The Drives & Controls Web site is the online presence of the UK leading magazine for electric motors, variable speed drives, industrial automation, mechanical ...
Link: drives.co.uk
The machines – which could be configured in various ways, including as single-phase AC motors, DC motors and three-phase high-voltage AC motors or generators – are essentially axial-flux permanent magnet machines. Their disc-like structure allows several rotors to be stacked together ...
“Our analysis has shown that there is a huge market potential for energy savings from business investment in energy-efficient equipment, amounting to over £3.7bn per year across the country, and around £2.2bn in the industrial sector alone,” says Darren Riva, head of green financing f...
Under the umbrella of the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), the companies aim to design and demonstrate a platform that enables data-modelling and simulation technologies to manage energy use actively in conjunction with plant production systems. The platform will allow...
In the experiment, Tyler Klinger, a security researcher with Critical Intelligence and Scott Greaux of PhishMe , sent spear-phishing emails to more than 70 employees working on industrial controls and other critical systems at two companies involved with power plants and pipeline main...
The researchers found the potentially vulnerable systems using the Shodan search engine and searching for control-systems-related terms such as Scada (supervisory control and data acquisition). The researchers are worried that cyber-attackers could use the search engine in a similar w...
The core of the system is a firewall (above) that inspects every network message passing through it, allowing only the right messages from the right computers to reach critical controllers. This is designed to stop hacking attempts, deliberately corrupted messages and network traffic ...
The 60mm-long Bluebox UHF antennae (above) have stainless-steel housings and 2m-long cables. They can identify objects at reading distances of up to 20cm. Their accuracy and reading range means that over-reach readings can be avoided. The IP65-protected antennae have space-saving M30 ...
The study shows that the savings in the US could exceed €16.7bn, in China €8.6bn, Russia €7.2bn, Germany €6.4bn, India €5.4bn and the UK €3.1bn. The other countries included in the survey (and shown in the graph above) are Spain, France, Turkey and Poland. SFS claims that its figures ...
