The month of July witnessed two spectacular space events – the suborbital space flights of billionaire entrepreneurs Sir Richard ‘Virgin’ Branson and Jeff ‘Amazon’ Bezos, both representing first generation, self-made success stories.Dr M ArokiaswamyAs far as space missions go, these were not great achievements in terms of endurance or any scientific breakthrough. What they however demonstrated was innovation in designing rockets or rocket powered planes using available technologies to fly up to 100 km in space using their own resources, also in the process opening alternate avenues for space exploration outside government efforts. In the proc...
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Connected Plants and Communication Protocols
Experts debate on the multiplicity of protocols and the efforts to find a level of standardisation in the automation industry.Connected Plants & Communication ProtocolsConnected Plants is a term often used to describe the rapid evolution of automation with the help of emerging technologies in the post internet era. The theme of connected plants has been promoted since long, but has assumed importance in the Industry 4.0 era. So what is new in the concept, and in implementation? Andreas Faath, “The possibilities with the latest developments enable a connected plant for all business sizes, due to the fact that standard protocols are now integrated into ...
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