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Interview with Babu T K, Founder & CEO, Elmeasure India

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28 “PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES NEED TO BE MORE PLATFORM-FOCUSED”

Interview with Ulrich Turck, Managing Director, Hans Turck GmbH 30 ROUND-TABLE

42 BLISTER PACK PRODUCTION SYSTEM

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Cyber security in industrial automation

The article addresses the security challenges in industrial automation systems and approaches towards the integrated solutions

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OMRON opens its first Automation Centre (ATC) in India

Honeywell launches LEAP project services

OMRON Automation recently opened its first ATC in Mumbai, India. The centre was inaugurated by the company’s key leaders from the industrial automation team from Japan, Singapore and India. Spread over 3750 sq ft, the facility hosts more than 10 experts as software, hardware and application specialists dedicated to the ATC. “This initiative is a part of our ‘Asia Hotspots’ The centre aims to showcase the strategy, one of its important tasks company’s expertise in sensing & being to consolidate our foothold in control technology India, which is indeed a highly promising market for OMRON Automation,” said Yutaka Miyanaga, Senior Managing Officer, Company President—Industrial Automation Company, OMRON Corporation, Japan.

The centre aims to showcase the company’s expertise in sensing & control technology, so that the customers are able to test their new ideas, experience and understand how they can bring more improvements to their current manufacturing set up and can become more competitive in their respective fields in the industrial automation domain.

Honeywell Process Solutions recently launched LEAP project services to help manufacturers in the processing industries get their plants up and running faster at a lower cost. LEAP combines Honeywell Process Solutions proprietary hardware and software, virtualisation and cloud engineering to give users greater scheduling flexibility while reducing risk and total automation costs by up to 30%. Multiple industries can benefit from an estimated 80% reduction in costs related to unnecessary rework. These features can also help reduce avoidable schedule delays by up to 90%. “Automation projects are increasingly difficult to manage, especially as implementations become larger and more complex with the requirement to complete quickly and efficiently,” said Vimal Kapur, President, Honeywell Process Solutions. “LEAP Vimal Kapur, President, Honeywell Process turns project execution workflow on its head, Solutions, assures that simplifying what has traditionally been a long and expensive process and enabling LEAP will enable a cost saving process measurable time and cost savings, so plants can focus on the end goal of getting up and running quickly.”

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Fieldbus Foundation usability initiative Fieldbus Foundation recently conducted a press meet at the 2014 Hannover Messe, where it announced a new initiative to further enhance its open, non-proprietary Foundation Fieldbus technical specifications. New features to technical specifications will improve the usability of the technology, by making the digital Fieldbus automation experience easier than conventional analogue control systems. The technical teams have been determining how Foundation technology can best address the stereotypical “3.00am device replacement” scenario, where the user needs to get the process back online as quickly and effectively as possible. Just as 4-20 mA analogue devices are essentially process variable (PV) interchangeable, the new initiative offers users’ direct access to the PV in Foundation devices and reduce any potential complexities in device replacement.

A simple device set-up that has no need for Device Description (DD) files will allow the easy replacement of one device with an alternative device, to ensure an efficient and fully flexible device replacement in all planned and unplanned situations. Once complete, the PV interchangeability development

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will be incorporated into an upgrade of the Foundation H1 Interoperability Test Kit – ITK 7.

Foundation technical specifications now enable host and device suppliers to offer backwards compatibility to their users in order to simplify device replacement. The incorporation of DD templates also provides an interoperable way for instrumentation companies to offer a variety of application settings for devices. Suppliers can embed the templates in their DDs from the factory floor. This will make it quicker and easier for end users to access a correct offline configuration. They also gain the freedom to utilise a newer device with an existing device configuration without the need for new DDs. Recent updates of the Foundation specification include additional advanced support for fieldbus device replacement and backwards compatibility, Device Description (DD) templates, field diagnostics and alarm/alert integration. The ability to utilise these enhanced features is included in the Foundation’s new Host Profile C. > MORE@CLICK ADI03472 | www.AandD24.in

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US green building body to support LEED in India

LabVIEW now compatible with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

US Green Building Council is expanding its support for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in India. “Since the buildings save energy, water and precious resources, they are our first line of defence in the worldwide fight to slowdown the impacts of climate change and promote wellness. The multinational architectural, engineering and construction companies that are leading the building boom around the world were early adopters in the US and they are now applying its principles and benefits in more than 150 countries,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, USGBC. According to a report released by the Council, India ranks third for the most LEED-certified space globally, with nearly 12 million sq m. The system is the most widely used rating system guiding the design, construction, operations and maintenance of green buildings. Project teams in more than 150 countries have implemented this to create structures that cut greenhouse gas emissions and lower utility bills for building owners through reduced energy and water use.

National Instruments has recently added LabVIEW system design software to program the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 robotics platform. The software is a free download and is available for education & retail. It helps students, engineers and hobbyists to create programs that communicate with and control the EV3 brick with LabVIEW. Since the software has connectivity with thousands of sensors, devices and systems; users of all experience levels can quickly design a complex and powerful robotics project, which makes this platform ideal for science, technology, The LabVIEW Module for LEGO engineering and math (STEM) education. MINDSTORMS is available for The software included with EV3 products education and retail from LEGO is also based on LabVIEW, the same programming software used in virtually every industry to power engineering challenges such as the Red Bull Stratos supersonic free fall project and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Users can connect to the industry version of LabVIEW for additional functionality with LEGO EV3.

Students who learn the software are using the same programming tools used by the world’s most innovative scientists and engineers.

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Geometric signs contract with Volvo Cars Geometric Limited recently announced that it has signed an application maintenance contract with Volvo Cars, Sweden, covering major applications from Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) landscape. The company has been partnering with Volvo Cars for their global engineering and manufacturing needs since 2010, and now has extended its application maintenance services (AMS) engagement to include additional CAD and PLM applications for new product development & manufacturing engineering. It will deploy its proven application maintenance services framework, AMS4E based on well-defined 4E methodology, which is designed to enable, ensure, enhance and evolve the targeted PLM, engineering and manufacturing IT Nitin Tappe, COO, applications to deliver value to Volvo. The company will Geometric, said also leverage its extensive understanding of Volvo’s that the contract is product development IT landscape combined with its a testament to the excellent ISV relationships and experience in PLM to commitment to deliver support Volvo’s new product development programs. the best, and Volvo's “This contract is a testament to our commitment to trust in their ability deliver the best, and Volvo’s trust in our ability to to consistently bring consistently bring innovation to their CAD and PLM innovation applications,” said Nitin Tappe, COO, Geometric Limited. > MORE@CLICK ADI03475 | www.AandD24.in

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Siemens 1st in PLM software ranking Siemens has been recognised recently as the market presence leader in the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) market segment for the 13th year in a row, and in the Digital Manufacturing market segment for the ninth year in a row by leading product lifecycle management (PLM) management consulting and research firm, CIMdata Inc. Siemens’ PLM software business unit addresses CIMdata’s cPDm category with its Teamcenter portfolio, the world’s most widely used digital lifecycle management software, while its Tecnomatix portfolio is the most widely used software in the digital manufacturing market segment. “Our company has a consistent Chuck Grindstaff, track record of leadership in key areas of PLM, President & CEO, Siemens including cPDm and digital manufacturing,” said PLM Software says that Chuck Grindstaff, President & CEO, Siemens PLM Software. “This latest report illustrates our the company will maintain leadership in cPDm and commitment to maintaining leadership in these digital manufacturing two disciplines, which are of critical value to our customers. In addition, our strong focus on simulation and analysis will help our customers continue to address the increasing complexity of tomorrow’s product innovations.” > MORE@CLICK ADI03476 | www.AandD24.in

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Wheelabrator holds symposium in Indore

ABB delivers green ester-filled distribution transformer

Wheelabrator had recently organised a symposium on “Advancements in shot blast and shot peening solutions” in Indore for various process industries focusing on construction, foundries and auto industry, etc. With over 45 delegates from 18 different companies attending this symposium, the session was conducted

by Jagadish Kulkarni, VP – Sales & Marketing, W&A. The The technical session included an technical session included interactive Q&A session with participants an interactive Q&A session asking questions on shot blasting process with participants asking questions on various aspects of shot blasting process such as shot size, surface finish, shot peening and machine maintenance. “The Indore manufacturing belt (Pithampur, Dewas and Indore) is one of the important manufacturing hubs in Central India with companies such as Volvo-Eicher, Caparo, Kirloskar Brothers, Gajra Gears, Mahle engine, to have set up their manufacturing units,” said Kulkarni.

ABB’s global technological resources were recently picked by Tata Power to develop and deliver the green ester-filled distribution transformer. This formed a part of a compact substation that was commissioned by ABB India. “A transformer that catches fire cannot be redeployed. More importantly, it puts at risk the people in the vicinity. Ester-filled green transformers are sustainable, environment friendly and a safe alternative, especially for residential areas,” said Pitamber Shivnani, Local Division Manager - Power Products division, ABB In close coordination with India. The success of the project was a result of Tata Power and using its combined efforts of the sales and technology global expertise, the company teams at ABB India. In close coordination with developed the 990 kVA Tata Power and using its global expertise, the 11/0.433 kV ester filled green company developed the 990 kVA 11/0.433 kV distribution transformer ester filled green distribution transformer, which was manufactured at the newly inaugurated oil-filled and dry type distribution transformer factory at Savli, near Vadodara. The company’s natural ester alternatives to mineral oil filled transformers have found success across varied markets in Europe and America.

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Industrial production grows by 3.4% in April 2014 After falling for two months, industrial production grew at a 13-month-high highest weight of 75.5% on IIP, grew at 2.6%, the fastest in nine months. rate of 3.4% in April 2014, driven mainly by Had it not been for a revision in the January electricity generation and manufacturing. The data — from a 0.5% contraction to a 0.2% numbers, if sustained, could push up rise, manufacturing output would have economic growth, stuck below 5% for two declined for six months before April this year. years now. However, economists are still not Its production grew 1.8% in April 2013 and certain about the recovery in manufacturing, shrank 1.8% in April 2012. Sustaining as it is driven by volatile capital goods. momentum in industrial production would According to the official data, the country’s depend on the government’s resolve to industrial output, as measured by the IIP, had fast-track stalled projects, revive the declined to 0.5% in March and 1.7% in investment pipeline and lift consumption February, 2014. Industrial output grew to just demand by improving growth prospects, 1.5% in April last year and contracted to 1.3% According to economists, slow IIP growth rate in April research firm CRISIL said in an analysis. the previous year. According to the economists, last year magnified the expansion of the current year Fourteen of the 22 industry groups on the slow IIP growth rate in April last year magnified index posted growth in April, against 10 the the expansion this year, in what is technically referred to as the base previous month. However, growth skipped consumer goods. Consumer effect. durables declined 7.6% in April and consumer non-durables fell 3.3%.

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“Companies seek tech-aided efficiency” With a clear focus on enhancing market share and creating a giant manufacturing footprint in India, Babu T K, Founder & CEO, ElMeasure India, elaborates on his company’s R&D strengths and expansion plans in the country, during a discussion with Sumedha Mahorey How has been your experience in terms of technology evolution in the Indian power management business?

India’s energy portfolio is dominated by fossil fuels (coal, gas, and oil), which have long had availability problems.

Rapid economic growth only exacerbated this. Supply continues to struggle to keep pace with demand because of productivity problems, logistics, a lack of accessible reserves and environmental concerns. Energy efficiency will become a key theme as fuel costs rise and put pressure on margins.

Companies are already seeking technology-aided efficiency improvements. The analog measurement products that once ruled the market to measure electrical parameters has given way to digital energy management products which is more accurate and can be networked easily for analysis and efficient management.

Which are the demand trends shaping up in your business vertical?

The flourishing realty business coupled with high energy prices has increased the demand for prepaid energy meters. We, being in the energy management field, have seized this opportunity and developed prepaid energy meters with 3-in-1 solution – electricity, gas and water.

launch multi-function meters with Zigbee communication and products with LCD, TFT and touch screen displays, etc.

Can you elaborate on your company’s R&D strengths? How is it likely to boost competitiveness in the long term?

We have an in-house R&D facility recognised by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India for both hardware and firmware development in sharp difference to many of our competitors. This has enabled us to rapidly translate our ideas and concepts into products and customised solutions. Our R&D team has developed worldclass products. Our products have obtained Trade mark, CE certification and UL or ETL (Intertek) certification.

How do you plan to increase your company’s global market share, amid the current fluctuating market scenario?

We have received UL and ETL certifications for our products recently and this has helped us to market our products aggressively in Europe and American continents. We have also planned for a fifth manufacturing unit in the United States in about two years time to cater to our growing demand overseas.

ElMeasure is now present in over 30 countries with Japan remaining our major export market along with Africa, Middle East, Malaysia, etc.

Which innovative solutions have been developed by your company in the recent times?

We have developed innovative solutions for lighting control, water and battery management using wireless technology that What are your plans in 2014-2015 in terms of new product can be easily integrated with BMS for any type of building innovation, expansion & investment? without disturbing the present wiring system.

We have acquired 3 acres of land at the Hardware Park at We have also designed light and water management Devanahalli near Bengaluru International Airport. Our plan systems. LMS (Lighting Management System) is a unique is to come up with a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility solution designed and developed by us. It helps the customer to measuring close to 2 lakh sq ft. The first phase of construction monitor and manage the lighting loads using time-based and will be close to about 35,000 sq ft and is expected to be PIR (Passive Infra-Red) based occupancy and light intensity completed in the next 18 months. A growth strategy has been sensors. This enables the customer to maintain better and plotted for Elmeasure for the next five years. Vertical integration, reliable lighting system which increases the lifetime of the acquisitions, product development, and new horizons in lighting loads. product offerings are part of the plan being designed for The prepaid energy meter is being launched with GSM/ the future. ☐ GPRS, Wi-fi, Zigbee communication with a lot more innovative > MORE@CLICK ADI03480 | www.AandD24.in features. The future trend being wireless, we have planned to

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“Price is the main challenge in India” Discussing the challenges and expectations from the Indian market in the upcoming years, Gaurav Gupta, MD, Hummel Connector Systems, in this interaction with Megha Roy, highlights the measures taken to cut down delivery time for an efficient service strategy What are the emerging technology trends in your domain?

We are always trying to adapt ourselves to latest technologies and introduce new products, which are both quality & price wise, in accordance to the latest technology. Keeping this in mind, We have recently introduced the HSK-INOX-HD Gland, which has been designed and developed for applications with special requirement on hygienic standards and cleaning. The Gland is suggested for areas of application where deposits of bacteria and micro-organisms need to be avoided and fast & easy cleaning has to be guaranteed, such as food, beverage, pharmaceutical as well as chemical industries.

How is Hummel Connectors pursuing its services strategy in India? Can you elaborate on the challenges in this sector?

Our company is focusing on the service strategy of supplying quality products with the least possible delivery period. We keep good stock of all fast moving items and also encourage our dealers or distributors in major industrial towns to stock items so that the customer gets the best service. Another added service is by allowing special machining on boxes for our customers as per their requirements.

However, the main challenge in the Indian industry is the price factor. Products from Indian and Chinese manufacturers are available at a much lower price. Further, the customers are not much conscious on the quality aspects of our domain products, as they believe that these items are not very crucial for their end products. As far as the quality conscious customers are concerned, major European players have already entered

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the market in the last two decades. Thus, to replace them without much cost benefit is a little tedious job.

How does R&D work in your domain? On which technology themes is your company currently working in terms of new product development and innovation?

We normally work as per the R&D terms of HUMMEL AG and hence haven’t focused on new product development. However, we offer ourselves as a potential source for any new product development or innovations.

Post elections, what are your expectations in terms of market growth, boost in exim and the growth in the key demand sectors?

The best thing that could have happen for India is to get a firm and stable government at the centre and this has happened. I believe that India has an exciting period of growth ahead and it’s likely that with the efforts from both government & Reserve Bank of India, the market will definitely get a boost and recover. There is also a huge potential in sectors such as auto, infrastructure, oil & gas, and telecom.

What is your agenda for the year 2014-2015?

The year 2014-15 will be crucial. We have seen and somehow passed a difficult time in 2013 and now we have great hope for 2014-15. The agenda for us is to strengthen and increase our market share in India, increase our production capacity, keep our customers satisfied as well as increase not only the turnover, but the margin as well. ☐ > MORE@CLICK ADI03481 | www.AandD24.in

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Driving profitability, speed & visibility With economic growth gradually strengthening in 2014, this feature addresses the demands of global equipment manufacturers to identify targeted areas in their business that need improvement, and help make the necessary decisive moves that can reduce operational costs, boosting efficiency and the bottomline. Once process improvements are in place, companies will be able to focus on driving new revenue streams that can help give a competitive edge as the economy improves.

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Manufacturing around the globe is going through a tough time — a period marked by economic slowdown, reduced liquidity, and shrinking business activity. Many heavy equipment manufacturers and dealers have been hard hit by the recent recession and forced to restructure their organisations to survive. Others are refocusing and changing their strategies, particularly in light of the impact the economy has had on equipment sales. Yet, as per an IDC Manufacturing Insights survey, Accelerating Business Change Through NextGeneration ERP (http://www.infor.com/content/analyst/callto-action-ime-sector/), “the industry’s business indicators significantly improved over the last couple of years, with revenues and profit margins returning to pre-crisis levels.”

Recessions do not last forever.

Now is the perfect time to take a good look at your business processes and see exactly where and how you can improve. By identifying targeted areas in your business that need improvement, you can make the decisive moves necessary that can help set your company up for success as the economy turns around. This article discusses some of the areas that can reduce operational costs, boosting your efficiency and bottomline.

Once process improvements are in place, you will be able to focus on driving new revenue streams that can help give you a competitive edge as the economy improves.

Strengthen margin control If margins cannot be seen clearly, then they cannot be controlled effectively. Lack of margin control is largely due to poor data or data that is difficult to find or spread across disparate systems and paper records. It quickly leads to increased costs and poor decision-making. An efficient, fully integrated system is one that supports detailed data analysis, helping equipment companies like yours see margins from all

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angles — per equipment model, group, parts, item line, order line, and supplier. This type of solution can help improve order-to-invoice and order-to-cash cycles, so that less working capital is tied up in accounts receivable. Greater margin control helps you resolve customer issues faster, yielding improved service levels and customer satisfaction. Equipment companies should look for an integrated system that allows them to measure value and profitability throughout the equipment lifecycle. By predicting and planning profitability, you can control margins without having to “cushion” each business deal.

Improve pricing strategies Managing an efficient, coherent pricing strategy is an important part of the equipment business. Because of the volatility, this requires consistent monitoring and evaluation to ensure optimal results. Pricing structures should be tailored to meet the specific needs of your company and match what economic climate dictates. In some instances, you may be able to command a premium, while at other times, a discount may help you increase customer loyalty and market share. Ineffective pricing communication is often caused by poor infrastructure or disparate systems. A fully integrated solution helps to bring all pricing data together in one, consolidated view. It helps companies evaluate data on the industry, market conditions and competitors. This allows you to segment customers accurately according to equipment type, customer perceived value of parts, purchase patterns, pricing, and sensitivity. The right technology system will offer specific discount matrices for customer and product combinations to ensure that you can maintain greater control versus a more generic discount approach. By using an automatic discount level approval process, you can greatly reduce tedious, manual work for your

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employees. The system quickly alerts managers to underpriced product and customer combinations so that nothing goes unnoticed. Companies like yours should look for a solution that helps to create comprehensive pricing agreements with the ability to fine-tune gross, net, and discount price.

Focus on aftermarket parts sales Aftermarket parts sales and service account for significant revenue opportunity for your business. To be successful, you need an integrated view of your business so that you can get up-to-the-minute data on customers, equipment, parts, service history, service-level agreements, and more.

The first step is to automate and modernise your warehouse processes. To do this, you need a system that supports the managing of low- and high-value stock, with an emphasis on frequency of usage and optimal storage location. An integrated solution will also allow for auto-leveling of inventory, so that parts are distributed throughout the business in the right proportions. To deliver on service, companies like yours need an advanced parts supply chain management system that facilitates effective and timely service scheduling to correspond with parts delivery. It is therefore critical to have a solution that provides forward visibility of parts requirements through effective demand management. To improve supply chain management and parts logistics, you need to interface directly between original equipment manufacturers (OEM), dealerships, and the customer base. By sharing data about equipment orders, configuration, delivery, service, and warranties in real time, you strengthen the dealer-OEM relationship. This can help you process customer orders and warranty claims more quickly. To run efficiently, equipment companies like yours need to make sure to have a sound parts-planning process in place that allows you to schedule service in a timely manner

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that coincides with parts delivery. Forward visibility and effective demand management can help fine tune procurement planning, scheduling, and supply levels for customer locations in the field, as well as service vans. An integrated solution can help you simplify your warranty and claim management processes. You should look for a system that helps with tracking parts and equipment claims from inception to closure, including claim versions and final processing through to the original equipment manufacturer. With this system in place, you can gather and analyse vital data on equipment breakdowns and feed that information back to your manufacturers. This will help manufacturers get to the root of problems, so they can make improvements. An advanced warranty and claim management system is one that will include detailed search and listing functionality, making it easy for employees to locate the right claim and update customers on the spot.

Overall, this type of system helps you deliver high-quality service, while maintaining a healthy profit margin. Because these processes can be directly linked to company-wide financials and overall equipment profitability, an integrated system delivers even greater value to the customer and to the equipment dealer.

Rental and leasing As competition grows, customers expect more from their equipment and service contracts. Effective equipment utilisation is more important now than ever before. The right technology infrastructure gives your company a complete overview of your rental operations, including a clear view of asset availability, insight into the return date for assets, and a clear view of your service needs. The right system can help you integrate all your rental operations with supply chain management, finance, and service, so that you can maintain

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complex rental agreements with your customers. For leasing, your company will need an effective business application system that offers pre-calculation for all agreements. This will allow you to manage vital information for the length of the agreement, including amortisation, interest, and residual value, after each period. Look for flexible invoicing functionality to help turn ordinary service into a value-added competitive advantage.

Finance and the equipment lifecycle

allows you to offer customers advance notice of when they should repair, overhaul, or replace their equipment. Equipment lifecycle management helps to establish loyalty as customers maximise the value they receive from their equipment. It will also help you keep on top of preventative maintenance schedules, ensuring that the right parts, tools, and service engineers are available when and where needed. You need to have a trusted view into a product across its lifecycle, so you can have more control over your business, as well as gain the decision-making power to enhance your overall profitability.

Finance is a cornerstone of all organisations. Equipment Quantify your improvement initiatives companies like yours need a solid handle on accounting, Having the right business processes and technology budgeting, reporting, and transaction processing. Does your existing system allow you to analyse all your financial infrastructure is the key to help you cut costs and improve information and link it to business processes to facilitate operations. But who nowadays, can afford to jump into an IT internal benchmarking? Are you able to obtain the cost and investment blind? A value assessment can serve as an ideal profit data you need quickly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by customer, fleet, equipment, starting point. Companies participate in a value assessment to or project? The right technology solution can help you with get a projection of the business benefits that can be gained by these areas, as well as pinpoint the relevant business information upgrading or implementing enterprise software. This topthat fuels new growth strategies in areas such as marketing, down evaluation tool helps to justify and quantify IT service, and parts sales. Many equipment companies today lack expenditure before you commit time and resources. It helps an integrated view of their equipment over the full equipment you map out best practices for implementing these improvement lifecycle. You need to be able to see machine availability, profit, projects, and defines key performance indicators that help and contribution, without using spreadsheets. You need to be measure your progress over a two- to three-year period. For able to see the profitability of an equipment fleet, without many companies, it helps to get a new technology project adding it up manually. Your warranty, sales, travel costs, and started, setting the scene for organisational change. This type field service should not be in isolated systems. You need more of evaluation exercise promotes teamwork and collaboration broad-range support in analysing a single piece of equipment across all functional lines of a business. It helps clearly define as it ages to see exactly where and how you are making a profit. in monetary terms the value that a new system has to offer.

With the right technology, equipment companies like yours can When you complete a value assessment, you walk away with a track every transaction and the profitability of a piece of sound basis and strategy for decision-making, before youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve equipment from its initial sale until disposal. This information finalised plans for your improvement projects.

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Products are being commoditised, and differentiation comes through support and total customer experience

Gear up for change

Drive new sources of revenue

With an integrated system, you will be able to track the profitability of a piece of equipment from its initial sale until disposal. You can look at key lifecycle changes and associated costs over the equipment lifetime as a whole, so you have an accurate, gross profit perspective. Total lifecycle profitability carries the potential to be many times higher than the margin on the initial sale of the equipment. Oftentimes, the initial equipment sale does not offer a high-margin. Products are being commoditised, and differentiation comes through support and total customer experience. Your customers will spend more on maintaining the equipment than on the capital purchase, and you have a corresponding sales opportunity. If you have a consolidated and reliable data source, you’ll never miss another sales and service opportunity. The design of workflow in most companies is based on assumptions about roles, organisational goals, and technology that no longer apply today. By examining your existing process engineering, you can focus on all the different functional areas of your business that make it run effectively — from warehousing and parts logistics to rental, service, and finance. Does your system allow you to get good, reliable information quickly? Can you track the simple daily flow of business, knowing what your cash flow is or inventory levels are on any given day? Can you get all the customer information you need in one place? Or, do you find yourself constantly waiting around for this kind of data? As you ask yourself these questions, you may conclude that your underlying enterprise application structure is hindering your plans for the future. Sometimes radical redesign and reorganisation is needed to streamline operations, reduce costs and improve quality of service. The fact is that information technology is a key enabler for this change.

Simply cutting costs to remain active in the current economy or waiting for better times is a poor long term strategy.

By hesitating to find new ways of improving profits, like strategic parts pricing or parts sales and service, you run the risk of being left behind by the competition as the economy picks up again. If this is the case, you need better visibility into your operations to achieve greater margin control, productivity, and efficiency. You should be able to focus on driving new orders, creating effective marketing campaigns, and improving customer service.

Capitalise on the opportunity Companies that emerge as winners are those that streamline their operations so that employees get the information they need to act quickly; get stronger, fitter and more productive; deploy flexible information and business process foundations to lead improvement projects. These companies focus on improving customer service and find new sources of revenue that drive growth.

Now is the time for you to focus on efficiency and learn how to improve your business as the market recovers. Make sure you have visibility into your data through a central repository. Automate as many of your processes as possible, with decision points made where work is being performed and control is built in. By using the capabilities of an integrated enterprise resource planning system, you will have a single source of quality information — a system that is easy to learn and use, and one that can carry you into the future, serving as a flexible platform for growth and profitability. ☐ > MORE@CLICK ADI03482 | www.AandD24.in

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“Product development strategies need to be more platform-focused” Sharing his views on the need for not only intelligent devices but intelligent standards as well and the focus on I/O-Link consortium, Ulrich Turck, Managing Director, Hans Turck GmbH, in this exclusive interview with Sumedha Mahorey, on the eve of the opening of its new facility in Pune, discusses the global management needs of best customer-company communication & reporting systems.

What are your strategic plans for India in terms of market positioning, expansion and manufacturing activity?

We recently made the decision to move the company to a new location in Pune. This enables us to have more space in order to begin with a first assembly production. This will strengthen our market position and continue the growth that we see in India. This year we are expecting a strong two digit growth.

Where do you see your Indian operations leading to in the next 5 years among Turck’s global network?

Despite the fact that we entered the Indian market relatively late, we see our market position as it is represented in most countries — among the top three of the main Turck products.

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How do you look at the trends in the automation & sensor business, technology & market? Where do you see the potential coming from, geography & sector-wise?

An ongoing trend is the reduction of complexity. At least, the complexity for users is decreasing and will continue to decrease in the next years. For example, consider the I/O-Link. For the automation industry and their products, complexity grows but for customers, automation is eased with this technology.

Another example is our multiprotocol Ethernet technology. All our new modular and compact I/O systems communicate with Profinet I/O, Modbus TCP or Ethernet/IP without intervention of the user. These devices can be operated automatically in each of the three Ethernet systems.

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“It is getting more and more important to integrate automation data in enterprise and production software to maximise efficiency” Ulrich Turck

How are emerging concepts like Industry 4.0, Big Data and to eight switching signals. That’s quite a lot for a point-toCloud enabling manufacturing efficacies? What have been point 3-wire connection. Another field of innovation is RFID, especially in terms of UHF technology and data integration up Turck’s contributions on this front?

For Industry 4.0, we foresee a big transformation in the to the enterprise level. automation industry. But this transformation is an evolutionary process that has already begun – an evolution that did not start There has been an increasing trend in the sensor business yesterday and won’t end tomorrow. And along this perspective toward miniaturisation, precision, safety & measuring of Industry 4.0 as a slowly evolving process, we align Turck’s speed. How does Turck take care of these demanding strategy by developing solutions for more and more automated expectations? production. We are always cautious not to lose our customers’ We are supporting trends when we detect them on our most real problems in the process. The multiprotocol technology is important measuring device – our customer. We answer all these trends with different products – one reason for our one such example.

It is also getting more and more important to integrate comprehensive product portfolio. Miniaturisation was fueling automation data in enterprise and production software to the development of our 32 mm small multiprotocol Block-I/O maximise efficiency. It is also relevant for RFID applications, TBEN-S, for example, which will enter the market in the 4th a central technology for Industry 4.0. Currently, I don’t see quarter 2014. We are glad to have the required know-how in cloud solutions would be accepted by our customers in the our company group. The challenge here is not only to develop field of industrial automation. There is too much doubt about very small components and products, but even more to find a way to produce these kinds of components in a fully or partly data security in these sensible fields. automated process for a reasonable price.

How can intelligent self-controlling factories become a With constant pervasive changes in technology & market reality?

What we need is not only intelligent devices but intelligent requirements, how can organisations design/plan the change standards as well. With I/O-Link, we have that standard already management process and product development strategies? established at least for the sensor technology. This technology Would you like to give any examples from your company? enables communication from the PLC to the very last device. The first task for every company is organising a knowledge But further standards, for inter-machine communication for management to make all the information a company has instance, have to be set up. Furthermore, security issues have accessible for the colleagues who need to know it. In a five man to be solved. When the production network enhances all the start-up, you can realise that by office grapevine but it gets intelligence of a company, then all the intelligence and know- rather complex in a company with more than 3,350 employees. how of a company is potentially endangered. And within this In order to interconnect our knowledge and intelligence, Turck is currently setting up an SAP ERP system for the company scenario, complexity has to be kept manageable. worldwide. With this system in charge, we will be able to react Currently, your company is working on which themes of quicker and more flexibly on every market development and innovation? What kind of technology breakthroughs are our customer’s demands. Additionally, product development strategies have to become more platform-focused. A good expected from Turck in the coming years?

If we look at the Industry 4.0 scenario, we are quite busy in the example again is our multiprotol technology that all our new I/O-Link consortium. We play an active role and are pushing I/O devices, compact as well as modular, support. The basic the technology by developing more and more products using technology development is being rolled out to each new that standard. The latest offspring of our I/O-Link portfolio product. ☐ > MORE@CLICK ADI03483 | www.AandD24.in is our inductive coupler which uses I/O-Link to transmit up

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Cyber security in industrial automation To address cyber security issues for industrial automation systems, a clear understanding of the security challenges and specific defensive counter measures is required. This feature provides a holistic approach on development requirements of an aggregated security solution to defend against cyber security threats and vulnerabilities that affect an industrial automation system, while assessing latest technologies and research in the domain.

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As per a recent white paper by Frost & Sullivan, developed Factory Automation, Siemens Ltd and Doug Wylie, CISSP, in partnership with Schneider Electric, over the last decade, Director – Product Security Risk Management, Rockwell the rise in cyber attacks on critical infrastructure has resulted Automation – share their views on the adoption of modern in cyber security becoming a central concern amongst cyber security technologies in industrial automation systems industrial automation and control system users and vendors. and the challenges that lie therein.

Cyber threats are primarily aimed at industrial control systems such as distributed control systems (DCS), programmable Threats in industrial automation systems logic controllers (PLC), supervisory control and data According to Kulkarni, Internet has been extended to acquisition (SCADA) systems and human machine interfaces (HMI) through loopholes which can range from unsecured automation as more and more automation vendors are offering remote access, to inadequate firewalls, to a lack of network web-enabled automation devices to facilitate remote monitoring segmentation. In such times, understanding how to secure and control. Increasing use of mobile devices like PDAs, smart factory automation, process control and SCADA networks is phones, tablets and laptops for remote connection to critical if companies wish to protect these from viruses and automation world is the natural consequence. This has resulted hackers. In this feature, industrial experts – Rajabahadur Arcot, in the rise of cyber security threats. According to Arcot, Independent Industry Analyst/Columnist & Automation “Industry sectors susceptible to control system cyber attacks Consultant; Milind Kulkarni, Head – Business Development, include the electric & water utilities, chemical and oil & gas

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“Manufacturers, with cyber security experts, must make adequate investments to have web-enabled automation on the plant floor integrated with cyber security system” Milind Kulkarni, Head – Business Development, Factory Automation, Siemens Ltd

sectors. Symantec ‘Security Response’ report version 1 released in January 2014 says: the energy sector has become a major focus for targeted attacks and is now among the top five most targeted sectors worldwide.” The recent ‘A SANS Analyst Survey,’ released in April 2014 confirms that control system cyber attacks, particularly against energy-generation systems, are on the increase and becoming more targeted against specific systems.

“The architecture of control systems, such as DCS, PLC, and SCADA may comprise of innumerable nodes such as field devices, I/O cards, communication buses & networks, controllers, and operator interfaces. Most of them have software codes to compute, process, communicate and network data and information; almost all of them are cyber vulnerable,” identifies Arcot. Typically, field devices are accessible through dedicated lines, handheld devices or other communication protocols including wireless. A cyber attacker, by gaining unauthorised access to the field devices, can cause their malfunctioning by changing their characteristics and/or behaviour and thereby, manipulate the entire plant operation and control. Additionally, the control system architecture has numerous servers, engineering stations, HMI terminals, and such others. By gaining access to them, a cyber attacker can manipulate operator and controller actions. Similarly, by gaining access to communication buses and networks, an attacker could gain complete control over the network and manipulate the flow of information and command signals.

Given these threats, how should companies identify their vulnerabilities? Wylie explains, “The objectives that govern what needs to be protected in an industrial control system often depend on the criticality of the particular system; what is specifically considered to be at risk (i.e. people, assets or information); what known threats there are to the system; regulatory requirements; specific standards and other requirements that must necessarily be followed.”

Additionally, an asset owner’s particular risk tolerance also influences what is considered an acceptable level of risk for a system. In most cases, the objectives for safety, system availability and operational integrity of the system command the highest priority. In other cases, intellectual property, data confidentiality and tamper-protections are similarly critical.

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with another potential point of weakness. This may be control system to control system, control system to enterprise, or control system to remote access solution. As an example, wireless infrastructures that expand the reach of the system and allow for untethered assets also require attention. How company’s mobile assets are tracked, how third party connectivity is managed, and even how far is the reach of the wireless network itself are all part of what must be actively considered when establishing a risk profile for a control system that makes use of such technologies.”

Adding his thoughts on the challenges, Kulkarni asserts, “Many manufacturers today want powerful and effective remote monitoring and control solutions through the web. However, what is lacking is the usage of appropriate web-enabled automation components offering secured web access. Many manufacturers, in order to saving minor costs, use low cost and less or unsecured techniques for their remote monitoring and control solutions. This is the biggest challenge today.

Besides using a properly secured web-enabled device, they need to spend on deploying adequate recommended cyber security solutions.”

Designing a cyber security solution Considering the present as well as future threats, which key factors should be focused on while developing/designing a cyber security solution for industrial automation? Addressing this, Wylie says, “Protecting industrial control systems relies on understanding and being aware of risks and threats. It also relies on having the right types and levels of security controls in place to mitigate risk. Security solutions need to be tailored to the needs of multiple customer types including machine builders, system integrators, design engineers, operators, service technicians, and in some cases remote management and support services. It’s also important to consider how any protections might affect each type of customer during the system life cycle. For instance, it’s likely that only a limited set of security controls will be used during a system design and installation.” When the system moves to its operational phase, ideally additional security controls will be enabled. During system maintenance, some of those controls may need to be temporarily disabled, but of course should be closely tracked to make sure they are turned back on once the system is

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“Cyber security should not be viewed as an option, nor should it be left as an item open to be addressed at some point in the future” Doug Wylie, CISSP, Director – Product Security Risk Management, Rockwell Automation

returned to its operational mode. Wylie avers, “If special considerations are not given to the fact that different security controls will be used at different times in the lifecycle of the system, it’s likely over time, many controls will be turned off and remain off for the life span of the system. Considering all of these factors can be complex and at times, overwhelming.

So, it is sometimes helpful to seek out advice, training and to also get help from outside reputable sources.”

According to Kulkarni, “The moment a company has infrastructure and devices that are web-enabled in the plant, it has to have a common plant network that is essentially Ethernet-based. Using encrypted communications on the same for industrial data exchanges is inevitable. Hence, a manufacturer has the responsibility of using strong encryption technology based platforms like PROFINET while also choosing proper industrial grade secured web enabled devices.

Additionally, this also needs to be complimented by appropriate cyber security solution. For example, remote access techniques using VPN (Virtual Private Network), two factor authentication, etc. In two factor authentication, the user is authenticated via a user ID and password (normally PKI based for more positive conformance). The user has a domain account and a hardware authentication token. This method provides high degree of certainty that the user really is who they claim to be.”

Need for modern cyber security support As a company deploys new age automation, it must also consider its needs for modern cyber security support. As per Wylie, new approaches to network architectures that enable remote access into systems, increases in computing power through virtualisation, enhance the ability for systems to share data and even exponentially scale via cloud services are becoming more commonplace in industrial control systems.

Along with the adoption of these solutions come new risks to the data and to the operational integrity of a control system and other systems to which it interconnects. Many questions arise: Where is my data? Who owns my data if I can’t see it?

What happens if my control system loses communication with my cloud provider? Should I create my own private cloud? Is my remote connection secure?

“Considering the cloud, all the best practices and risk management approaches used to secure industrial control systems and business enterprises likely cannot reach third

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party’s cloud infrastructure. The benefits these new technologies are highly compelling, yet they also should raise concerns that should be addressed by greater communication with service providers so risks are clearly understood. Here again, it can help to involve reputable, competent people with experience that can help make sure control system objectives are met along with the security objectives,” avers Wylie.

Speaking on cloud technology, Kulkarni points out, “Today, hardly any industrial manufacturer prefers to have real-time plant data stored on cloud. This is because of the fear of possible security breaches in addition to the cost. The security issue as such is well-mitigated these days by the IT champions who are strong advocates of cloud technology.” Adding his views, Arcot suggests, “In my opinion, end users should not look only at the economic benefits of using cloud-based solutions. I do not see how an end user can ensure security of cloud servers. True, there may be legal options available, but they will not serve the purpose in case of control system applications.”

Technology developments Manufacturing and process control systems are continuing to see more intelligent network appliances both inside and at the edges of these systems. Many of these new products include a growing set of capabilities designed specifically to enhance protection, increase visibility to data, and to give greater control over the information that moves within, enters or exits the system. Wylie affirms, “Industrial products that control operations and perform action in the system are often linked by network infrastructure appliances that come in contact with most every bit of data on a wire. They too are also becoming smarter and more data & network aware. For instance, some managed switches, routers, firewalls, as well as programmable automation controllers and industrial control products have a growing set of capabilities to help make them resilient to attacks while also affording customers the ability to choose added security features to help protect the device from unauthorised changes.”

Some also have security capabilities operating in the background that perform greater levels of integrity checks on data & firmware and enhance communications to build added trust with other products within a system. He adds, “Over time, such capabilities will continue to become more standard and

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“Cyber security goes beyond deploying specific technologies; it is a part of the overall governance processes and risk management across the enterprise” Rajabahadur Arcot, Independent Industry Analyst/Columnist & Automation Consultant

mainstream because they help address customer concerns and also help reduce risks to the safe and reliable operation of the systems used in manufacturing and process control.”

On the research frontier, which technology influencers are affecting the development roadmap of such cyber security solutions for industrial automation technologies? Answering this, Kulkarni explains, “Mobile technology and access to plant via the same is actually affecting the roadmaps of cyber security solutions. Many users today want to use web-enabled devices for the much known benefits but are not prepared to invest for the required security elements. The low priced web access solution for remote monitoring and control through laptops, tablets, smart phones, etc are excellent and handy means for remote monitoring and control. However, deploying adequate security solutions to compliment this powerful tool and ensuring proper authenticated remote access anytime is essential.”

As per Wylie, “Products such as industrial managed switches, routers and next-generation firewalls are continuing to gain new capabilities tailored toward industry and certain applications. With emerging needs and application demands, the intelligence of these products continues to expand allowing them to better understand the data passing through a system and the context of the application so they can make decisions in real-time about how to handle and route data.” Other industrial control products such as programmable controllers and connected intelligent sensors and actuators are gaining enhancements to help them better protect themselves from a variety of adverse conditions they may experience when used in a control system and also build trust relationships amongst their peer devices.

Tapping collaboration benefits When it comes to the global manufacturing sector, how should software companies and industrial automation solution providers (ASPs) collaborate to ensure complete protection against evolving threats? Kulkarni avers, “Most critical is building the knowledge bridge between ASPs and software companies. ASPs have knowledge of implementing web functionality within their solutions but very poor knowledge about cyber security standards and implementation of cyber security framework.” Here, software companies can play an

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important role and work along with ASPs by firstly, creating awareness about the need for a cyber security frame work and sharing knowledge about how the same can be used together with web enabled automation platforms for completely secured applications over web. Secondly, they can develop plug-on type strong and cost effective but scalable (not low priced) cyber security systems and solutions and bundle cyber security solutions with automation solutions while making offers.

Adding his thoughts on such collaboration, Wylie comments, “Open standards and technologies have facilitated a connected world that now often includes direct linkage between manufacturing and business operations. As industry evolves, more attention is being given to precisely how connections are made, how data is being exchanged and how the underlying technology is being developed, tested and maintained. Building assurance in the data exchange amongst products is of growing importance as is making sure that systems are more resilient and robust. With suppliers becoming more sensitised to security risks and threats, and also more reliant on each other as interconnectivity leads to large complex systems, the importance of data security and operational integrity continues to rise.”

Elaborating on the thought, Arcot says, “Overcoming control system cyber-security challenges would call for automation suppliers to assess afresh the industrial-control system architecture and all its subsystems and components in the context of their vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks. It is essential for automation vendors to collaborate with other stakeholders including standards organisations to reevaluate the readiness to meet the challenge head-on and quickly develop and offer appropriate solutions with the help of collaborative partners that are inherently cyber secure.”

Recommendations for adoption of cyber security Protecting the industrial control systems from hackers calls for a comprehensive approach and begins with CEOs accepting cyber threats as a reality. Arcot avers, “Protecting the enterprise begins with implementing straight forward proper work related systems, such as access control and ensuring adherence to cyber security standards. Eternal vigilance, the readiness and ability of the enterprise to identify, recover, and nullify the effects of the cyber-attack are key to achieve fair degree of

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protection. Apart from these, the ability and preparedness to initiate counter measures to recover quickly from the attack are also critical. The most important thing is to be aware of the threats, take serious note of the same, and plan & implement counter measures. Cyber security goes beyond deploying specific technologies; it is a part of the overall governance processes and risk management across the enterprise.â&#x20AC;?

It is essential for the industrial company to create an in-house industrial control-system cyber security team. It has to begin with the clear understanding that ensuring ICS cyber security is not the same as ensuring data security. The industrial control-system cyber security challenges are different and it is necessary for the team to consist of experts in automation, information and communication technologies, and process technologies. Making a beginning in creating the in-house industrial control-system cyber security team that is charged with the responsibility to carry out security audit, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing, evolve solutions, and implement them.

As per Kulkarni, manufacturers, together with experts from cyber security systems must make adequate investments to have proper web-enabled automation on the plant floor integrated with cyber security system. It should have the required degree of security based on web functionalities required in the automation solution. On the other hand, Wylie believes that cyber security should not be viewed as an option, nor should it be left as an item open to be addressed at some point in the future. Unmitigated risk is still risk to a control system and to any system. Security that is proactively and thoughtfully designed into a system will remain superior to bolt-on security solutions. Giving ample consideration to security during system design, installation, operation and maintenance of control systems needs to be natural and treated in a similar manner to considerations for safety and operational integrity. Combining all of these elements together and building a security program that also includes training, awareness, discipline, planning, management and testing are necessary today, and will continue to be necessary in the future. Although determining where to start with protecting industrial control systems can seem like a daunting task, by following a methodical approach to understand risk, mitigate risk and manage that risk, it is possible to bring such risk to an acceptable level. â&#x2DC;? > MORE@CLICK ADI03484 | www.AandD24.in

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Numerical simulations for continuous manufacturing of active pharma ingredients Traditional manufacturing processes, which are batch processes, are no longer sustainable and there is no question that continuous manufacturing is the clear path forward towards leaner processes.

Multi-physics numerical simulation is emerging as a game-changing technology to help continuous manufacturing for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) become a reality through virtual prototyping, optimisation and modeling of the complete system.

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Ultra-lean manufacturing, from start of chemical synthesis to final pharmaceutical dosage form (courtesy of Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing)

The pharmaceutical industry is encountering a decline in been improving their productivity by successfully integrating productivity, and outdated “tried-and-true” batch processes continuous manufacturing into their plants. It is clear that are at the root of the problem. The batch-based systems regulatory hurdles and conservative thinking by the currently in place are inefficient due to segmented steps pharmaceutical industry can no longer be used as an excuse to involving multiple facilities and requiring start-and-stop of avoid taking pharmaceutical manufacturing into the 21st the batch, site-to-site transfer and warehouse storage. century.

Before continuous manufacturing can become mainPerformed through sampling and in post-production, quality assessment of the product is also cumbersome, causing long stream, potentially suitable candidate processes must be identified and designed, and risks must be analysed and lead times and waste.

Continuous manufacturing, a non-stop end-to-end mitigated. This will help manage regulatory compliance and manufacturing process, could modernise the industry and make a business case for implementation. Multi-physics solve its productivity crisis. At a recent MIT conference, Josef Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), a numerical method Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, stated that changing production for predicting the coupled behaviour of fluid, gas and from batch to continuous will transform the way medicines particulate flows including heat and mass transport, offers a are made around the world and could cut the time from solution for the enhanced understanding and design of these development to market-entry in half. Implementation of these novel processes. processes will result in smaller production plants, lower inventory costs, reduction in carbon footprint and higher Virtual prototyping quality products.

Traditional manufacturing processes are based on the The regulatory agencies are also starting to lay the groundwork for continuous manufacturing with several “design-build-test” principle in which the effects of design initiatives and regulatory frameworks such as the Process changes are quantified by experimental tests on physical Analytical Technology (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD). prototypes. There are currently very few suppliers who are Each of these encourages the development of new developing integrated systems for continuous manufacturing manufacturing technologies by building quality into the and, as a result, physical prototyping is anticipated to be very costly. Numerical simulations enable the engineer to build a process and using a science-based quantified risk approach.

Both the chemical and food processing industries have virtual laboratory, providing insight into the performance of a

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Figure 1: DEM simulation with STAR-CCM+ showing tablet velocity magnitude as they tumble in a coating pan

Figure 2: DEM simulation for tablet coating with STAR-CCM+ showing pill coating thickness in a fluidised bed

product before tests are carried out. This means that the uncertainty resulting from major process and equipment changes can be evaluated up front, leading to a significant risk reduction and cost savings.

Multi-physics CFD and state-of-the-art visualisation tools also offer a wealth of detailed information, not always readily available from laboratory or experimental tests. This not only results in an increased level of insight into the details of what is going on inside the processes, it also enables innovation.

For example, multi-physics CFD can help explore new reactions and molecules for drugs manufactured with a continuous process.

Technology’s HEEDS software) is an example of a tool that enables intelligent design exploration to easily consider “what if ” scenarios and identify the critical manufacturing points that define quality. For example, feeding devices for continuous manufacturing influence all downstream operations and design exploration of parameters such as feed rate will help identify their impact on final blend uniformity.

Simulating the system

Solving complex real-world problems demands an accurate, easy-to-use, multi-disciplinary approach to simulating complete systems. CFD-focused multi-physics engineering simulation tools such as STAR-CCM+ can accurately deliver Design exploration and optimisation full spectrum engineering results and the pharmaceutical In recent years, the phenomenal increase in computing industry should fully leverage these tools in support of the power and the maturing of robust simulation tools have paved development of continuous manufacturing processes. the way for using numerical design optimisation in production Up until now, integration of numerical simulations in a environments. Parameter studies and optimisation will be production environment has required a great deal of vitally important for designing and tuning of the new (often specialised knowledge, but this is no longer a showstopper. smaller) equipment required for continuous manufacturing Automation and ease-of-use are enabling the deployment of while ensuring that the operation can efficiently handle fast CFD for complex multi-physics applications. For example, reactions and remains flexible. In addition, the CFD-generated STAR-CCM+ offers state-of-the–art meshing, seamless responses - obtained through design of experiments over a integration with CAD and easy modeling of complex moving range of operating conditions and equipment design parts, all in a single integrated environment. The net result is parameters - can be combined with statistical models to more time for an engineer to analyse data instead of preparing identify risk and implement robust real-time process control. and setting up the simulations, resulting in engineering This will ultimately result in reduced variability and consistent, success. repeatable processes.

Seeing the “big picture” for continuous manufacturing will Optimate (a module in STAR-CCM+ using Red Cedar require a multi-physics approach to solving problems. Be it

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Figure 3: Mixer model showing the effects of increasing gas injection rate using STAR-CCM+

mixing, coating or drying, multi-phase flows lie at the core of the pharmaceutical processing industry. Capabilities such as Discrete Element Modeling (DEM), a numerical method for computing the interaction of a large number of small particles, and Eulerian Multiphase Modeling (EMP), a numerical method for simulating several phases in a system, will be invaluable for implementing continuous manufacturing of APIs. Two case studies are presented to demonstrate these capabilities.

Case Study 1: Direct Element Modeling (DEM) for pill coating DEM simulates the motion of a large number of interacting particles and tracks them in a numerically efficient manner, modeling contact forces and energy transfer due to collision and heat transfer between particles. DEM will be particularly important in the design and optimisation of continuous coating processes to help identify the important factors for equipment design (e.g. number of spray guns) and to determine optimal equipment operation conditions (e.g. inlet temperature).

Figures 1 and 2 show STAR-CCM+ generated solutions for two types of equipment currently used for real-world tablet coating: coating pan (rotating drum) and fluidised bed. In these simulations, DEM is used to analyse the random movement of the particles as layers of coating are applied.

Parameters such as particle velocities, residence time and coating thickness are tracked to assess and improve tablet coating uniformity. In addition to tablet coating, DEM can also be used to simulate other steps in manufacturing such as filling, filtering and conveyer processes.

Case study 2: Eulerian Multiphase (EMP) Modeling for mixing EMP modeling provides an effective means for studying the interacting streams and randomly dispersed phases in multiphase flows. The EMP model in STAR-CCM+ includes an extensive range of sub-models including break-up and coalescence models for bubbles and droplets and a granular flow model for particles. Figure 3 demonstrates an EMP simulation of a gas-liquid mixer with three rotating impellers.

Shown are the effects of increasing gas injection rates on gas.

The ability to predict gas hold-up, a parameter that governs mass transfer across the phases and consequently rates of reaction, is a key enabler in the design of such reactors. This approach adds valuable scientific insight into the decisionmaking criteria to develop practical solutions for mixing and other processes in continuous manufacturing.

Conclusion In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitive climate, manufacturing must become leaner with a focus on building quality into the process. Continuous manufacturing for the pharmaceutical industry will change the way drugs are made and multi-physics CFD simulations offer a cost-effective way to perform rapid prototyping for design of new equipment and processes. In particular, design optimisation tools and powerful multiphase models such as DEM and EMP will play an important role, and the pharmaceutical industry should fully leverage these state-to-the-art technologies for the design and implementation of continuous manufacturing processes. â&#x2DC;? > MORE@CLICK ADI03485 | www.AandD24.in

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Given that the global pharmaceutical markets are undergoing a period of change, it is expected that in the next few years, many patents for so-called blockbuster drugs will expire and, as a result, current studies are predicting an annual growth of 9% in the generics production. The variety of products available and the pressure on prices will also increase.

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Competitive prices and strict adherence to delivery deadlines are essential components of the service too.

Delivering on schedule is a core competence “In addition to quality standards, we are primarily judged on whether we can deliver our products on time”, explains Georg Reiser, Head, Packaging Competence Centre, Aenova Holding GmbH, Bad Aibling. “The pharmaceutical markets are highly competitive. As the leading European manufacturer of solid dosage forms, including soft and hard gelatin capsules, tablets and dragées, we have to supply the highest quality products at the best possible price in order to maintain our market position.” The Aenova Group is a full-service provider which has its headquarters in Pähl, Bavaria and seven sites in Germany, Switzerland, France, Romania and the USA where it develops, produces and packages pharmaceutical and healthcare products on behalf of multinational clients. Aenova supplies its products to all five continents, but its primary markets are based in Central and Eastern Europe as well as North America.

The machinery is crucial Orders in the packaging sector varies in particular range in size from large to very small. In addition, it is important for service providers to be updated with the packaging designs and formats as required in different countries. Around 600 million blisters are filled every year at Aenova’s three

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packaging sites. “This is why we need machinery that we can fully rely on and that is tailor-made to meet our needs”, says Reiser. Aenova has been using blister packaging machines from Romaco Noack for many years now. It currently has nine individual machines and two production lines supplied by the engineering company, which is based in Karlsruhe, in operation at its site in Bad Aibling in Bavaria. A Noack 960 blister system with rotary sealing and a maximum output of 600 blisters per minute is the most recent addition. It was installed in August 2012. The system includes the Promatic PC 4250 continuous motion cartoner and offers an end-toend solution for packaging tablets, capsules and oblongs. The new technology is the result of the most recent development cooperation between Aenova and Romaco Noack.

Development cooperation generates new impetus The cooperation between the two companies focuses on ensuring that the blister system was easy to use. It also shortens the changeover and cleaning times. While the aim was to enable one employee to change the product and packaging within a very short period, a systematic approach was taken to achieve this objective, by using a blister line model from the same family as the prototype. The Noack 930, which in principle is identical, has been in operation at Aenova since the summer of 2011. All the processes in this line were tested step-by-step under real production conditions and their potential for development was evaluated. The results of the

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tests were incorporated into the design of the new blister system and Romaco Noack’s systems are helping us to make system. “We were particularly impressed by Romaco’s single- full use of our capacity.” minded approach for developing and improving its blister packaging systems”, adds Reiser. “The new Noack 960 is highly Continuous process control reliable and meets all the technical requirements that we A further important requirement for efficient primary and specified during the planning process.” secondary packaging processes is reproducible process parameters. All the production data is entered and accessed Dual QuickFeed system via the user-friendly operating terminal of the blister system.

The weekly production volume of the new blister line is Processes that have been saved can be repeated at any time between 15 and 20 batches. It can be used, among other things, and current batch data can be checked quickly. A total of 17 for packaging multi-phase products, where there is a difference servo drives control the process of packaging the products between the morning and the evening dose, for example. into blisters and cartons. For example, the QuickAdjust station These products are generally supplied in combined blisters. control systems are responsible for the coding, perforating For this purpose, the company has equipped the new system and die-cutting processes. The servo drives automatically with two feed units, which allow the blisters to be filled with compensate for variations in foil characteristics. Also, a servotwo different products. During product changes, the patented controlled robotic transfer station moves the blisters to the QuickFeed technology makes it possible to remove the entire cartoner. A lifting and turning unit removes the packages feed unit without tools in a matter of seconds. An air glide from the die-cutting station and a vacuum conveyor is used to system enables the entire feed unit to be transferred to a transfer them to the stacking station where they are placed special transport truck and then moved to a specially equipped directly into the bucket chain of the cartoner. The high level of assembly room, where the format parts are removed, all the automation results in reliable processes and excellent product components are cleaned and the new tools are fitted. During quality. “We have been impressed by the outstanding efficiency the changeover and cleaning period, production can continue of the entire Noack 960 blister system, together with the with the second QuickFeed unit. “It is very important to us reduction in downtime and the very good price/ performance that our internal logistics enable us to fully exploit the ratio”, concludes Reiser. ☐ potential of the QuickFeed technology”, explains Reiser. “We > MORE@CLICK ADI03486 | www.AandD24.in are focusing on implementing a modern lean management

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A trend in mechanical engineering is the increasing maintenance optimisation with the goal of building plants requiring particularly little maintenance or even no maintenance at all. The contact materials used in the Kuebler slip rings, with contacts out of gold, silver, bronze and precious metal supports this trend: the slip ring requires minimum maintenance with an interval of 100 million revolutions, simply consisting of vacuum-cleaning the dust. Even in case of continuous operation, which is generally the case today with this kind of machines, this value is practically negligible.

The slip ring SRI085 relies on contactless signal transmission to the moving machine parts; it operates totally without mechanical wear.

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Open, adaptable & modular safety solution Just as products come in packaging of all shapes and sizes, operators expect reliability, high cycle speeds and, in particular, flexibility from their packaging machines. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s packaging machines have a high degree of automation, so there is a need for intelligent, modular safety concepts that seek to maintain economic viability and deliver a competitive edge. This feature highlights the use of Pilzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open, flexible and decentralised safety system by Oystar Group, a leading supplier of packaging machines.

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Today’s demands on packaging machines are equally functions. Thus, doors that have to be opened regularly or diverse, as products come in packaging of all shapes and sizes. temporarily are fitted with safety gate systems designed for Although packaging primarily protects the content, product applications up to PL e of EN ISO 13849-1 and in many cases presentation frequently boosts the incentive to buy and so is also have guard locking devices for process protection tasks. constantly adjusted to meet point-of-sale requirements. Even Earlier, these tasks would have involved costly and labourwhen the packaging tasks are changed frequently, operators intensive cabling work to install mechanical safety switches expect reliability, high cycle speeds and in particular, flexibility along with guard locking devices, and signals would have been from their packaging machines. Today’s machines have a high evaluated centrally via safety relays. Precise alignment between degree of automation. These days, there is an average of 18,000 the switch and actuator was difficult because mounting products on a supermarket’s shelves. In terms of marketing, tolerances were low and the diagnostics were not always packaging is a powerful, sophisticated instrument, which is reliable. This resulted in damaged switches and attempts to largely responsible for the product’s success. The forms of manipulate the safeguards. packaging that product and packaging designers are coming up with, are ever more refined and the task of creative Open and decentralised safety concept engineers is to develop automated and productive packaging For a short while, Oystar A+F considered integrating solutions to suit. Even the motto is “fast, efficient and economical”. Measures must be taken to counteract the risks safety technology into control systems of the various suppliers. to which machine operators or other people are exposed in This idea was soon shelved, however, on account of the high areas where processes are semi-automated or fully automated. level of complexity of the software tools for various systems It’s almost taken for granted that high-performance safety and the complicated software validation process this involved. technology will not obstruct the production process and will “Our primary aim was to define an open and decentralised work discretely in the background, so that the operators don’t safety concept that could be adapted to all control systems, even have to consider their physical safety. that could not only be designed in accordance with protection type IP67, but could also be implemented with clear separation of responsibilities between safety and standard”, says Manfred Increased demands on safety and performance Schuster, Head of Electrical Design at Oystar A+F. Since the Safety has been high on the list of priorities at the Oystar company was familiar with Pilz’s range of products and Group for many years. The company, whose origin dates back services following years of cooperation, it opted for the to 1893, is based in Stutensee near Karlsruhe, Germany and is configurable control system PNOZmulti Mini in combination one of the world’s leading suppliers of packaging machines, with decentralised periphery, the input modules PDP67. including related technologies and a broad range of services.

As a central safety component, the configurable control It supplies stand-alone machines through to turnkey packaging system PNOZmulti Mini has every safety-related function in lines via ten international production sites. These products its sights: Installed in the main control cabinet, the PNOZmulti include carton erectors, tray and case erectors, all-round Mini base unit with 20 digital inputs and 4 digital packaging machines, high-performance packers, semiconductor outputs monitors the emergency stop button, multifunctional packaging lines, palleting solutions as well as reset button and mode selector switch, as well as take control conveyor technology. The majority of packaging systems are of the servo amplifier all the way to a safe operational stop. used in the key industries of dairy, food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Safety gate system PSENslock ensures Oystar A+F, specialists for final packaging solutions, is higher productivity equipped throughout with an open, flexible and decentralised The safety gate system PSENslock from Pilz monitors the safety system from Pilz, which has extensive diagnostics

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Safety Calculator PAScal from Pilz enables functional safety to be verified and documented simply and with ease

machine access points via PNOZmulti Mini. Secure safety The software can use a graphic editor to model safety functions gate monitoring is combined with a non-contact magnetic and define not only their structure but also the usage pattern interlock with either 500 N or 1000 N. Thanks to the flexible of the individual components. Given the extensive library connection options, PSENslock can be used for safety gate functions, it is possible for users to import machine data in monitoring up to PL e, both individually and in series, and the standard library formats or to create and manage their guarantees maximum manipulation protection. The safety own libraries. The result is compared with the safety gate system passes the signals to the decentralised PDP parameters required for the safety functions and is displayed modules / PNOZmulti Mini. Gates, which do not require in graphic form. guard locking are fitted with the coded safety switch PSENcode.

The connection is also made directly on-site via the A competent partner for every occasion decentralised PDP67 modules.

The close collaboration between Oystar and Pilz resulted When plant and machinery are interlinked and when machines are assembled as modular systems, PNOZmulti in a system standard for safety, which can be adapted to cater Mini systems are simply linked to each other, thereby to individual needs and requirements of various installations guaranteeing that signals are exchanged safely. “By swapping and machine types. Not only did Pilz supply the machines and the mechanical switches for the safety gate system PSENslock systems, but the company was also responsible for the design, from Pilz, our customers can increase the productivity and product selection, commissioning, after-sales service and support. “For us, it was an advantage that even during the reliability of their machines considerably”, explains Schuster.

The software tool PNOZmulti Configurator makes light commissioning phase we were able to call on Pilz’s technical work of the configuration of the whole system. The clearly support at any time, and that support was always straightstructured, intuitive user interface speeds up the commissioning forward”, affirms Schuster.

With their distributed structure, the products in the process. All the configuration and function elements are available either as icons or in selection menus. All inputs and PNOZmulti range developed by Pilz are ideally suited to outputs are free to select and can be linked using logic elements systems requiring a standardised solution, from the standvia a simple drag and drop function. Pre-defined, approved alone machine right through to modular networks. The large function blocks and menus make it easy for users. Safety number of different communication interfaces makes the functions require in-depth specialist knowledge, particularly configurable control system a safety standard that can be during configuration and implementation, so the fact that applied all over the world because it can be used independently certified safety blocks are already stored within the software of any specific operating control system. “We were looking for tool helps tremendously in gaining approval for the machine. a new, universal safety solution that could be clearly structured.

The Safety Calculator PAScal from Pilz enables functional And we found it, with the PNOZmulti Mini and the safety to be verified and documented simply and with ease. decentralised PDP67 modules”, summarises Schuster. ☐ The calculation software calculates and verifies the key safety Courtesy: Pilz parameters such as Performance Level (PL) and Safety > MORE@CLICK ADI03488 | www.AandD24.in Integrity Level (SIL) for plant and machinery safety functions.

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TOP 10 FIELDBUS MYTHS BUSTED Many myths and misconceptions continue to persist surrounding FOUNDATIONâ&#x201E;˘ technology. In this feature, we bust 10 persistent myths and misconceptions surrounding a technology that is proven in the field, reliable, and open.

The first commercial Foundation Fieldbus applications were installed in 1997. Since then, over a million devices have been sold into a billion dollar market of products, applications and services. Man-years of project expertise and best practices have also been accumulated. Today, there are very few greenfield projects that do not incorporate some Foundation technology, and there are an ever increasing number of control system modernisation and migration projects that are also benefiting from the technology. The process industries are well-known for being conservative, however, and many of the old issues encountered during the initial adoption phases continue to persist as myths today. Many other myths have no basis in fact at all and it is unclear how they got started in the first place.

The good news is that these myths and customer objections can actually be turned into opportunities for the value-minded salesperson. Busting these myths and uncovering the real story

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to the end user is a good way to point out the business value proposition that Foundation can bring to the end user. We have presented some of the most common myths here and provided you with the facts that bust these myths once and for all.

Myth no.1 Fieldbus implementation is too difficult: With proper training and the right partner, Foundation technology actually reduces the risk in the engineering and operational phase of the project, which also increases the net present value of the capital investment. Implementing Foundation technology does require different thinking and training. It is different, but not difficult. The accumulated knowledge governing Foundation Fieldbus engineering, for example, has been combined into a single set of free downloadable guides from the Fieldbus

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technology? Wireless technology has many advantages, but fieldbus and wireless technology are not mutually exclusive.

Wireless in control applications is a long way off, and no end user is going to totally replace their control system infrastructure to support only wireless devices. The Fieldbus Foundation has made it our policy to co-exist with industrial wireless technologies for process automation. Through our Wireless and Remote I/O project (WIO), the Foundation has Myth no.2 generated specifications for gateways to incorporate either ISA There is no cost benefit to Foundation Fieldbus: When best 100.11a or WirelessHART data into FOUNDATION systems. practices for project engineering are followed, the installed Combining the wealth of diagnostic data in wireless devices cost of a Foundation fieldbus based system can easily be much with the capability to manage that data and turn it into useful less than a conventional system in several key areas. information in a Foundation fieldbus system is a powerful Instrumentation commissioning and checkout times are greatly solution. reduced. What used to take a field technician hours to accomplish, now takes minutes. Up to 75 per cent of all startup Myth no.4 delays directly relate to instrumentation and controls.

Foundation technology has the power to make commissioning There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough systems integrators with good project easier and to reduce overall commissioning times by as much implementation experience: With thousands of systems as 85 per cent. This results in faster plant startup and faster installed, there is a substantial body of knowledge that has time to production. If you are a first time implementer or if been established around successful implementation of Foundation technology is being deployed at your site for the Foundation Fieldbus project, and the list of both suppliers and first time, it makes sense to invest in some training â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for your systems integrators with experience in fieldbus implementation instrument technicians, operators, and other people who can is substantial. Representatives from leading engineering firms are on the Foundation End User Advisory Council and were benefit from the technology.

Numerous end users have avoided unplanned shutdown instrumental in the creation of the System Engineering due to the diagnostics and function block capabilities of Guidelines.

Foundation fieldbus. Many end users view maintenance as one of their key costs that can be cut. End users have estimated that Myth no.5 more than half of maintenance activities result in no action.

Foundation technology with its predictive diagnostics can help Control in the field poses risks and compromises system users develop a proactive maintenance strategy that avoids availability: Control in the field is one of the key enablers for unnecessary trips to the field for routine scheduled achieving high availability control and a stepping-stone toward single loop integrity. If there is a malfunction in the HMI and maintenance. a loss of visibility into the process, controllers, or any other component in the system and the control loop, including Myth no.3 intelligent field devices, actuators and positioners, and the Why should I invest in Fieldbus when there is wireless network, remain unaffected. In cases where control resides in Foundation. The AG-181 System Engineering Guidelines can be downloaded from the Foundation web site or by visiting the end user eesources section at www.fieldbus.org. The guide is a comprehensive resource that contains best practices for the engineering, design, and installation of Foundation Fieldbus systems.

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Control in the field produces measurably faster response times

the DCS, field level control can add another level of redundancy.

Many end users have already managed to avoid unplanned downtime when field level control took over after a failure in the system. Field level control means not only increased availability and reliability, but also increased flexibility.

Controllers are free to handle higher level control functions such as advanced control and optimisation.

Myth no.6 I can get most of the field diagnostics I need from other technologies: Some network technologies offer diagnostic information, either digitally or through 4-20 mA technology.

Digital networks can handle more diagnostic data than their analog counterparts, but they real value goes beyond diagnostic data. It’s what you do with all that data to turn it into useful information to help you run your business. Only Foundation Technology has the ability to take large amounts of data from field devices, digital valve positioners, and other instruments in your plant and turn it into useful information. Problem resolution hinges on the ability of systems to put data into the appropriate context. The data from Foundation devices is constantly being updated. Instead of having to poll devices for data, the data is pushed to the applications and the people that need it when they need it. Data is prioritised, to avoid alarm flooding. The data is time stamped and you can archive it and retrieve it. Foundation technology also has peer to peer communication capability, allowing devices to communicate with each other, which significantly expands the diagnostic capability of the overall system.

Myth no.7 There are interoperability issues with fieldbus devices: One of the founding principles of the Fieldbus Foundation is the support of interoperability – the ability to operate multiple devices from multiple manufacturers in the same system without loss of functionality. The H1 Interoperability Test Kit

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(H1 ITK) tests the functionality of a device and its conformity with Foundation fieldbus function block and transducer block specifications. An excellent tool for troubleshooting and debugging devices, the test kit includes all hardware and software required to ensure a manufacturer’s complete device interoperability as specified by the foundation’s official registration testing procedure. The H1 ITK has now been updated to support powerful field diagnostics capabilities, which standardise how all fieldbus devices communicate their diagnostic data to the host system and asset management system–regardless of the vendor. The Foundation also offers an extensive Host Registration Program. The Fieldbus Foundation’s Host Profile Registration Process requires that the host profile under test must support a clear set of required features. Under the registration process, fieldbus hosts successfully completing the test requirements are authorised to bear the official Foundation product registration symbol.

Hosts may include configuration tools, recording devices, alarm display panels, Human-Machines Interfaces (HMIs), or systems with a combination of functionality.

Myth no.8 Fieldbus is only good for new projects and not for modernisation or migration projects: Fieldbus technology is surprisingly well-suited for modernisation and migration projects, not just for large grassroots applications. Foundation Fieldbus is compatible with much of the existing wiring found in today’s plants. According to ARC Advisory Group, control system migration is the biggest issue facing end users today, and the installed base of process automation systems reaching the end of their useful life is around $65 billion. Over the years, many systems have been upgraded in a phased manner, usually at the application level. Today, we see more and more of the I/O, wiring, and control infrastructure that needs to be replaced.

More than anything, users are looking to avoid a function replacement in their migration strategy – replacing their old system with a new system that has exactly the same functionality

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and architecture. As more end users replace their legacy hardware and applications, they are realising the value of FOUNDATION Technology to get more diagnostic data from their devices, reduce unplanned downtime, and cut down on the amount of wiring, I/O, and associated labour and infrastructure required in a conventional 4-20 mA system.

Myth no.9 Foundation Fieldbus for process safety systems will not work: TĂ&#x153;V granted Protocol Type Approval for the Fieldbus Foundation Safety Instrumented Functions (FFSIF) specifications in 2006. The specifications outlined by the Fieldbus Foundation comply with the IEC 61508 standard for functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems requirements up to, and including Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3). With the release of the FFSIF specification, suppliers are developing products and systems that will be able to incorporate fieldbus diagnostics, partial stroke testing, and network monitoring and management capabilities to process safety systems. Many major end users such as Aramco and Shell have beta systems running FFSIF logic solvers and devices running today, and have openly stated that they would like to deploy this technology on all of their upcoming major projects.

No changes were made to the fundamental H1 protocol for implementation in safety instrumented systems, but additional device diagnostic functions and fault detection capabilities were required. In addition to the device diagnostics, the primary advantage to using FF-SIF as the network for safety applications is the network diagnostics that are possible.

Traditional analog-based networks lack the ability to detect noise, corruption, and faults in the network. More importantly, the data handling capability of Foundation technology means that you can commission your safety system faster. Users modernising their legacy safety instrumented systems must also replace the entire system, from the devices to the logic solver, to be compliant with safety standards such as ISA 84

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and IEC 61508 and 61511. FF-SIF offers reduced time to startup, easier regulatory approval, and reduced installed costs for process safety systems.

Myth no.10 Fieldbus is just for refining and chemical industry, not for batch applications or the regulated industries: Today, 10 of the top 20 food and beverage companies and 24 of the 25 top pharmaceutical companies are using Foundation technology.

Foundation technology makes it easier for regulated industries to achieve compliance. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are increasingly designing their plants for fast track construction by connecting multiple pieces of OEM skid mounted equipment together. Foundation technology makes it easy to integrate different skids from different OEM suppliers quickly under a single network and automation infrastructure. The reduced footprint of Foundation technology also lends itself well to the limited space requirements of many skid mounted systems.

Dealing with changes in scope that include adding new field devices after initial segments were installed is less painful because it is not necessary to install a home run cable for the device to the control cabinet.

Turning myths into opportunities The myths and misconceptions presented here can be used quite effectively to demonstrate the business value, return on investment, and improved operational performance that Foundation technology provides. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s digital age, there is no reason not to include an evaluation of Foundation technology for your automation requirements, whether it is a modernisation project or a grassroots facility. The Fieldbus Foundation has numerous resources to help suppliers and end users implement successful projects, develop quality products. â&#x2DC;?

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The Anybus X-gateway allows Nagel’s Allen Bradley PLC to communicate with any other industrial network

PROFINET which is frequently used in car manufacturing plants. “We first started out with third party network cards,” says Jim Saule, Director — Information Technology, Nagel Precision Inc. “However, these were a bit cumbersome since they required a lot of configuration and were also quite expensive. It was also sometimes hard to find the correct card.

That’s when I started investigating into the Anybus X-gateway from HMS. I liked the fact that one could support several different networks with the same configuration – something which would save us a lot of work.”

Cost cut About two years ago, the first Anybus X-gateways were installed in Nagel Precision’s systems. The solution was delivered by HMS’s distributor in Michigan – McNaughton McKay Inc. The possibility to focus on the core business instead of network connectivity has been an important decision parameter for choosing Anybus – the fact that the gateways are half the price of the third-party cards. “We don’t want to understand every type of controller out there,” says Saule. “We would rather focus on perfecting our honing machines. Anybus X-gateways has allowed us to do just that. Furthermore, the third party network cards cost us about 1200-1500 dollars each, now we are down to around half that cost for a gateway.”

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How it works If the honing machine is to be installed in a factory that runs EtherNet/IP, it can be connected directly and communicated on the network. But if the factory runs another network (for example PROFINET), an Anybus X-gateway is required. The gateway works as a translator between EtherNet/ IP and the factory system and ‘translates’ parameters such as positioning data, status of the drives, start/stop commands etc.

The communication stream is transparent on both sides of the gateway making the honing machine a separate node on the factory floor, fully able to communicate with the plant-wide network. “We have been using the Anybus X-gateway for more than two years now and it has been flawless,” says Saule. “I have been designing these types of systems for more than 20 years and really appreciate the fact that we can support several different networks with the Anybus X-gateway. This enables us focus on our core business – building honing machinery – rather than working with compliance for different networks. I would definitely recommend any machine builder to look into Anybus, the variety is great and there are substantial savings to be made”. ☐ Courtesy: HMS Industrial Networks > MORE@CLICK ADI03490 | www.AandD24.in

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Becoming smarter & efficient With the advent of smarter measuring technologies, measuring instruments are now error-free, easy to operate and most importantly multi-functional. This article deals with latest technology trends and innovations in testing & measuring instruments.

Today, the Indian industry is witnessing a key trend of increased quality-consciousness, lean processes and inclination towards energy savings. The realisation that energy saved can be turned into profit is growing with time. Also, increased awareness to reduce environmental impact, for example, through controlled industrial emissions, is expected to have an impact on the test equipment market.

Energy savings & PAT scheme Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), under the Ministry of Power, India recently introduced Perform Achieve Trade (PAT) scheme with an aim to reduce energy consumption in industries across India. BEE has notified every industry falling under this scheme about their energy efficiency targets. To implement this scheme, every industry has to appoint an energy audit cell to keep a track on its progress towards energy efficiency targets.

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Compliance to industry standards & norms Several industries are now achieving compliance to their industry-specific norms. This in-turn calls for the need of more accurate, precise and robust test & measuring technology.

In other developed countries, several industry norms are already in place and industries comply with the same. However, in India, it is just the beginning.

Multi-functional measuring instruments With the advent of smarter technology, with little or no scope for human intervention, measuring instruments are now errorfree, easy to operate, convenient to use and most importantly, multi-functional. One single instrument can measure multiple parameters, and can also make analysis easy, thus simplifying a technicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or an engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job. For example, the multifunctional instrument testo 480. With this instrument and its

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Measurement technology is penetrating deeper into varied It’s time to switch over into the age of efficiency – from analog industries. Today, data loggers and wireless monitoring system to digital refrigeration manifolds. The HVAC system’s efficiency – Saveris are used in many pharma plants & cleanrooms for can be improved not only with skilled technicians but also climate monitoring. with accurate measuring instruments. Digital 550 can measure High energy plants such as cement, steel and power find multiple parameters with a single instrument. Analog readout Testo flue gas analysers as an inevitable solution for emission increases chances of errors, is time consuming and difficult in monitoring and complying to pollution control board norms. handling. While digital testo 550 is fast & accurate and is easy Any maintenance department – be it electrical or mechanical to handle, its large illuminated digital display minimises errors. finds extensive applications of thermal imagers for predictive There are different gauges for different refrigerants. But testo & preventive maintenance. The company ensures that the 550 - single manifold has 39 different refrigerants stored. HVAC contractors or facility managers are equipped with the Analog output requires to be processed in the form of charts & best-in-class measurement technology with all rounder multicalculations in order to derive conclusions. But a digital 550 parameter measuring instruments, refrigeration manifolds, facilitates fast conclusions derived from all information on the leak detectors and so on. It has instruments such as testo 635-2 display itself. Thus, it’s the digital age driving more efficiency which comes with a U-value probe that helps evaluate energy by reducing errors and saving time & efforts. efficiency of buildings by measuring heat losses of walls & windows.

U-value measurement otherwise is a tough task as it Smarter technology requires three temperature values to be measured concurrently Easy accessibility and easy availability of USB connectivity is a and U-value is then required to be calculated. But testo prime advantage boosting the USB-based technology in test & instrument automatically displays U-value as a result of three measurement industry. Almost all devices around, be it a measured values via its three wires. mobile or a desktop are equipped with USB connection.

Moreover, with one multi-port USB, multiple devices can be Key drivers of test & measurement industry connected simultaneously. There is no loss of signal, whatsoever, Simpler & reliable technology, easy to operate, convenient to while transmitting the data through USB. At the same time, the awareness regarding wireless use, robust, error-free and minimum human intervention are technology and its demand is increasing rapidly. Users of some of the key technology trends customers can look out for wireless test equipment enjoy the freedom from wiring and in future. Availability of software and other aids make analysis cabling mess, low maintenance and reduced manpower. Also, part of measurement simpler and error-free too. There is no its installation is simpler than imagined – in shortest possible doubt that every new product that gets introduced in the time and in lower costs too. With very low downtime, wireless market has some remarkable features to look out for. The test technology in totality, provides far more returns on the money & measurement technology just gets incredibly smarter with as against the wired technology. Testo’s wireless data monitoring advanced technologies. ☐ > MORE@CLICK ADI03491 | www.AandD24.in system called Saveris for temperature & humidity measurement

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Automation in renewable energy The article highlights how automation vendors are addressing the challenges in providing sustainable and efficient automation solutions to the renewable energy sector. Utility companies are investing in automation and control solutions (ACS) to optimise generation, monitor and control operations, and energy management. There is also a great need for automation solutions on the transmission and distribution side of renewable energy generation, to cut T&D losses.

There is no denying that India is expected to face an energy natural gas supplies to power plants. Focusing on renewable crisis in future, if it continues its huge dependence on fossil energy has twin benefits. Firstly, it reduces the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fuels, such as coal and natural gas. India is one of the largest dependence on non-renewable energy. Secondly, it eases energy consumers across the world and its burgeoning imports to bridge the fiscal deficit. However, there needs to be population demand for energy is expected to increase rapidly. consistent investment in developing the infrastructure to Energy security is a key requirement if India expects to grow harness renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, consistently at over 7% per annum. A viable solution lies in biomass and small hydro. harnessing the available renewable energy sources, which will Currently, according to the government estimates, roughly decrease dependence on fossil fuels. This gains significant 12.6% of the total installed capacity is from renewable sources. importance on the back of recent issues with coal linkages and The government should incentivise projects based on renewable

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energy to realise the actual potential of renewable energy. The target for renewable energy capacity addition under the 12th Five Year plan is 29,800 MW, which will take the share of renewable energy to roughly about 17% of the total installed capacity. A planned capacity addition under the 12th plan is approximately a third of the planned capacity additions powered by coal and gas. A lot of the momentum is also driven by the government, which is active in bringing 100% FDI in renewable energy projects and providing incentives to renewable energy generation, such as the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission for both grid-connected and off-grid solar systems. There is a higher push for renewables compared to conventional fuels, as renewable energy generation is becoming cost competitive compared to thermal power generation. Generation based incentives (GBI), renewable energy certificates (REC), and renewable purchase obligations (RPO) will also push investments in this sector.

ACS enables efficient management and effective utilisation of resources in renewable power generation. Automation vendors are offering ACS as part of a larger, integrated solution specifically designed for renewable power generation.

Automation solutions in renewable energy Automation vendors have woken up to the challenges in providing sustainable and efficient automation solutions to the renewable energy sector. Utility companies are investing in ACS to optimise generation, monitor and control operations, and energy management. There is also a great need for automation solutions on the transmission and distribution side of renewable energy generation, to cut T&D losses.

Plant control and monitoring solutions such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) coupled with Human Machine Interface (HMI) & Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) and other intelligent control solutions enable supervisory control over power generation, transmission devices and assist in plant monitoring and safety. Power and Energy Management Systems (EMS) are responsible for efficient monitoring and control of generated power from generation plants to the distribution load centres.

At the distribution load centres, the DMS (Distribution Management System) takes responsibility of managing distribution from the load centres to the individual end users.

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Automation vendors are offering ACS as part of a larger, integrated solution specifically designed for renewable power generation

Intelligent field devices such as transmitters, analysers, valves, due to various incentives such as renewable energy certificates actuators, flow meters, and other field devices coupled with and renewable purchase obligations for each state distribution networking and communication equipment such as Foundation company. The hydro power sector aims to add over 100 Gigawatt Fieldbus can assist in real-time monitoring and control of (GW) to the overall installed capacity by 2032. Other renewable renewable energy systems and equipment. Control systems sources of energy such as biomass, urban, and industrial waste such as the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and variable power will see localised investments in India. With such a drive frequency drives will help in advanced control of Level 0 on renewable power generation, there will be a huge market for devices for efficient management as per requirement, thus ACS in India. Approximately 10 to 15% of the total project cost (excluding land cost) in solar and wind segment can be reducing power usage.

Automation and energy control centres (Level 3) can help in attributed to ACS. In the small and large hydro projects (small implementing plant level controls and provide complete and large hydro), the total spend on automation systems is visibility to entire systems. These systems can support scalable around 3 to 5% of the total project cost.

Increasing reliance on ACS to manage power generation and modular architecture of the underlying SCADA/EMS systems. They are intrinsically designed to enable expansion along with smart grids to ensure reliable T&D infrastructure and integration of diversely located multiple sub-systems and will propel the market for automation systems. These online interactive controls. Automation solutions for each level automation systems will replace the archaic and ageing of automation such as energy management solutions, motor infrastructure, thereby increasing flexibility in operations with and drive control solutions, control system applications, control real time management and control across the spectrum of centre applications will assist to increase flexibility in design power generation. and functionality of the underlying hardware systems.

On the T&D side, smart grids can be more effective in India Conclusion as it enables real-time data management, analyses and controls India is currently facing significant pressure on its resources power generation, transmission, and distribution. Smart grids will eventually evolve networking and communication systems due to increasing urbanisation, which does not augur well for it from the erstwhile serial systems to an IP based system utilising in the long term. A sustainable solution lies in complementing power generation from renewable sources as well as trimming routers and switches along the network. the demand side with a focus on energy efficiency. Sustainable cities and smart cities, which are gaining momentum in India, Opportunity for ACS in the renewable sector are based on a similar concept. Developing sustainable cities India has made good progress in bringing renewable will minimise energy requirements, reduce pollution of natural technologies to the fore and offering excellent opportunities for resources and its environmental impact, a way to a better future ACS manufacturers. New installations of wind and solar energy in the country. â&#x2DC;? are expected to rise significantly in the 12th plan. The renewable Courtesy: Frost & Sullivan > MORE@CLICK ADI03492 | www.AandD24.in energy sector is anticipated to get a further boost from investors

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Innovation in smart robotics Without a doubt, robotics technology is an emerging priority. Today they play an important role in applications characterised with one of the 3Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: dull, dirty, or dangerous. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a look at how enabling technologies for the proliferation of robots in industrial and commercial applications have changed the paradigm of automation.

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After turning the dial to heavy duty and pushing the start Opening new perspectives button, Modi waits for the click which indicates that the According to Dr Cristina Cristalli, Director of the Research interlock mechanism successfully locked the door of the washing machine. Shortly after, the water starts to flow and the for Innovation Group at Loccioni, robotics is an excellent way machine indicates that the soak and scour phase is in progress. to move & place sensors and measurement equipment, opening Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for Modi to move on to the next washing a new perspective for the automation of reliability testing.

While she described some challenges, as well as the technologies machine.

Modi is short for MoDiBot, or Mobile Diagnosis Robot, an required for the adoption of autonomous platforms for one autonomous test platform for household appliance testing, very specific use case, she also explained that most of the developed by engineers at Loccioni, a leading provider of test, robotics systems used across industries and application areas measurement, and automation solutions from Italy. MoDiBot share the same core components and architectural approach. works in a test laboratory, allowing scientists and researchers to The combination of one or more robotic manipulators (arms) apply new technologies and validate the algorithms and mounted on top of an autonomous platform is a common applications of their autonomous systems to put them on the mechanical solution. Based on this combination, the industry touchstone for adoption in the life-cycle test laboratories of and research community has developed many application specific variations over the last few decades; however, robots white goods manufacturers around the world.

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are far from being ingrained in our everyday life and robotics technology has not been adopted at the same rate as information technologies or RF technology.

Paving the way The question that arises is what are the technologies that pave the way for robots out of the laboratory? Without a doubt, a significant part of the innovation takes place in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;smartsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the robot where a common architecture includes a network of interconnected embedded systems. Some of these embedded systems perform small and dedicated tasks such as battery management, motor control, or sensor fusion and are based on lower footprint programmable logic devices (PLDs) and microprocessors. Additionally, most robotic systems contain one or more high-performance embedded systems that use the latest processor technology to execute mission critical tasks, ensure safety, leverage machine perform image processing, and run advanced control algorithms. Overall, robots are complex mechatronical systems and programming them often requires a large team of PhD-level experts.

Another question that comes to mind is which technologies are driving robotics innovation and will transform robotics

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into a standard engineering discipline, allowing a broader adoption? The big innovations are in the embedded control systems, software tools, sensor technology and battery and energy efficiency technology. No matter how complex the hardware architecture might beâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sense, think and act is a common paradigm to implement innovative robotic applications.

A big impact on the adoption of robotics comes through the ever increasing processor performance. Only recently available in desktop PCs, powerful multicore-processors have been adapted for embedded systems. These processors are attractive for robotics systems because lower footprint embedded systems comply with tight power, space, and weight constraints of the robotics industry. Powered by real-time operating systems, they are capable of executing many of the mission-critical tasks, close control loops, and can perform I/O operations and communicate with other devices.

Development of robotics applications The computational components alone, however, will not simplify the development of robotics applications. According to Dr David Barrett, well-known roboticist and professor at

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Olin College, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the robotics industry badly needs an industrial grade, hardened, richly supported software development system to build intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots that can sense, think, and act in the complex real world around them.â&#x20AC;?

In other words, industry needs a software tool that abstracts the complexity of these interconnected high-performance computational devices and provides ready-to-use building blocks for the most common tasks in robotics applications such as sensor connectivity, navigation, localisation, path planning, obstacle avoidance, or vision guided motion. Over the last couple of years, industry and the research community developed these types of tools in the form of open source software packages like Willow Garages Robot Operating System (ROS) or commercial tools like NI LabVIEW Robotics. The labview robotics is a graphical system design tool that supports different models of computation for the implementation of robotics applications and makes it possible to deploy to different targets such as multicore processors, real-time processors, or FPGAs. Besides embedded control systems and high-productivity software tools, sensors and sensor connectivity play a key role; thus, it is not surprising that the current proliferation of sensors is shaking up the robotics industry. The availability of compact Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors that are heavily used in commercial products such as smart phones or controllers for entertainment consoles have led to a price erosion for accelerometers, gyro sensors, and even more standard sensors including light, pressure, or temperature.

However, it is not solely about price. The MEMS technology also simplifies the processing of sensor information because the devices include signal conditioning and translate the sensor information into useful data that is sent back via standard protocols such as I2C. The reuse of commercial technologies sometimes goes even further. Rather than capitalising on price advantages for components used in commercial products, the robotics industry adapts the commercial product directly. USB cameras or the popular Kinect controller from Microsoft are

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good examples that demonstrate this trend. Recently, this commercial product made it possible for many robotic systems to recognise and locate objects in a 3D space at a significantly lower cost than previous solutions.

Deploying robots effectively The last key area of innovation to deploy robots to the field is the area of energy efficiency and battery technology. Operated in a research laboratory, robotic systems usually stay connected to a power outlet. While this might work for some applications areas, there are many use cases of robotics where the autonomous operation requires independent energy sources often in the form of batteries. Implementing energy efficient operation of the robot actuators and using low power embedded control systems can help reduce energy consumption. At the same time, there has been a lot of innovation in battery technology, which is driven by the focus of the automotive industry on alternative energy sources for modern vehicles and the increasing use of mobile devices like laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The robotics industry can capitalise on the heavy investment of global players such as Toyota, GM, Apple or Samsung.

All of these technologies were essential components in the design and deployment of MoDiBot to the first life cycle test facility. Robotic technology allowed the manufacturer to perform automated testing of dozens of devices at the same time and around the clock. The same technologies that enabled Loccioni to develop their revolutionary test system will help to grow the adoption of smarter robots in industrial and commercial applications and will transform robotics technology into a commodity engineering discipline rather than simply a research exercise. Ultimately, this will make it possible for robots to leave the laboratory and settle into our everyday life. â&#x2DC;? > MORE@CLICK ADI03493 | www.AandD24.in

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From production automation to professional service robotics Under the motto “Optimise Your Production”, AUTOMATICA 2014, held recently in Munich, Germany, exhibited the relevant topics dealing with production optimisation in five trade fair halls, where experts from industry and research talked about sustainability ranging from production and lightweight construction to professional service robotics and smart factory (Industry 4.0) The 6th edition of AUTOMATICA, organised by VDMA Robotik + Automation, offered automation solutions for competitive production, energy efficiency, lightweight construction, professional service robotics and Industry 4.0, among the main topics. AUTOMATICA 2014, held on June 3-6, 2014, drew a positive balance: over 10% more visitors and 7% more exhibitors than the previous edition. Dr Reinhard Pfeiffer, Deputy Trade Fair CEO, said, “The growth rates and the high degree of satisfaction among exhibitors and visitors prove that AUTOMATICA has expanded its leading role.”

Patrick Schwarzkopf, Managing Director, VDMA Robotik + Automation, added, “AUTOMATICA provides a decisive contribution to a change in production as an innovation platform. Trade visitors from the whole world learn what the future looks like at AUTOMATICA.”

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Robotics and automation gaining global importance A total of 32% of the visitors came from foreign countries, an increase of more than 15% as compared to the last edition.

“The motto of AUTOMATICA – “Optimise Your Production” – is experiencing a boom throughout the whole world,” explained Hans-Dieter Baumtrog, Chairman, Board of VDMA Robotics + Automation. “It concerns the quality, safety and sustainability of products. Integrated assembly solutions, robotics and industrial machine vision are the key to success in this context. The increasing internationalisation of AUTOMATICA is a clear indication of this development,” he added. Stefan Kapferer, Permanent State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy,

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Industrial experts discussed the latest technologies, innovation, research needs and the challenges in the global robotics and automation industry

said, “AUTOMATICA has once again demonstrated the outstanding position of Germany in robotics and automation.”

Blue Competence – the sustainability initiative of VDMA VDMA Robotik + Automation presented the sustainability initiative Blue Competence, at its booth. The focus was on sparing use of resources and sustainable production processes.

The main topics of the initiative were energy saving, minimising emissions and consumption of raw materials, life cycle costs, the recycling industry and future mobility. A simulator at AUTOMATICA made the topic of energy efficiency comprehensible.

Automated production of lightweight components Energy efficiency and sustainability also determine the increasing importance of lightweight construction solutions in very different branches of industry. A decisive factor in this context is the automated production of lightweight components – above all in the area of composites. The special exhibition “Automated Composite Production” and the conference for “Industrial Composite Production” during the show examined state-of-the-art technology for increasing process speed and reducing production costs. Practical examples from the industry sectors – automobile construction and aerospace as well as mechanical and plant engineering were the focus of the conference, which was organised by the leading-edge cluster MAI Carbon.

ISR/ROBOTICS 2014 The largest robotics conference in Germany (8th German Conference on Robotics) in connection with the 45th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) took place during the show this year. The conference was organised by the Fraunhofer IPA and the German Robotics Society (DGR).

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Experts showed the latest in research and development concerning components and technologies as well as new markets and applications in approx 150 presentations in this event.

SPARC: € 2.8 billion for European robotics The role of the industry is becoming very clear on a European level. Neelie Kroes, Vice President, European Commission, announced the world’s largest civil robotics promotion programme SPARC at AUTOMATICA 2014. With a total volume of € 2.8 billion, Europe’s leading position is to be expanded and consequently more than 240,000 jobs created.

Kroes emphasised: “AUTOMATICA is a perfect opportunity to showcase the latest European robotics technology.”

Man & machine to work hand-in-hand Robotics and automation are reaching a new dimension with man-machine cooperation. Robots are handling work in the place of people that is monotonous, injurious to health and requires no special job skills. This makes workplaces more productive, flexible and ergonomic. The event also showed the enormous potential for small- and medium-sized firms in numerous examples.

Professional service robotics – a fantastic start Marketable service robotics created a lot of interest. More than 60 companies, specialised in service robotics with B2B relation, exhibited the outstanding possibilities of intelligent service robots and components from the areas of medicine and nursing, inspection and maintenance as well as logistics. The Berlin-based company, Argo Medical Technologies won the first Service Robotics Masters Start-up Award with its exoskeleton suit, which provides paraplegics with the possibility to walk again. ☐ Courtesy: VDMA Robotik + Automation > MORE@CLICK ADI03494 | www.AandD24.in

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Reimagining what’s possible in 3D design Siemens PLM Software hosted Solid Edge University 2014 (SEU2014) on May 12-14, 2014 at Atlanta, USA, to provide a unique opportunity to its users to enhance their productivity, and have a firsthand look at Solid Edge ST7.

Siemens PLM Software organises Solid Edge University every year to introduce lastest technologies and equip its users with the knowledge & tools to work with an ability to reimagine what’s possible in 3D design. This year, the day 1 of SEU2014 began with an energetic presentation by Karsten Newbury, Senior VP and GM — Mainstream Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software, on how their technologies have been efficiently and innovatively used by various leading manufacturers in the world. He presented interesting case studies on how their CAD software helped Swiss ski manufacturer Stöckli to produce customised products in large numbers. Ever since the ski makers’ combined experience has been available as a dataset in the Solid Edge CAD software, the

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design of a ski variant takes only an hour instead of two days, Newbury mentioned.

Next, Newbury placed the limelight on the use of Siemens PLM software by NASA scientists to help create the Mars rover ‘Curiosity’. On the strategic initiatives, he said, “Our key focus is on empowering the user to design and better development of the synchronous technology to help products market better.

This year, we will be launching apps store for Solid Edge.

Eurozone stores will also go live in the coming months. We are also getting into close collaboration with GrabCAD and Kenesto this year.” Following this, Hardi Meybaum, CEO, GrabCAD announced that his company has licensed Siemens’ Parasolid® software to provide 3D model interrogation,

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“Our Edison2 Very Light Car that won the Automotive X Prize was entirely designed in Solid Edge. The subscription model now exists in Solid Edge, which takes it one step further. For a temporary job, it helps us in adjusting the cost.”

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inspection and visualisation within their Workbench application for cloud-based product data management.

The keynote address for Day 1 was presented by Ali Kermani, Product Designer, Brand Manager, and VP — Digital Media, Razor USA, who bagged the Toy-of-the-Year award for his innovative Crazy Cart. Kermani amazed the audience with his drifting stunts on stage & efforts put in by him & his team to develop the award winning Crazy Cart. He pointed out how his journey was simplified from ideation to reality stage with the use of Solid Edge software. This was followed by the launch of ST7, the newest version of Solid Edge 3D design solution.

Accelerating product design management Packed with 1,300 user-requested enhancements, Solid Edge ST7 grabbed the audience attention with its remarkable attention to detail, newly-added functionalities and ease of use.

Introducing ST7, Dan Staples, VP — Solid Edge Product Development, Siemens PLM Software, focused on four major pillars for its development: accelerating 3D modeling, streamlining design management, powering up with new apps and ensuring amazing user experience.

Some of the standout enhancements included creation of blank from a 3D model. Staples explained, “Rapid creation of manufacturing information for components that are manufactured using forming, stamping and deep drawn manufacturing processes is now possible using the “Create Blank” command that enables you to create a flattened blank from any 3D model. Formability of different materials is assessed and blank sizes are calculated.”

ST7 also boasts of a breakthrough duplicate components command. “This command speeds assembly design in which components are duplicated in many positions and orientations.

Multiple copies of a component can be created based on designated “from” and “to” positions and orientations of existing components,” explained Staples.

Major additions also include easy and powerful photorealistic rendering of products designed using Solid Edge with a tightly integrated rendering capability that is included with Solid Edge Classic and Premium. The solution uses KeyShot®, the fastest & easiest way to create beautiful product images and processes concurrently with modeling operations.

Staples elaborated, “You can render while you design. Any changes to the model are automatically updated in the rendered

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image using the “Live Link” capability with no need for you to reassign materials, set up animations again or update any other settings. The resulting images are presented using KeyShot’s viewport concurrently with the modeling session.”

The enhanced Microsoft Surface Pro in ST7 offers full support for Solid Edge design tasks and expanded support for finger gestures is now included. For example, a single finger drag enables a pan operation in 2D and a rotate operation in 3D, and a two finger pinch enables a zoom-in operation.

The launch of ST7 was followed by presentations on “Technology mega-trends driving innovation in product design”

by Jeremy Barnes, Partner Evangelist, Global ISV, Microsoft and “Make time-to-market your competitive edge – empowering design and manufacturing” by Nishant Saini, Director – Product Sales & Marketing, Geometric Americas. Saini also informed, “We have announced the availability of version 2014 of CAMWorks for Solid Edge software. The new version provides tighter integration to enable customers to reduce programming time to further accelerate time-to-market. The feature-based approach seems much more intuitive than the process of creating profiles and chains method. The automatic feature recognition and tool path associatively helps reduce programming time by as much as ten times.” Post the presentation, the participants indulged in technical breakout sessions on how can open engineering help in faster working, simplifying design, among others.

The keynote address for Day 2 was presented by Anthony Decarolis, CEO and Alon Razgour, Industrial Designer, Alpha Omega. They focused on the use of Solid Edge software for inventing medical devices that treat human brain. This was followed by a talk by Wes Shimanek, Workstation Segment Manager, Datacenter Group, Technical Computing Group, Intel Computing Group on “How to fast track product design?”

Breakout sessions with live demos & workshops followed.

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“We have announced the availability of version 2014 of CAMWorks for Solid Edge software, the 3D CAD tool from Siemens PLM Software for mainstream manufacturing market” Nishant Saini, Director - Product Sales & Marketing, Geometric Americas

In discussion with the management While commenting on how he anticipated the technology upgradation and the new functionalities of ST7 to be absorbed in various world markets, John Fox, VP – Marketing, Mainstream Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software affirmed, “The audience reaction during the debut were very positive. I am really excited about the breadth of new capabilities in ST7 and the fact that there was as much Solid Edge core platform & technologies as it was about our partnerships, what we call Solid Edge apps. In particular, the announcement of our partnership with Luxion has been wellreceived.” With many participating channel partners, users and industrial experts, let’s understand the business strategy that goes behind the launch of new functionalities every year.

Newbury asserted, “Solid Edge is a volume product. We have over 5 lakh seats now. We typically don’t have, like in the enterprise world, a handful of key customers that dictate what is developed. We really look at the broad market requirements.

Most of the times, this helps in addressing the requirements of most of the markets. We do have some examples where we have special drafting standards, where we place a special team to develop the specific needs for the market. In India, some years ago, we worked with a partner who developed special add-ons around the jewelry industry. So, 80% of the development is catered to the global requirements, as we look at special high growth markets and investments, starting with language. But generally, we have found that most of the functionalities can be found across the world.”

So, how are these breakthrough functionalities added every year? Addressing the query, Staples elaborated on the strategy that goes behind new product development. He briefed, “To me, it is about balancing process and innovation. It’s very easy to have processes and not be innovative. And it is hard to be innovative and do it randomly. The hard part is to have processes and innovation together. We have a team of about 15 people who are engineers with experience working in different industries and they know what engineers want. We have our industrial designers and graphics designers, who figure out what engineers want and how it can be delivered.”

User views One of the major users of the Solid Edge platform is Edison2, which combines sound physics with innovative

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“The duplicate command speeds assembly design in which components are duplicated in many positions and orientations” Dan Staples, VP – Solid Edge Product Development, Siemens PLM Software

“The audience reaction during the debut of ST7 were very positive, John Fox, VP – Marketing, Mainstream Engineering Software, Siemens PLM Software

design to produce workable & sustainable transportation solutions. A&D India had the opportunity to speak to Oliver Kuttner, Founder & CEO, Edison2, during the SEU2104. When asked about his views on Solid Edge technology, Kuttner said, “We design racing cars destined to be one of the most efficient cars in the world. Since mid-90s, we have used Solid Edge software. Our Edison2 Very Light Car that won the Automotive X Prize was entirely designed in Solid Edge.” Adding on why his company chose the Solid Edge software, Kuttner pointed out, “Our chief designer used it & we all have grown into it. It’s very efficient and easy to adapt as compared to other programs.

The subscription model now exists, which takes it one step further. For a temporary job, it helps us in adjusting the cost.”

While commenting on the new capabilities of ST7, another user, Ricardo Espinosa, Design Engineer, Kimball International, said, “The new built-in image rendering capabilities in Solid Edge ST7 will provide a tremendous advantage for our business development. During meetings with customers, we will be able to respond to requests for customised products by taking their input, easily modifying the model with synchronous technology and generating realistic images for instant review.”

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CABLING Solutions for food packaging The article deals with the latest developments in standard and specialised cabling solutions to meet the growing requirements of safe and hygienic food packaging industry.

Similar to the food & beverage industry, there are a few industries, which are multifaceted and demanding when it comes to their requirements with regards to their operating conditions. The strict hygiene and cleanliness requirements, which exists in the food processing industry, also apply to electrical component manufacturing. There are complex requirements for cables and accessories in the food & beverage industry and in bottling & food packaging plants. These must be resistant to a whole host of chemical, thermal and physical stresses so that they can be used in refrigerated areas and damp environments and can still fulfill their function reliably.

Components and materials of the cables also play an important role in the food industry with respect to the degree of protection, corrosion resistance and hygiene.

The packaging operations in food and beverage processing plants typically contain many automated processes.

Technology has a significant impact on these processes. Lapp India provides comprehensive range of standard and specialised products to one of the renowned industry leaders who revolutionised the food packaging industry through their innovation and dedication.

Solution requirements There was a need to expand the factory, in order to meet the growing requirements of safe and hygienic food packaging. This project required bulk amount of cables for wiring the entire factory. The cables were to be used for supplying power to the machines; controlling applications of the machines; internal wiring for the factory

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There are complex requirements for cables and accessories in the food & beverage industry and in bottling & food packaging plants

area; internal and external lighting applications of the factory; low loss data transmission for various man-machine interfaces and also for machines, which required automation.

There was a need for cable glands to ensure secure connection. Additionally, cable conduits were also ordered to offer physical protection to the cables from mechanical and chemical stress.

ideal for internal wiring of electric and electronic equipment in switch cabinets, were supplied. These specialised cables catered to direct burial needs and to the requirements of speed control and fluid control in the machines, adjusting the speed of the servomotor and PLC based control. For seamless data transmission, the company provided highly flexible cables that offered joint free construction.

Cabling solutions

Cable accessories for enhanced protection

The company provides complete solutions for the new factory. For internal wiring, factory lighting and other fixed applications, it offers single core power cables that have a halogen-free compound insulated outer sheath and are composed of few strands of bare copper wires. The high purity of copper enables the company to obtain greater connectivity in the cables. Keeping in mind the application and space constraints, Lapp India provided cables that were flame retardent, offered superior chemical resistance and exhibited high electrical performance to supply power to the machines. For applications that required screening, cable which are highly flexible, durable and

Lapp India supplies cable glands to protect the cables from bending, oil seepage and vibrations in the machine.

Connectors ensure secure connection between cable and machine. These versatile cables provide higher conductivity as compared to other cables with the same cross-sectional area. It is superior in quality and efficiently catering to the reliability factor in terms of consistent performance. The cables adhere to highest industry standards CE/VDE/ROHS. â&#x2DC;?

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Data loggers for sensitive freight

Packaging automation technology

Testo’s new 184 data logger offers easiest operation with pre-configuration and easy PDF readout with no software installation.

These data loggers offer hassle-free data logging in transport. Start, stop, & read, - these are the three easy steps to guard sensitive freight during transport. The new transit 184 data loggers are Testo 184 are a new series of plug-&-play data loggers plug-&-play data for transport that are pre-configured and do not require loggers that operate docking station or any software installation intuitively with just a press of start & stop buttons, run on pre-configuration and create a PDF report on plugging to a computer or even on-site through NFC smartphone. The new transport data logger family has six different variants which includes display / without display, use & throw / multi-use loggers for temperature/humidity, shock measurement and one especially for dry ice applications (-80°C).

The use & throw loggers – testo 184 T1/T2 can be used multiple times within 90 days & 150 days lifetime respectively.

B&R’s reACTION technology reduces response times in industrial automation applications down to 1 µs. This new approach allows extremely time-critical sub-processes to be managed using standard hardware – all within the requirements of IEC 61131 – while cutting costs by reducing the load on the controller and optimising performance to match high-end packaging machines demands. Primary packaging is the most challenging task in reACTION technology increases the packaging industry. In these the performance of high-speed machines, the packaging material meets the product at the highest possible speed; packaging machines as a result, the level of precision has a direct influence on both product quality and the usage of raw materials.

Gravimetric and volumetric filling processes in liquid filling machines, for example, can take advantage of the technology to operate valves and sensors with an unrivaled precision of 1 µs. Other high-speed packaging machine functions like code stamping and bad product rejection can combine reACTION and NetTime technologies to synchronise motion control and distributed I/O to achieve absolute precision.

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Thermocouple terminal blocks

Photoelectric sensors

Connectwell has introduced its thermocouple terminal blocks CTT2.5UK, CTT2.5UJ, CTT2.5UT & CTT2.5UE that are used with thermocouple wires in measurement applications. As per DIN 43713 & DIN 43714 the current carrying element of the terminal block is made of the same material as the thermocouple wire. These special current carrying elements ensure that there is no loss of potential at These special current carrying the connecting points. The types of elements ensure that there thermocouple wires that can be is no loss of potential at the connected using standard connecting points thermocouple terminal blocks include ‘K’ type – Chromel (Ni/Cr), Alumel (Ni/Al); ‘J’ type – Iron (Fe), Constantan (Cu/Ni); ‘T’ type – Copper (Cu), Constantan (Cu/Ni) and ‘E’ type – Chromel (Ni/Cr), Constantan (Cu/Ni).

These terminal blocks are an ideal choice for heaters and boiler application with thermocouples.

Leuze has introduced three photoelectric sensors with their intelligent fastening concept and sensor technology that leaves no customer’s demand unfulfilled. With robust housing in IP 67 for use in difficult industrial conditions and two complementary switching outputs for light and dark switching operation the sensors are bright, with highly visible yellow / green status displays for operation signal and are The photoelectric sensors have performance reserved. The two complementary switching features include A²LS active outputs for light and dark switching suppression of extraneous light operation for reliable suppression of ambient and stray light; simple alignment through brightly visible bright Vision® light spot and large operating temperature range from -40 °C to +60 °C.

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Industrial PCs for rugged industrial applications

Prepaid energy meter

The Designline 1000 series Industrial PCs from Phoenix Contact are designed for rugged industrial applications. The PC is IP65 protected with completely closed housing.

Thanks to an easy installation system, the Designline 1000 series IPCs can be installed directly to the machine. The configurable and energyefficient concept is the right solution for future operation and monitoring in industrial applications. The PC has slim The PC has slim profile of thickness 60 mm profile of thickness 60 mm that requires lesser space and improves that requires lesser space and aesthetics improves aesthetics. The device can be used in difficult climatic conditions with high operating temperature range between -20° to +55°. Excellent sliding properties and a scratch-resistant surface mean that the series can be used universally. In addition, the devices are easy to clean and can be operated with gloves. It is equipped with multi-touch user interfaces.

ElMeasure has developed a unique 3-in-1 contactless prepaid energy meter in process parameters such as water, gas etc that can be integrated and its consumption can be monitored along with electrical parameters. The design is completely micro-controller based, thus, providing an effective and reliable solution to the service providers. The service provider needs to install the meter and further activities The advantages of this involve the consumer. It is sufficient for the prepaid energy meter service provider to have one manpower to include advanced RF card recharge the card as per the consumer’s technology, by reducing request. Its main features include compact wall cost of manpower for mounting design; dual source measurement (EB billing / collection & DG); 3-in-1 m with option to integrate process parameters; pre-paid metering system using contactless smart cards with an accuracy class 1.0. The application areas include shopping malls / multiplexes, residential townships / apartments, commercial buildings and employee quarters. The advantages include advanced RF card technology, tamper proof construction and reduced cost of manpower for billing / collection.

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Intelligent tool holder management

Complete drive systems

SCHUNK’s data matrix code allows an intelligent tool holder management.

Regardless of whether it is done manually by smart phone, or fully automated with a machine tool scanner, every tool holder can be reliably identified with the help of a code and together with the corresponding data base system, these can be exactly assigned. Within the framework of intelligent manufacturing processes, it is possible to generate a precise history together with the data from the superior cloud, with sites of operation, used tools, service life, and machining parameters. According to the individual systematic arrangement of documents, the With a data matrix code the tool holders data matrix code can be can be clearly identified and assigned individually defined. In contrast to the glued on RFID tags, which require the re-balancing of the tool holders, and under unfavourable conditions these tags might get lost. The data matrix code is permanent and has no influence on the balancing quality.

igus has recently developed drylin SLW Protect and drylin SLWT-1080 that provides an effective protection mechanism and safeguards the lead screw and lead screw nut against impact from falling components and debris. This enhances its maintenance-free characteristics, a feature also shared by the drylin SLWT-1080. The new linear unit is equipped with a twin lead screw, which allows separate control of the carriages. Various lead screw Long service life knife edge rollers pitches can be combined, provide accurate and lubricant-free therefore providing maximum deflection of conveyor belts design and operating flexibility.

The drylin E stepper motors also create new design possibilities. The compact design of the laterally mounted motor flange allows the motor to be mounted adjacent to the system, therefore reducing the overall system footprint. The new xiros ball bearings made from FDA compliant xirodur F180 material, combined with aluminium guide rollers that provide wider options for packaging system solutions, included within this are the cost-effective flanged ball bearings made from xirodur B180.

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Plant overview & plant structure software

Vision solution for intelligent bin picking

EPLAN has integrated the new Eplan Platform 2.3 with innovative functions to increase project quality & data consistency and reduce configuration costs. Users can benefit from very easy entry into this new planning method based on the Eplan Platform. The central dialogue in the software is the new preplanning Plant overview (P&ID) and plant structure navigator. In this dialogue, (navigator) for transparent and integrated the defined segments for pre-planning preplanning are displayed and administered within the project. The use of preplanning macros and copying & moving existing segments by drag and drop makes it quick and easy to create and edit machine/ plant structures. Alternatively, the CAE software has the option of working directly in the graphical editor for preplanning. The data defined at the pre-planning stage can be output in report form and used, for example, for parts lists or for calculating prices and labour

With its advanced 3D Robot Vision Technology SHAPESCAN3D, ISRA VISION has developed a solution for intelligent bin picking. The system is available as a new, improved variant and facilitates the safe recognition and picking The technology offers an unlimited variety of of the most complex identifiable parts, including those with complex shapes part geometries and works considerably faster. The technology offers a nearly unlimited variety of identifiable parts, including those with complex shapes. Users reach highest flexibility on the factory floor, saving valuable space because additional mechanisms for the separation of parts are no longer required. Its key feature is the efficient processing of 3D point clouds. These are created from a scan of the bin contents by structured laser line lighting and a camera stereo setup. The company’s 3D recognition processes, analyse the point clouds and extract objects from them. After that, the system detects their spatial position – allowing an accurate grip by the robot. Detection method and hardware are perfectly matched to one another.

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Differential pressure transmitter

Ethernet capable adaptor

Keller AG’s PRD-33 X series is a differential pressure transmitter that features a double sensor for measuring the differential and line pressure independently, highly accurate measurements and has a high overload resistance. Combining these benefits, it opens up new possibilities such as measuring the levels in liquefied gas tanks safely, accurately and at a reasonable price. The PRD-33 X has two independent sensors that measures the line pressure and the differential pressure.

The PRD-33 X is The transmitter achieves its particularly perfectly suitable high accuracy level up to ±0.05% FS due to for use with (liquid) its calibration over the entire pressure and oxygen, argon, temperature range. The mathematical model nitrogen, helium and calculated in this way corrects all repeatable carbon dioxide errors. The high level of accuracy is therefore guaranteed as an error band within the overall compensated range. The floating assembly of the sensor unit provides the ideal protection from external forces during installation. The PRD-33 X is perfectly suitable for use with (liquid) oxygen, argon, nitrogen, helium and carbon dioxide.

Hilscher has expanded its series of NL 50-MP Ethernet capable SIMATIC® MPI/DP/PPI adaptors by the DIN rail mountable device NT 50-MPI. Sixteen simultaneous Ethernet connections and the access to maximum 32 PLCs in parallel are supported. As a 100% replacement for an original Siemens S7 Ethernet-CP the device allows programming, remote maintenance and the connection of visualisations such as WinCC over Ethernet. The The device allows the Ethernet device allows the Ethernet coupling of coupling of ethernet portless ethernet portless S7-PLCs over their S7-PLCs over their MPI or MPI or PROFIBUS interface. To PROFIBUS interface configure a PLC to PLC connection NetPro in STEP®7 is used as usual.

Also routing across multiple and networked PLCs is possible. The protocols RFC1006, DHCP and NTP time distribution to a PLC are part of the comprehensive scope of services supported. The device is configured either in STEP7® with an embedded driver or via a web browser. The driver is Windows 7® and STEP®7 64Bit compatible and supports Siemens TIA Portal already.

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USB converter for optical sensors

Measuring light grid

Micro-Epsilon has recently launched 4x RS422/USB converter that converts digital signals from up to 4 optical sensors into a USB data packet. The converter is suitable for laser triangulation and confocalchromatic displacement sensors from the company. Unlike other commercially available USB hubs, the new converter ensures synchronous data acquisition for a defined temporal allocation of Unlike other commercially available the four RS422 inputs.

USB hubs, the new converter ensures This is particularly synchronous data acquisition for a defined important for small temporal allocation of the four RS422 inputs system solutions with multiple sensors, for example, in thickness measurements. The new converter has 4 trigger inputs and a trigger output for connecting additional converters. The connected sensors and the converter can be programmed through software.

The new LGM series measuring light grid from Pepperl+Fuchs receives direct measured values in millimeters, such as the object height, lowest or highest object position, sum, average, etc. The values are digitally transmitted at extremely fast cycle times, even with beam crossover activated, using I/O-link, which enables convenient commissioning and maintenance from the control level. These light grids have an ultra-low profile to fit into tight spaces. Innovative, tool-free mounting accessories make installation, alignment, and replacement fast and easy. The IP67 aluminium housing withstands harsh environmental conditions even at cold-storage temperatures. The LGM is available with various resolutions and field The new LGM Series heights up to 3200 mm, permitting large measuring light grids measuring ranges. These measuring light grids provide the measured provide measured values in millimeters without values directly in time-consuming calculations and set new millimeters standards with their compact design, functionality, and unique price/performance ratio.

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V/f drives

Brush motors

Hitachi has recently introduced a wide, rugged range of AC drives up to 400 KW ratings. These are available as simple v/f drives and also sensorless and flux vector drives.

Simple v/f drives (L300 and X200) are suitable for fan, pump, compressor applications and are available upto 132 KW. These drives also incorporate a special algorithm to ensure higher energy savings in fan/pump applications. The series can maintain 150% torque at 0 Hz. These drives can be used for position control applications with These drives can be the addition of a feedback option used for position control card. The SJ700 series has an inbuilt applications with the braking circuit upto 22 KW and a built addition of a feedback in EMC filter up to 55 KW. The latest option card WJ200 drives has many class leading features such as 200% starting torque.

It has special algorithms to improve low speed regulation and can be used for simple positioning applications with encoder feedback without the use of any add on card.

Crouzet Motorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; DCmind brush motors are particularly well suited to applications in medical, biopharmaceutical, laboratory, industrial machinery and high performance office equipment & systems.

These can be used in a variety of other high performance applications such as pumps and valves, railway and railcars, as well as military and aeronautics.

These brush motors have a These brush motors are 80% efficient noise level of only 35 dB, about with a minimum service life of 5,000 the sound of a whispered hours when used in normal power loads conversation and 20 dB less than the current motor standard range. These brush motors are 80% efficient with a minimum service life of 5,000 hours when used in normal power loads. The new product range includes 15, 25 and 55 watt motors with a 42 mm diameter, and 55 and 104 watt motors with a 63 mm diameter. These motors support 12, 24 and 48 volt power supplies and are available with several accessories and adaptations, including rear brake, optical or Hall effect encoders (1 or 2 channels), connectors and wires, voltage, speed & power, shaft dimensions and material.

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Highlights - (Aug/Sep 2014) impRINT Publisher / Chief Editorâ&#x20AC;Ż Shekhar Jitkar shekhar.jitkar@publish-industry.net Deputy Editor Sumedha Mahorey sumedha.mahorey@publish-industry.net Sub-editor & Correspondent Srimoyee Lahiri srimoyee.lahiri@publish-industry.net

Semiconductor & Electronics With demand rising in the semiconductor industry for low-cost, high-volume, flexible manufacturing, there is a need of leading-edge automation and information technology solutions that help customers meet their business and technical goals. The next issue of A&D India features the latest solutions & technologies in semiconductors and electronics to be competitive and reduce risk with lower costs.

Control & Regulation Future automation trends in control technology suggest that total solutions in which tasks are distributed according to free capacity are growing in importance, while the individual components are becoming irrelevant to the customer. Advances in control and regulation technology bring in enhanced productivity and efficiencies. Keeping up with the latest developments and innovations on this front, the next edition will highlight on the applications of this technology for multiple sectors.

Wireless Automation Wireless continues to be one of the fastest growing segments in the automation market for two reasons. First, it is much less costly to have devices communicate on a wireless network rather than going through the process of installing conduit. The other is the available access to very difficult locations and hazardous areas in the plant. The coming issue of A&D India takes a look at these applications, for which, maintenance and diagnostic tasks can be accomplished more quickly, effectively and safely using a wireless connection.

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company Index Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College . . . . . . . 41 ARC Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 ABB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 B&R Industrial Automation . . . . . Cover, 8, 9, 84 Bharat Bijlee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Connectwell Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 84 Contrinex Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CST Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 87 CD-Adapco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Delta India Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Dynalog India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ElMeasure India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 43, 85 Edison2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Eplan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Electronic Relays (India) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Festo Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Frost & Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Fieldbus Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 58 Galil Motion Control . . . . . . . . Back Inside Cover

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Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page Geometric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 80 GrabCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Hans Turck GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Hitachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Hilscher India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 86 Honeywell Process Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 HMS Industrial Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 64 Hummel Connector Systems . . . . Back Cover, 18 ICP Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 IED Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Infor Asia Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 IFM Electronic India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 igus India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 85 ISRA VISION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Janatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Keller AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Kubler Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 61 Leuze Electronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 84 Messe Frankfurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page Micro-Epsilon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 87 Mifa Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 National Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 12, 74 Omron Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 10 Pepperl + Fuchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Phoenix Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 51, 85 Pilz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49, 54 Romaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Renu Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Rockwell Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 30 Schunk Intec India . . . . . . Front Inside Cover, 85 Sesame Motor Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Siemens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 30 Siemens PLM Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Strategi Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Testo India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68, 84 Vega India Level & Pressure Measurement . . . 13 VDMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Wheelabrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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