Industrial Computing Reference Materials

Description: Outline of the initial (but important!) steps in calibrating an LCD monitor. ...

Description: A step-by-step method for effectively cleaning the surface of your LCD monitor. ...

Description: Part of the cheese making process requires a saltwater rinse to cure newly made cheese as it passes through an extruder. The mist from the process coats the entire room with a thick condensation. ...

Description: In 2009, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced plans to spend $256 million in Recovery Act funds to "support energy efficiency improvements in major industrial sectors." This spending could directly ...

Description: Fumigation of a large food production site takes careful planning and coordination to guarantee safety and prevent contamination. Fumigations are scheduled during employee holidays to prevent ...

Description: A manufacturing plant had PCs in a dusty environment. The fans sucked in dust and debris causing overheating and failure after about a year. Since the company had 200 PCs, several had to be replaced ...

Description: Forget the political side of Green - just follow the money. Your company is looking for ways to reduce operating costs and a Thin Client system will result in huge savings for both you and the ...

Description: Many companies have one IT department that covers a number of locations requiring the IT staff to make regular visits to the other plants for maintenance and repair. Using standard ThinManager ...

Description: As industrial system complexity increases, FPGAs offer the ability to integrate an entire system on a chip (SoC), at a lower cost compared to discrete MCU, DSP, ASSP, or ASIC solutions. This document ...

Description: This white paper describes the use of Altera® FPGAs to deliver a multistandard Industrial Ethernet capability from a single PCB implementation. The benefits of FPGA implementation are described ...

Description: Since their introduction in the mid-1980s and across all end markets, CPLDs have been design engineers' favorite choice for control path applications. Taking into account today's severe pressure to ...

Description: Beverly Kaufman's high opinion of Harris County's administrators and staff was put to the test when disaster struck. Her colleagues didn't let her down. Before the sun set on "fire day," a cohesive ...

Description: Power substations play a critical role in transporting electricity from power plants to homes, businesses, and factories. However, a typical power grid can be comprised of hundreds of substations that ...

Description: This Application Note describes the development of a digital filter for an analog input signal using the CMSIS-DSP Library and the RTX-RTOS. The application, designed for an NXP LPC1768 device, can be ...

Description: When in the market for an x86-based embedded computer, most system engineers only take hardware requirements such as CPU performance into consideration. Unlike RISC-based computers, which are designed ...

Description: Moxa provides sample code to help end users streamline access to peripherals from Moxa embedded computers. Besides using sample code to speed development of client-server, serial, and other peripheral ...

Description: IEC 61850 is an Ethernet-based protocol standard used mainly in substations for data communication. Substations use a number of controllers for a variety of purposes, including protection, ...

Description: Sea transport is an industry that presents many IT challenges and opportunities. The world merchant marine fleet totaled 97,504 ships (a propelled sea-going merchant vessel of at least 100 GRT) at the ...

Description: Reference guide helps you find the exact part you need. You may not know the name of every connector in the industry, but you know what you want. Compare our detailed pictures of popular AUI, ...

Description: One of the greatest challenges for industrial computing manufacturers is to deliver products that meet industrial standards and operate in harsh environments. This challenge is made even greater due ...

Description: Technological advances have transformed the way many industries do business, and maritime shipping is no exception. Modern ships host an ever-increasing number of electronic devices and equipment. ...

Description: The installation of explosion protected HMI stations is common in production plants with hazardous areas. These stations communicate via cable connections with servers at the process control level in ...

Description: Radio Frequency (RF) Photonic links have been the focus of researchers since the early 1980's, and the advances in performance capabilities have been continually expanded by innovative industry ...

Description: Through the use of extenders, Universal Serial Bus (USB) is no longer limited to the desktop range of five meters (16.4 feet); you can now extend it to cover an entire campus with a range up to 10 ...

Description: This paper the IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol as the basis for real time applications in an automation network. Using IEEE1588, it is possible for the first time to synchronize, in the ...

Description: This paper includes information on Layer 2 and 3 interoperability issues when deploying Ethernet/ IP as well as when to implement a hub versus a switch ...

Description: This white paper will explain the difference between traditional commercial controlled environments and harsh, industrial environments as well as the type of cabling and interconnectivity products to ...

Description: High-powered embedded computing equipment utilizing the Air Transport Rack (ATR) form factor is playing an ever-larger role in extreme, mission-critical applications in air, land, and sea ...

Description: The RS-485 communications standard was introduced in 1983 by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) as a two-wire, half-duplex, multi-drop alternative to the point-to-point RS-232 interface. (Note: ...