White Papers
The Role of Vibration Monitoring in Predictive Maintenance
Schaeffler has tackled condition monitoring of rolling bearings with a white paper written by the company’s engineering manager, Dr Steve Lacey. The paper, titled ‘The Role of Vibration Monitoring in Predictive Maintenance’ is designed to provide engineers with advice and guidance.
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Using portable data in non-networked applications
Nexus (GB) has released a white paper titled Transferring Data in Non-Networked Applications. The UK partner of portable data token manufacturer, Datakey Electronics, explores considerations such as data transport, functionality, environmental considerations and product life cycle.
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Windmill applications, signal conditioning tips
Windmills can operate for six months or more without any maintenance or supervision. Dataforth offers advice on signal conditioning and what I/O connections need to be monitored in extreme environments.
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Electrical, mechanical design software enables collaboration (02 June 2009)
CIMdata white paper, ‘ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Solutions,’ explains the collaboration possible between electrical computer aided design (ECAD) and mechanical computer aided design (MCAD) software, and includes info on product offerings PTC and Mentor Graphics.
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Boccard looks to lubricants to increase efficiency (27 May 2009)
Following the acquisition of Shell Group’s Fluid Management Services, Boccard UK has produced a White Paper that aims to demonstrate how oils and lubricants can contribute to reduced downtime and improved efficiency. The Manchester, UK based company lists five things companies can focus on to get through tough economic times.
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Hacking the Industrial Network (30 April 2009)
Innominate Security Technologies, a provider of industrial network security, has published a white paper on the weaknesses of industrial systems. "Hacking the Industrial Network," compiled by an independent consulting firm, is an exposé of the numerous vulnerabilities of industrial control networks currently in use throughout the world.
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Ways to use USB in embedded control systems (03 November 2008)
Micro Digital released a white paper entitled ‘Ways to Use USB in Embedded Systems’ written by Yingbo Hu, R&D embedded software engineer, and the company’s president, Ralph Moore, which presents 11 methods to use USB in embedded systems. Each method’s description includes a block diagram showing how software and hardware function blocks connect together, along with a description of how the subsystem operates.
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Redundant Serial-to-Ethernet Data Connections for Mission-critical Devices (18 September 2008)
The establishment of mission-critical device networks that connect front-line PLCs to an Ethernet-based management system depends most on one thing: Redundancy.
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PLC open Motion Control by B&R (21 August 2008)
Reducing development time and cost with standardised motion programming. As industrial automation systems become increasingly complex, software development time and engineering expenses can exceed all other development hurdles. PLCopen offers standard, open motion control function blocks based on the IEC 61131 languages to create efficient, flexible code that is vendor- and product-independent.
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Graphical System Design for Machine Control by National Instruments (20 August 2008)
The traditional process for designing embedded machine control systems typically involves multiple stages of development that each requires specialised electronic design automation (EDA) tools such as state-diagram and flowcharting tools, SPICE circuit simulation, board layout and routing, control design tools, finite element analysis (FEA), C and VHDL languages, multiple target-specific compilers, and human-machine interface (HMI) tools.
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