Atlanta, Ga. – Siemens Industry, Inc. announces Speed Connect, a new quick release mechanism that protects against vibration shakeout on its Motion-Connect® line of power and signal cables. Motion-Connect cables are offered as standard on all Siemens motion control systems. The Speed Connect release simplifies installation and changeover, even in very restricted space applications. No […]
Networking + IoT
Balluff Introduces Analog I/O for IO-Link
Florence, Ky. – Balluff’s line of IO-Link Analog Plugs lets users easily integrate analog I/O at an overall cost savings. By placing the IP67 Analog Plug between the standard analog field device and the Balluff IO-Link Master/Proxy, the plug converts the analog signal to a 14-bit resolution IO-Link signal, eliminating the need for an expensive […]
ABB Drives unveils FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter
ABB Low Voltage Drives (www.abb.com), the world’s leading producer of electric drives and motors, has proudly announced the launch of the FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter, which supports CANopen protocol over EtherCAT (CoE) protocol. “Combining this feature-rich industrial fieldbus adapter with the ACS355 and ACS850 drives will make available a great drive solution for OEM’s or system […]
FECA-01 EtherCAT Adapter for ABB Drives
New Berlin, Wis. – ABB Low Voltage Drives announces the release of the FECA-01 EtherCAT® Adapter for the ACS355 and ACS850 drives. The FECA-01 supports CANopen over EtherCAT (CoE) protocol. The flexible plug-in adapter provides fast and simple connectivity to the ABB AC500 PLC (programmable logic controller), and all other major programmable automation controllers / […]
Global.CProx Capacitive Proximity Sensors from Balluff
Florence, Ky. – Balluff’s new Global.CProx line of capacitive sensors offers a broad range of products to reliably solve object and level detection applications. The Global.CProx family includes a wide array of tubular M12, M18 and M30 sensors available with either M12 connectors or pre-wired cables. Built to Balluff’s high standards, all of the Global.CProx […]
Leuze latest barcode reader integrates ProfiNET
Leuze (www.leuze.com) proudly unveils BCL 548i, the only barcode reader which integrates PROFINET. With the integrated PROFINET interface, the BCL 548i can be connected directly to a control eliminating the usual path through an additional gateway. The integrated PROFINET interface allows users to operate the device easily with the control. The device is configured by […]
Belden unveils new Profibus DP connectors
Belden (www.belden.com) has announced the launch of its new Profibus DP connectors featuring a D-Sub and M12 interface with 180°, 35° or 90° cable outlets. All models support data rates of up to 12 Mbit/s and have compact die-cast zinc housings with active terminating resistor and test socket. They provide quick-connection technology that allows simple […]
Fast Piezo Focusing Systems presented at BIOS
Physik Instrumente (PI) L.P. (www.physikinstrumente.com) proudly introduces a more affordable series of Fast Piezo Focusing devices at the 2011 BIOS (Biomedical Optics) conference held together with SPIE’s Photonics West. The latest PIFOC system packages are developed to improve results in lens positioning and fast focusing including deconvolution / 3D imaging, as well as to minimize […]
New Linear Position Transducer with VARAN Bus Interface from Balluff
Florence, Ky. – Balluff announces the Micropulse AT Linear Position Transducer with the VARAN Bus interface. It is able to track the location of up to four position-marker magnets. The transducer outputs a start/stop signal, which is used to calculate the position of each magnet using the transducer length and resolution. It’s available in a non-contact, floating magnet […]
National Instruments launches PXIe module for high-channel count dynamic signal acquisition
National Instruments (www.ni.com) has released its PXIe-449x devices, which provide AC/DC coupling for sensor measurements with voltage measurements from a tachometer or device under test and an accelerometer or microphone, to allow engineers the use of a single device for their vibration and sound acquisition needs. The NI PXIe-449x modules provide 113 dB dynamic range […]