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Top 50 Automation Companies of 2021: Green Muscles In
Nov 8, 2022 — The automation marketplace proved its resilience again in 2021 and returned to pre-pandemic levels. Despite advances in project engineering that reduced cycle times, automation projects in general are still long-cycle projects, and the overall market for systems took longer to recover than some of the more product-oriented and discrete automation businesses.
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Top 50 Automation Companies of 2020: Rising to recover
Oct 27, 2021 — Coming out of the COVID-19 recession. The worldwide and North American automation markets almost universally declined in 2020 due to COVID-19. By April 2020, more than 80% of flights were restricted, cargo capacity was down, airlines and rental car companies reduced their fleets, and West Texas Intermediate Crude hit less than $37 per barrel.
Dos and don'ts of control room design | Control Global
Apr 26, 2019 — Among engineers, “design process” is a well-understood term. It may have slightly different elements across the various disciplines, but generally, it’s a methodical series of steps in which the mathematics and engineering sciences are applied in an iterative manner to optimally meet a stated objective.
Top 50 Automation Companies of 2019: Under siege - Control …
Oct 26, 2020 — If you’ve been a reader of the Control/ARC Top 50 in recent years, you know we report on the previous fiscal year’s revenues. Under normal circumstances, the previous year’s revenues are a good predictor of what will happen in the current year, but this year’s Control/ARC Top 50 seems instead to be a glimpse at a more prosperous recent past as coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) continues to ...
The age of software-defined control - Control Global
Jun 22, 2021 — In tandem with adding MTP support, automation vendors are increasingly offering more integrated automation systems. Natively integrated systems accelerate capital projects and operational changes, making it easier and less time consuming to commission and integrate devices, controllers and control systems—and to leverage the data produced by these systems for operational benefits.
Best practices for override control
Jan 21, 2020 — Greg: Override control is the principal means of doing PID constraint control to optimize process operation and prevent abnormal operating conditions. It’s a challenge to make sure the transition between the PID controllers for each constraint is smooth and effective, and the operator can make adjustments, change modes and understand what is going on.
Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Comtrol Corp. | Control Global
Jan 30, 2019 — Pepperl+Fuchs, a developer of industrial automation technology, announced that it will acquire the business of Comtrol Corp. effective Feb. 1. Comtrol is an US-based manufacturer of industrial Ethernet communication and IO-Link gateway products, known for its RocketPort product family, among others.Comtrol’s technologies will complement Pepperl+Fuchs’ portfolio of Sensorik4.0 sensor ...