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February 2010 |
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Ethernet IP Stepper Drive
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Whitepaper: Motion Control Components and System Architecture
Motion Control Components and System Architecture: This whitepaper compares how chip, card and drive-based motion control solutions fit into different machine requirements, and the benefits of each approach.
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| Featured Articles |
The Five Motion Senses: MEMS Inertial Sensing to Transform Applications
Sensors, January 2010
By Harvey Weinberg and Rob O'Reilly
The introduction of robust, low-cost MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes enables the incorporation of motion sensing into a greater variety of applications.
Hard Targets
Control Design, January 2010
By Jim Montague
Machine builders draw a bead on the often difficult to determine needs of their customers with new levels of collaboration and capabilities.
Shaft grounding
Plant Services, December 2009
By Adam Willwerth
VFDs can induce electric currents on motor shafts that ruin bearings, shorten motor life and diminish system reliability. One way to mitigate the effects of these currents is to ground the motor shaft to protect bearings and eliminate expensive repairs.
Attenuating Vibration: Look To The Dynamic Support System
Maintenance Technology, December 2009
By Paul E. Feuerstein, Feuerstein Engineering
One of a machine's costliest maintenance issues can begin to gel before the equipment ever starts up. How the dynamic support system of a machine is designed will impact the amount of attention a maintenance team must devote to it later on.
Motor management
Plant Engineering, December 2009
By John Malinowski, Baldor Electric
We don’t give much thought to replacing motors until they stop working. By then, we’re often in a hurry to get the machine back in service and production running again. Companies should know how many motors they have in their facility, their specifications and have a plan for what to do if any of them fail.
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Precision Motion Control System from Nexen
Get high speeds, incredible accuracy, zero backlash and unlimited length with the Nexen Roller Pinion System. |
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| Application Stories |
Scottish Water retrofits aging DC pump drive motors with AC
Process & Control Today, January 2010
Scottish Water is benefiting from improved reliability on the operation of three large sludge pumps at its Laighpark waste water facility, since replacing the ageing DC pump drive motors with matched W21 high efficiency AC motors and CFW-09 drives from WEG.
Automation, motion control raise production for tea packaging machine
Reliable Plant, December 2009
By Bosch Rexroth
Teekanne, the market leader for tea in Germany today, fills 10 million tea and herb bags every day. Using Rexroth Indramotion motion control, Sercos III, and Safety on Board, the company can fill and produce bags at a rate of 400 per minute with thread and label, or with an outside paper protection.
Corrugator Retrofit
Control Engineering, December 2009
International Paper hired systems integrator Concept Systems to rebuild a corrugating machine. Concept replaced the PLC with a Rockwell unit, upgraded the motors, and replaced the I/O and HMI.
Ginsters cuts costs at Cornish bakery
Control Engineering Europe, November 2009
Ginsters is saving approximately 17 per cent a year on its chilled water energy bill at its Callington bakery in Cornwall, UK. The food manufacturer cut its costs after installing eight ABB standard drives for its chiller pumps.
Actuators Help Weld Wind Turbine Towers
By Bosch-Rexroth
AMET used Rexroth CKK ball screw actuators in a custom welding system for wind turbine tower builders. The system performs accurate longitudinal and circumferential submerged arc welding on towers 90 meters high.
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| Resources & Literature |
Yaskawa motor software available on iTunes
Savings Predictor software is now available on Apple iTunes for iPhone (OS 3.1.2 or later) and iPod touch. It estimates energy savings when using a Variable Frequency Drive.
SERCOS III test system available
Test system ensures that SERCOS III slave implementations from different manufacturers are compatible and interoperable.
Zero-Max updates its web site
Website covers motion control products such as shaft couplngs, torque limiters, mechanical drives and bushings.
Misumi offers CD-ROM with CAD models of mechanical components
3D CAD Model library in CD-ROM format is available free of charge, to machine builders, automation system designers and product design engineers.
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| Featured Training |
CANopen Training
February 25, 2010
Location: Oslo, Norway
Development engineers and system integrators who want to get an overview about CANopen and want to judge the technical opportunities CANopen provides. This CANopen training is also for technical decision-makers, who have the question, whether CANopen can fulfill the communication related technical request of their application.
Practical Aspects of PROFIBUS & PROFINET in Factory Automation
March 11, 2010
Location: Swindon SN5 8YF, UK
Seminar addresses the practical issues from the use of of PROFIBUS and PROFINET digital communications technologies in automated manufacturing and advanced engineering applications. It focuses on the practical aspects of using PROFIBUS and PROFINET in factory automation applications from system design and safety considerations through to maintenance and fault-finding.
ISA Understanding and Applying Motor Controls and Drives
May 18, 2010 - May 20, 2010
Location: Houston, TX
This course give you a broad perspective of DC motors, AC motors (single & three-phase), and Variable Speed Drives (for AC Induction Motors and DC Motors). Industrial applications of Variable Speed Drives for constant torque, constant horsepower, and variable torque/variable horsepower are included.
CANopen Training
September 2, 2010
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Development engineers and system integrators who want to get an overview about CANopen and want to judge the technical opportunities CANopen provides. This CANopen training is also for technical decision-makers, who have the question, whether CANopen can fulfill the communication related technical request of their application.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Yaskawa Electric Brasil achieves ISO and OHSAS certification
Yaskawa Elétrico do Brasil received ISO 9001, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18001 certifications from Bureau Veritas
Bison Gear Celebrates 50th anniversary
Bison was established in 1960 by three Chicago area entrepreneurs who derived the company's name from their last initials of B-S-N.
SME elects Barbara M. Fossum president
For the first time in its 78-year history, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has elected a woman to lead the organization.
PLCopen issues three Motion Control certifications
Three PLCOpen members have been awarded the PLCopen Motion Control Certificate.
Economic outlook for manufacturing sector in 2010
In general terms, FMA says 2010 will be better than 2009. GDP growth will be in the range of 2% to 3% and that is far superior to the negative numbers registered in the last year.
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| Project News |
Cotton ginning firm invests with APAG
Process and Control Engineering, January 2010
By Sarah Falson
Atlantic Pacific Automation Group (APAG), will upgrade safety and motion control systems at Namoi Cotton Commodities in Australia. Equipment includes Parker Hannifin HMI panels, 30 Parker Variable Speed Drives, a PLC for process control, and Pilz’s PNOZmulti system for safety control of plant and equipment.
ABB to automate mill and pipe production plant in Saudi Arabia
ABB will supply a System 800xA control system, plus a switchgear substation, medium- and low-voltage switchgear, motors and variable-speed drives.
Siemens to automate algae biofuels production
Siemens will supply a Simatic S7-300 controller and Micromaster drives to Renewed World Energies to automate its new Georgetown County, S.C., facility.
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| Featured Events |
CoDeSys Users' Conference 2010
March 16, 2010
Location: Herdecke, Germany
The CoDeSys Users' Conference is the ideal information forum for all users of the number one manufacturer independent IEC 61131-3 automation tool CoDeSys.
WESTEC 2010
March 23, 2010 - March 25, 2010
WESTEC offers expert demonstrations of the latest technologies and applications by more than 450 international exhibitors. These exhibitors are ready with the advanced machine tools, cutting tools and accessories, applications, emerging technologies, and business resources that keep manufacturing on the move.
Hannover Messe 2010
April 19, 2010 - April 23, 2010
Location: Hannover, Germany
The world's leading showcase for industrial technology is staged annually in Hannover, Germany. Italy to be featured as its official Partner Country. In 2010 the spotlight will be on industrial automation, energy, technology, industrial subcontracting and cutting-edge technologies.
PCIM Europe
May 4, 2010 - May 6, 2010
Location: Nuremburg, Germany
Europe's leading meeting-point for experts out of the areas Power Electronics and its applications in Intelligent Motion and Power Quality. Includes latest developments of power semiconductors, passive components, products for thermal management, new materials, sensors as well as servo-technology and the wide area of power quality and energy-management.
CoDeSys Users' Conference 2010
May 21, 2010
Location: Bologna , Italy
The CoDeSys Users' Conference is the ideal information forum for all users of the number one manufacturer independent IEC 61131-3 automation tool CoDeSys.
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