Data Acquisition

Managing multi-point wireless traffic

Wireless telemetry systems are becoming increasingly important for plant-wide monitoring and control applications, as cabling cost and the disruption caused by the associated installation and maintenance work become prohibitive. However, site managers often have difficulty knowing what type of system they need and how to manage network traffic. Here Ian …

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Next-level data processing for automotive manufacturers

Companies in the automotive industry have always been at the forefront of innovative manufacturing practices. However, to remain there, they must continue to adapt and adopt the latest developments in technology. This approach equips them to face evolving market demands as well as supply chain challenges. For automotive manufacturers, the …

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Advantech 2023 Industrial IoT Star Product Guide now available

Advantech, a global leader in Industrial IoT, has published a comprehensive overview of their edge-to-edge-cloud solutions in the 2023 edition of their Industrial Systems and Devices Star Product Guide. The free to download 28 page brochure is a complete guide to their market leading IIoT product range, providing customers with …

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Operational visibility and modern user interfaces

Cluttered user interfaces are like rain on a car windscreen, obscuring the most crucial information. As part of the drive to improve this issue, User Experience (UX) has replaced the term User Interface (UI) to describe visualisation methods which support users in decision-making with effective visual information. Here, Martin Hurley, …

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Instrumentation Excellence Awards: Make your nomination for DAQ Product of the Year

Is there a standout data acquisition (DAQ) product that you think deserves to be recognised with an award? If the answer is yes, then now is the time to nominate that product for an Instrumentation Excellence Award. The Instrumentation Excellence Awards (IEAs) celebrate the very best from the world of …

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Ten tips for modernising your HMI/SCADA system

Ageing industrial infrastructure can make it difficult to meet daily challenges for industrial plants and manufacturing companies. Fortunately, there are cost-effective ways to solve these challenges. Here, George Walker, managing director at Novotek UK & Ireland shares ten tips on how to modernise your HMI / SCADA system. Get up to date …

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Samotics brings data analytics to the edge to support customers in remote, low-bandwidth locations

Samotics, a leading provider of real-time actionable insights to eliminate industrial energy waste and unplanned downtime, is starting the roll out of edge analytics for remote and offshore customers. By performing analytics on the edge, Samotics’ SAM4 Health solution benefits from reduced bandwidth requirements to process and transfer data, which …

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Growth for industrial software company: COPA-DATA expands UK team

Industrial software developer, COPA-DATA is expanding its UK team with the appointment of two senior employees. James Zaremba and Mohammed Ahmed will join the company as UK Sales Manager and Regional Sales Manager for the South, consulting companies on digitalisation and providing automation software for manufacturing and energy sites. The …

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The integration of interdisciplinary data

Bringing together interdisciplinary data offers companies great opportunities to find new and efficient solutions that provide answers to developing customer demands. From November 8-10, COPA-DATA will present various cross-disciplinary application examples of the zenon software platform from production, infrastructure, and laboratory automation at the SPS Trade Fair in Nuremberg in …

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Now at Mouser: TI’s BUF802 Buffering Op Amp removes complexity in measurement DAQ front ends

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the BUF802 high-speed buffering operational amplifier from Texas Instruments (TI). The BUF802 exponentially increases signal bandwidth in data acquisition systems, enabling design engineers to scale front-end designs across multiple data-acquisition applications for a variety of test and measurement applications, including oscilloscopes, active probes and high-frequency data-acquisition systems. The TI BUF802, available from Mouser …

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