High-tech instrumentation and state-of-the-art modeling tools are helping power plant operators achieve best-in-class performance, meet pollution targets, and better predict failures. Calibration ...

Python is powerful, extendable, intuitive programming language that you can use to automate test equipment. PyVISA is one of Python’s many libraries that extend its power to communicate with ...

Experts and novices alike can use a helping hand when making measurements. Many test-and-measurement companies offer software tools with their instruments, helping to speed instrument setup and avoid ...

The power generation industry is constantly evolving, with advanced technologies becoming more ubiquitous in power plants. Along with this evolution, instrumentation and control equipment continues to ...

When you design a measurement system, you choose the appropriate hardware and incorporate it into the test program. You have several hardware choices: traditional test instruments, data-acquisition ...

The nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants was originally built with analog instrumentation and control systems. Upgrading to a digital system is an important consideration for power producers as dome ...

GPIB or Ethernet? Some early testing results and recommendations can help you focus on the realities of each technology. Ethernet, with its higher bandwidth and ubiquitous usage, seems a natural ...

prevent single failures or anticipated events from escalating into plant shutdowns, trips, or accidents endangering plant equipment, personnel, and the public. Typical examples include feedwater and ...

The UL certification mark hardly needs an introduction, given that it appears on more than 22 billion products each year. Those familiar with the sign will have the general sense of its meaning: A ...

Instrument and control switches are used to manage relatively large currents and voltages as found in operator panels at electrical utility substations. switches are used to manage relatively large ...

Automation World has launched its new podcast series aimed at answering reader questions. The first question addressed in the series focuses on the difference between smart and traditional instruments ...