Parker’s Electromechanical and Drives Division – North America now offers the PAC Terminal (PT) thin-client HMI. The PT is a thin-client HMI developed to work seamlessly with the Parker Automation Controller (PAC). With the PAC handling the control and HMI logic, the PT is responsible for displaying the embedded HMI as well as sending touch […]
Rockwell Automation seeks manufacturers committed to safety excellence
For the fifth year, Rockwell Automation is accepting nominations for its Manufacturing Safety Excellence Awards. Each year, the awards celebrate best-in-class manufacturers that make safety an inherent value in their company culture, compliance procedures and use of machine-safety technology. “Ideal candidates for these awards are companies demonstrating the vital role that safety has in improving overall […]
Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) call for speakers to present at TechCon
The Motion Control & Motor Association (MCMA) is now accepting abstracts for its Technical Conference held October 16-18, 2017 in Minneapolis. This conference attracts people from a wide variety of industries who work with electric motors, drives, controls, actuators, sensors, other motion control and related automation technologies. It is known for providing high quality speakers […]
Case study: Motion-platform maker standardizes on I/O for measurement and control
Servos & Simulation Inc. is a manufacturer of motion platforms and control loaders. Recently the systems builder picked a Model 826 analog and digital I/O system on a PCI Express board from Oregon-based Sensoray for the primary measurement and control interface for their full product line. Servos and Simulation provides motion platforms and control loaders […]
AMETEK’s JEMSTAR II revenue meter now offers advanced power-quality monitoring
AMETEK Power Instruments now offers power-quality monitoring and recording for the JEMStar II Revenue Meter. The JEMStar II now combines industry-leading 0.05% accuracy for revenue metering with advanced power quality monitoring. The JEMStar II detects and records the most-common power quality issues found today, including voltage sags and swells, harmonics, transients, flicker and power interruptions. […]
Rotor Clip now offers interlocking spiral retaining rings to run at higher rpm
Rotor Clip engineers regularly design custom parts and tools. Now one new iteration is an interlocking spiral retaining ring based on the manufacturer’s standard DCR non-interlocking spiral ring. The new Rotor Clip ring is made with a custom tooling process for producing DCR-LS interlocking spiral retaining ring. DCR-LS advantages over standard DCR spiral rings are […]
Maple Systems launches new cMT Smart Factory HMIs for control via PCs and mobile devices
Maple Systems recently announced the launch of a new cMT Smart HMI series, which enables control and monitoring of the HMI from Windows PCs, and Apple/Android smart phones and tablets. Technological advances in IT, personal electronics, and manufacturing are expanding the role of Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) in the automation market. Today, there are more […]
What do programmable automation controller (PAC) add-on modules do?
By Steve Meyer || Programmable automation controllers (PACs) are largely architected as traditional programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to reliably execute control programs. The major difference (from an electronics standpoint) is how PACs have a high-bandwidth backplane that: Allows integration of different architectures Allows additional processors to augment the functionality of the primary PAC. While there’s […]
Brother Gearmotors to showcase premium product line at PACKEX Toronto
Brother Gearmotors, a division of Brother International Corporation that offers a wide range of ultra-reliable, sub-fractional AC gearmotors and reducers for the food & beverage, packaging and material handling industries, will display samplings from its premium gearmotors portfolio at PACKEX Toronto May 16 to 18 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Located at Booth 1182, Brother Gearmotors […]
What do USB data-logging ports do on programmable automation controllers (PACs)?
By Steve Meyer || Data logging (and use of that data later) was once a complicated venture possible only through specialty hardware and applications — often in the form of standalone supervisory control and data acquisition or SCADA systems. Even new software and PC-based systems come at significant cost. In contrast, many of today’s programmable […]