Caorán; 12 Meith 2009: The latest issue of Read-out, Ireland's journal of instrumentation, control and automation, has an emphasis on plant automation. It headlines the fact thta the Irish operation of Pilz has now achieved TÜV SÜD safety management approval recently.

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Colum Whelan, Managing Director of Galway based C&L Industrial discusses how compressed air users can optimise compressed related energy usage through heat recovery.

Andrews Hodson of Verus Precision, a Sligo based enterprise, has been certified by the Autodesk Moldflow™ corporation as only one in four Gold Level accredited engineers in the world providing injection moulding FEA consultation.

Examination of Montupet's use of Spi-VR® hand held vibration units is described. These products are used in their Dunmurray plant outside Belfast.

Another application described in this issue is the use of National Instruments' LabView in testing evacuated tube solar collectors by Thermomax. This plant in Bangor, Co Down, manufactures equipment for the conversion of solar radiation into thermal energy.

Company news includes reports from the Mitsubishi Electric sales meeting previously reported on our website. Also reported is the IES Industrial Controls Group's strategic partnership with InfinityQS and the Coyle & Holland group recent acquisition of HPRC Ireland, manufacturers of watertight and airtight cases used in many applications including instrumentation.

In the traing section the recent HARTWireless seminars in Europe as well as heads-up of webinars and webtraining being organised by ISA and IDC Technologies.

Lots of new products are featured as well as the usual "people section" reporting on the automation people and their activities in Ireland in the previous months.

Read-out is published every two months and distributed free to around 2400 named automation professionals throughout thje island. Some copies are distributed but a nominal subscription is paid for these. Subscription rates are listed here on our website.