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Bosch uses LabVIEW to control drive systems
Rexroth offers preconfigured drive systems with NI’s CompactRIO and the programming environment LabVIEW. -
NI keeps London Underground running smoothly
By Sam Etchell, London Underground Limited The scope of this project consisted of designing, integrating and installing an intelligent remote condition monitoring system to predict and prevent failures and subsequent loss of passenger service. -
Emerson Industrial will drive champagne
After replacing one conveyor drive system, Emerson will supply drives for all conveyors at Nicolas Feuillatte, a champagne producer. -
LabVIEW speeds up turf harvesting machine
By Steve Aposhian, FireFly Equipment Using LabVIEW software and CompactRIO hardware in ProSlab 155 helped the smart machine harvest turf 25 percent faster and use half the diesel fuel that other machines on the market burn. -
PLC runs gas pump tester
Vapor Systems Technologies uses a Unitronics Vision350 PLC +HMI to test gas pump nozzles through 1,000,000 cycles. -
Boulting upgrades pumps at 90 year-old pump station
The original pumps are connected to new high performance motors and gearboxes, close to the oldest static steam driven pump, which will be kept as a museum piece. -
Rotork valve actuators control coal mine degassing
Salcan Process Technology uses the Rotork actuated control valve to control the flow of gas while maintaining back pressure in the coal seam. -
Moxa networks Bonfiglioli solar systems
Bonfiglioli is deploying Moxa Modbus gateways, network switches, Ethernet I/O, and serial-to-Ethernet controllers in its turnkey solar solutions. -
Vision system controls and sorts metal and plastic parts
Twelve Manta G-223B cameras from Allied Vision are being used by GEFRA to inspect screw joints for the brake lines of vehicles. -
Stahlin Enclosures prevent corrosion in Detroit water treatment plant
Commerce Controls installed Stahlin non-metallic enclosures on filter control panels and a phosphoric chemical dosing panel at the City of Detroit, Springwells Facility -
Emerson Industrial supplies Unidrive M drives to Render Technology
Before the implementation of Unidrive M, Render’s machines were able to deliver 25 or 26 cycles per minute. Since adopting Unidrive M, the business has seen returns of 30 cycles per minute. -
M-Bus sensors connect apartment building in Sweden
Processcomponent in Sweden used the Anybus M-Bus to Modbus-TCP gateway to quickly connect M-Bus sensors to the OptoEMU Energy Monitoring System. -
Rotork CMA actuators enable shale gas well compliance
An unnamed shale gas company in Louisiana installed Rotork CMA actuators run by solar panels to replace existing actuation equipment and control a variety of fluids at line pressures up to 6000 psig. -
OPC UA in the Large Hadron Collider
The Detector Control System (DCS), part of the LHS, uses more than 5000 CANopen nodes. The link between the Scada layer and CANopen is realized by means of OPC UA. -
Water Corporation of Australia Implements Change Management software
The software from MDT manages changes to 16,000 programmable devices in remote areas across the continent and reduces safety risks to employees associated with unmanaged control system changes. -
Kollmorgen servo technology bends panels into better shape
Salvagnini is using distributed servo amplifiers for positioning, instead of keeping drives installed centrally in the control cabinet. -
British Fruit Grower weighs in red and green
Red says balance contents are not yet in an acceptable tolerance range, and green tells an operator to move onto the next weigh. -
Robots enable lean production processes at BJ-Gear
BJ-Gear in Denmark uses collaborative robots from Universal Robots to automate their production of gear wheels. This ushered in substantial cost savings on machinery, optimized work flows, and created a more varied and rewarding work environment. -
EPLAN helps design control panels at Bilfinger GreyLogix
Bilfinger GreyLogix uses Engineering Configuration One (EEC One) for control cabinet manufacturing. -
LB Foster keeps Pirelli tyres on track
Conveyors carry tires (sorry, “tyres”) through the MIRS testing area.