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The Elements of GigE Vision

Content Type Image  The GigE Vision standard was defined by a committee of the Automated Imaging Association (AIA). The committee included Basler AG and companies from all major product segments in the vision industry. The goal was to define a standard Gigabit Ethernet based interface tuned to applications in the machine industry that would allow seamless interchangeability between cameras or software.

Applying multicore and virtualization to industrial and safety-related applications

Content Type Image  Multicore and virtualization provide the opportunity to improve device performance, reduce costs through hardware consolidation, and upgrade applications more cost effectively throughout the product lifecycle as this white paper from Wind River explores.

Ensure the Well-Being of Plant Personnel and Equipment with Apprion Wireless Safety Applications

Content Type Image  This Apprion brief explains various wireless safety applications that address the inherent threats and safety risks at industrial facilities and provides cost-effective, real-time solutions to greatly increase the safety of all your field personnel.

White Paper: Ten steps to lean electrical controls, from ABB

Content Type Image  Leverage Lean Operations, A Lean Supply Chain, and Lean Design of your electrical panels to meet the key goals from James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones book "Lean Thinking."
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Rockwell Stresses Service Offerings in Brazil

Content Type Image  Equipment remanufacturing, training and remote support, among other service activities, have contributed the effective consolidation of its installed base in the country.

Counting On Improved OEE

Content Type Image  While refining its processes, faucet manufacturer Moen Inc. (N. Olmsted, Ohio) ran across a suboptimal situation with its screw machines.

Robotics, Embedded PC Make this Handle Applicator Tick

Content Type Image  ‘Dog-bone’-style carrier handles are applied at speeds to 60 cases/min by a pair of vision-guided robots, and it’s all governed by an industrial PC.

Automating a Beverage Line

Content Type Image  Dick Motley doesn’t pretend to be impartial. When it comes to robots for the packaging industry, he believes that high-speed, articulated-arm robots are superior to the ever more popular Delta configuration.

Vision-Assisted Robotics, an Enabling Technology for Packaging

Content Type Image  From sliced meat to late-capitalism, the reasons that vision-assisted robotic packaging applications have been increasing are many. Within this complex picture, though, certain trends seem clear.
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Automation Minutes - 03.08.10

Content Type Image  Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses business leadership, inspiring young engineering minds, automation company stock movement and a social networking interview with Juliann Grant at Telesian Technology.  

Podcast Bytes: Automatic Code Generation for Industrial Control

Content Type Image  The MathWorks, a Natick, Mass.-based developer of mathematical computing software, has teamed with controls supplier Rockwell Automation Inc., Milwaukee, to introduce a new approach to programming for industrial control systems. In this podcast interview, recorded on March 4, 2010, Automation World Managing Editor Wes Iversen talks with The MathWorks’ Tom Erkkinen and Rockwell’s Jason Weber about the introduction.

Mintchell Video Report - 2010 ARC Forum Report

Content Type Image Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses happenings at the 14th annual ARC Forum in Orlando. There were product announcements from many companies, an in-depth discussion of the multi-year Invensys strategy that has led to the formation of IOM, WBF and OMAC and their separation from ISA, and a few thoughts about wireless from the Forum.
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