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Plant owners, operating staff & control systems specialists develop the credible performance requirement for the safety instrumented system.

Join us for this free session, on Thursday, Nov 2, 2017 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT, which will explore efficient and sustainable panel design. We will discuss new technologies such as flat-rear systems and intelligent connectivity and their impact on overall panel size and installation.

A Magnetic track guided AGV can be built with just two Roboteq components: An MGS1600 magnetic guide sensor and any Roboteq Dual Channel motor controller. The sensor measures the distance to the center of the track. Using its built-in programming language, the motor controller takes this data and computes the power to apply to the left and right motor needed for the robot to stay on track.

Rob was the co-founder and former President, and Chief Development Officer of Symbotic, a mobile robotic company and brings 28 years of business leadership and product innovation to Heartland Automation

BiSS communications protocols were developed by the German company iC-Haus GmbH as an efficient digital interface for communications between industrial sensors, actuators and control devices.

The Fluke T6 Electrical Testers with FieldSense technology are designed to make troubleshooting safer and more efficient by allowing electricians to take simultaneous voltage and current measurements — not just detection — without test leads.

SECCO plans to use part of the suite known as Honeywell Connected Plant UniSim Operations, which is a cloud-deployed learning solution that enables access to simulation-based operator training.

Fenix will be the first SHS company to join a major worldwide energy company, which puts the fight against climate change and energy access at the very center of its purpose.

Nearly all industries need task-specific applications to manage torrents of new sensor data and exploding numbers of connected assets that comprise IoE, including people, places and things.

Packaged in a housing that measures just 2.38” (at its widest point) x 2.78”, the sCMOS camera is equipped with passive thermal management for the sensor, reducing dark current without the need for a cooling fan or thermoelectric cooler.

The ICO120-83D measuring only 31 x 100 x 125 mm is designed for space-constrained deployments. It offers an IP40 extruded aluminum and heavy-duty steel design for durable use.

Designed to streamline security management in unmanned and harsh environments, the ICS-6270 provides secure deployment for mission-critical frameworks, supporting both Windows and Linux operating systems, and is built to supplement existing network platforms in industrial environments with minimal configuration.

Analysis of a calibration plot will help you determine when an industrial instrument needs to be recalibrated.

The method adopted by Jaguar Land Rover uses Kistler RoaDyn Wheel Force Transducers for measuring the three forces and three moments of a rotating wheel under real world operating conditions

WorldSkills brings together vocational students from 77 countries to compete in 51 skill areas, and draws more than 150,000 attendees. The competitors, all under the age of 22, simulate real work challenges that must be completed according to international industry standards.

Under the agreement, the IIC and Avnu will work together to align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security and privacy for the industrial Internet.

The Weidmüller Group announced the acquisition of the W Interconnections group companies in the USA, Canada and Mexico from Rockwell Automation, Inc. effective 1 October 2017. The W Interconnections group sells products for Industrial Connectivity and Automation.

The partnership is designed to help DENSO improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles. Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development of next-generation products to be used in passenger vehicles, including a system to help drivers return to driving mode during Level 3 of autonomous drive.

By Anton Pozdnyakov, Softerra If your IT staff is buried under a load of simple but time-consuming manual tasks, this means that you’re also stuck business-wise and can’t move forward. So, you either slowly go down or you finally start automating.

The m850 series offers servo motors that are especially suitable for positioning tasks in packaging and material handling systems.