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Product Brochure: OEMs cut your machine costs now!

Content Type  No PLC required, reduce cost and improve reliability with the LT3000 operator interface plus control. The LT3000 brochure provides specifications, Ladder Logic Instructions, EX Module Specifications and system structure information.

Unity Control Software from Schneider Electric

Content Type  Unity Pro V3.0 is the universal programming, debugging and operating software for Modicon PLCs.

High-Speed Control of Hydraulic Die-Casting Machine Using NI CompactRIO and LabVIEW FPGA

Content Type  Developing a closed-loop control system for a hydraulic cylinder that is both cost-effective and highly reliable.

PET Container Supplier Relies on OPC Servers

Content Type  Kepware integrates plant equipment with a single OPC server for leading container manufacturer Amcor, to bring real-time production data into the Apriso/SAP business system.

AutomationDirect releases small, easy-to-use PLC

Content Type  AutomationDirect announces the release of the CLICK® PLC, the first in a new generation of inexpensive PLC components designed to offer practical features in an easy-to-use, compact yet expandable design.

Wireless Gets Real: Emerson Customers Describe Applications

Content Type  “Real-world wireless” was the theme of an Emerson Process Management press conference on Monday. Real-world wireless is not drawings or powerpoints, said Emerson Chairman John Berra. Rather, it is customers who are putting wireless technology into practice.

GuardLogix Integrated Safety System

Content Type  GuardLogix provides high-speed, high-performance, multi-discipline control for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 safety applications.

Guard I/O Enhances Operator Protection

Content Type Control and monitor safety devices with Guard I/O.

Get the Most from Your Multicore Processor, from National Instruments

Content Type  Dual-core and multicore processors are introducing the biggest ripple in the software development world since the move to object-oriented programming more than a decade ago.

White Paper: Gigabit Ethernet: Meeting the Future with Increased Bandwidth

Content Type  Since the mid-1990s, Ethernet networks have become ubiquitous. They are used in offices, in homes, in workplaces, in building automation, and with increasing dominance, not just frequency, on the factory floor. In this whitepaper, Paul Wacker of Advantech Corporation explores Gigabit Ethernet, and what the future holds.

White Paper: MTS Sensors Integrated Sensor and Controller

Content Type  Download this white paper, Sizing and Applying Magnetostrictive Linear-Position Sensors, to learn how MTS Sensors Integrated Sensor and Controller provides enhanced performance and reduced system integration costs.

White Paper: TURCK Proximity Sensors in Harsh Duty Environments - Are they tough enough?

Content Type  Finding the right components within a system that will cause the least amount of downtime and maintenance is no easy task: make the most informed decision.

White Paper: Securing an Integrated SCADA System from Citect

Content Type  Overview of the security measures that need to be taken in order to protect an integrated SCADA network.

OPC Provides Critical Alarm Visibility for Energy Generator

Content Type Western Kentucky Energy uses OPC to share and display critical alarming information, plant data and equipment status from its ABB Harmony control system and third-party solutions.

OPC UA Scores Big at Hannover Fair

Content Type Thomas J. Burke, president and executive director of the OPC Foundation, reports on the OPC events held during the recent Hannover Fair in Germany. Demonstrations and forums solidify OPC UA’s success as the key integration technology for legacy control devices and systems.

A “Cooler” Solution with OPC

Content Type AMT uses OPC servers from Kepware to develop energy-saving control solutions for refrigeration plants.

Pleasure Yacht Puts OPC On-Board

Content Type OPC products from Kepware link communications among three high-performance yacht engines, for a combined information management system and data historian.

Higher Reliability for Off-shore Oil Platforms

Content Type Trending solutions from Canary Labs are combined with OPC communications to monitor two off-shore oil platforms, with on-shore administration.

OPC Speeds Line Assembly in Automotive Plants

Content Type Top U.S. automakers use OPC technology from Cyberlogic to meet tight schedules in rapid-deployment manufacturing lines.

OPC Provides Real-Time Access to Remote Field Data

Content Type MatrikonOPC Servers interface with RTUs and PLCs to store process historian data in this upstream production application for Shell Petroleum.
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