{"title":"The future of fieldbus","authors":"G. Johnston","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20060104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20060104","url":null,"abstract":"Fieldbus has become widely accepted as a valuable communication method between industrial control systems and field instruments, and is now rapidly becoming the method of choice for communication between process control systems and field instrumentation. The standard is finding its greatest success in greenfield sites, particularly in developing countries where new large-scale processing projects are more common. This paper discusses the prospects for the fieldbus market and how is this valuable technology developing to meet users' needs?","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131422601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome to the wireless world","authors":"N. Ormond","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20060105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20060105","url":null,"abstract":"Owing to the developments made in wireless technology in recent years wireless LAN is rapidly winning acceptance as an alternative solution for many applications in industrial environments. The high degree of flexibility it provides within the plant can lead to cost reductions during both the installation and operation phases of the plant. Features such as fast roaming times, coverage, worldwide acceptance and IEEE standardization, operation in license free frequency ranges and proven security concepts have further increased the attractiveness of a wireless solution in industry. The emphasis for the use of wireless LAN in industry is on robustness, reliability and security.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126187114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunnels of terror","authors":"K. Koumpis, L. Hanna, S. Hailes","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20060102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20060102","url":null,"abstract":"Responding effectively to emergency situations such as earthquakes, forest fires, terrorist attacks and chemical spills involves a complex interaction of engineering, technology and people. The objective of the architects, builders, operators and regulators of related systems is to ensure that they provide an acceptable level of safety for their users and staff. The level of safety depends upon well-designed, reliable equipment operated in accordance with effective procedures for tasks such as data gathering, analysis, detection, response and recovery. Advances in embedded computing systems have led to the emergence of devices that integrate sensing, computation, and wireless communication. Our particular focus is on the case of road tunnel fires, although the know-how and tools may be applied more broadly across the field of emergency response.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114488048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a SCADA system powered by Java and XML","authors":"R. Fan, L. Cheded, O. Toker","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050506","url":null,"abstract":"New Web technologies will improve Internet-based SCADA systems. Using Java and XML, we propose a software design for a Web-integrated SCADA system using the standard UML designs approach. The objective of this paper was to design and develop a Java-based control system that will enable the control of some laboratory equipment from remote locations.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117095284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winning success from Babbage's failure","authors":"A. Woodward","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050503","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of software factories would be to remove much of the small-scale `crafts' element from routine software development and confine such craftsmanship to the really sharp end of the most demanding, leading-edge software development initiatives. This will allow software development to become less expensive, lower risk and far more reliable while still giving organisations all the scope they need to establish and maintain a competitive advantage from their software. A software factory, in other words, would offer the best of all possible worlds.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116019000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet-based SCADA: a new approach using Java and XML","authors":"R. Fan, L. Cheded, O. Toker","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050504","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet brings many new features to the process control and automation field however it has its limitations in terms of functionality, performance, security, and reliability. Emerging Web technologies are promising to overcome many of these limitations, and are helping the Internet to evolve into a highly graphical, interactive and collaborative environment. The objective of this paper was to investigate the design and application of an Internet-based SCADA system using Java and XML. This is tested by two projects: the first uses a lab-scale Java-based control system to control a typical process control application. The second extends the preceding work to show, in standard unified modelling language (UML) notation, how separate control systems can be integrated with each other, using Java and XML, to achieve a wider distributed control function.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124425178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My view: are US control engineers about to pension off their ISA?","authors":"A. Bond","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050502","url":null,"abstract":"The world's leading professional body for control engineers and arguably, the automation industry's most important standards development body in is crisis. We wonder whether its problems are primarily organisational or symptoms of a more fundamental change in the role and position of automation and automation professionals.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132375277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Java plus XML: a powerful new combination for SCADA systems","authors":"R. Fan, L. Cheded, O. Toker","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050505","url":null,"abstract":"Java is the most common programming language for the Internet. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a method for structuring and describing information. Java programs can be created on one platform and executed on another, and since XML information can also be formatted on one platform and transmitted to another, combining Java and XML leads to the attractive dual portability of code and data. Wherever Java programs can run, they can also access XML information. This enables Java and XML information to interoperate efficiently and effectively on different platforms.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121049113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New generation machine vision: coping with changes in light and surface quality","authors":"E. Yradley","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050606","url":null,"abstract":"Bad experiences from the past - where changes in ambient light adversely affected system performance - have made engineers sceptical about adopting machine vision into their production processes. The latest generation of cameras and system software removes many of their issues. During the development of the system the versatility of machine vision software is important because changes invariably require reconfiguration. In relation to the installed system the down-times from subsequent processes could be decreased to zero due to the correct identification that the vision system provides; and as a result of the productivity has increased accordingly.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132830547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On track to a remote conditioned future","authors":"D. Brearley","doi":"10.1049/CCE:20050602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/CCE:20050602","url":null,"abstract":"The city of Liverpool is served by its own underground system, operated by Serco Ned under the name of Merseyrail. Network Rail owns and maintains the operational infrastructure comprising track, signalling, power distribution and plant assets. The particular environment at the centre of the system (underground and inaccessible) was an ideal proving ground to install a remote condition monitoring system. Early warning of failure and the switching of various pieces of plant by remote control have allowed significant improvements to safety and operational performance of the rail network.","PeriodicalId":401124,"journal":{"name":"Computing & Control Engineering Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121694092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}