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By Patricia Mattsson, Emerson Automation Solutions The widespread departure from manual measurements to automated solutions has helped improve worker efficiency while providing more accurate measurements. New level measurement technologies can do even more.

ABB will take up a designated seat on the board of the OPC Foundation in 2019 to further help accelerate development of the new technology.

The goal of this initiative is to deliver an open, cohesive approach to implement OPC UA including TSN and associated application profiles. This will advance the OPC Foundation providing vendor independent end-to-end interoperability into field level devices for all relevant industry automation use-cases.

The Fluke 710 mA Loop Valve Tester allows technicians to source the 4-20 mA signal while it interrogates HART data to collect critical information about the valve’s position and status, providing checks of control valves while they are in place.

Steering wheels can be mounted directly to the SWS and connected to a CAN bus. For drivers, the SWS delivers a steering feeling from its no stick-slip, no wear, integrated magnetic friction system.

A feature of the 3rd generation Sony Pregius CMOS global shutter sensors is a Dual ADC mode where each pixel can be read out with two different gains. The PL-D757 and PL-D753 take advantage of this sensor feature by combining the dual ADC images into a single hybrid HDR image directly on camera, thus removing the need for any host processing.

The TMPS 10 Family offers seven single output models ranging 3.3 - 48 Vout with safety approvals for IT solutions (IEC/EN/UL 62368-1) and IEC/EN 60335-1 for IoT, building/ home automation and industrial applications.

Despite IIoT, Industrial Ethernet and Industry 4.0 initiatives, digital networks are still not used everywhere. Organizations stuck in an analog world should look carefully at what they are missing.

The competitive award is for students enrolled in a CNC machinist, CNC operations, engineering or manufacturing certificate or degree program. As part of the award process, the scholarship recipient's school will also recieve a $500 donation made to their machining or manufacturing department.

The goal of this initiative is to deliver an open, cohesive approach to implement OPC UA including TSN and associated application profiles. This will advance the OPC Foundation providing vendor independent end-to-end interoperability into field level devices for all relevant industry automation use-cases.

By Mike Devine, Zebra Technologies E-commerce is booming globally. The increasingly higher expectations of smartphone-savvy, always-connected consumers have urged retailers, manufacturers and logistics companies to collaborate hand in hand to meet the growing shoppers’ needs in the on-demand economy.

This catalogue has been specifically developed to support automation and manufacturing markets and includes products of Koganei, a user and reseller of Automation Studio

In its role, Emerson will update control and safety systems, fire and gas systems, field instrumentation control and isolation valves, and other equipment to improve production efficiencies.

The additions to the machine safety portfolio are all designed to communicate over EtherNet/IP and are tested against machine safety standards to ease compliance. The products will also be included in the next release of the Safety Automation Builder software tool.

The SureStep family has options for open loop control (no encoder), position monitoring (external encoder feedback), and position verification (integrated motor/drives with internal encoder).

Built with the needs of automotive and semiconductor manufacturing in mind, the CK3M controller achieves nanoscale motion control designed to keep production lines flexible enough to accommodate the needs of the future.

The motors are used in pumps, fans, compressors, extruders, grinders, stirrers, mixers, conveyors and rollers in industries as diverse as energy, chemical, cement, paper and pulp, and mining.

The XR3 can control any combination of brushless, DC brush, or stepper motors at up to 320 VDC operating voltage and 30 A peak current capability.

The constant between pipes of differing diameters is the flow rate (and other fluid properties) is the same in both pipe lengths.

This software solution from CoreTechnologie meets all the requirements for a consistent 3D master process. The viewer can be installed on a Windows tablet for use in the workshop and can be used in company networks or on the go thanks to floating and license borrowing functions.