Archive for the ‘Redundancy’ Category

…….imagine wiring furnace thermocouples direct into a black box that has inbuilt isolation (so eliminates noise issues), add the luxury of cold junction compensation per pair of thermocouples to enable an incredible accuracy of measurement and mix in the fact that the black box is a controller that can take a scalable number of universal [...]

Plant Engineering reported in their newsletter earlier this week: New study by the ARC advisory group sees a growth in the overall discrete automation market of 3.5% over the next five years, and reach $22 billion by 2012. “While manufacturers are more cautious when it comes to capital investments, they recognize that automation and energy [...]

Tomorrow the first issue of the Heat is On * will be send out. One of the articles discusses Redundant control on a furnace, based on a technical paper jointly presented by Steve Miller and Peter Sherwin at FNA2008.  The objective of this presented solution is to remove the ‘what-if’ scenario of a failure in the control [...]