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This month is a bit of a departure from my usual software review. Instead, I'm reviewing a book that I believe every budding automation and control engineer should read -…
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Imagine that you have a number of worker bees on the floor using PC-based HMIs or thin clients, and they run into a situation that they haven't seen before. They…
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Elusiva terminal services for Windows XP: Terminal Server Enterprise offers concurrent licensing (Part 2 of 2)
Written by Jeremy Pollard July 22, 2010
In the previous column, we talked about the terminal services (TS) methodology, Elusiva's Terminal Server Pro, and the concepts of terminal server services, RDP thin clients, and running applications in…
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Elusiva terminal services for Windows XP: Saves energy, money and time (Part 1 of 2)
Written by Jeremy Pollard July 21, 2010
Energy management, non-renewable resources, peak oil, energy costs and just about "green" anything are popular buzzwords right now. Computers aren't immune to this environmental revolution - they consume piles of…
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My customers use a lot of Rockwell Automation products. As with most industrial sites, and processes, the equipment is older and uses less-than-recent software revisions. Microsoft and Intel have continued…
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Software for the mind: A book review of the IEC 61499 function block standard
Written by Jeremy Pollard September 15, 2008
While this book is primarily written for academia and for course study, it can very well suit some control engineers and some process guys to allow them to learn more…
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Software for the future: New technologies will be driven by new software, so be prepared
Written by Jeremy Pollard February 24, 2010
Ten Years After: a rock group that performed at Woodstock, with Alvin Lee as an up-and-coming guitar player. Who’d have known, come 2009, that anyone would remember 40 years into…
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FreeProxy network manager: Software controls users’ access to shared resources
Written by Jeremy Pollard October 26, 2009
Cyber security and rogue plant floor applications are made for each other. One tries to get to places while the other tries to stop them. Sounds like parents with teenagers.…
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Network monitoring software that gives you the whole picture
Written by Jeremy Pollard October 06, 2008
I have to admit that when I started this review of IntraVUE network monitoring and configuration software, I was a bit skeptical about a product claimed it could map out…
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Automation Software: Forget remote access and start remoting
Written by Jeremy Pollard October 14, 2005
We have a tough job every day developing applications for manufacturing automation projects, control code, HMI interfaces and communication strategies. Additionally, we have to maintain those systems and processes as…
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