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	<description>Straight Talk on Modern Industrial Automation and Engineering Technology</description>
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		<title>Globe Valve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Globe valve is a type of valve used for regulating flow in a pipeline, consisting of a movable disk-type element and a stationary ring seat in a generally spherical body.
Globe Valves are named for their spherical body shape with the two halves of the body being separated by an internal baffle. This has an [...]


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		<title>Ball Valve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A ball valve is a valve that opens by turning a handle attached to a ball inside the valve. The ball has a hole, or port, through the middle so that when the port is in line with both ends of the valve, flow will occur. When the valve is closed, the hole is perpendicular [...]


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		<title>Engineering Organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are the professional organizations for the more common types of engineering.
American Institute  of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Society of  Mechanical Engineers
American Institute  of Chemical Engineers
Architectural  Engineering Institute
Biomedical  Engineering Society
Institute of  Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Society of Petroleum  Engineers


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Engineering Information Sites



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		<title>Catch The Wind And Crank Up Your Turbine</title>
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Wind power has been growing at a pace that rivals that of the solar industry. The worldwide generating capacity of wind turbines has grown more than 25% every year for the past decade, reaching nearly 60,000 MW in early 2006. In Europe, the growth has been phenomenal. In 1994, the total installed wind generated power [...]


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		<title>The Tricks To Writing A Resume That Scores</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who are engineers or technicians, resume writing can be pretty tough. Most of us don’t like to write; we like to program things and build stuff.
But the reality of life in the technical world is that, first, you have to get a job. Getting a job as an engineer starts first [...]


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		<title>General Troubleshooting Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few troubleshooting tips I have picked up along the way.
Learn Who You Can Trust to Provide Accurate Information 
Gathering accurate information is an important aspect of troubleshooting. However well meaning, some of the people you deal with will not provide accurate information. This may seem like stating the obvious, but always try [...]


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		<title>Common Terms of Industrial Automation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have compiled a list of terms that you might run across on the factory floor. You may want to browse through them. If you are looking for a specific definition, it could be quicker to use the search box on the right.


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Industrial Automation Glossary &#8211; C
Industrial Automation Glossary [...]


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		<title>Ending Our Dependence On Foreign Oil With Solar Power</title>
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It seems that high prices for gasoline and heating oil used in homes are here to stay.  Sure, they go up and down, but overall they still remain pretty high and consume more of our pocketbooks than they ever have in the past.  We are constantly struggling with the Middle East, at least [...]


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		<title>Industrial Automation Glossary &#8211; A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 0 a logical negative, or zero.
 1 a logic positive, high, or 1.
 A/D Analog to digital converter (see ADC).
 abort the disruption of normal operation.
 absolute pressure a pressure measured relative to zero pressure.
 absorptive law a special case of Boolean algebra where A(A+B) becomes A.
 absorption loss 
when sound or vibration energy [...]


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		<title>Industrial Automation Glossary &#8211; B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ backbone 
a central network line that ties together distributed networks.
 background 
in multitasking systems, processes may be running in the background while the user is working in the foreground, giving the user the impression that they are the only user of the machine (except when the background job is computationally intensive).
 background suppression 
the [...]


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