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As companies move towards risk-based asset management, they need to be confident that their decisions will increase the profitability and productivity of their asset bases while minimising the exposure to the risk of catastrophic events
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aLEDs consist of a high power LED mounted onto a thermally optimised substrate complete with a connector or solder pads
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Leica Geosystems’ Leica fieldPro 1.3 mobile CASD software allows users to model any piping system with pinpoint accuracy
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Megger's LT300 high-current loop tester is three-phase safe, which overcomes the problem of accidental damage
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Idec is introducing the low-cost Pentra micro-PLC that is said to benefit from a higher specification than many competitive products
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High-efficiency motors are mistakenly being assumed to be high-reliability products, whereas some have been seen to run hot and fail
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Europe's first true single source radio automatic meter reading (AMR) system has been launched by Sensus Metering Systems
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Baldor has added a number of debugging tools to its Mint programming software for motion control and automation
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Meshnetics is introducing a 2.4GHz 802.15.4/Zigbee Evaluation Kit for use with the Zigbit mesh-networking module
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This is the age of the eco-engineer, the professional who cares as much about the environment as the consumer. Philip Morris explains
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For applications which have to 'fail safe' on air failure or require valves to have a known position when air supplies are re-instated
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RDP's Modular 600 microprocessor instrumentation system accepts 164 inputs and incorporates configurable analogue outputs
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By 2050, the earth will carry some 9.3billion people – around 50percent more than today – many of whom will be living in megacities. By 2015, India’s Mumbai, for example, will be home to 22.6million people – a larger population than present-day Romania, while Karachi, in southern Pakistan, will have 16.2million inhabitants – more people than now live in the Netherlands.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 22:05
There is a well know saying which states: “Buy cheap, pay dear”. An equally common expression is: “If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”. The French say: “On a rien sans rien.” (You cannot get something for nothing) while the Spanish equivalent is “quien algo quiere, algo le cuesta”.
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Today, for substation communications, there is a large variety of protocols, making it difficult for devices running on different protocols to communicate unless converters are used. This adds to costs and can create delays and errors in messages.
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In a world where both business and personal life come to a halt when electricity supplies fail, a back-up system is vital to maintain profits and lifestyle
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Many situations, ranging from unintentional short circuits and human errors to intentional hacking and terrorism, can paralyse large critical complex infrastructures (LCCIs) such as electricity networks.
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Generating electricity is a fundamentally inefficient process. The efficiency of existing European generating capacity averages about 35percent. On a global scale, this drops to 30percent.
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Within the power sector, ensuring the health and safety of workers has always been of great importance.
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The new Vaisala Humidity Calculator is a web-based, easy-to-use tool for converting several humidity parameters from a known humidity value.
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