From analog loops to IIoT-ready PLCs: What today’s engineers need to know
In process industries like oil and gas, chemical, paper, and water treatment, precision is everything. That’s why PLCs—once simple relay replacers—have evolved into powerful, real-time control hubs capable of enabling intelligent operations across increasingly connected systems.
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This eBook is for users who want to strengthen their circuit-protection knowledge, from panel design basics to selecting and coordinating devices. It covers codes and standards, disconnects and distribution, fuses and breakers, electronic protection, motor circuits, ground-fault protection, and power-quality mitigation.
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Supplier Profile: di-soric
While di-soric may not be a household name, this family-owned and managed company has been specializing in industrial automation since 1982. Its 169 employees across eight locations in Germany, Austria, France, China, India, and Singapore create products and solutions used in the areas of assembly and handling, packaging, machine tools, measurement & testing for the automotive, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and electronics industries.
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Why a Single-Loop Process Controller Might Be Your Ideal Control Solution
It’s an engineering truth that there’s no such thing as a perfect solution, just the best solution for the project at hand. This principle remains true for process control applications. PLCs are powerful and comprehensive control solutions, but not every industrial process needs that level of functionality. For every complex, highly synchronized process, there are dozens more standalone processes that only require monitoring of a single variable such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, etc…
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Automation Direct Supports Student Robotics Teams (and you should too!)
AutomationDirect started supporting student robotics efforts in 2005 by sponsoring a single high school robotics team, as part of the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) organization. FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 1746, also known as Team OTTO, began as a community team of students from several county high schools.
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Monthly Product Giveaway
This month you have a chance to win one of our newest products! Enter your info for a chance to win an 8-piece Morse hole saw set. An additional six winners will be chosen to win a surprise tool! Contest is open for approximately 3 weeks after the newsletter is sent and is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only. Winner will be contacted via email.
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