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Valves vs. VFDs; Digital Level Transmitters

What Are People Doing to Make Control Valves More Efficient and How Can an Oil Fuel Tank Be Replaced Seamlessly?
Post Date: 09/11/2011
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High-Precision Linear Actuator Provides Better Control

Festo's Pneumatic Linear Actuator, the DFPI
Post Date: 06/13/2011
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Eliminating the Control Valve

Valves Are Energy Hogs; They Stick; They're Prone to Mechanical Failure. So Why the Reluctance to Replace Them With VFDs?
Post Date: 03/15/2011
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Drives and Motor Controls, Power Quality

Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Cover Industrial Motors and Drives
Post Date: 01/11/2011
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More Water Savings through Automation

Systems Integrator Helps Desert Districts Conserve Precious Resource
Post Date: 12/08/2010
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The EtherNet/IP Path to Integrated Architecture Success

Rockwell Automation Touts EtherNet/IP as Key to Enabling Plant-Wide Control and Optimization
Post Date: 11/03/2010
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Why Your CFO Loves VFDs

Variable-Frequency Drives, the Right Software and Motor-Control Centers Push Energy Savings to the Bottom Line
Post Date: 08/30/2010
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Decisions Evolve with DC Drive Technology

ABB Explaines the Subtleties of AC and DC Drive Upgrades and Replacements
Post Date: 05/18/2010
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Diagnostic Motor Problems

Keep Your Motors Humming. Diagnostics Can tell You When a Motor Is Having Problems, but You May Still Need to Keep Your Meters and Meggers Available
Post Date: 05/13/2009
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Taking Drives for a Spin

This Month, We Discuss Industrial Drives
Post Date: 01/12/2009
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OneGear, PowerFlex 755 Headline New Intelligent Motor Controls

Meet the Next Generation of Medium-Voltage Motor Control
Post Date: 11/20/2008
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Getting Up to Smart Speed

Use Variable Speed Drives to Save Money, but Gain Even More by Thinking Strategically and Picking Projects Carefully
Post Date: 09/15/2008
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Enclosure Options Grow

Manufacturers Never Have Too Many Enclosure Options
Post Date: 08/08/2008
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Grow Up, Get Down, Get Green

Increasingly Capable Drives and Motor Controls Are Moving into More Diverse, Smaller-Ticket Applications, as Well as Helping Users Gain the Operating Efficiencies to Meet Green Initiatives
Post Date: 05/04/2008
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National Instruments' LEGO podcast

NI's Ray Almgren and John Field talk about the company’s partnership with LEGO that will include a built-in version of LabView in every Mindstorm robotics kit shipped this Christmas.
Post Date: 06/26/2006
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Choosing motor controls and drives

In any industrial control application, using the right drives and motor controls can make or break the project, and also can make a huge difference in how well those applications perform.
Post Date: 09/22/2005
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So much to learn, so little time

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out which books and online courses they recommend for continued education.
Post Date: 04/05/2005
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Lost in translation

This month's <EM>Tales From the Front </EM>submission to CONTROL, by frequent contributor Loren Jones, advises us to spell directions out exactly as the boss gives them to us, so that <EM>we </EM>don't get lost along the way, too!
Post Date: 03/01/2005
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Taking the heat for replacing a brush hot

Contributing writer and controls technician Loren Jones proves in this “exclusive to the web” feature that he can’t keep his big mouth shut, and learns that just because you <EM>can </EM>doesn’t always mean you <EM>should</EM>.
Post Date: 01/26/2005
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Motor drives "hunt" for success

MalAsia strikes drive manufacturers, but motion control is stepping up, according to CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt's <EM>Product Roundup </EM>of motor drives and motion control devices.
Post Date: 01/04/2005
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