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Engineering R&D

A secure, reliable automation controller from the silicon up

Rather than apply Band-Aids to old technology, the designers of this automation controller started with a clean sheet of paper.

Wayne Labs

May 31, 2015

If you could design and build a new programmable automation controller, what characteristics would you include?

TECH FLASH

MCAA publishes annual market forecast

The report covers 12 industry segments and product categories of the process instrumentation and automation industry (PI&A) for the US and Canada.

Jeremy Gerrard

May 26, 2015

The five-year forecast predicts a healthy compound annual growth rate, with increased spending in the food and beverage industry.

Tech Update

Cloud-based MES/ERP--No longer an oxymoron

Putting your MES or ERP system in the cloud may be more secure and reliable than your on-premises systems.

Wayne Labs

May 26, 2015

It wasn’t that long ago that you’d never think of putting any of your data in the “cloud.”

Technology Sourcebook

Failsafe controllers

May 18, 2015

Siemens Simatic ET 200SP failsafe controllers have 3 integrated Ethernet ports; they can be expanded with a maximum of 64 I/O modules.

TECH FLASH

New module allows off-chassis data collection

Rockwell Automation debuted is FactoryTalk Historian Machine Edition v3.5 this month.

Jeremy Gerrard

April 28, 2015

The new module allows a single unit to collect up to 2,500 data points from five local and five remote controllers.

Technology Sourcebook

Motion controller

April 15, 2015

The FANUC Power Motion i-MODEL A motion controller is scalable from 1 to 32 axes; it is capable of 4 axes simultaneous interpolation.

Technology Sourcebook

Industrial server

April 13, 2015

A PC-based solution, the Beckhoff C6670 industrial server comes with 12, 24 or 36 processor cores; the memory can be expanded from 64GB to 2TB.

Technology Sourcebook

Motor controller

April 10, 2015

Intended for small stepper and BLDC motors with a continuous output up to 70W, the Nanotec CL3-E controller is suitable for laboratory automation equipment.

Technology Sourcebook

Linear focus actuator

April 9, 2015

A compact motion control positioner, the Equipment Solutions LFA-2010 linear focus actuator is intended for optical applications requiring high-speed positioning over a short to medium stroke.

Technology Sourcebook

The B&R X20DS438A master module with IP20 protection and the X67DS438A master module with IP67 protection for use outside the control cabinet employ IO-Link 1.1 to communicate digitally with 4 intelligent field devices.