Industrial and Engineering Software Reference Materials
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Transparency and Trust - the Need for Traceability (.pdf)
From: Lawson SoftwareDescription: Escalating health fears, new global policies, and a highly competitive market means that traceability is an issue food and beverage companies cannot afford to ignore. Visibility of food safety and ...
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Preface
From: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Description: Preface This book contains significant results from our research on industrial automation software conducted in previous years. Industrial automation software can be used in a wide variety of ...
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Lawson Business Intelligence: Opening the Door to Enhanced Operational Performance (.pdf)
From: Lawson SoftwareDescription: The big irony of the Information Age is "TMI"- too much information. Information is supposed to make the business world go 'round, yet all too often, businesses find themselves drowning in a sea of ...
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Lean Manufacturing - White Paper (.pdf)
From: Lawson SoftwareDescription: The pressure on manufacturing organizations has increased dramatically over the last 15 years. This has been driven by globalization in the aftermath of the Cold War, the liberalization of markets, ...
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Making the Grade in Service: How to Align Your IT and Service Strategies (.pdf)
From: Lawson SoftwareDescription: Three years ago Lawson published its thoughts on the emerging equipment service management market. At the time many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors faced downward pressures on ...
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CodeGuard™ Security: Protecting Intellectual Property in Collaborative System Designs (.pdf)
Description: Microchip's CodeGuard Security represents unique advancements in the realm of embedded firmware security. This white paper describes CodeGuard Security and discusses application scenarios that will ...
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Application of Advanced Process Control to Ethanol Production from Biomass Feedstocks
Description: Given the increase in energy cost and questioning of MTBE as fuel oxygenate, ethanol production in the U.S. has grown rapidly during the past two decades, increasing from 175 million gallons in 1980 ...
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California Manufacturer Carves Out Competitive Advantage with Efficiency and Quality Gains with M1
From: ECi Solutions Pty LtdDescription: In recent years, Southern California has experienced one of the biggest housing booms in the nation. Builders, investors, and homeowners have looked for extra touches to upgrade their homes and make ...
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Glidepath Finds Clear Skies with M1
From: ECi Solutions Pty LtdDescription: Airports worldwide have undergone significant changes in the past decade. Increasing travel and the need for greater security measures have fueled a near-constant drive to upgrade airport facilities, ...
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Driver Installation and Hyperterminal Operation
From: Loadstar Sensors, Inc.Description: Insert the iLoad Digital USB Driver CD OR the LoadVUE or LoadVUE Lite CD into your computer's drive. If you have downloaded the driver files from our web site onto a location in your hard disk, ...
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LoadVUE/LoadVUE Lite User Guide
From: Loadstar Sensors, Inc.Description: Insert the LoadVUE CD-ROM into your drive. The installation Wizard should start up automatically. If it does not, click Start...Run.... and use the Browse button to select X:\setup.exe where X: stands ...
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Writing Your Own Software to Communicate with iLoad Digital USB Load Cells
From: Loadstar Sensors, Inc.Description: Since the iLoad Digital USB Load cells present themselves to Windows as COM ports, it is very easy to write your own program to read the load cells loads. Simply open the COM port from your ...
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General Manufacturing Case Study: Bar Code Readers Increase WIP Visibility for Industrial Appliance Manufacturer (.pdf)
Description: In order to stay ahead in today's competitive manufacturing environment, effective inventory management must extend beyond the warehouse and include real-time monitoring of work-in-process inventory ...
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Understanding Optical Character Recognition (.pdf)
Description: Optical Character Recognition, commonly known as OCR, is distinct from linear and 2D symbologies in that it is simultaneously machine-readable and human-readable. OCR does not replace the more robust, ...
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A Real-Time Operating System for PIC16/17
Description: Ever dream of having a Real-Time Kernel for the PIC16CXXX family of microcontrollers? Or ever wonder what Multitasking or Threads are all about? Then this article is for you. We will explore how to ...
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Analog Design in a Digital World Using Mixed Signal Controllers
Description: The purpose of this Application Note is to familiarize engineers with PIC16C78X design considerations, specifically: * Potential noise problems in mixed signal design * Features and performance of the ...
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Implementing Long Calls
Description: This application note discusses how to implement long calls in the PIC16C5X architecture. The use of long call can simplify the partitioning of the application program with minimal software overhead. ...
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Modular Mid-Range PICmicro® KEELOQ® Decoder in C
Description: This application note describes a KEELOQ® code hopping decoder implemented on a Microchip Mid-range Enhanced FLASH MCU (PIC16F872). The software has been designed as a group of independent ...
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Self-Programming the PIC18C452 OTP
Description: You've decided on the Microchip PIC18C452 8-bit microcontroller. Its ample program memory space of 32 Kbytes, operating speed of 40 MHz, and extensive set of peripherals and I/Os fit your design ...
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Technique to Calculate Day of Week
Description: Basically, there are two kinds of electronic systems that come with a built-in calendar. The first kind of system is used mainly to display a calendar for a user's conve-nience. Examples of these ...
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Using a PIC16F877 To Develop Code for PIC16CXXX Devices
Description: With the release of the FLASH-based PIC16F87X family, Microchip Technology has completed the circle on product technology. Microchip is now in the unique position of offering FLASH, OTP or ROM-based ...
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Using a PIC16F877 To Develop Code for PIC16CXXX Devices
Description: With the release of the FLASH-based PIC16F87X family, Microchip Technology has completed the circle on product technology. Microchip is now in the unique position of offering FLASH, OTP or ROM-based ...
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A Comparator Based Slope ADC
Description: Comparators are used for many things, but many people want to build analog-to-digital converters using a comparator. Comparators are one basic building block of all ADC architectures. A PICmicro® ...
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Using the MCP2515 CAN Developer's Kit
Description: The MCP2515 eases software development and shortens the learning curve for the MCP2515 providing three PC software templates with different functions that CAN node designers can use as needed. By ...
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PWM, A Software Solution using the 16CXXX Devices
Description: The low cost, high performance features of a PIC16CXXX microcontroller make it a suitable device for automatic control technology applications. Sometimes, an additional PWM output is needed. For some ...
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Saving and Restoring Status on Interrupt
Description: The PIC17C42 has a 16 level deep hardware stack. The program counter is pushed into this stack on interrupts and subroutine calls. However, other key registers are not saved to the stack. Registers ...
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Software Implementation of I²C Bus Master
Description: his application note describes the software implementation of I 2 C interface routines for the PIC16CXXX family of devices. Only the master mode of I 2 C interface is implemented in this application ...
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Software Interrupt Techniques
Description: This application note describes a unique method for implementing interrupts in software on the PIC16C5X series of microcontrollers. This method takes advantage of the PIC16C5X?s architecture which ...
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Software Stack Management
Description: The PIC16C5X has a stack which is only 2 deep, and, as a result, only two nested calls can be made (i.e., only one call within a call routine). If more than two levels of subroutine nesting is ...
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Using the Microchip Endurance Predictive Software
Description: Endurance, as it applies to non-volatile memory, refers to the number of times an individual memory cell can be erased and/or written (some architectures do not erase before every write). Advances in ...
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Hardware and Software Resolution for a Pointing Device (pdf)
Description: The rated differences in pointing device resolution can be confusing to the user; this application note describes the method for calculating hardware resolution of a pointing device that incorporates ...
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Software Implementation of Asynchronous Serial I/O
Description: PIC16CXXX microcontrollers from Microchip Technology, Inc., high-performance, EPROM-based 8-bit microcontrollers. Some of the members of this series (like the PIC16C71 and PIC16C84) do not have an ...
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DeviceNet™ Group 2 Slave Firmware for PIC18 with CAN
Description: The DeviceNet™ system is an open network standard, built on the Controller Area Network (CAN), designed to reduce the cost and time to install industrial devices while providing compatibility ...
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Using the MCP2515 CAN Developer's Kit
Description: The MCP2515 eases software development and shortens the learning curve for the MCP2515 by providing three PC software templates with different functions that CAN node designers can use as needed. By ...
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Data Encryption Routines for the PIC18
Description: This Application Note covers four encryption algorithms: AES, XTEA, SKIPJACK® and a simple encryption algorithm using a pseudo-random binary sequence generator. The science of cryptography dates ...
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Software PID Control of an Inverted Pendulum Using the PIC16F684
Description: The purpose of this application note is to describe how a PIC16F684 can be used to implement a positional Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) feedback control in an inherently unstable system. An ...
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System Level Design Considerations When Using I2C Serial EEPROM Devices
Description: Developing systems that implement the I2C protocol for communicating with serial EEPROM devices requires that a certain key factors be considered during the hardware and software development phase if ...
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Using the MCP2510 CAN Developer's Kit
Description: The MCP2510 eases software development and shortens the learning curve for the MCP2510 by providing three PC software templates with different functions that CAN node designers can use as needed. By ...
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All Aboard the BAMwagon: Strengthing Your Organization with Business Activity Monitoring
From: ExactDescription: As our economy stretches, technology continues to play a key role in determining success or failure in the marketplace. And as business processes become tied to computerized business systems, ...
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Fluid Flow Software Tools Help Avoid Engineering Errors
From: ABZ Inc.Description: Advances in computer technology are providing better tools to simplify the tasks faced by engineers, especially those responsible for designing and managing process lines that handle fluids and gases. ...
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SmartWare Release Strategy
From: Patton Electronics Co.Description: This white paper describes the strategy of SmartWare software releases. Multiple software releases are maintained (available) at the same time: One technology release to provide periodic, fast access ...
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Bringing Plant Floor and IT Worlds Together, Easily
From: Online Development Inc.Description: Getting timely, accurate and meaningful plant floor data to the enterprise is critical in today's business world. Global competition, financial pressures and increased government regulations are ...
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Laureate Setup Software
From: Laurel Electronics LLCDescription: Setting up programmable 1/8 DIN instruments from the front panel can be a challenge using only four front panel pushbuttons. The more programmable features there are, the more choices to be made, the ...
- Integrating CFD into the Product Development Process
- Integrating Thermal and Heat Transfer Simulation with Digital Product Development
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A Proposed Method for Finding Stress and Allowable Pressure in Cylinders with Radial Nozzles
From: Codeware Inc.Description: A simple technique is presented for calculating the local primary stress from internal pressure in nozzle openings. Nozzle internal projections, reinforcing pads and fillet welds are considered for ...