ADVERTORIAL TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION Red Lion’s Award-Winning Graphite HMI
Platform Expands Communication Options New PROFIBUS and DeviceNet Plug-In Modules Offer More Equipment Integration Choices
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ed Lion Controls, the global experts in communication, monitoring and control for industrial automation
and networking, today
announced that it has expanded its Graphite™ Human Machine Interface (HMI) operator panels with two new communication modules,
offering
support for some of today’s most popular industrial protocols. Designed for use with the Graphite HMI platform,
DeviceNet™ (GMDN) plug-in modules provide the connectivity customers need to add powerful monitoring and control functionality to their existing operations.
Red Lion’s new plug-and-play modules support the rising demand for device interoperability, allowing customers to leverage Red Lion’s rugged Graphite HMIs – with built-in protocol converter and 300+ communications drivers – to support virtually any automation equipment. The GMPBDP module adds PROFIBUS DP slave support while the GMDN module allows the HMI to perform as a DeviceNet Group 2 server.
“With the addition of new communication
modules, our powerful HMI products continue to provide even more ways for our customers to easily connect, monitor and control processes across a broad range of industries,” explained Jeff Thornton, director of product management at Red Lion Controls. “The PROFIBUS and DeviceNet modules give customers more choices as
the PROFIBUS® (GMPBDP) and
they seek integrated communication solutions to address
varying requirements in remote environments.”
Recently named a “2014 First Team Supplier” in HMI hardware by the readers of Automation World, Red Lion’s Graphite HMIs offer a built-in web server that enables users to monitor and control applications via PCs, tablets or smartphones. SMS text-messaging
and email alerts provide early
warning of process issues, which helps avoid costly downtime. In addition, protocol conversion lets customers select from more than 300 industrial
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www.redlion.net/Graphite.
eading seal and moulding manufacturer DP Seals is setting an unrivalled standard in components conforming to the rigorous NORSOK M-710 benchmark – being one of the very few companies to insist on only using materials which meet the full requirements of just the top two grades.
Originally developed by the Norwegian petroleum industry, M-710 has now become the internationally recognised standard for non-metallic seals and bearings, offering oil and gas companies an unequivocal assurance of quality, performance and durability in components designed to operate in hostile sub-sea environments.
To meet M-710, materials must achieve accepted criteria for both rapid gas decompression (RGD) – also known as explosive decompression (ED) – and sour gas ageing (H2S), both of which are proven indicators of long-term performance and viable life expectancy.
DP Seals has been working to the NORSOK standard virtually from its inception, and has developed and supplied a wide range of seals and custom- moulded components to customers in the UK, Scandinavia and further afield.
“High quality components have been the cornerstone of our success,” said
MD, Andrew Piper, “and adhering to M-710 is simply one more way in which we can be sure of meeting the stringent specifications of our customers in the oil and gas industries.”
A stand-alone website with full information on Norsok testing criteria and a
list of approved materials that DP Seals use
www.norsokready.com has also been launched.
See:
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