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Products - Accurate wireless communications link between remote field sites 12/12/2011
The new WNM Wireless Network Module from Moore Industries is said to offer an accurate and reliable solution for sending process signals between remote field sites.
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News - I/O can act as single or dual MODBUS master 08/11/2011
The updated NET Concentrator System (NCS) from Moore Industries offers increased communication options.
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Products - I/O can act as single or dual MODBUS master 08/11/2011
The updated NET Concentrator System (NCS) from Moore Industries offers increased communication options.
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Features - I/O solution helps provide safe drinking water 14/03/2011
Moore Industries has recently helped a water plant in central New York to maximise its effectiveness while reducing costs. A distributed I/O and remote I/O solution has helped the Onondaga County Water Authority (OCWA) to modernise the control system at its water treatment plant in Marcellus, N.Y.
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Features - Beyond Wireless: The Other New Features of HART 7.0 12/07/2010
With wireless technology its most prominent advance, a great deal of interest has been generated in the user community for the latest version of HART. There are, however, other new features that give increased functionality for wired application process automation. We present here a short list of the six most important new features of HART 7.0.
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Features - Using HART To Improve Safe Failure Fraction (SFF) in Protective Measures 14/06/2010
Evaluation International (EI) is a technology club for large scale users of instruments for measurement and control. In the 2009-10 EI Evaluation Programme, there was a project on the evaluation of the Moore Industries HIM (HART Interface Module) working in conjunction with the Yokogawa EJX pressure transmitter.
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News - Exida selects Moore Industries logic solver for IEC 61508 applications 01/09/2009
Integrated safety lifecycle software platform from exida integrates safety trip alarm for applications under the emerging IEC 61508 standard.
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Products - Moore Industries Introduces the STA Safety Trip Alarm 14/07/2009
In response to the rapidly growing demand for interface instruments for plant-critical IEC 61508 Functional Process Safety applications, Moore Industries has introduced the STA Safety Trip Alarm.
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Features - Tutorial: Running down interference to improve device performance 10/06/2009
EMI and RFI can ruin your sensor data, and trying to trace sources can drive you nuts. Peter Welander, process industries editor of Control Engineering’s Process Instrumentation & Sensors Monthly offers some solutions.
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Features - Moore looks to nuclear industry following safety assessment 06/03/2009
A Moore Industries process controller has complied with rigorous assessment prior to its use as part of plant improvement modifications at a UK nuclear power plant.
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Features - Bit by bit: Why use serial communications? 29/01/2009
In this day and age, why use serial communications, such as RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485? Digital industrial networks, fieldbuses, device- and sensor- level networks (also USB) all support many vendors’ products and can offer advanced features for configuration and diagnostics.
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Features - Challenges of Temperature Sensing 07/01/2009
Measuring each of the “big four” process variables has its specific peculiarities, but temperature seems particularly controversial. In fact, this apparently simple task often gets complicated. In this tutorial Peter Welander of Control Engineering explains why.
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Features - Connecting temperature sensors to fieldbus 29/11/2008
Getting temperature measurements and sensor parameters into digital format is the thrust of recent announcements by major instrument manufacturers.
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Features - Tutorial: Challenges of unlocking HART data 21/10/2008
The growing availability of devices to unlock HART data from instruments is causing new interest in putting this technology to work. That’s a good thing, but don’t be surprised if what you find is a little confusing.
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White papers - Installing Fieldbus - Part Two 04/06/2008
Many automation engineers are coming face to face with real fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus is a wonderful technology with many benefits, but fieldbus installation requires some additional considerations over and above normal 4-20mA projects. This article discusses some of those issues, and shows you how to deal with them.
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White papers - Installing Fieldbus - Part Three 04/06/2008
Many automation engineers are coming face to face with real fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus (the use of digital communications networks for distributed instrumentation & control) is a wonderful technology with many benefits, but fieldbus installation requires some additional considerations over and above normal 4-20mA projects. In this article, we will discuss some of those issues, and show you how to deal with them.
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