Banner Engineering’s new Sure Cross® DXM100 industrial wireless controller is designed to facilitate communications for Ethernet connectivity or Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. Available with an internal Sure Cross DX80 Wireless Gateway or a MultiHop Data Radio, this Modbus communications device reliably connects local wireless networks with the Internet and/or host systems. To satisfy […]
Controls
Molex Introduces SST Universal Modbus Modules for CompactLogix Controllers
Molex, LLC has introduced two new seamlessly integrated Modbus modules for Rockwell Automation CompactLogix controllers. The two Universal Modbus modules connect CompactLogix controllers to any Modbus/TCP or Modbus serial networks from the same module, even at the same time. “Molex is focused on putting best-in-class industrial solutions in the hands of our customers,” said Ken Prentice, […]
Reliable short circuit performance UL 508 Manual Motor Controller for industrial applications
SCHURTER’s AS168X thermal magnetic, high performance circuit breaker is UL 508 listed, Manual Motor Controller. The AS168X provides motor disconnect from 0.5 to 30 A, and motor protection from 1/10-20 horsepower for industrial control applications. The AS168X series is rated 0.5 to 52 A @ 480 Y / 277 VAC. The high performance CBE limits […]
Galil Motion Control Releases New EtherCAT I/O Controller
Galil Motion Control Inc. is announcing its new EtherCAT slave I/O controller. The RIO-574×0 is packed with digital and analog I/O to be used remotely in an EtherCAT automation system. Although the RIO-574×0 can be used with any generic EtherCAT master, it is designed to integrate seamlessly into an EtherCAT system with Galil’s DMC-500×0 EtherCAT […]
Motion systems application examples: Controllers advance
Motion controllers range from single-axis smarts to programmable automation controllers (PACs) that synchronize hundreds of axes and plant IT. These brains of precision motion are at the heart of today’s motion-system innovation. But controls are increasingly advanced in mobile applications as well. Consider just one example: Trust Automation Inc., known for standard and custom motion […]
Integrated: Seven-inch touch HMI with Ethernet + PLC to boot
Now, Unitronics sells a Vision700 PLC+ touch HMI consisting of a seven-inch touchscreen, built-in Ethernet port, and rich I/O configuration options. The V700 has an integrated touchscreen — 800 x 480 — to satisfy demand for wide screens. It’s the popular size for the future to let OEMs give their machines a modern look at a fair price … with strong PLC performance. The built […]
Thought leader Monika Minarcin on automotive-semiconductor convergence
October 27th update: Scroll to the bottom of this post for an audio recording of a followup interview with Minarcin. At a recent visit to the new Omron Automation and Safety facilities in Hoffman Estates, Ill., (where facility personnel were in a comical battle with a skunk family also residing at the location) I got the […]
New online configuration tool STOBER FITS for design
STOBER Inc. recently released STOBER FITS, an online motion-design configuration tool that lets engineers quickly and easily specify and select STOBER power-transmission and control products. The focus of the tool is to improve overall customer experience — expediting selection, sizing and specification processes for engineers through a unified and convenient online process. Determining what STOBER product is needed and ordering it […]
PITTMAN introduces BGE series servomotor controllers
PITTMAN Motors of AMETEK Precision Motion Control now sells BGE Series of servomotor controllers, compact four-quadrant positioning motion controllers with integral output stage to control Pittman brushless and brushed dc motors. The motion controllers work in stand-alone operation with digital or analog IO or as a slave in a CANopen network with device profile DSP 402, protocol DS […]
Interview: Lenze’s Burns on today’s automation software
In a recent phone conversation, I got the chance to talk with Doug Burns, director of business development at Lenze Americas Corp., about how new automation-software developments are dramatically reducing machine development time and simplifying the programming of motion control and robotics. In our conversation, we also discussed how robots are increasingly common in packaging, but a lot […]