Controls & Machine Components

Schneider Electric: Industrial PC with Microsoft® Windows XP® Pro Operating System

Schneider Electric’s Magelis™ Smart+ iPC is the first industrial PC with Microsoft® Windows XP® Pro that does not require maintenance or contain any rotating parts (no hard disk or fan).

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B&R Industrial Automation: Drive solution for low power applications

B&R’s ACOPOSmicro controls stepper motors and offers support for servo motors.

January 12, 2011

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Siemens Industry Inc: Distributed drive platform

Siemens’ Sinamics® G110D drive platform is designed for installation in close proximity to motors located throughout facilities where dust and water ingression are a concern.

January 12, 2011

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Wittenstein, Inc: Servo gearbox

The alpheno® servo gearbox from Wittenstein improves precision and operating noise and provides an increase of up to 130% power density compared to the company’s alpha SP+.

January 12, 2011

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Balluff: Expanded range of IO-Link I/O hubs

As part of its expanding package of control connectivity solutions, Balluff has added a large range of IO-Link I/O hubs, ranging from M8 to M12 with plastic or metal housing.

January 11, 2011

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Industry watch

January 5, 2011

Secondary Packaging

HMI inspired by iPads and ATMs

The engineers who designed this servo-driven, eight-axis stretch hooder were determined to make it more user-friendly and intuitive.

January 4, 2011

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AutomationDirect: 4-in. TFT touch panel

A 4-in. TFT color touch screen HMI panel from AutomationDirect features a 320 x 240 dot display; 32,768 colors provide clear and colorful graphics for vibrant and intuitive screens.

January 3, 2011

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Advantech Automation Corp.: Embedded IPC

Advantech’s ARK-5260 is an intelligent, fanless, embedded IPC with PCI/PCIe multi-expansion.

January 3, 2011

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Beckhoff Automation: Food-grade servomotors

AM3000 Synchronous Servomotors from Beckhoff Automation are FDA-compliant food-grade servomotors designed with a wash-down resistant white surface coating.

January 3, 2011

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Nook Industries: Linear actuators

Nook Industries’ cost-efficient NIA ACME and Ball Screw Series Linear Actuators provide compact size and enhanced IP65 protection options against solid and liquid elements.

January 3, 2011

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Eaton Corporation: Solid-state overload relays

The C440 and XT electronic overload relays from Eaton feature both integral ground fault protection and communications capabilities, in a single, compact device to provide customers with advanced, reliable, accurate motor protection.

January 3, 2011

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Red Lion: Dual Ethernet expansion card

Red Lion’s XCENET Ethernet expansion card for the Data Station Plus and Modular Controller series products allows operators to easily isolate machine level network traffic from the enterprise level network.

January 3, 2011