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	Rockwell announces process strategy Rockwell Automation has been very busy over the last year with acquisitions of ICSTriplex, ProsCon and Pavilion. The company recently outlined its strategy behind the purchases and how it felt the new additions had bolstered its process portfolio.
	Big Breakthrough for Intrinsic Safety For 40 years intrinsic safety (EX i) has meant limiting the amount of electric power to less than two watts in dangerous areas, for fear any spark could ignite an explosion. A whole industry has grown up of companies who supply isolators and barriers to build this type of protection
	Fundamentals of Self-Tuning Control Although proportional-integral-derivative controllers or ‘PID loops’ have been the de facto standard of industrial feedback control for more than 65 years, they’re not always easy to use. For PID loops to perform up to their potential, they must first be tuned to fit each application, then periodically re-tuned to maintain the desired closed-loop behaviour.

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