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Featured Catalog: Sensors Selection Guide
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This week's featured article, Practical Robots for the Home, was written by Jim Pinto. Jim takes a light-hearted look at a practical robot available for home use today. This robot may even meet the expectations of the most scrutinizing critic...your wife. I'm personally waiting for a robot designed to clean the bathroom!
In this issue, we're featuring Pepperl+Fuchs, Sensors Selection Guide, with selection guidelines, specifications, dimensions and wiring diagrams for their full line of capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, special sensors, ultrasonic sensors, photoelectric sensors, cord sets, amplifiers, counters, timers and controls, and accessories.
Our Featured Products in this issue are Omron's Temperature Limit Switch, Advantech Automation's Industrial Ethernet Switches and Banner's PresencePLUS® P4 EDGE Vision Sensor. If you haven't seen our Featured Products for March, please be sure to review our Featured Product page.
And, as usual, don't forget to review the new Product Announcements, Company News, Application News and Job Postings added to Automation.com site in the last week.
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Practical Robots for the Home
With all the recent advances in robotics, one wonders when practical robots will be available for home use, with price and performance that withstands the astute judgment of that discriminating devil’s advocate – the housewife. It’s a significant technical challenge for automation engineers.
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Articles and white papers on various automation topics
Application stories using various automation products
Automation.com 2005 Salary Survey
Automation.com is surveying automation and control professionals about career, salary and company information. Please take a couple of minutes to complete our survey so that we can better inform automation industry professionals and employers regarding current salary and employment trends. Survey results will be available in early Spring 2005.
Hear all about it...industry news is published on our site daily. Here are the latest news headlines for your review...use the following links to read the full article. Check out our Daily News Headlines page frequently to stay up-to-date on the industry events.
- NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW Wins Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Award 3/15/05
- Moxa Introduces First 802.11g Wireless Serial Device Server in the World 3/15/05
- NI LabVIEW Named Top Software for Electronics Design and Simulation in India 3/15/05
- Bud Announces New Sizes in Large Non-metallic Enclosure Series 3/15/05
- IntelliCom Introduces New M2M Data Collector to Forward Data to a Central Server 3/15/05
- E Instruments Introduces New Mini Air Hot Wire Thermo-Anemometer 3/15/05
- MTS Sensors Introduces Mobile Hydraulic Position Sensors 3/15/05
- ProSoft Technology, Inc. Introduces BASIC Module for ControlLogix 3/14/05
- ProSoft Introduces In-Rack PC for ControlLogix Platform 3/14/05
- ASI Introduces High-Density Spring Clamp Terminal Blocks 3/14/05
- Measurement Computing Introduces Universal Library for LabVIEW™, Supports NI-DAQmx VIs 3/14/05
- Desktop Engineering Magazine Readers Choose ACUITIV V4.O as 2004 Product of the Year 3/14/05
- SICK STEGMANN, INC. Introduces the SKS 36 SinCos Motor Feedback System with HIPERFACE Interface 3/14/05
- Honeywell Introduces HIH-4000 Series Humidity Sensors 3/14/05
- JAI PULNIX's Digital Machine Vision Camera Boasts High Frame Rate 3/14/05
- NI Programmable Automation Controllers Triple Processing Performance 3/11/05
- EDN Names National Instruments CompactRIO an Innovation of the Year Winner 3/11/05
- NI Delivers USB Portable DAQ System for Sensor and High-Voltage Measurements 3/11/05
- Weidmuller ATEX Certified Enclosures Provide Reliable Solutions for Hazardous Environment Applications 3/11/05
- Emerson Expands Fisher NotchFlo Capability 3/11/05
- Advantech’s UNO Now Supports Windows® XP Embedded 3/10/05
- Midwest Motion Products Announces the Release of a New Compact, Low Noise DC Linear Actuator 3/10/05
- Honeywell Unveils Comprehensive Simulation Solution for Processing Plants 3/10/05
- Prosilica Introduces New Firewire Digital Camera for Machine Vision and Industrial Imaging 3/10/05
- IXXAT Introduces Ethernet Powerlink Solutions 3/10/05
- TURCK Announces New Versatile Valve Sensors with DeviceNet Compatibility 3/9/05
- Bristol Babcock Announces Integrated Enclosure Solutions for ControlWave(R) Micro Hybrid PLC/RTU 3/9/05
- Hardy Instruments Partners with B+L to Reach European Market 3/15/05
- Rockwell Automation Names Bob Honor Life Sciences Industry Vice President 3/14/05
- OMAC Announces Pavilion Plan for ISA EXPO 2005 3/14/05
- Invensys Donates Software Extensions for FOUNDATION Fieldbus to PACTware Consortium 3/14/05
- GE Fanuc Automation Signs Agreement with Solaia and Secures Broad Rights to ‘318 Patent' 3/10/05
- MTS Sensors Develops New, Expanded and Easier to Use Sensors Solution Web Site 3/10/05
- Citect Appoints New CEO 3/9/05
- Online Development and ILS Technology Form Partnership to Provide Plant Floor to Company Enterprise Connectivity Solutions 3/9/05
- Emerson Wins $7.4 Million Contract for Digital Automation of New Coal-Fired Power Plant in China 3/15/05
- Emerson's Micro Motion® ELITE™ Flowmeter Validated by Gas Research Institute for Use in Natural Gas Custody Transfer Applications 3/15/05
- Keithley Receives a Repeat Multiple-system Order for Its S680 DC/RF Parametric Test Systems 3/14/05
- Intermec Named to Provide RFID Tags to U.S. Government 3/10/05
Pepperl+Fuchs 2004-2005 Sensors Catalog
This 800+ page resource includes complete features, benefits, selection guidelines, specifications, dimensions and wiring diagrams for their full line of capacitive sensors, inductive sensors, special sensors, ultrasonic sensors, photoelectric sensors, cord sets, amplifiers, counters, timers and controls, and accessories. It also includes detailed information on the fundamentals of each sensing technology.
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Omron's FM approved Temperature Limit Switch protects processes from runaway heating control.More Information on Temperature Limit Switches
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Advantech Automation offers Industrial Ethernet Switches starting at $85.More Information on Industrial Ethernet Switches
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Banner's PresencePLUS® P4 EDGE Vision Sensor delivers high-speed error-proofing and inspections.More Information on PresencePLUS® P4 EDGE Vision Sensor
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Product & Supplier Search
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com:
- Field Engineer: Huntington Beach, CA - SEIS Group, Inc 03/14/2005
- Technician - Instrumentation (Water Production): Orlando, FL - Orlando Utilities Commission 03/10/2005
- Industrial Automation Sales: CT, USA - Hollis Technologies Inc. 03/09/2005
- Controls Engineer : Dallas, TX - automationtechies 03/15/2005
- Project Manager Akron: Akron, OH - automationtechies 03/15/2005
- Controls Engineer: Detroit, MI - automationtechies 03/15/2005
- Manufacturing Engineer: Lynchburg, VA - automationtechies 03/14/2005
- Maintenance Supervisor: Duluth, MN - automationtechies 03/14/2005
- Sales Estimator: Seattle, WA - automationtechies 03/08/2005
- Sales Estimator: Orange County, CA - automationtechies 03/08/2005
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Understanding, Implementing and Troubleshooting Programmable Logic Controllers
Dates: March 30-Apr. 1, June 1-3, Sept. 14-16 (Please note this is a three day course)
Location: West Berlin, NJ
Tuition: $975
Students will gain an understanding of every aspect of what makes a PLC work. They should come away with the knowledge to troubleshoot a program and maintain the control system.
- Introduction to Programmable Controllers
- Number Systems and Codes
- Logic Concepts
- Processors
- Power Supplies
- Programming Devices
- Memory System and I/O Interaction
- Discrete Input/Output System
- Analog Input/Output System Special Function I/O and Serial Communication Interfacing
- Programming Languages
- The IEC-1131 Standard Programming Language
- System Programming and Implementation
- System Documentation
- Data Measurements and Transducers
- Start-Up and Maintenance
- System Selection Guidelines
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Other Training Courses & Seminars
Browse for training courses, seminars, web-seminars and workshops offered by various training organizations, product manufacturers and suppliers in industrial automation, process control and instrumentation. For information on specific training courses and seminars, please use the following links:
- Bar Code Training
- Data Acquisition Training
- Data Communications and Networking Training
- Electrical Controls Training
- Instrumentation & Process Control Training
- Machine Vision Training
- Motion Control Training
- OPC & Industrial Networking Connectivity
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) Training
- Risk Assessment Safety Training
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