Vision System Reduces Image Processing Latency

Beckhoff's XTS line paired with its new TwinCAT Vision System makes North American debut.

Sep 24th, 2019

Small Machine-Vision Cameras Offer High-Speed Data Transfer

Small Machine-Vision Cameras Offer High-Speed Data Transfer

Teledyne’s CL M4160 and C4160 are the latest in the Genie Nano Camera Link series.

Load Sensing by Light

Load Sensing by Light

SKF Fiber Optic Sensing uses optical fibers to measure forces in real time in difficult environments and without electronics.

Industrial IoT Software

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.

Configurator Tool Simplifies Building a Machine Vision System

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.

Virtual Sensor Reads Safe Speed

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.

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.

CMOS Sensor for 3D Laser Triangulation Applications

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.

Brian Irwin, Accenture

Preparing Auto Manufacturing for the Mobility Age

Auto manufacturers are making a shift into the mobility age, meaning new technologies need to be adopted in order to be competitive. However, there is more to growth than just new technologies. These five key actions will help guide your organization into the mobility age.

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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.

This image shows how the equipment temperature (right side of blue box) changed very little over a short time frame. When viewed over a longer time period (two years), it became evident that the new 'normal' temperature was significantly higher than it had been previously.

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.

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Discover the Secrets of a Successful Automation Project

Learn about planning and project management, building your machine or automated system, and technologies to improve manufacturing outcomes. Automation World’s free resource features 150 pages on managing automation projects from start to finish.

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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.

Peter J. Photos of Streamline Innovations in front of a live HMI view from one the company's processing plants.

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.

PTC’s digital twin demo combines real-world sensor and telemetry data with engineering calculations to highlight possible use cases.

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.

Palmer Wahl has added differential pressure chart recorders to its existing line of mechanical circular chart recorders.

Differential Pressure Chart Recorders

Palmer Wahl has added differential pressure chart recorders to its existing line of mechanical circular chart recorders.

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).

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).

Epson's T3 All-in-One SCARA robot.

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.

This image shows several encoder disks: lower resolutions are on the left and higher resolutions are on the right.

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.

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.

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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The ILPS-19S Series from Schaevitz uses LVIT technology for dimensional gauging and position measurements in demanding commercial, industrial, and military applications.

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.

Emerson’s Rosemount 628 Universal Gas Sensors add carbon monoxide and oxygen depletion to the list of measurable hazards.

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.

The Liquiline System CA80HA from Endress+Hauser helps optimize the control of water softening processes such as ion exchange or reverse osmosis, ensures quality of products influenced by water hardness, and analyzes feedwater used in boilers.

Hardness Analyzer for Drinking and Process Water

The Liquiline System CA80HA from Endress+Hauser helps optimize the control of water softening processes such as ion exchange or reverse osmosis, ensures quality of products influenced by water hardness, and analyzes feedwater used in boilers.

With an OPC UA communication channel, Beckhoff’s TwinCAT Scope multi-core oscilloscope offers a charting tool for diverse data sources.

Software Analyzes Heterogeneous Data

With an OPC UA communication channel, Beckhoff’s TwinCAT Scope multi-core oscilloscope offers a charting tool for diverse data sources.

These media-contacting temperature sensors from Balluff provide continuous monitoring and measuring of process media temperature on machines and equipment.

Media-Contacting Temperature Sensors Provide Continuous Monitoring and Measuring

These media-contacting temperature sensors from Balluff provide continuous monitoring and measuring of process media temperature on machines and equipment.

AMETEK STC’s intrinsically safe HPC50 provides laboratory accuracy in a versatile field instrument.

Handheld Pressure Calibrator for Oil & Gas, Process Control Verification

AMETEK STC’s intrinsically safe HPC50 provides laboratory accuracy in a versatile field instrument.

The SE-PB100 STRIDE Pocket Portal from AutomationDirect is a low-cost industrial wireless IoT end-to-end cloud data logger that connects industrial equipment and sensors to the cloud.

IoT Bridge Cloud Data Logger with I/O

The SE-PB100 STRIDE Pocket Portal from AutomationDirect is a low-cost industrial wireless IoT end-to-end cloud data logger that connects industrial equipment and sensors to the cloud.

The robotic flexible sortation system (RFSS) in a one-robot configuration. Source: JR Automation

Virtual Commissioning of a Robotic Cell

To develop a new robotic system for the material handling industry, JR Automation used a combination of Siemens simulation technologies to create a digital twin of the system that included the robots, PLC, HMI, and sensors.

Battle for Cybersecurity Spreads to Sensors

Even the lowest level of the Purdue model has become a target for hackers who want to attack manufacturing facilities. Automation vendors are scrambling to help users defend sensors and other intelligent devices.

Brian Fenn, Avanceon

Data Collection and Reporting the Cheap and Easy Way

Most data collection and reporting software requires a lot of upfront capital to get started with. But there are ways smaller companies and manufacturers can get access to all the same tools without the high cost.

'Plan, but don’t overplan. Have a goal of where you want to be—starting with where you are today—and how you are going to get there, but don’t wait too long,” says Petasense's Khrushraj.

Advice on Scaling IIoT Projects

Lots of advice exists on how get started with Industrial Internet of Things projects. Insights on how to scale those pilot projects are not so common and are now being figured out by companies in real time. Petasense CEO Abhinav Khushraj offers insights he’s learned from customers going through the scaling process now.

Have You Verified Your Historian’s Data Recently?

Manufacturers rely on data historians to record and retrieve their data, but what happens if the tags, limits, or baselines aren’t set up correctly? An audit might be needed to make sure your historian’s data is accurate.

OSIsoft releases a cloud-native, real-time data management system designed to accelerate industrial analytics, data sharing, and other digital transformation initiatives.

Cloud Service for Industrial Analytics

OSIsoft releases a cloud-native, real-time data management system designed to accelerate industrial analytics, data sharing, and other digital transformation initiatives.

Inductive Safety Sensors

Inductive Safety Sensors

The new family from Pepperl+Fuchs includes four cylindrical and rectangular series with cable and plug connection.