Visiting Festo II #pauto #automation #ipcPA

Festo is not a small company. Their annual turnover is 2.24 billion Euros, they have over 300,000 customers, and 16,200 employees, not counting the robot lawnmowers that look like large trilobites trundling over the grass at the headquarters and technical center.

Festo, like many of the mittelstand companies, spends heavily on Research and Development: 7%, as opposed to the 2% which is more usual in an American automation company. They also devote 1.5% of revenue each year to education and training.

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Code Salad Hack

As you've probably noticed, the ControlGlobal site has been having issues. Here on the home front, we call them code salad. Click on the link to an article you want to read, and the first thing you see is line after line of impenetrable code that to the uninitiated makes absolutely no sense. It's really annoying. We know. We apologize.

It's not you. It's us--and our infrastructure. The provider promises the coders are "working on it." Meanwhile, here's a couple of things you should know that might help deal with the worst of it.

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Code Salad Hack

As you've probably noticed, the ControlGlobal site has been having issues. Here on the home front, we call them code salad. Click on the link to an article you want to read, and the first thing you see is line after line of impenetrable code that to the uninitiated makes absolutely no sense. It's really annoying. We know. We apologize.

It's not you. It's us--and our infrastructure. The provider promises the coders are "working on it." Meanwhile, here's a couple of things you should know that might help deal with the worst of it.

read more

Code Salad Hack

As you've probably noticed, the ControlGlobal site has been having issues. Here on the home front, we call them code salad. Click on the link to an article you want to read, and the first thing you see is line after line of impenetrable code that to the uninitiated makes absolutely no sense. It's really annoying. We know. We apologize.

It's not you. It's us--and our infrastructure. The provider promises the coders are "working on it." Meanwhile, here's a couple of things you should know that might help deal with the worst of it.

read more

Key Misunderstood Terms for Control System Dynamics Tips

A significant part of the challenge in understanding process control is the proper use of terms to describe the dynamics in a control loop. Communication can be greatly improved by focusing on three key terms and adding a few words to more aptly describe the source of the term. This approach combined with recognition that the PID algorithm internally works in per cent of input and output scales can eliminate misleading information and uncertainty in dialog, email, publications, presentations, and social media.  

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