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Factory Automation Portal: Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Factory Automation Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Factory Automation where engineers, consultants come to solve problems and learn about new technology for automating machines and manufacturing processes within factories. Technologies and products covered include everything from sensors to controllers, and networks to software.
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Articles
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Automatic PLC Code Generation & Design Interchange Standards
Open standards, more powerful desktop computers, and lower cost software are making design, modeling, and automatic code generation for PLCs and PACs practical for improving automation. |
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No room for complacency with CAM
- 03/19/10 Manufacturers’ Monthly, March 2010 By Keith Watts With manufacturers facing lower customer orders, many companies are looking to improve the productivity of their existing equipment by using more efficient programming tools. |
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Building dynamic value networks
- 03/19/10 Manufacturers’ Monthly, March 2010 By Colin Masson The discipline of Supply Chain Management requires multi-enterprise collaboration. Is your multi-enterprise supply chain responsive, adaptive, agile, and efficient? How well does your multi-enterprise supply chain enable your people to profitably meet the demands of your customers? |
White Papers
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Integrating Your ERP and MES to Improve Operations
Integrating the top floor with the shop floor in real time can help companies drive increased operational efficiency, faster responsiveness to changing customer demands, and tighter inventory control—value-added results that enable a sustainable competitive advantage. |
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Automation and the Smart Grid: Energy Management Today
By Opto 22 This white paper takes a look at electrical power in the United States today, investigates the nature of the Smart Grid, and suggests ways that small and medium-sized companies can - without waiting for future technological development - gather energy data and control electrical energy costs today. |
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Information Strategies for Manufacturing Sustainability
By GE Intelligent Platforms Manufacturers can greatly benefit from an integrated “big picture” view of their operations, whereby they can measure environmental factors alongside other operational metrics to gain visibility into where they may be disrupting stable processes, or conversely, where they are accepting waste simply because they do not realize it. |
Application Stories
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HMC Products uses Grace Thru-Door Ethernet Switch
- 03/16/10 The E5 is mounted on the outside of the Pouchmaster packaging machine, thereby enhancing compliance to NFPA 70E. |
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System Prevents Defects in Motorcycle Wheels
- 03/19/10 Assembly, March 2010 By John Sprovieri Force and stroke are monitored during the entire motorcycle press operation, and these variables can be graphed for detailed process tuning and analysis. The machine can identify abnormalities during the pressing operation, thereby preventing damaged components. It can also identify nonconforming parts after assembly. |
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Oystar Jones Puts the PLC in Packaging Equipment
- 03/19/10 Control Design, March 2010 By Mike Bacidore Oystar Jones’ soap packaging machines use PLCs, servo motion, discrete I/O, analog I/O, variable frequency drives and operator touchscreens, and a mix of hardwired and digital networking, depending on the vintage of upstream and downstream equipment. |
Resources & Literature
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Rexroth publishes catalog for Manual Production Systems
- 03/11/10
Catalog covers manufacturing design system for workstations, material shuttles or flow racks. |
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Semaphore adds SCADA video training to its web site
- 03/09/10
The video series provides tips and insights on making most of SCADA products. |
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Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary
No technical library is complete without this comprehensive dictionary covering the entire vocabulary of automation, systems, and instrumentation. This authoritative fourth edition contains the latest trends in industrial instrumentation and automation. References relevant to ISA and IEC standards are included throughout, along with illustrations to enhance the definitions of more difficult terminology. With CDROM. |
Training & Seminars
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Lean Manufacturing Work Culture podcast
- 12/10/09
Bosch Rexroth podcast covers the fundamental components of success with lean manufacturing: foundations, management and countermeasures. |
Featured Products
Product Announcements
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Misumi releases standard precision positioning stages
- 03/18/10
Standard series is suitable for applications in which frequent and/or fine adjustment is needed, but ultra-high precision is not required. |
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GE Intelligent Platforms announces Proficy Pulse
- 03/17/10
Proficy Pulse empowers operators, engineers and analysts to view, analyze and co-relate real time operational situations and historical intelligence. |
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Siemens releases MP 377 daylight readable HMI
- 03/16/10
HMI meets the needs of automation users requiring a rugged, outdoor HMI where screen visibility is necessary in direct sunlight. |
Company & Organization News
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Software Toolbox supplies symbols to AFCON SCADA/HMI
- 03/18/10 Symbol Factory.NET and Industrial Gadgets.NET graphics technologies have been integrated with the Pulse SCADA/HMI application software. |
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HALCON machine vision software runs on mobile phone
- 03/14/10 HALCON Embedded runs on the Nokia N900 mobile phone with the Maemo Linux-based operating system. |
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
Project News
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Software Toolbox to provide graphics to Rockwell Automation
- 03/15/10 Software Toolbox will provide its Symbol Factory technology to users of FactoryTalk View Site Edition and FactoryTalk View Machine Edition from Rockwell Automation. |
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Metso to control paper machine at Aylesford Newsprint
- 03/15/10 Metso will supply a distributed control system, hardware, applications software, project management and commissioning for the PM14 newsprint machine. |
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Flexpoint to develop nip sensor for Sensor Products
- 03/03/10 Flexpoint Sensor Systems will develop a “nip sensor” to measure actual contact (interfacial) pressure and distribution between two mating or impacting surfaces. |
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