Centre, Industry 4.0, Indonesia

SUPPORTING LOCAL CUSTOMERS

With Schunk’s Technology Centres

IAA SPOKE WITH ALEXANDER TJIOE AND HARALD DICKERTMANN ON THE OPENING OF THEIR NEW TECHNOLOGY CENTRE ON JULY 28, 2016, LOCATED IN JARKATA, INDONESIA. MR TJIOE IS THE PRESIDENT (AUTOMATION), SCHUNK (INDONESIA) WHILE MR DICKERTMANN IS THE COMPANY’S HEAD OF SALES AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASIA, BASED OUT OF GERMANY. BY MARK JOHNSTON IAA: Firstly, could you tell me more about yourself and this facility you are opening today?

Alexander Tjioe (AT): I joined Schunk in April 2015, and I have been in the metal fabrication industry for over 20 years.

We are very interested in expanding our presence in this region.

This facility we are opening today is the first technology centre in Southeast Asia for us. We also plan on opening a technology centre in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in Q4 of 2016. In addition to this, a third technology centre is being planned for Thailand. This Thai office should be open in the middle of 2017. With these three technology centres, we can support the whole of ASEAN, which consists of 10 countries, plus the Pacific

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region, which consists of Australia and New Zealand.

IAA: Why did you pick these three countries for your technology centres?

AT: It is our plan to be close to our customers. What this will mean is quick after-sales support and technology transfer. The Indonesian technology centre will be serving Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Vietnam would be serving the Philippines, and the Thailand technology centre will serve Laos, and Cambodia.

Thailand itself is a huge market for us, just like Indonesia. These three major countries will support the whole region.

IAA: What type of functions will these technology centres have?

AT: Each one of these technology centres will have an engineer placed locally.

They will each have a dedicated seminar room, with dedicated machines and all our automation components. In this way, we can serve our customers locally and send users for training seminars, and serve them better in aftersales support.

Left: Alexander Tjioe, Right: Harald Dickertmann

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We do not do any research here. All our research and development efforts take place back in Germany. This is primarily a sales and engineering office. We have local engineers who all speak English.

As such, they can solve and discuss with the customers the issues they are facing.

With these facilities, we can send our engineer from Vietnam to Indonesia, and Thailand, and vice versa. We support each other in that regard.

IAA: How do you rate the success of these technology centres?

AT: The most important thing is that we are there for the customer. If we are not locally placed it is not good for our customers. We must work well with our partners, such as our automation partners, our system integrators, and so on. That is our strategy for the region.

IAA: What is the awareness like for Schunk in Indonesia?

AT: Brand recognition is an issue. When we talk about Schunk they usually only know one product, which is our tool holders.

As such, branding efforts in this region is very important to get our message across and make the local populace more aware on our offerings. It is very important to put our brand out there so people are aware. My job is to educate the market that Schunk has a huge variety of products, and not only tool holders.

IAA: What are some of the other challenges in doing business in Indonesia?

AT: As I said, branding is an issue, however German products have a good reputation locally in Indonesia and this region. It should be mentioned however, that this is a very price sensitive market and it is the perception that German products are on the higher side in regards to price. It is our job to educate them on this, as our products are competitively priced.

IAA: How do you envision Industry 4.0 impacting your business?

Harald Dickertmann (HD): This is a big topic right now. I would say for Southeast Asia it is differentiated in regards to the level of understanding regarding

Each of the company’s technology centres have a dedicated seminar room for training and education.

this. Singapore, for instance, is very close to it and is discussing it on a high level. On the other hand we have other countries where this is not a big topic yet.

Eventually it will become a big topic for all the world’s manufacturing sites.

We are working with a lot of associations and working groups for Industry 4.0. In the past, we had hydraulic grippers, which can do basic open and close operations.

Today and tomorrow we are talking about intelligent grippers, which consist of sensors for measuring temperature, weight, pressure, proximity and so on. These grippers improve not just productivity, but safety as well, which is particularly important in a collaborative robotics environment that is an industry trend right now.

IAA: What are the priorities for the metalworking sector within Indonesia?

AT: Automotive is a big sector for us, not just in Indonesia but in Thailand as well. In ASEAN countries we have aerospace, automotive, pharmaceutical, medical, electronics, and on on. With the products that we offer, we can serve these industries.

HD: I noticed a trend when I was in Singapore talking to a customer of ours that local subsidiaries of multinational companies are becoming more independent. They develop their own technology and solutions that fit to the sometimes unique requirements of their country/region.

Our industry is evolving from a copy and paste approach in which companies would transplant their offices that operated well in say, Germany, to another country with a different set of requirements, to an approach that would allow locally placed offices of multinationals to evolve organically with that environment. This would involve training and raising up the local engineering capability within these countries so they have the capability to solve real-world problems that may be unique to their environment.

We see this on a bigger scale in China, and I also see this in Southeast Asia. At Schunk, we believe we have to be here with our technology and our knowledge to support engineering teams locally to advance and reach a higher level.

IAA: How many people do you have working here in this office?

HD : We h ave o n e e n g i n e e r, o n e administrative staff, and we have Mr Tjioe here. There is one technical expert stationed in Singapore. He travels frequently. There will be more engineers added depending on the development of the business.

IAA: Is one engineer enough for Indonesia?

HD: I would say for a greenfield project, one engineer is good to support the dayto-day business here. In the long run, I think the market has more potential for just one engineer.

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FINDING OPPORTUNITIES

WITH ENVIRONMENT SOLUTIONS The Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) took place with the CleanEnviro Summit Singapore (CESS) 2016, a global platform to develop environmental solutions for rapidly growing cities, and the World Cities Summit (WCS), from July 10-14, 2016, at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. CESS saw over S$3.04 billion (US$2.25 billion) worth of projects announced and S$470 million worth of business deals discussed.

The co-located events saw more than 21,000 visitors from 115 countries, with exhibitors from 57 countries and regions, including new country pavilions such as EU Business Avenue, Turkey, Spain and Scotland, and more than 1,000 international and local companies.

With Singapore’s focus on developing a skilled workforce for tomorrow’s jobs, with its Skillsfuture initiative, there was a greater focus this year on the skills needed for tomorrow’s industry. There were many innovative solutions and projects announced, including a S$3 billion Integrated Waste Management Facility.

This new facility will be co-located with the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant, which will transform the way solid waste and used water will be managed in land-scarce Singapore in order to meet Singapore’s future waste management needs.

Integrated for a third edition with SIWW and WCS, and organised by the National Environment Agency (NEA), the events saw the introduction of the City Solutions Singapore exhibition. This exhibition was designed to help accelerate development

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LANXESS DEMONSTRATES END-TO-END WATER TREATMENT Strands of various thicknesses are used for the feed spacers, and the new product family is named after this ASD. The design helps provide an optimised feed water flow in the RO element itself. The open structure of the multifunctional ASD feed spacer in general induce an equal flow distribution in the feed channel. This leads to smaller stagnant flow areas and enhances Specialty chemicals company Lanxess

its biofouling resistance. Additionally, it

showcased its innovations and technologies

reduces clogging of the feed channel and

in the water industry at this year’s

ultimately allows good cleanability, in the

Singapore International Water Week.

event of possible scaling or fouling occurring

The company debuted its new Reverse

during operation of the RO element.

Osmosis (RO) elements from the Lewabrane

Optimised for applications in brackish water,

Alternating Strand Design (ASD) series for

the FR (fouling-resistant) grades from the

the first time in Southeast Asia. This brings

Lewabrane range are particularly suitable

an added dimension to its range of water

for wastewater applications.

treatment solutions.

The company has also expanded

With continued population growth

its portfolio with the recent inclusion of

resulting in increased demands on water

its iron oxides absorbents for industrial

resources, the shortage of water for both

water and wastewater treatment under

industrial and domestic use is a cause of

the Bayoxide brand. The booth showcased

concern for governments, corporations and

Bayoxide E in 30 — an iron oxide that exhibits

individuals. The importance of water has

an exceptionally high level of abrasion

never been more amplified, alternative water

resistance when utilised in water purification

sources taking more prominence now. This is

systems. Particularly, the product has been

where the company’s latest ASD feed spacer

developed for the removal of phosphate or

technology would be an ideal application,

other contaminants from aquarium water

with its improved features in RO processes.

and wastewater sources.

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in sustainable design in regards to green, economical solutions for global cities.

The integrated events also facilitated the sharing of insights on the latest market trends and sustainable solutions through various plenary sessions, conferences and business forums.

Innovating The Future Of The Environment Themed ‘Innovative Clean EnviroSolutions for Growing Cities’, CESS’ inaugural Innovation Pitch was aimed at accelerating commercialisation of exciting new ideas and innovations by the industry’s young talent pool.

Ten innovators were given a platform to showcase their new technologies to over 100 guests, among whom were venture capitalists. They presented their ideas under two topics — ‘Waste-as-aResource’ and ‘Smart Solutions for the Environment’. “Inventions such as oil absorbing aerogels, and the repurposing of incineration ash into construction materials exemplified how innovation can drive sustainability, and help mitigate the effects of today’s environmental threats,” said Dalson Chung, MD, CESS. Facilitating Cross-Border Partnerships With environmental management becoming

VEOLIA WATER TREATMENT SOLUTIONS “Against a backdrop of increasing environmental and water scarcity challenges, it is especially important for Veolia to be present at a major trade event like SIWW.

an increasingly pressing issue worldwide, cross-border partnerships at CESS 2016 were evident with companies signing deals and MOUs to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and expertise across borders.

Such deals included the formation of the Global Alliance of Cleaning Associations by the Environmental Management Association of Singapore (EMAS) with Cleaning Associations from different regions around the world. This collaboration is a significant milestone for the cleaning industry in Singapore, serving as a platform for cleaning associations to share best practices and technology innovations, as well as to advance productivity standards.

Being here allows us to keep abreast with the concerns that manufacturers face on a daily basis, enabling Veolia to provide effective solutions to address these problems. We look forward to sharing more about business sustainability in a world with limited resources,” said Frédéric Théry, CEO of Veolia Water Technologies, Southeast Asia.

Veolia showcased a total of four in-house water treatment solutions developed for the industry at large. To help visitors understand these solutions, the company held all-day technological demonstrations at the show.

The Hydrex AquaVista is an automated control and monitoring system for the optimum dosing of cooling, boiler, or membrane water. With the treatment, operators are able to automatically monitor, document, and control most water treatment processes. The system also facilitates remote monitoring of cooling circuits, boilers, and membranes unit.

Actiflo, a high-speed clarifier that utilises microsand (Actisand) and polymer in a Turbomix draft tube. This system is suitable for a wide range of applications, and can be used to treat both process water and wastewater.

As economic and population growth continues to strain existing water resources in Asia, the region is now experiencing water shortages. To help mitigate the current water-scarce environment, municipal and industrial manufacturers can consider using alternative sources of water. At SIWW, Veolia hosted a roundtable discussion themed Resources 2050.

Led by Laurent Panzani, Global Food, Beverage, and Biofuels Market Director at Veolia, the session covered expert insights on companies moving from a full resource concept of

Smart And Sustainable Cleaning And Waste Management This year, the Clean Environment Convention (CEC) focused on the need for the industry to come together to co-create smart solutions for sustainable waste management.

Themed ‘SMART Solutions for Growing Cities’, the two-day convention focused on the potential of machine-to-machine communications and the importance of shaping mind-sets to achieve a smart, skilled and sustainable industry.

Featuring a plenary session and two separate tracks, the convention provided unique perspectives from all sectors of the industry, ranging from regulators to industry professionals. A key industry step-change discussion this year included the potential of connected devices and smart technologies that can transform the industry, provide city level solutions to address current challenges, and create new business opportunities.

‘take-make-dispose’ to a new social and integrated model for sustainable business development.

The session also featured applications of the company’s technologies in the Food and Beverage industry, and included input from one of its clients, Danone, a food manufacturer.

For a full review of SIWW, CESS, and WCS, with exclusive interviews, visit IAA’s website: www.iaasiaonline.com.

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ASIA POWER WEEK CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

A s i a Powe r We e k Co n fe re n ce & Exhibition will be held at Kintex, Seoul, South Korea from September 20-22, 2016. This year’s event aims to cover every aspect of the power generation industry with colocated events, such as, Power-Gen Asia, Renewable Energy World Asia, and the Power-Gen Asia Financial Forum. The theme of this year’s edition is ‘Exchanging Knowledge — Generating Solutions’.

For the first time in over a decade the event has been moved outside the ASEAN region. The 2016 edition will be held in Seoul, South Korea, instead. Technical tours, workshops, and more than 50 conference sessions have been arranged, GOT A QUESTION? Make An Enquiry.

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including panel discussions, an exhibition and multiple networking events.

Attendees The show aims to attract over 8,000 delegates and attendees from more than 85 countries across Asia and around the world.

It is the industry’s premier conference and exhibition dedicated to the power generation, renewable and alternative energy and power finance industries.

Kicking off with the traditional Asia Power Week opening keynote session at 9am on September 20, 2016, this session will include speeches from invited high-level representation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE), South Korea; Heung-Gweon Park, executive VP & CEO, Turbine/Generator Business Group, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, South Korea; Willi Meixner, CEO, Power and Gas Division, Siemens AG, Germany; and Steve Bolze, president and CEO, GE Power, US.

Asia Power Week Conference & Exhibition Date: September 20-22, 2016 Venue: Kintex, Gyeonggi-do Country: Seoul, South Korea

Further information on the full conference programme can be found at the event website (www.asiapowerweek.com).

Summary This a key opportunity to meet and network with senior executive and industry leaders for three days of conference sessions across seven tracks, a vast exhibition floor containing the world’s leading industry players, plus various networking events to enable all attendees to wind down at the end of the day.

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Allied Vision: Vision Camera

Artesyn: Power Supply

With the ultra-compact Mako USB3 Vision camera, Allied Vision offers an entry level model at an attractive price/performance ratio. The monochrome camera includes the latest fast and sensitive CMOS sensors in a robust housing that is designed for the stresses and strains of continuous industrial use. Screw locking possibilities ensure a safe connection even under harsh industrial environments.

The Mako USB models help you speed up your inspection process with up to 550 fps at VGA resolution. The four General Purpose I/O ports (GPIO) including opto-isolated input and output ensure maximum flexibility in system integration.

Artesyn Embedded Technologies has announced the CPS250-M series, one of the highest density open frame power supplies in its class. Capable of delivering 250 W with forced-air cooling and 155 W with natural convection, the CPS250-M series follows the industry standard 2X4 inch form factor (50.8 X 101.6 mm) and is just 1.29 inches high (32.7 mm). The CPS250-M series offers 93 percent typical efficiency and less than 500 mW of no load power dissipation.

The units can operate in temperatures between -20 up to 70 degrees Celsius with derating above 50 degrees Celsius and startup capability as low as -40 degrees Celsius. The CPS250-M series power supply is protected against overload and overtemperature conditions.

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Festo: Valve Terminal

The MPA-C valve terminal, part of Festo’s ‘Clean Design’ portfolio, meets the requirements for protection class IP69K and Corrosion Resistance Class 4 (CRC4).

It features several valve functions, and its modular sub-base design supports maximum felxibilty that enables it to expand to a maximum of 32 valves or solenoid coils.

The valve terminal comes with a redundant seal system, which allows trouble-free and intensive cleaning with high-pressure jets or foam so terminals can even be installed even in locations with harsh environmental conditions.

Made with FDA-compliant materials and lubricated with NSF-H1 food-grade grease, the MPA-C is suitable for use in both food and splash zones.

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Belden: Ethernet Switch

Belden has announced its newest switch in the Octopus family from Hirschmann — the Octopus 8TX-EEC. The 8-port, unmanaged Ethernet switch is a compact, easy-to-implement device that enables reliable data transmission and increases IT security through its configurable feature set.

For engineers, system integrators and machine builders running smaller industrial networks, the new Octopus 8TX-EEC provides a simple-to-install and space-saving solution for specific application needs.

The device meets application-specific standards and certifications for use in the transportation industry, specifically for use onboard road vehicles, metros and trains.

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Bentley Systems: Asset Performance Management And Reliability Software

B&R: HMI Solution And Integrated Shipboard Control System

AssetWise APM, from Bentley, helps integrity and reliability engineers working with SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to develop programs that support Risk-Based Inspections (RBI) processes. With a view to the SAP Portal in real-time, inspectors and maintenance technicians are empowered with the information they need, when they need it — in the field.

With access to SAP EAM asset and work history, AssetWise APM users can navigate assets geospatially and get immediate feedback when condition readings are out of allowable tolerances.

The asset health dashboard consolidates and analyses all condition data from inspections and real-time monitoring devices, which facilitates more timely and accurate decisions on corrective actions.

The mapp View HMI solution, from B&R, enables any automation engineer to create web-based HMI applications without any knowledge of the underlying HTML5, CSS and JavaScript technology. Integrated visualisation components provided by mapp View cover the full range of HMI functionality. These widgets are placed using drag-and-drop and then configured.

Since the content and layout are independent of one another, the design can easily be changed at any time.

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Faro: Portable 3D Scanning Solution The Faro Design ScanArm is a portable 3D scanning solution tailored for 3D modelling, reverse engineering and CAD-based design applications across the PLM process.

The device features a blue laser technology with fast scanning speed to deliver high-resolution point cloud data, and the ability to seamlessly scan challenging materials without the need for spray or targets.

The Design ScanArm is lightweight and manoeuvrable for convenient desktop mounting in the design studio or engineering lab. It features a simplified user interface that makes it easy to operate.

It is suitable for organisations who may have the need to manufacture parts without existing CAD models, develop aftermarket products that need to fit tightly with existing products, reverse engineer legacy parts for design changes or replacement, or leverage the power of rapid prototyping.

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Fluke: Thermal Multimeter The 279 FC Thermal Multimeter is the first test tool to integrate a fullfeatured true RMS (TRMS) digital multimeter (DMM) with a thermal camera in one device to speed troubleshooting.

The tool allows users to check for hot spots in fuses, wires, insulators, connectors, splices, and switches with the imager and then troubleshoot and analyse issues with the DMM. The thermal multimeter features 15 electrical measurement functions including ac/dc voltage, resistance, continuity, capacitance, diode test, min/max, and frequency.

The wireless tool is part of Fluke Connect, a system of wireless test tools that can communicate via the Fluke Connect app or Fluke Connect Assets software, a cloud-based solution that gathers measurements to provide a comprehensive view of critical equipment status.

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Hypertherm: Electrodes

Igus: Energy Chain

Hypertherm is introducing SilverPlus electrodes for its HyPerformance HPR400XD plasma cutting systems. The company’s SilverPlus electrodes are differentiated from other silver electrodes on the market in the way they are manufactured. By fusing the silver tip to a copper blank, using a patented process prior to electrode machining, the electrodes have the best life and consistent performance. When used with an oxygen plasma gas on mild (carbon) steel, they can burn deeper than copper electrodes extending the life of the electrode. Additionally, silver electrodes help to preserve the size and shape of the nozzle orifice increasing nozzle life as well.

At the 2016 Hannover Messe igus presented E2.1, a new generation of its two-piece energy chain. Based on continuous development and new customer requirements, the original series has been improved.

Compared to the previous version, the E2.1 offers innovations to improve the service life of customer applications. Compared to the previous generation the E2.1 is quieter by around 50 percent.

The new E2.1 series has a very cable-friendly interior which adds more space for the same outer dimensions when compared to the E2/000.

In keeping with the design of the interior of the chain the company provides separators with rounded edges for a long service life of hoses and cables. For a precise mounting of the separators an integrated grid system is provided on the crossbars.

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Keysight Technologies: Bit Error Ratio Test (BERT) Solution

Maxim: Industrial IoT Reference Design

Keysight Technologies has introduced a M8040A highperformance BERT for testing PAM-4 and NRZ devices that operate up to 64 GBaud. Engineers in validation labs and R&D who characterise receivers on the physical layer for the next generation of data centre interconnects will benefit from simplified test setups and repeatable and accurate results.

The M8040A is the latest member of the modular AXIe based M8000 series of BER test solutions. The pattern generator module provides built-in de-emphasis, jitter injection and an optional second channel. Engineers and designers can select PAM-4 and NRZ in the user interface, eliminating the need for external combiners, cabling and deskew to provide PAM-4 signals.

Addressing the many issues related to system security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) installations, the MAXREFDES143# embedded security reference design from Maxim Integrated Products provides protection against counterfeit sensor data, guaranteeing its authenticity and integrity along the entire data chain, from transducer to the cloud.

The reference design’s two-stage hierarchical architecture consists of a shield that communicates to a web server, and a protected sensor node for data acquisition and authentication.

The shield includes a Wi-Fi module; a DS2465 secure coprocessor for offloading SHA-256 cryptographic computation; 1-Wire and I2C interfaces; user-interface LCD, LEDs, and pushbuttons; along with alarm and logging functions.

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Mitsubishi Electric: Super Mini DIPIPM Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has introduced ‘Super Mini DIPIPM Ver.6 Series’ which employs the seventh generation IGBT configured in the CSTBT architecture to reduce the power consumption and cost of inverter systems. It also enables improved system design by offering an enhanced product lineup and expanded overload operating range.

It is available with overtemperature protection or analogue temperature output that externally reports the module temperature as an analogue voltage signal (VOT). In addition, it has also minimised the turn-off tail current and reduced the switching power loss. These improvements significantly reduce power loss of air conditioners during rate operation.

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Parker: Air Driven Liquid Pump Parker Autoclave Engineers, part of Parker Hannifin, has released an air driven liquid pump, the AHL118.

A high volume, doubleended, double acting high pressure pump, this product is designed for use in oil and gas, chemical, industrial and research applications.

The pump operates to a pressure range of 23,000 psi and at 5.6 gallons per minute (25.5 litres). This pump is designed to be robust, featuring a carbon-based prioritised coating to the plunger, which is three times harder than Stellite. This makes the plunger unscratchable, extending the lifespan of the seals and reducing downtime, repairs and servicing, delivering major savings to the customer.

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Siko: Control Knobs Renishaw: Vionic Digital Incremental Encoder Renishaw is adding to its optical encoder range with the launch of the Vionic series of digital incremental encoders.

Designed for demanding motion control applications, the encoders bring together the company’s filtering optics with a new custom interpolation and monitoring ASIC (ApplicationSpecific Integrated Circuit) that enhances dynamic signal processing and improves signal stability.

All necessary interpolation and digital signal processing are combined inside the read head to eliminate the need for additional interfaces.

The standard read head features a Sub-Divisional Error (SDE) of <±30 nm, a range of available resolutions from 5 µm to 20 nm, and speeds beyond 12 m/s. For most demanding performance requirements, there is the Vionicplus, with SDE of <±10 nm, low jitter to 1.6 nm RMS and resolutions from 100 nm down to 2.5 nm.

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Siko has developed new control knobs featuring an integrated digital indicator and a highly compact design for these typical tasks in process engineering. The major benefit of a control knob with an integrated indicator is the fact that selected settings are easy to reproduce. Compared with simple rotary knobs featuring a division scale, control knobs also allow for precise setting of any intermediate position.

Control knobs DK01, DKA02, DK05 have a compact design due to two functions being integrated into one device, integrated position indicators for reproducible settings, digital indicator with up to four decades, and an analogue indicator for nonlinear processes.

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Calendar Of Events 2016

24-28 Singapore International Energy Week Marina Bay Sands Singapore Energy Market Authority Tricom Events Pte Ltd Email: siewenquiries@tricom.com.sg Web: www.siew.sg

Nov 1-5 China International Industry Fair 2016

SEPT 14-16 3W Expo Thailand Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre Bangkok Thailand TechnoBiz Communications Email: enquiry@3w-expo.com Web: http://www.3w-expo.com/

14-16 Electric & Power Vietnam 2016 Saigon Exhibition & Convention Centre (SECC) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hong Kong Exhibition Services Email: exhibit@hkesallworld.com Web: http://electricvietnam.com/

19-20 Big IT Technology 2016 KLCC Convention Centre Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Olygen Email: Web: http://bigittechnology.com/

National Exhibition & Convention Center (Shanghai) Shanghai, China Shanghai East Best & Lansheng International (Group) Email: office@shanghaiexpogroup.com Web: http://www.ciif-expo.com/en/

1-5 Industrial Automation Show 2016 National Exhibition & Convention Center (Shanghai) Shanghai, China Hannover Milano Fairs Shanghai Email: ias@hmf-china.com Web: http://www.industrial-automation-show.com/EN/

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