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These meters measure voltage, current or frequency and provide analog meter-style visual and accurate numeric readings.

Van der Vaart has over 25 years’ experience in the defense and securities industry, and has served in both operations and business development roles throughout his career.

By Shan Zhan, ABB Control Technologies In summer 2017, 15 EU states, Switzerland and Hong Kong were affected by the Fipronil contamination scandal. This article looks at what the scandal can teach food manufacturers about the importance of traceability processes.

From a controls perspective, the three-pod design meant a complex system was required. The challenge was developing a system to manage the production interfaces alongside all of the sequencing, interlocking, etc. that is required between each of the pods.

Airixa deploys an intelligent feature set, such as the ability to set an adaptive demand limit for each month, user-selected load reduction priorities, priorities based on production metrics and constraints, and demand response, which monitors the facility’s power loads and automatically controls those loads to match the demand with the supply.

With a resolution of 4096 pixels per channel and a maximum speed over 100 kHz (100,000 lines/second) this camera is designed to cover a range of industrial line scan imaging applications.

The 5 port 10/100MB LAN M12 ports offer 148,800pps for fast packet switching with store and forward technology. The M12 4-pin D-coded, female connectors feature auto negotiation speeds, full/half duplex mode, and auto MDI/MDI-X connections.

The use of space that characterizes both the spindle and toothed belt axes ELGC and the mini slide EGSC is essential for assembly, testing, inspection, small parts handling, and desktop applications.

Supporting a variety of customer applications, the solution offers surface scanning, feature calculation and discrete point measurement. The 360° FMC-Tracker will be available to U.S. customers in the fourth quarter of 2018.

The Actin SDK can be used with any type of industrial or collaborative robot or complex articulated mechanism in any type of application, including those in the industrial, medical, Oil & Gas, agricultural, and aerospace domains.

This addition means that the controller supports two industrial safety networks – CIP Safety and Safety over EtherCAT (FSoE). The controller is optimized to support applications in industries like automotive manufacturing and food factories.

At a time when detecting large industrial pipeline leaks within the same day was challenging, new technology that could detect small leaks and any leak quickly was exciting.

The methods taught in the course are based on the IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2 standards, which represent the expertise of a large group of global experts to reduce cyber vulnerabilities by laying a solid foundation of cyber defense mechanisms for automation system networks.

ECT was tasked with developing a turbomachinery control system for two trains, each with three parallel compressors. Because the operations will be expected to run continuously for years at a time, a redundant architecture was essential to ensure a backup system would take over and reduce the likelihood of downtime should a failure occur.

PS series fork sensor additions include harsh duty U-frame sensors for food applications, L-frame or angled fork sensors for mounting situations, and fork sensors for liquid detection.

P1100 series accommodates I/O interfaces, including 2x Intel GbE LAN, 4x USB 3.0, 4x COM, and 8x Isolated DIO. The system also supports three independent displays running simultaneously and enables 4K/2K playback via DisplayPort.

The sensors feature normally open and normally closed outputs for integration into control systems. Multiple light sources — red light for setup or infrared light source for highly contaminated or environments with water or mist in the air — enables this sensor to be used in a multitude of applications.

The Quick Changer releases end-of-arm tools with a click and inserted tools are automatically positioned correctly with a repeatability of ±0.02 mm. The Quick Changer can be used on any robot arm, drone, or other equipment with an ISO-9409-1 flange.

For a capacitance probe installed in a metal tank, the measured level is proportional to the measured capacitance between the level probe (one capacitor plate) and the tank wall (second capacitor plat

Honeywell has collaborated with the group to deliver numerous projects, providing and implementing automation controls, safety and cybersecurity solutions. It also has recently started to develop business models with the group around its Honeywell Connected Plant solutions.