Large hydroelectric dam reservoirs release large volumes of greenhouse gases due to organic matter, contributing to 1% global greenhouse gas emissions. An aerial view of the Hoover Dam, one of the largest in North America (image via Wikimedia C...
Solar Road’s is an ambitious project that has been seven years in the making to reach this point — their first public installation. These solar panels are strong enough to act as actual pavement and they plan to roll them out on roads and public squa...
Google’s Open Images and YouTube8-M have recently released datasets of annotated images and film that can serve to train a machine in a few days to a few weeks. This could give researchers and coders alike a leg up to innovate new software breakthrou...
MIT researchers make great strides to nuclear fusion produced energy on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak’s final day of operation. The Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor has been running for 23 years. (Photo from MIT) With a society now highly conscious of ...
BACnet is a data communications protocol for building automation and control networks. It aids in intelligent building systems and helps achieve their control and data analysis goals. As an ASHRAE, ANSI, and ISO standard protocol, BACnet is designed ...
Developed by Modicon, the Modbus communication protocol is a messaging structure used to establish a master-slave or client-server communication between intelligent devices. The intelligent devices can be a PLC, HMI, PC, Distributed Control Systems (...
The programmable logic controller is the workhorse of industrial control systems. It uses digital and analog I/O modules to interface to sensors, actuators and other equipment. These I/O modules must meet stringent electrical specifications and desig...
What are you doing to make Industry 4.0 happen? What are your successes? What are your obstacles? What do you need to make Industry 4.0 happen in your organization? Perhaps the leading obstacle is the name itself -- Industry 4.0. I'll agree that...
IntroductionThe three-day UK Southern Manufacturing and Electronics show in Farnborough’s airfield closed today, and I had the chance to visit it briefly. There were hundreds of exhibitors – from all corners of the UK and beyond. It really made one f...
Mexico’s 2015 Cisco Live show currently has a display showing a Smart Connected Pipeline design. One of the more unusual displays at an exhibition : )This is just a very short post as a visitor to the exhibition point of view, for more detail check o...
Over the last few months I have been getting involved with learning, reviewing and generally playing with more industrial control applications Everything from Raspberry PI control systems through to Crouzet PLCs and even reviewing the IP67 rated...
IntroductionAfter playing with Infineon's motor shield, I remembered I have taken notes and photographs of motors at various points in time in the past. It seemed like a good time to collect them together and review different types of motors. Mot...
Inventables’ Easel software and Shapeoko desktop CNC milling machine (Inventables) There’s a shift happening in the world of manufacturing. Previously, if a designer, artist or inventor conceived of a new product, it would need to be built in a ...
Changes in industrial communications today are creating what some call a revolution in manufacturing automation. Key to these changes is Industrial Ethernet, which adds deterministic delivery, time-triggered support, greater distances and safer, more...
