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Controls Product Brief
| December 31, 1999

Ink-jet network

ITI Worldwide (Cookeville, TN) has introduced the Marksman® 6000 Network System, the first Windows™-based network of high-resolution ink-jet marking systems for printing bar codes, text and graphics on nonporous substrates.
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Controls Product Brief
| August 31, 1999

Ethernet data collector

The DataMyte 953 data collector from Rockwell Automation's DataMyte Div. (Minnetonka, MN) is now available with Ethernet connectivity, among other options.
Controls Product Brief
| August 31, 1999

Pallet tracking system

Pallet Track System from Priority One (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) automatically records and reports end-of-line production data. The system tags each pallet with a unique bar code and records data via a PC that's connected to each palletizer's PLC.
Controls Product Brief
| August 31, 1999

Basic component education

Cutler-Hammer (Westerville, OH) has introduced its 101 Basics Series, which are free Web-based courses on the fundamentals of adjustable frequency drives, sensors, control networks such as DeviceNet, electricity and electrical distribution.
Controls Product Brief
| August 31, 1999

Bus communication options

Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, AR) announces new bus communication options for its motor controls. Network expansion boards that mount inside each motor control are available for DeviceNet, Profibus DP and Modbus Plus communications protocols.
Controls Product Brief
| July 31, 1999

PC control/HMI

FactoryClient 2000 is a Windows® CE-based PC control and human-machine interface from Total Control Products (Melrose Park, IL). It includes a 6" touchscreen display, an Ethernet port and industrial I/O interfaces.
Controls Product Brief
| July 31, 1999

Bus communications

Highlighted in a color brochure are Baldor's (Fort Smith, AR) new bus communication capabilities, including connectivity to various industrial communications networks and solutions for DeviceNet, Profibus DP and Modbus Plus.
Controls Product Brief
| June 30, 1999

Collating systems

Streamfeeder (Minneapolis, MN) Collating Systems are an alternative to manual collation and traditionally inflexible automated systems for applications such as software packaging.
Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1999

Drives with DeviceNet

Electro-Craft (Eden Prairie, MN) offers a DeviceNet option on its BRU Series Advantage line of universal drives and IQ Series positioning drives. DeviceNet is an inexpensive industrial-grade local area network that permits the drives to be connected along with sensors, motor starters and other devices to operator interface panels, PLCs and PCs.
Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1999

Windows CE control

Automationdirect.com (Cumming, GA), formerly PLCDirect, has introduced the WinPLC starter kit. Features the Think & Do control software release 5.0, the WinPLC embedded PC control hardware platform, Windows(TM) CE operating system, Ethernet adapter card and Think & Do software development system.

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