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Equipped with three signal options, eight different operating modes, and a signaling area of up to 1350 feet, the PMF LED-Hi offers day/night reduction, individually switchable sectors and inrush current limitation.

Based on photoelectric Micromote technology, it features an LED sensor in a sensor head measuring 2.4 x 1.5 x 7 mm. Especially designed for use with thin end effectors, it features a controlled and focused light spot, allowing it to detect wafers a few μm thick.

Gallello is an established technology executive with a background in engineering vertical software solutions at companies, including MSC Software, Autodesk, Macromedia and Intergraph Japan.

With these web-based tools, users can select and build their vacuum solutions online. They are designed to be used for two different use cases: Users with vacuum know-how can use LEYCALC to calculate the behavior and performance of vacuum systems in detail. The Pump Finder guides beginners to suitable products by a questionnaire.

Mr. Ross holds a degree in Industrial Management from Northeastern State University and brings 30 years of operations and production management expertise to Trust Automation.

Endless examples of robot uprisings and plots for world domination haven’t assisted the technology’s efforts to be welcomed by humans in the workplace. This article discusses three crucial steps to alleviating human resistance to robot deployment.

There are advanced calibration techniques based on loop testing. Perform individual instrument calibration to achieve maximum accuracy.

More than a searchable database of over 10,000 WAGO products, Version 4.0 offers added features including expanded functionality of the "Smart Designer" for custom rail assemblies. This advanced design tool saves design time by calculating the rail length, identifying errors in the design and automatically correcting them. Completed drawings can be exported to any CAD programs or into a data file. The software also provides customers with a bill of materials according to the drawings, and in numerical order, making purchasing easier.

Free Guide Features Incremental and Absolute Encoders

The FGS Stand Alone is a single FGS unit setup to guard an area that can't be entered from another direction. The device must be mounted so that the user can not reach over, reach under or stand behind the defensive fields.

Automationdirect now offers their own Centsable brand of contactors in IEC sizes Sizes A through F with a manual starter / protector now available to make a motor starter.

Request AutomationDirect's FREE DirectSOFT32 and C-more Demo CD. It will give you the chance to try their software to see if it will fit your PLC or operator interface applications.

ImageVision Modular Consoles are all steel and built for the industrial environment. They can be gasketed to provide protection against grit and dirt. Optional sub-panels and custom cut-outs allow you the flexibility to install devices in either the 1st or 2nd tier. We customize to fit your application!

A new standard for useable information and technical completeness, while providing significant new data and conclusions on one of the “workhorses” of flow measurement. If you manufacture, sell, specify, or use full-bore magnetic flowmeters, this study is a “must have” for you.

DVT's Series 500 SmartImage sensor is a stand-alone imaging sensor with on-board image acquisition, processing, digital I/O, and serial and Ethernet communications. All this is contained within a small 1.6" x 2.2" x 4" footprint.

Grace Engineered Products has certified its products to comply with the CE safety specification...

Designing control systems just got easier. With new PANELdraw™ software from Hoffman®, you can create panel and enclosure layout drawings, quickly and precisely. This AutoCAD® add-on tool has an easy-to-use process for Bill of Material generation, documentation reporting, panel selection and drawing.

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.

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.

Grace Engineered Products has introduced an interface for the Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1200 processor.