311 press releases : Automation, Regulation, Robotics

Why Upgrade? Some legacy control systems can no longer meet corporate objectives that include enterprise-wide sharing of business information. Nor can they enlist advanced control capabilities that enable greater efficiency, lower costs, and improved regulatory compliance—while responding to demands for higher reliability and service quality. Updating equipment also enables plants to reali...

Robotic palletizing will maximize your production rate and product quality • Today over 4500 FANUC M-410 palletizing robots are working in European breweries, wineries, soft drink and table water factories, bakeries, biscuits, chocolate and sweets factories. They stack the products onto pallets ready for delivery and storage: Fast, precise and without any breaks for lunch, coffee or a smoke. • FA...

Stop monitoring your process « blindly » ! PFM – Plant Floor Marquee series – Large tricolor displays An optimal use of your production lines implies: monitoring of real-time production rates, decrease of down times and rejects, collection of quality indicators and quick return on inverstment. Red Lion’s Plant Floor Marquee (PFM) series is THE solution for collection, calculation, commu...

Discover the G3 Kadet Series HMIs – Touchscreen HMIs that strike the perfect balance of advanced features and value. Red Lion proudly announces the release of the new G3 Kadet series of operator interfaces. Offering many of the essential capabilities of the original G3 series, this new series is comprised of three models that provide exceptional value and further enhance the impressive range of ...

Isolated loop powered temperature transmitter Universal input: - RTD (Pt100 (EN 60751/A2, -200..+650°C, min span 20°C), Ni100 (-60..+250°C, min span 20°C), Pt500 (2,3,4 wire -200..+650 °C), Pt1000 (2,3,4 wire -200..+200°C) -TC (J , K, R, S, T, B, E, N type) - Potentiometer (450..1.800 ohm) - Voltage (150..+150 mV) Configurable by software. 2 wires Output: 4..20, 20..4 mA Accuracy: ...

INPUT:N.1 channel current 0..40 Aac, span selectable by dip-switch (5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 Aac) - OUTPUT:N.1 channel current 4..20 mA (2 wire) - High accuracy: 0,1% - Low consumption - Compact size (38*40*20 mm) - Power supply: 5..28 Vdc - Answer Speed checked by auxiliary filter - Self-consumption < 50 mW

As part of its continuing commitment to growing its presence in the neurosurgical market, Renishaw has acquired, for a cash consideration, a 75% stake in Schaerer Mayfield NeuroMate AG, based in Switzerland, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Schaerer Mayfield NeuroMate Sarl, a leading manufacturer of surgical robots for neurosurgery, based in Lyon, France. The deal was completed on 20th November 200...

Now available: FINS-TCP drivers for connection to OMRON PLCs With their FINS-TCP driver for connection to OMRON's Sysmac PLCs, R. STAHL has expanded the area of application for their compact Eagle series operator interfaces. These systems with their own visualization software have become firmly established as sophisticated HMI solutions in industrial Ethernet environments. The operator interface...

The Ascon products for control, instrumentation and automation of the process and manufacturing industries use the latest Internet technologies to offer to the customers solutions to increase plant productivity and automation flexibility and to reduce the costs of the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Typical applications are control systems requiring remote programming, mon...

... Small, Tough Switch for Hydraulic Brake Systems in Harsh Environments MINNEAPOLIS, October 13, 2008 – Honeywell introduces the Series 1000 pressure switch for potential hydraulic brake pressure applications. The switch excels in brake systems used in many harsh environments such as extreme weather conditions or pa...

As part of your SMED operations, STAUBLI offer a comprehensive programme for the connection of different types of energy and mould clamping (QMC): • manual, hydraulic or magnetic clamping systems, • manual or central connections of mould-regulating circuits, • hydraulic supply of cylinders,… MOULD COOLING LINE Running cold, refrigerated, or water glycol, Stäubli offer a complete range of qui...

We design and fabricate highly sensitive MEMS (micro-electro mechanical system) tools for sub micronewton micro force sensing and micro- and nanoscale object handling with force feedback. Our sensors are the only sensors that are calibrated for the micro and nanodomain. Due to their capacitive measurment principle, they do not suffer from drift or temperature dependencies as for instance piez...

Composting is a natural process allowing the reuse of wastes, the improvement of productive soils and the prevention of environmental degradation. Large-scale production requires process control to ensure that composting is rapid, uniform, that the product is pathogen free and meeting the standards. The main items to be controlled and monitored are: - Quantity of oxygen to get aerobic degrad...

Together with its M12 connections, the new digital input module for the safe, open bus system SafetyBUS p offers IP67 protection. It can be installed directly on the machine, so there is no need for a control cabinet. This reduces the work involved in planning and installation, which means a significant time saving. Installation is very easy, with no complex wiring. Ready-made, plug-in connection l...

The new generation of PMDsigma electronic monitoring relays from Pilz monitors values such as voltage, current, temperature or phase sequence. One new feature on PMDsigma is the ability to set values simply via a rotary knob and then save them on to a chip card. That way data remains flexible and can be copied over to other units. A plain text display supports parameter setting while also providing...

Near Regensburg/Germany a pilot plant has been put into operation, which is able to answer the question “What to do with the sewage sludge?” with an ecologically as well as economically trendsetting answer. Because in Germany it is no longer allowed to use sewage sludge as a fertiliser nor is it permitted any longer as landfill, up to now the combustion of the sludge was the only removal facili...

Consolidated sales of the Ludwigsburg control manufacturer Jetter AG for the first fiscal semester rose by 15 % to KEUR 22.7. In the first semester of the previous year, the consolidated sales amounted to KEUR 19.6. The second quarter of this fiscal year receded against the first quarter, as expected, to KEUR 9.4, yet was 12 % above the quarter in the previous year (KEUR 8.4). EBIT for the first ...

The intelligent MSX-E series Ethernet I/O modules support PLCs where acquisition and control tasks in fast processes are concerned. In order to enable a simple and fast connection to a PLC, the intelligent Ethernet I/O modules have been equipped with a web server. The user can therefore carry out configuration and monitoring without any knowledge of programming. On the basis of their own intelligen...

The NWT (science and technology) Group 1 of the Mörike Gymnasium (secondary school) in Ludwigsburg, comprising eight boys and eight girls, spent a morning at the premises of Jetter, the controller manufacturer. At the company's own training center, training manager Markus Friedrich expertly introduced the students to the topics of automation, control technology and programming. After a brief induct...

The Poly Stainer is an automated system for Gram stain. The Poly Stainer is easy to use and completely programmable. Store up to 10 different programs using customized bath and agitation time. The PolyStainer specifications are: • Slides / Basket 20 slides each basket • Basket Lifting Motor: 2.6W 12V /c 141:1 /encoder • Carriage Movement Motor: 1.65W 12V / 28:1 / encoder • Heater...