• Too Much Process Control News

    Updated: 2010-08-01 00:00:00
    The general public is learning about process control this spring and summer—and that’s not a good thing.

  • Talk The Language of Executives

    Updated: 2010-07-31 13:33:02
    Calculating return on doing something appears, on the surface, to be a straightforward financial calculation.

  • Vision Outlook Blurred by Economy

    Updated: 2010-07-31 13:32:59
    Though some see potential for economic recovery, Dan Holste sees one huge impediment for the vision industry.

  • Suppliers Apply Web Technologies To Help Automation Users

    Updated: 2010-07-31 13:32:57
    Fewer engineers and technicians working in manufacturing means less time available to travel to obtain the training required to implement, maintain and upgrade complex automation equipment.

  • Pharma Booms in China, Trends to Contract Manufacturing

    Updated: 2010-07-31 13:32:55
    Manufacturing pharmaceuticals remains a very high-stakes game.

  • Automation Minutes - 07.30.10

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:35:15
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  • ISA100.11a Certification Services Launched

    Updated: 2010-07-29 22:45:16
    With first testing complete, suppliers can now offer wireless products that comply with the new ISA industrial wireless standard.

  • Identity Automation

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  • Machine Vision Market on the Upswing

    Updated: 2010-07-29 06:42:52
    First quarter North American vision sales rose by 34 percent over depressed 2009 levels, indicating the market has “clearly entered a recovery phase,” trade group says.

  • Control Systems a New “Bull’s-eye” for Hackers

    Updated: 2010-07-29 06:42:51
    The Stuxnet worm that attacked Siemens SCADA and control systems is highly sophisticated, and should be a wake-up call for the industrial controls community, say security experts.

  • Mintchell Video Report: A Look at Safety and Security Breaches

    Updated: 2010-07-29 06:05:31
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  • SPEculative and Exploratory Design in Systems Engineering Project

    Updated: 2010-07-28 12:06:00
    The four-year SPEEDS (SPEculative and Exploratory Design in Systems Engineering) project, funded under the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme, has come to a highly successful conclusion. The SPEEDS project has resulted in the definition of a novel end-to-end design methodology, process and tool environment for model-based safety-critical embedded systems that significantly improves design quality while [...]

  • Loop-powered, stainless steel analog shaft tachometer

    Updated: 2010-07-28 00:00:00
    Electro-Sensors, Inc. announces the ST420, a loop-powered, stainless steel analog shaft tachometer.

  • 200W and 400W BOP models Optimized to drive capacitive loads

    Updated: 2010-07-28 00:00:00
    Kepco is pleased to introduce an option for its 200W and 400W BOP models to optimize their ability to drive capacitive loads.

  • Improve Product Quality - New High Accuracy Distance Measurement Sensor

    Updated: 2010-07-27 14:10:37
    Measure targets down to microns, regardless of color or reflectivity.

  • Reduce Costs with SICK's BCG EcoLine Encoders

    Updated: 2010-07-27 14:06:12
    Compact distance measurement with scalable analog output

  • New Vision Sensor Improves Inspection Applications

    Updated: 2010-07-27 13:55:03
    Reduce costs and improve quality control.

  • World's Smallest Safety Light Curtain - miniTwin

    Updated: 2010-07-27 13:51:25
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  • CLV500 Series Mini Bar Code Scaners

    Updated: 2010-07-27 13:48:08
    Small, simple, reliable bar code scanners.

  • WirelessHart Approved as European Standard

    Updated: 2010-07-27 04:13:04
    Approval by National Committees of 31 countries further confirms acceptance of the standard for wireless communication in process automation.

  • Identity Automation

    Updated: 2010-07-27 04:13:03
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  • Foveon Tapes Out Direct Image Sensor with Galaxy Custom Designer

    Updated: 2010-07-26 22:43:29
    Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, announced that Foveon Inc., a world innovator in the design and development of image sensors and image capture systems, has taped out its newest-generation direct image sensor using Synopsys’ Galaxy Custom Designer® solution. The Foveon X3® direct image [...]

  • High Speed Trains Beijing to Shanghai in 4 Hours

    Updated: 2010-07-26 00:00:00
    By working with Yuci Hydraulic Co. Ltd., the largest hydraulic components maker of China, Trio Motion in China has developed a dedicated "Pretension steel bar synchronised position control system" for the making of foundation blocks for the high speed train projects in China.

  • High-density Modbus/TCP Remote I/O solution

    Updated: 2010-07-26 00:00:00
    The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the APAX-5070, a high-density Modbus/TCP Remote I/O solution.

  • Over 2.1 Billion Handsets Feature Nucleus Real Time Operating System

    Updated: 2010-07-23 12:01:04
    Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced that the Mentor Embedded[tm] Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is the handset industry’s most widely adopted RTOS, found in over 2.11 billion devices, according to the VisionMobile’s 100 Million Club research report. The 100 Million Club is a watch-list of software companies whose products have been embedded in [...]

  • Wastewater Plants: New iPad App for Operators

    Updated: 2010-07-23 08:31:09
    ECO:LOGIC Engineering releases an Interactive Operations Manual (IOM) application for the iPad mobile device, enabling wastewater plants to streamline operations and maintenance.

  • Identity Automation

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  • Harness Real-time Data with FactoryTalk VantagePoint

    Updated: 2010-07-22 14:14:53
    FactoryTalk® VantagePoint from Rockwell Automation accesses real-time data from multiple plant systems to provide the analytical context that turns data into manufacturing intelligence. With its unified information architecture, VantagePoint contextualizes information to imbue dashboards with real-time information that can be used to manage cost, quality and resources more effectively.

  • Web-based Dashboards Provide Dynamic KPIs

    Updated: 2010-07-22 14:10:58
    Data comes from all parts of a plant—sensors, historians, control systems and business systems. Dashboards, fed by FactoryTalk® VantagePoint from Rockwell Automation, put this data in context to serve up dynamic Key Performance Indicators to plant personnel.

  • Dashboards Drive Better Decisions Throughout the Plant

    Updated: 2010-07-22 14:05:47
    It’s hard to control what you can’t see. Role-specific dashboards, built with FactoryTalk® VantagePoint from Rockwell Automation, provide personnel with a complete and contextual view of the plant for improved decision-making.

  • Siemens Provides Link to Download Virus Removal Tool

    Updated: 2010-07-22 09:01:08
    The company has put up a Web page that also includes the latest information on the malware targeting its WinCC software.

  • Indian Power Giant Recognized for Automation Innovation

    Updated: 2010-07-22 04:04:30
    RFID, video conferencing and e-procurement were among the components that helped land an award for the National Thermal Power Corp.

  • Weighing Operations Accelerator Solution

    Updated: 2010-07-22 00:00:00
    GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the availability of the new Proficy® Accelerator Solution for Weighing Operations – which reduces ingredient variation in food, beverage, CPG and life sciences manufacturing to increase product quality and safety.

  • Thin Client Ready Industrial Operator Stations

    Updated: 2010-07-22 00:00:00
    HIS is pleased to introduce our new Thin Client Ready Industrial Operator Stations.

  • Cadence, ARM Optimize System Realization Solution for Processors

    Updated: 2010-07-21 20:25:06
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, announced a broadening of its existing collaboration with ARM to develop an optimized System Realization solution for ARM processors that will enable an end-to-end flow including a full set of interoperable tools, ARM® processor and physical IP, services and methodology from embedded [...]

  • Cadence, Fujitsu Team on Chip Package Board Co-Design Solution

    Updated: 2010-07-21 12:07:44
    Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), a leader in global electronic design innovation, announced that, with the assistance of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited and Fujitsu VLSI Limited (hereafter collectively called Fujitsu), Cadence has developed a standardized die model that provides ASIC and microcontroller (MCU) designers with a comprehensive chip-package-board co-design solution. Read more: Cadence, Fujitsu Team on [...]

  • Power supplies encapsulated in an ultra-compact, low profile housing

    Updated: 2010-07-21 00:00:00
    AutomationDirect has extended its RHINOTM line to include AC/DC switch mode power supplies encapsulated in an ultra-compact, low profile housing.

  • RFEL Extends Wideband Digital Down Converter IP Core to 1 GHz

    Updated: 2010-07-20 12:28:29
    RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has extended the range of its Digital Down Converter (DDC) technology so that it can now process up to 1 GHz of bandwidth (2Gsps ADC rate) input and provide a narrower band output. This technology can operate with fixed frequencies and bandwidths or be fully flexible as required. One of the [...]

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  • HMI Platform

    Updated: 2010-07-20 00:00:00
    With its NEMA4/IP65 front panel, the new IPPC-6192A Industrial Panel PC can withstand harsh conditions in most industrial environments. 

  • Identity Automation

    Updated: 2010-07-19 20:15:32
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  • Siemens Updates Response to Virus Attack

    Updated: 2010-07-19 09:14:35
    Siemens customers should avoid using USB sticks and install updates as soon as they become available.

  • Mission critical network design seminar 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-17 00:00:00
    Belden Inc. - a world leader in designing, manufacturing, and marketing cable, connectivity, and networking products in markets including industrial automation, enterprise, transportation, infrastructure, and consumer electronics-will present the Hirschmann™ 2010 Mission Critical Network Design Seminar, September 19-22, 2010 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld Hotel in Orlando, FL.

  • M12 Adapters

    Updated: 2010-07-17 00:00:00
    TURCK introduces M12 adapters that may be used to connect incompatible round connectors quickly and easily.

  • Thermal Imager

    Updated: 2010-07-17 00:00:00
    The OSXL-101 is a compact infrared thermal imaging sensor utilizing a thermopile array detector.

  • New high-voltage Industrial Ethernet switches

    Updated: 2010-07-17 00:00:00
    N-TRON Corporation, a global leader in Industrial Networking, today announced that it will offer high-voltage versions of four of its best-selling 700 Series products, a line of fully managed, feature-rich Industrial Ethernet switches.

  • PACs: High-End Control

    Updated: 2010-07-16 11:58:08
    The RX3i CPU315 is the latest addition to GE's family of PACSystems. With an Intel M class 1Ghz processor and 20Mbytes of user memory available, the new controller takes aim at control applications where large amounts of data and application optimization are needed.

  • Smart Grid Spending Projected to Top $45 Billion by 2015

    Updated: 2010-07-16 03:42:12
    Transmission and distribution infrastructure investments, including grid automation and control, will account for the lion’s share of spending, says study.

  • EtherCat Safety Protocol Gains IEC Acceptance

    Updated: 2010-07-16 03:42:11
    Now an international standard, Safety-over-EtherCat is primed for proliferation, says the EtherCat Technology Group.

  • Compact power supplies for small load applications

    Updated: 2010-07-16 00:00:00
    Phoenix Contact introduces three new variants to the second generation of STEP power supplies.

  • New Multifunctional USB DAQ Module

    Updated: 2010-07-16 00:00:00
    The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the USB-4704 data acquisition module.

  • Ethernet card increases functionality and flexibility

    Updated: 2010-07-16 00:00:00
    Red Lion Controls, Inc. announces increased functionality and flexibility for their popular G3 Series Operator Interface family, now available with the new Ethernet expansion card, G3ENET.

  • Pluggable Terminal Block Connectors

    Updated: 2010-07-16 00:00:00
    WAGO Corporation's new 2020 and 2022 Series X-COM®S Pluggable Connector Systems merge touchproof, pre-wired assemblies with TOPJOB®S terminal blocks.

  • ASSET InterTech, IPextreme Team on IEEE 1149.7 Test Solution

    Updated: 2010-07-15 19:01:53
    ASSET® InterTech, Inc., the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation, will integrate test adapter intellectual property (IP) from IPextreme into its ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments to enable chip and circuit board tests under the new IEEE 1149.7 reduced-pin boundary scan standard. “IPextreme leads the market with the industry’s first IEEE 1149.7 synthesizable [...]

  • Digital Camera Manufacturer Doubles Assembly Capacity

    Updated: 2010-07-15 00:00:00
    With the addition of a latest-generation parts placement machine, Basler Vision Technologies has doubled their camera assembly capacity.

  • HMI Solution with State-of-the-art Graphics and Solid Functionality

    Updated: 2010-07-15 00:00:00
    Industrial visualization is in a state of change.

  • Connectors Ensure a Secure Connection Without Overtightening

    Updated: 2010-07-15 00:00:00
    TURCK introduces M12 true torque connectors, which may be hand-tightened to a predefined torque, preventing overtightening.

  • Ferrotec Gains SiFusion Process by Acquiring Integrated Materials

    Updated: 2010-07-13 12:03:00
    Ferrotec (USA) Corporation, a global supplier of materials, components, and precision system solutions, announced that it has expanded its offering of advanced materials for semiconductor manufacturing with the purchase of Integrated Materials, Inc. and its patented SiFusion[TM] process for manufacturing poly silicon furnaceware. SiFusion materials will complement Ferrotec’s existing line of advanced materials for semiconductor [...]

  • Machine Tool Orders Dip in May

    Updated: 2010-07-12 13:31:55
    While month-to-month order rates declined by nearly 23 percent in May, year-to-date totals are up by nearly 53 percent.

  • Registration and CE Certification for HART Modem

    Updated: 2010-07-12 00:00:00
    ProComSol, Ltd today announced HART registration and CE certification for the HM-USB-ISO HART modem.

  • Podcast Bytes: Improving Control System Cyber Security

    Updated: 2010-07-08 14:20:34
    To improve industrial control system (ICS) cyber security, automation professionals must strive to work more closely with information technology (IT) departments, and they must recognize that cyber security is a safety and reliability issue. These are among key points made by ICS security expert Joe Weiss, managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, during this podcast interview with Automation World Managing Editor Wes Iversen, recorded on July 7, 2010.

  • Talent-driven Innovation Seen as Key to Manufacturing Competitiveness

    Updated: 2010-07-08 06:35:14
    A survey of manufacturing CEOs confirms a changing global competitive landscape, with a decline expected in U.S. manufacturing competitiveness during the next five years. 

  • Stainless steel Panel for hygeniec applications

    Updated: 2010-07-08 00:00:00
    Equipped with a robust stainless steel housing and 19" display, the new IP65 Automation Panel 920 from B&R provides true ease of operation with a high degree of reliability, even under the toughest operating conditions.

  • Touch Panel Computers are compact & rugged HMI platforms

    Updated: 2010-07-08 00:00:00
    Advantech' s "Powered by Wonderware®" Touch Panel Computers (TPC) are compact & rugged HMI platforms for seamless interaction between humans and machines.

  • Automation Minutes - 07.07.10

    Updated: 2010-07-07 14:47:10
    Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses the recent Siemens PLM conference, digital manufacturing and cool design tools.

  • Honeywell Completes Acquisition of Matrikon

    Updated: 2010-07-06 21:35:56
    Norm Gilsdorf, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, sees the Canadian company filling holes in Honeywell’s technology portfolio.

  • Mintchell Video Report: Siemens PLM and other thoughts

    Updated: 2010-07-06 15:24:20
    Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, discusses the recent Siemens PLM conference (http://event.plmworld.org/), digital manufacturing and cool design tools.

  • Automation Minutes - 07.06.10

    Updated: 2010-07-06 14:26:39
    Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief, wraps up information from the MESA International (http://conference.mesa.org/en/)conference in Dearborn, MI June 21-23.

  • Industrial Ethernet Cable Testing

    Updated: 2010-07-06 09:54:46
    Optimized for LAN testing efficiency, the IENet PRO Industrial Ethernet Cable Tester provides instant verification of two-pair and four-pair Industrial Ethernet cables, and to assure proper termination by detecting opens, shorts, miswires, reversals and split pairs.

  • New Interfaces for Existing Industrial Networks

    Updated: 2010-07-06 08:45:42
    National Instruments rolls out three new interface modules for PROFIBUS, FOUNDATION Fieldbus and DeviceNet.

  • Multicore challenges and choices: Deciding which solution is right for you

    Updated: 2010-07-06 00:00:00
    As this white paper from Wind River explains, there are a number of technology and business trends that will change the way many devices are architected and developed in the future. These include the frequency ceiling; using multicore for hardware offload; and the consolidation of multiprocessor systems to multicore. 

  • Applying multicore and virtualization to industrial and safety-related applications

    Updated: 2010-07-06 00:00:00
    Multicore and virtualization provide the opportunity to improve device performance, reduce costs through hardware consolidation, and upgrade applications more cost effectively throughout the product lifecycle as this white paper from Wind River explores.

  • Compact benchtop dissolved oxygen meter

    Updated: 2010-07-06 00:00:00
    Omega’s new DOB21 is a compact benchtop dissolved oxygen meter and an amperometric dissolved oxygen probe with automatic temperature compensation for field or laboratory applications.

  • Accelerator with High Impact Solutions quickly improve operations

    Updated: 2010-07-06 00:00:00
    GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the Proficy® Accelerator for Centerlining, enabling continuous improvement and resolution of problems due to variability, in a move to full process reliability and stability.

  • CPU Addresses Needs of High End Control Applications

    Updated: 2010-07-06 00:00:00
    GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the availability of its latest and most powerful addition to the PACSystems RX3i family of CPUs.

  • Sensors Fit in Tight Places

    Updated: 2010-07-05 22:02:47
    Designed to simplify the precise measurement of conductivity in cramped industrial process and manufacturing operations, the Model S10 and S17 Universal Toroidal Conductivity Sensors feature a standard measurement range from 50mS to 1000mS. 

  • Reduced-cost Flow Controller

    Updated: 2010-07-05 22:00:47
    Sharing the same advanced core sensor technology as the Smart-Trak 100, the Smart-Trak 50 flow controller is available at nearly half the price with expedited off-the-shelf delivery at no extra charge. 

  • Economical OEM Level Sensors

    Updated: 2010-07-05 21:58:51
    The OEM Series of Level Sensors is designed to offer superior accuracy, fast response and long-term reliability for liquid, gas and foam applications. 

  • Level Sensing: Keeping a Level Head

    Updated: 2010-07-05 21:53:25
    Level sensing is everywhere in industry—a workaday tool that literally keeps things flowing. The ins and outs, no pun intended, reveal a richly varied field, and equally varied engineering.

  • Single-box Stepper Motor Control

    Updated: 2010-07-05 21:06:30
    The EP7041 EtherCat Motion Box enables stepper motor control in a compact, machine-mountable device, without need for a protective control cabinet. 

  • Controller Adds Text Messaging

    Updated: 2010-07-05 21:04:29
    With the introduction of a GSM modem, the Nanoline controller can now provide control capability via text message from virtually anywhere in the world. 

  • Sensors Gain Super Shield Housing

    Updated: 2010-07-05 21:02:26
    The vendor has improved the design of its Temposonics linear-position sensors for longevity in harsh environments by adding a super shield housing option to ensure long-term wear. 

  • Monitor AS-i Safety Speeds

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:59:59
    As the latest in the vendor’s line of AS-interface (AS-i) products, the AS-i speed monitor is designed to monitor safety speeds and stop conditions on up to two axes. 

  • ARM-based Programmable Gateways

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:58:02
    The EKI-1121L and 1122L ARM-based industrial communication controllers feature a pre-installed embedded Linux operating system for user-developed communications, monitoring and control applications. 

  • Ethernet Switches Provide Reliability

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:56:10
    The 300 Series line of monitored industrial Ethernet switches has been expanded to include four products, the 308FX2, 309FX, 316TX and 317FX. 

  • Download Adds Profinet RT

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:54:21
    Engineers who need to add Profinet RT to their automation products can now download everything they need to quickly integrate into new or existing product designs using the RapID Platform connectivity solution, says the vendor. 

  • 3D Camera Adds Color

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:52:31
    The ColorRanger E camera is billed as the world’s first high-speed 3D camera with high-quality color capability. 

  • Get Your Wireless Prepackaged

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:49:54
    Two versions are available of what is billed as the first complete Wireless in a Box solution for the industrial market. 

  • Enhanced Mobile Workforce System

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:48:05
    As an updated version of the Wonderware IntelaTrac mobile workforce management and decision-support system, IntelaTrac 4.0 is designed to drive consistent execution of best practices. 

  • Compact Switching Power Supplies

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:45:51
    The Cincon CFM101S Series of high-density/high-efficiency switching power supplies is provided in a compact, 2x4x1.10-in. open-frame package with active power factor correction and convection-cooled operation.  

  • Cyber Protection for HMIs

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:44:02
    The HMI Cyber Asset Protection (HMI CAP) program for all Windows-based HMIs (human-machine interfaces) is designed to provide up-to-date security software protection while also keeping operator stations, maintenance stations and communications operating at peak performance. 

  • ScopeCorder Ups the Speed Ante

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:41:41
    The DL850 is the next generation of the vendor’s family of ScopeCorders: versatile instruments that combine the benefits of a high-speed oscilloscope and those of a traditional data acquisition recorder in a single, portable instrument. 

  • High-accuracy DP Flowmeter

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:39:52
    The Deltatop differential pressure (DP) flowmeter is a complete flow monitoring solution including an averaging pitot tube, and is said by the vendor to offer the most accurate and reliable DP flow technology in the industry. 

  • Monitor Cold-chain Environments

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:37:35
    The reusable, CE-compliant OM-80 series of data loggers and readers provides a reliable and economical solution for cold-chain environmental monitoring by storing up to 10,000 readings. 

  • OPC-UA Server Adds Modbus

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:36:03
    A Modbus TCP/IP driver has been added to Ignition OPC-UA, a cross-platform OPC-UA server. 

  • Software Adds Bead Inspection Tool

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:34:31
    As the latest release of the vendor’s integrated development environment (IDE) for the Iris GT smart camera, Design Assistant 2.3 offers new features including a bead inspection tool and simplified fixturing, as well as support for Microsoft Windows 7. 

  • Low-cost DC Power Supplies

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:31:57
    The Rhino line of power supplies now includes panel and DIN rail mountable power supplies designed for applications requiring a basic DC voltage power supply. 

  • Suite Adds Profibus DP Support

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:30:01
    AMS Suite: Intelligent Device Manager v11 extends asset management capability by adding Profibus DP v1 asset support when used with the vendor’s DeltaV digital automation system. 

  • Machine Automation in a Box

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:28:11
    Lean Automation Packs deliver fully integrated, pre-engineered solutions for small machines, cutting design and installation time by 50% compared to components sourced from separate suppliers, says the vendor. 

  • High-temperature Gas Analyzer

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:26:23
    With a revised sensor design and an increased choice of probe lengths up to four meters (13+ feet), the Endura AZ20 combustion gas analyzer expands the vendor’s offering to high temperature applications up to 800°C. 

  • Compact, Integrated Motion Control

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:24:26
    To enable specialty machine builders, OEMs and others to quickly and easily apply motion control in their applications, the ServoNOW integrated servo system incorporates a closed-loop brushless servo motor with built-in driver, controller, feedback device and 110/220VAC universal power supply in a single compact package. 

  • Integrated Driver/Motor Cuts Costs

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:18:09
    The Saia Compact Driver is a fully integrated step driver/motor solution intended to reduce design and integration time, and improve device performance compared with traditional stepper solutions. 

  • Flexible, Cost-effective Drive

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:16:15
    Featuring a compact, space-saving design and open support of the SERCOS III communication bus, the IndraDrive Cs Economy is designed to provide flexibility and just the right amount of power at a lower cost, says the vendor. 

  • Drives Extend Power Range

    Updated: 2010-07-05 20:14:13
    The power range of Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 755 AC drives has been expanded from 0.75kW/1HP up to 450kW/700HP, providing users with increased application flexibility. 

  • What’s Hot in 2010 on AutomationWorld.com

    Updated: 2010-07-05 19:56:01
    With the temperature heading upward in July, we decided to see what content is hot on AutomationWorld.com.

  • Cloud Computing with SAP: One User’s Experience

    Updated: 2010-07-05 19:34:32
    Quick implementation and predictable costs were among benefits of using SAP’s new Software-as-a-Service ERP product for a start-up plant in China, says Excel Polymers’ Steven Lubowicz

  • In Defense of Evolution

    Updated: 2010-07-05 19:25:09
    As beneficial as migrations can be, it sometimes can be burdensome, particularly in heavily regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals.

  • Platform Migration: A Search for Opportunity

    Updated: 2010-07-05 19:21:09
    Upgrade your automation without uprooting it. Technological progress is great—except when it leaves you behind.

  • Going Green on Campus

    Updated: 2010-07-05 17:47:32
    The University of Iowa used a $500,000 grant from the Recovery Act to finance an implementation of Rockwell Software to help optimize energy consumption at the 1,900-acre campus. 

  • Measuring the Savings from Metrics

    Updated: 2010-07-05 17:45:38
    Enterprise Resource Planning vendor SAP Americas, in Newtown Square, Pa., did a survey of its manufacturing customers and found direct savings related to viewing metrics as different aspects of plant operations.

  • Metrics are Spreading to the Manufacturing Dashboard

    Updated: 2010-07-05 17:41:55
    Real-time metrics are helping plant operators fine-tune their plant processes to real cost savings.

  • Real-time Information Boosts Manufacturing Decision Making

    Updated: 2010-07-05 17:07:31
    Manufacturers and producers continue to realize gains in productivity, efficiency and profitability by using real-time production data to empower operator and manager decision making.

  • WCI Selects ISA100.11a Test Lab

    Updated: 2010-07-05 16:54:37
    The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) announced on June 22 the selection of National Technical Systems Inc. (NTS, www.ntscorp.com (http://www.ntscorp.com)) as its independent third-party lab to provide conformance testing for ISA100.11a certifications.

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