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AutomationDirect's Terminator I/O line of field bus termination I/O products, a practical solution for remote I/O, PC-based control and distributed control applications.

LookoutDirect is a PC-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) software package. It comes from National Instruments(based on their Lookout® object-based automation software). LookoutDirect does everything you need an HMI to do, at half the price charged by most of our competitors.

Designing a pushbutton that will satisfy NEMA requirements while maintaining the value you've come to expect from AutomationDirect is not an easy task. We took advantage of the experience of Cutler-Hammer engineering to take existing product technology and make it better. We proudly carry the HT800 line of 30 mm pilot devices from Cutler-Hammer.

AutomationDirect offers a full line of operator consoles and consolets designed to house electrical and electronic controls, instruments, push-buttons, pilot light and operator interface systems.

Would you like to get real-time PLC information directly into Excel™, Lotus™, Visual Basic™ and many other Windows® application programs that you use every day...faster than you ever imagined?

AutomationDirect offer hundreds of different NEMA cabinet enclosures, including junction boxes, wiring troughs, wall mount and free standing...all at AutomationDirect's low prices!

Grace Engineered Products announces the GracePort™ “M5 Series” line of Stainless Steel Interfaces specifically suited for the Drug, Food Processing, Dairy, Chemical and Petro-Chemical Industry.

The MS-880 is the ideal scanner for facilities looking to simplify equipment purchase by selecting one scanner model throughout the floor for a variety of uses.

Cut your PLC wiring time down to minutes instead of hours! The ZIPLink system eliminates the normally tedious process of wiring PLC I/O to terminal blocks. Simply plug one end of a ZIPLink cable into a DirectLOGIC I/O module and the other end into a ZIPLink connector module. It’s that easy! ZIPLinks use half the space, at a fraction of the total cost of terminal blocks.

The DL05 and the DL06 product lines are a family of micro PLCs designed to fit more applications than any other PLC family in their class. Starting with the DL05 at 8 inputs/ 6 outputs, all the way up to the fully expanded 100 I/O DL06 PLC, these PLCs are a standard that can grow with the changing needs of your machine or process control applications.

This product line has the widest variety of I/O modules and configurations of all our PLCs. You can build a control system with local/distributed I/O of up to 3,500 points. Use the built-in PID instruction or specialty modules to perform cost-effective process control. Three CPUs from 6.5 K memory with 1,152 I/O to 30.8 K memory with 3,584 possible I/O, with built-in power supply are offered.

AutomationDirect offers electromechanical motor control solutions for motors up to 40 horsepower at 480 volts.

All sizes of NITRA rodless cylinders have magnetic pistons and are double-acting. The cylinders have front and rear adjustable cushions and tapped end caps for mounting.

The integrated tool “surface OCR” recognizes and extracts character strings from surfaces. For that it uses either the scan data of the 3D-height map or the 2D intensity data.

The KX-2 collaborative robot is designed to meet a need in the market for capable robotics accessible to laboratories of all sizes. The KX-2 robot provides automation, combining reach and 360-degree rotation on the shoulder and wrist axes with radial compactness.

The P2102 is a fanless, embedded computer with the P2102E. Supporting Cincoze’s modular design, the P2100 Series can also work as a panel PC when combined with various Cincoze display modules.

Every manufacturer must pay attention to costs and competitors’ pricing. For better or worse, purchasing professionals are rewarded for capturing the lowest price; few have the time to scour the internet for ever RFQ to see if the bid offered is indeed competitive.