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Three Product Announcements From Honeywell User Group 2023

Gary Mintchell

Digital twins exist not only in discrete manufacturing. CLOUD-BASED DIGITAL TWIN Honeywell Digital Prime solution —a cloud-based digital twin for tracking, managing, and testing process control changes and system modifications. Well organized and a lot of information.

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The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum Announces Certification Program

Gary Mintchell

This group started as a response to the high cost of upgrading automation systems in the field in the process industries.

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Breaking the Cycle of Quality Challenges in Aerospace & Defense

iBASEt

This blog explores how embedding quality management within an MES platform can really make a difference in production processes and strengthen quality assurance. Real-time process control switches away from defect tracking to defect prevention. This structured approach not only cuts downtime but also enhances overall efficiency.

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Sustainability’s role in variable speed drives

Control Engineering

VSDs offer several advantages over fixed speed, uncontrolled motors, in addition to significant energy efficiency gains, reduced overall system wear and optimal process control and supervision. They can reduce energy consumption by controlling the speed of the motor according to the actual load requirements.

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Epicor: Solutions that are Made With You, For You

Fabricating & Metal Work

The Connected Process Control platform delivers a powerful, web-based solution enabling process control, operator guidance, traceability and data collection down to the task level. The software is specialized for make-to-order manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing.

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High-voltage power technologies driving semiconductor processes

Control Engineering

Technologies for today’s process power requirements. The need for ever-more precise process control and more targeted and efficient power delivery is driving significant process power innovation.

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How to optimize industrial motor communications, Part 2, strategies

Control Engineering

Now using Profinet, based on Ethernet, we have really a lot of the capability to do centralized control. Application classes are used because drives control more than one thing. It could be something as simple as a pump or a fan for a process control application, with a simple drive, typically open loop.