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Controls Product Brief
| May 31, 1999

Temperature controller

New 1/16 DIN Cal 9400 temperature controller from Cal Controls (Libertyville, IL) includes dual 4-digit simultaneous display of process and setpoint in a NEMA 4X package.
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Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Palletizer/stretch wrapper

Palletizing and stretch wrapping is done on one machine with Kaufman's (Waterville, OH) modular Palletizer-Wrapper. Installation and start-up can take as few as three days.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Internet link module

CP 433-1 IT is a new module for Siemens' (Alpharetta, GA) Simatic S7 400 PLC that provides an Internet link directly into the controller via the plant's Ethernet network.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Surface inspector

Detecting, measuring and classifying defects during the making of web-based flexible packaging is accomplished by the SmartView Modular Camera Network.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Integrated controller

GE Fanuc Automation (Charlottesville, VA) has introduced the new OCS Operator Control Station, incorporating a logic controller, human-machine interface and networking capability.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

PC-based control and device networks

A new white paper from Cutler-Hammer (Westerville, OH) describes the benefits of using open device-level networks on industrial machinery in combination with PC-based controllers.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

DeviceNet motion controller

Indramat (Hoffman Estates, IL) has added the option of Device Net connectivity to its CLC, a PC-based multi-axis motion controller. Simplifies communications with popular third-party PLCs and I/O networks.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Internet-based support

SIG Pack (Raleigh, NC) has launched SIG Online, a service that permits SIG engineers to remotely troubleshoot packaging equipment via a factory network's Internet connection.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

IP-based factory control

Schneider Automation's (North Andover, MA) Transparent Factory control strategy, based on Internet technologies over Ethernet, permits production data from packaging machinery to be analyzed, formatted and delivered to databases, Web sites or e-mail.
Controls Product Brief
| February 28, 1999

Windows CE control

Now available for Windows(TM) CE, FIX Dynamics from Intellution (Norwood, MA) provides control and human-machine interface functions in a small software "footprint" for embedded control applications.

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