Controls & machine components

4-megapixel vision cameras

Toshiba Teli America has introduced its CSB4000 series of machine vision cameras, extending the scope of CMOS camera capabilities with ultra-high resolution, FireWire® or Camera Link® output, full-frame global shutter, and window of interest functionality.

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Baldor Electric Company: Digital servo drives

Baldor has extended its MicroFlex family of digital servo drives with the launch of a new model for use with brushless rotary AC servomotors utilizing resolver feedback.

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Controls & Machine Components

B&R Industrial Automation: I/O slice system

B&R Industrial Automation introduces its X20 System, a complete control solution as well as a remote I/O system. System can work as an addition to a standard fieldbus to expand existing control systems, or as a complete controller, demonstrating its full performance capability when combined with X20 System CPUs.

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Beckhoff Automation: Compact control cabinets

Beckhoff Automation has expanded its C63xx compact control cabinet Industrial PC family with 2 new variants. While earlier models in this family had only 1 free PCI slot, the new C6340 and C6350 IPCs both have 3 free PCI slots, making them more flexible and capable of including a wider range of applications.

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Controls & Machine Components

National Instruments: USB 2.0 devices

National Instruments has expanded its USB-9000 series of high-performance USB data acquisition devices with the release of 8 new USB 2.0 Hi-Speed DAQ devices.

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Controls & Machine Components

Servo Magnetics Inc: Brushless DC motor controller

The new 371-0028 brushless DC motor controller from Servo Magnetics provides 1ꯠ watts of power in a small footprint of 3”Wx4.65”Lx1.75”H. This servo-amplifier is suitable for closed- or open-loop velocity and torque control of BLDC motors producing greater than 160 oz-in at 7ꯠ rpm.

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Maple Systems: Touchscreens

Now available from Maple Systems is the HMI550H-005 Classic operator interface touchscreen, priced at $1499. The 10.4”, 256-color TFT touchscreen is full-featured, including pop-up windows that display keypads, alarm status, bar graphs, and more.

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Controls & Machine Components

GE Fanuc Automation: Enhanced PLC

GE Fanuc Automation has enhanced its Series 90™-30 PLC family with a new Ethernet Network Inter-face Unit (ENIU). This high-performance communications module en-ables users to connect Series 90-30 I/O over the Ethernet to a master controller through a single point of connection, helping to save configuration time and reduce overall components.

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Controls & Machine Components

Danfoss Drives: Variable frequency drives

Danfoss has introduced a new, high-power platform for VLT® 5000 Series variable-frequency drives, extending the product range and providing increased flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and reliability.

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Controls & Machine Components

Rockwell Automation: Safety scanner

Rockwell Automation offers its new Allen-Bradley DeviceNet Safety scanner and I/O that gives manufacturers the opportunity to place safety and standard devices on a single network, simplifying control system design in complex applications such as those found in the automotive, semiconductor, packaging, food, and beverage industries.

August 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Deluxe RFID is scalable

Deluxe Media Service’s RFID for boxed DVDs implemented at three distribution centers to meet a retailer mandate is flexible and scalable. See video

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Controls & Machine Components

Make2Pack sharing session

On November 15, 2005, in Milan, Italy, the Make2Pack Workgroup, with support from Siemens, will be hosting an information-sharing session to explain how the Make2Pack effort will benefit all users and suppliers of factory floor automation.

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Secondary Packaging

A vote for open standards

The Aagard Group--A Minnesota maker of cartoners, case packers, and other secondary packaging systems--recently shipped a side-seam carton gluer/bag-in-box cartoner/case packer/palletizer that's all mounted on one frame and deploys a single PC to control 36 axes of servo motion. In a telephone interview primarily about the new machine and its controls architecture, Brenton Smith, company president, had some intriguing thoughts to share about machine automation in general.

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