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Thermal Overload
The threads that wouldn't die...
- PC reliability?
- Windows, real time
- PID loops
- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
- PC reliability?
- Windows, real time
- PID loops
- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
Fortune
"A raccoon tangled with a 23,000 volt line today. The results blacked
out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon."
-- Steel City News
out 1400 homes and, of course, one raccoon."
-- Steel City News
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from the Maintenance department...
Breaker failure arc flash disaster
Most of us in maintenance and operations dread the thought of having to don heavy, cumbersome and hot arc flash suits. To many it seems like "The Man", OSHA, is just trying to shove some more B.S. safety requirements down our throats.
But I wonder if the guy who was racking in the breaker in the video below wishes that he had been wearing suitable PPE. That is, if he even survived. The video speaks for itself. View it at:
http://www.metacafe.com/w/1555440
But I wonder if the guy who was racking in the breaker in the video below wishes that he had been wearing suitable PPE. That is, if he even survived. The video speaks for itself. View it at:
http://www.metacafe.com/w/1555440
From Control Engineering magazine...
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Above articles copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
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