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B&R Highlights Progress with Time-Sensitive Networking
Leveraging the widely accepted OPC UA standard, automation supplier adoption of Time-Sensitive Networking continues to advance, as can be seen in multiple recent announcements from B&R Industrial Automation.
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Pressure Transmitter for General Pressure and Level Applications
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Temperature Transmitters with Bluetooth
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Is It Time to Move Beyond the RJ45 Connector?
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Small Machine-Vision Cameras Offer High-Speed Data Transfer
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Load Sensing by Light
SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces in real time in difficult environments and without electronics.
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Industrial IoT Software
Dploy Solutions’ Factory Floor Connectivity provides a cost effective, scalable solution for small to mid-sized manufacturers, allowing plant managers and equipment operators to monitor performance on the plant floor, address issues quickly, and sustain optimal performance.
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Configurator Tool Simplifies Building a Machine Vision System
Balluff’s online Machine Vision configurator tool helps users to confidently and efficiently select the product combinations required for configuring a complete vision system to meet their application needs.
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Virtual Sensor Reads Safe Speed
The Safe Speed Observer from B&R determines speed of the company’s Acopos P3 servo drive in accordance with SIL 2 / PL d / CAT 3 requirements.
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Inertial Measurement Unit for Autonomous Vehicles
The OpenIMU330B, from Aceinna, enables autonomous vehicles to accurately stay on track during turns and complicated maneuvers.
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CMOS Sensor for 3D Laser Triangulation Applications
The Flash CMOS image sensors from Teledyne e2v are for 3D laser profiling/displacement applications and high speed, high resolution inspection.
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Machines that sense the world around them
ADI gives cobots the ability to sense, adapt and interpret its surroundings. Our motion detection and machine learning expertise is transforming factory floors. From invention to breakthrough with ADI.
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Sensors ensure worker safety with cobots
SICK’s microScan3 safety laser scanners control the speed of cobots to keep workers safe while maintaining productivity.
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3M and Celanese Improve with Analytics
Using Emerson technologies, 3M and Celanese have begun their digital transformation with operational analytics as a key tool. Here’s how they started the process.
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Rugged Long Range Sensors
Datalogic debuts new range of rugged sensors during PACK EXPO Las Vegas.
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Can Detection Gets an Upgrade
Besides adding washdown capability, the Q130WD sensor from Turck eliminates incidental contact with cans and improves LED visibility.
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Vision System Reduces Image Processing Latency
Beckhoff's XTS line paired with its new TwinCAT Vision System makes North American debut.
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Today’s Digital Transformation Reality
Dana Inc. and Streamline Innovations show how digital transformations can start today in the discrete and process industries using Ignition to overcome legacy infrastructure’s digital shortcomings.
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Digital Twin Technology Highlighted with Excavator Demo
To illustrate the possibilities of digital twin technology and make it more broadly accessible, PTC created a simulation of an excavator to demonstrate the operational insights that digital twin technology can provide to industrial end users.
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Differential Pressure Chart Recorders
Palmer Wahl has added differential pressure chart recorders to its existing line of mechanical circular chart recorders.
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Weight Transmitter for OEMs, Machine Builders, and Systems Integrators
The Hardy HI 6200 analog single channel weight transmitter series are high performance single-channel processors featuring either 4-20 mA analog or EtherNet/IP (previously released).
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Epson Expands Industrial Automation Reach
Extending its high-speed, high-precision technologies across a range of price points, Epson is positioning itself to be a major player in small part handling robots, vision, and feeder systems.
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Resolution, Accuracy, Precision: What’s the Difference?
When it comes to selecting encoders for motion control applications, the terms resolution, accuracy, and precision are often used interchangeably. However, they mean very different things and understanding the difference can be critical to your application.
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Machine Vision Camera Delivers up to 6Gpx/sec (75Gbps)
The Phantom S640 from Vision Research gives demanding applications frame rates up to 1480 fps at full 4 Mpx resolution of 2560 x 1600 and up to 200,715 fps at lower resolutions.
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Chipset extends and aggregates images from Dual HD cameras for greater than 15 meters
The MIPI CSI-2 extension chipset from THine allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission from 1 foot to more than 15 meters.
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Ruggedized Spring Loaded Inductive Linear Position Sensors
The ILPS-19S Series from Schaevitz uses LVIT technology for dimensional gauging and position measurements in demanding commercial, industrial, and military applications.
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Wireless Gas Sensors Increase Toxic Gas Safety
Emerson’s Rosemount 628 Universal Gas Sensors add carbon monoxide and oxygen depletion to the list of measurable hazards.
