Governments and industry want to better protect nature from offshore wind development. Conservationists worry they won’t go far or fast enough. Just before New Year, offshore wind farm developer Ørsted’s 2.4-gigawatt Hornsea 3 project was given the green light by the U.K. government. But the project highlights the potential conflict between climate-change mitigation and nature ...

Industrial Automation Solutions Technology advances have blurred the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds, and given rise to the next great industrial revolution known as the Industrial Internet of Things or Industry 4.0. As a result, today’s factories require intelligent, interconnected systems linked to cloud services and big data analysis to drive greater manufacturing efficiency,...

ABB helps Italian company power water purification plantJune 23, 2020 - ABB is providing technology for the expansion of a cooperative water purification plant in Northern Italy. This project is fundamental for the protection of water quality in the rivers and lakes of one of the most industrialized areas of the Po Valley. The purification plant will treat wastewater from 26 municipalities across ...

The British government wants you: To cut lettuce from the fields, pick berries from the bushes and load boxes of fresh produce into cold storage warehouses. While many people hunker down at home, reloading the internet sites of grocery stores to secure a home delivery slot or dreading the socially distanced, masked visit to a supermarket, it's easy to lose sight of the supply chain and where that ...

Japan has recorded 10,000 infections and nearly 200 people have died with the disease. Michael Bristow reports. Two Japanese medical associations said the extra burden caused by virus infections and hospitals were now refusing to treat some patients, even though suffering from serious conditions such as strokes and heart attacks. One patient in an ambulance with a fever was turned away by 80 medic...

The Phu My project is the largest in Vietnam, comprising a series of power plants with a combined capacity of up to 3,900MW. It is located in the village of Phu My in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province in the southern part of Vietnam. The complex includes the Phu My 1, 2-1, 2-2, 3 and 4 plants. Together, they meet about 40% of the country’s energy needs. Vietnam has a severely underdeveloped electricity inf...

Iran Finds Oil Field With Over 50 Billion Barrels, Rouhani Says The discovery, if verified, could bolster the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad in the face of U.S. sanctions. TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has discovered an oil field in the country’s south with more than 50 billion barrels of crude oil, its president said on Sunday, a development that could bolster th...

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Most people are familiar with the EtherNet/IP architecture where some set of EtherNet/IP adapters are connected to one or more EtherNet/IP controllers (Scanners in EtherNet/IP terms). The reason for that is that this type of architecture is very common, but there are exceptions. Sometimes we have levels of control. For example, look at how ABB tooling robots work in automotive plants. There is a P...