ЖУРНАЛ СТА №1/2000

СТА 1/2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS CTA 1/2000 REVIEW/ Hardware 6 ZICON's Power Electronics by Victor Zhdankin 26 ADVANTECH: Traditional Quality towards the New Era by Victor Garsia Review of new products of Advantech, leading industrial computers manufacturer. REVIEW/ Software 32 Neutrino: Citius, Altius, and … Less by Sergey Prozhogin Features and capabilities of QNX/Neutrino real-time operating system. 38 Problems and Solutions of a Process Control System for Metallurgy by Yuri Volobuyev A retrospective review of the basic software solutions for automation of a large industrial works. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/Food Industry 44 Sugar Manufacturing Process Automation Systems by Oleg Yakovlev, Stanislav Tantsyura, Alexander Voytiuk, Yuri Rudakov, Sergey Latyshev, Vladimir Volkov, Mikhail Rak, Nikolay Krugly Varied equipment and software are considered, which serve for the monitoring, registration and control of sugar manu- facturing process' operation factors. DEVELOPMENT/ Railway Transport 54 Automated Rail Defectoscopy by Dmitri Babikov, Vitaly Gribov, Alexey Kirillov, Nikolay Krikunenko, Sergey Ksenofontov, Alexander Reyman, Alexander Shishkov Rails quality monitoring has been improved with the help of automation by echography data registration, processing and visualization. DEVELOPMENT/ Ecology 58 Automated Systems for Waterworks' Reagent Unit by Leonid Babitsky The structure and construction principles of some automated systems for the water preparation at the South Waterworks in St.Petersburg are considered in the article. DEVELOPMENT/ Chemical Industry 62 Industrial Measuring of Hydrofluoric Acid Concentrate by Yuri Kiryukhin, Boris Samokhodkin, Konstantin Shchekin, Mikhail Zaitsev, Victor Sobolev Automation experience in the field of corrosive media densi- ty measuring is described. ENGINEER’S NOTEBOOK 66 Hazardous Areas, Types of Explosion Protection by Victor Zhdankin Recent publications devoted to the issues of data acquisition safety in explosive areas, as well as to existing types of explosion protection by electrical equipment, has brought about a flood of response, positive and negative remarks, too. This article is intended to answer some of arisen questions, but also to highlight key points in comparison of different types of explosion protection. 74 Serial Interfaces for Display Units by Alexey Barmin 80 Intelligent Sockets of Dallas Semiconductor by Evgeni Pirumov EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS 88 World's Premiere of Genesis32 v. 6.0 88 Advantech ECG Awards ProSoft 89 SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN BRIEF 90 SHOWROOM NEWS 25, 31, 53, 57, 93 96 www.cta.ru