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Controls Product Brief
| April 12, 2012

Compact actuating drive

SIKO’s intelligent AG05 actuating drive increases efficiency and lowers cost by shortening cycle times, provides excellent power density for decentralised positioning tasks, and offers automatic adjustment of formats, stops, tools, and many other comparable positionings.
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Controls Product Brief
| April 9, 2012

Extended temperature Atom system

Providing reliable computing in an operating temperature environment of -20°C ~ 60°C, Logic Supply’s LGX Extended Temperature AU115 Atom System is a small, fanless system that features an Intel Atom N270 processor with a low-profile chassis less than 1.5-in. thick.
Controls Product Brief
| April 9, 2012

Metal guard foot switches

Designed for shearing and spinning machines, lathes, wrapping machines and riveting machines and presses, AutomationDirect’s metal guard foot switches in single and double units come with die-cast aluminum foot cover guards and heavy-duty ABS plastic bases and pedals.
Controls Product Brief
| April 9, 2012

Single-board RIO embedded devices

Designed for high-volume and OEM embedded control and data acquisition applications that require high performance and reliability, National Instruments' four new NI Single-Board RIO board-level embedded devices feature a real-time processor, Spartan-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA), analog and digital I/O, and more built-in peripherals for custom embedded control and monitoring applications.
Controls Product Brief
| April 3, 2012

Pilot-operated check valves

Featuring high flow, low pressure and ease of connection, Clippard’s JPC Series check valves use the company’s poppet design and provides a variety of port configurations.
Controls Product Brief
| March 27, 2012

IO-link module

WAGO’s 750-675 4-Channel IO-Link Master Module simplifies integration, configuration and management of intelligent sensors and actuators.
Controls Product Brief
| March 13, 2012

Digital devices

ProSense digital pressure switch/transmitters from AutomationDirect are designed for air, non-corrosive gas and non-flammable gas applications.
Drives are integrated directly with the motors outside of the control cabinet.
OEM Application Note
| March 1, 2012

Reducing case packer cost and complexity

Brenton engineers did everything they could to make a faster and simpler case packer. Creativity—and new technology—were the keys.
Controls Product Brief
| February 24, 2012

Single communications card provides four protocols

Eaton’s new communications options for motor protection and soft starters, the C441 Ethernet series of communications cards, allow users to select from Ethernet/IP, Modbus TCP, HTTP web services and Modbus RTU communication protocols in a single card.
Machine Case Study
| February 23, 2012

Packaging Machine Builder Meets Cost and Time-to-Market Targets with Omron PLC

To increase throughput of its single-head plastic bottle leak-testing machine, ALPS dumped a proprietary, embedded circuit board in favor of commercial, off-the-shelf brick PLC from Omron.
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