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Controls Product Brief
| September 30, 1998

Powerful operator controls

BTV family of human-machine-interface controls have the flexibility to work with any stand-alone machine. From Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL), the new HMIs each have two high-performance industrial PCs, two configurable operator panels and two microcontroller-based HMI control units.
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Controls Product Brief
| August 31, 1998

HMI software

Lookout® Direct is an operator interface software package from PLC Direct (Cumming, GA). Priced at $1귏 for the development/run-time package and $995 for the run-time only package, Lookout Direct is a 32-bit application powered by Windows(TM) 95/98 or Windows NT.
Controls Product Brief
| July 31, 1998

Windows capability for fillers

New weigh fillers from U.S. Bottlers (Charlotte, NC) now use an operator interface that operates with Windows(TM) 95 or Windows NT. Display and audio are available in five languages.
Controls Product Brief
| July 31, 1998

Motor control cabinet

DeviceNet MCC is the first DeviceNet-compatible industrial-grade motor control center, says manufacturer Cutler-Hammer (Milwaukee, WI). It allows operators control from a single PC or PLC in conjunction with a man-machine interface.
Controls Product Brief
| June 30, 1998

Motion control software

MotionDesk(TM) Version 2.0 software is said to simplify configuration, development and maintenance of motion control systems using the ORION® PC-based multi-axis motion controllers.
Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1998

PC-based motion controller

Ormec's (Rochester, NY) new Orion® Model 30 PC-based motion controller is now available with a 233-MHz Pentium MMX microprocessor for up to five times more processing power than before.
Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1998

Packaging PLS

Easypack from Advanced Micro Controls Inc. (Terryville, CT) is said to be a plug-and-play limit switch solution for packaging machine applications. Includes Series 8500 programmable limit switch modules and pre-configured ladder logic for Allen-Bradley's SLC 500 PLCs.
Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1998

Industrial PCs

New 9400 series industrial PCs from Xycom (Saline, MI) are low-cost, industrial-hardened PCs designed for PC-based control and human-machine interface applications.
Controls Product Brief
| March 31, 1998

Operator interface brochures

Two new brochures from Rockwell Automation (Bloomington, MN) provide an overview of Allen-Bradley operator interface and industrial computers solutions.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1998

Shrink bundler

The Model FSB shrink bundler from Omega Design (Exton, PA) automatically collates, unitizes and wraps containers and/or cartons into a predetermined configuration.

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