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OMEGAMATION EZ SERIES PLC TOUCHPANELS >>
The easy-to-use touchpanels with enhanced data acquisition and simple programming includes efficient 3D graphical objects, fast response to touch input, easy-to-learn intuitive software and more. Touchpanels are ideally suited any industry that uses factory automation.
Price starts at $359.
Omega Engineering
Next Generation Control from SEW-EURODRIVE >>
MOVIFIT® combines the advantages of decentralized control with the latest in drive application and communication technologies for automotive, food and beverage, logistics and other sophisticated material handling applications.
SEW Eurodrive
Drive technology with an integrated safety solution >>
ACOPOSmulti – The highly economical drive solution for any automation task in machine manufacturing. Modular cooling concept, simple wiring, all power supply modules capable of power regeneration, compact and scalable inverter modules, high availability, integrated safety technology
B&R Industrial
Six things to consider on your next Industrial PC Purchase >>
Does it offer?
1. Core Duo performance?
2. Solid-state drive CF option?
3. An integrated factory-alert system?
4. A Data-Redundancy RAID option?
5. Hot-Swappable hard drives?
6. UL Class 1 Div 2 classifications?
Pro-face APL3000 industrial PCs do.
Pro-face America
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Connecting Packaging Machines to the World
Engineers developing and specifying packaging lines are facing mounting pressure to
provide production information to enterprise business systems, connect to process
manufacturing in order to make overall manufacturing move more smoothly and collect
information for analysis of operating equipment effectiveness (OEE) for continuous
improvement of the packaging line.
No longer can the packaging area hide as a “black box” in the system.
Effective connectivity requires standards to reduce the engineering effort to
make different machines, applications and systems communicate. OPC, a communication
standard, is one of those technologies that many love to privately disparage but that
is actually widely adopted. OPC is essentially a standard way of digitally describing
information that can be sent from a device and then understood by another device or
software application. The latest iteration, OPC-UA (for Unified Architecture), is
built upon standard Web technologies such as eXtensible Markup Language (XML) that
play well over the other industry networking standard–Ethernet... Read more
Ethernet's Role: Shades of Connectivity
Most experts agree that the technology and
standards needed for comprehensive networking of packaging operations now
exist, but it's in their implementation that the differences arise.
Connectivity is like motherhood: Everybody praises it in the
abstract; it's the concrete examples that can spark disagreements. One
thing that there is little disagreement about, though, is the central role
of Ethernet.
Benefits of this single-platform, multi-function approach included fewer
parts, less wiring, faster programming and maintenance time reductions. Add the
enhanced communication capabilities that these newer devices possessed
(capabilities more typical of a personal computer, or PC, than a PLC) and a
general adherence to industry standards such as the programming languages based
on the International Electrotechnical Commission's IEC 61131-3, and it seemed
obvious that the PAC was a winning package indeed... Read more
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| Podcast: Automation Minutes 12.12.2008
Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, talks with Joe Grove, Ossid VP of Engineering,
about machine design, SQL servers, remote diagnostics, PLC/PC systems and customer
value related to the packaging industry. Ossid is a leading North American designer
and manufacturer of packaging equipment solutions for fresh and processed protein
products, fresh produce, convenience foods, medical devices, and consumer
goods. Click here to listen to the podcast. |
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