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The Internet of Things… in motion

December 2, 2016 By Miles Budimir Leave a Comment

As the Internet of Things becomes reality, manufacturers are responding with products to aide designers of next-generation motion systems. The Internet of Things. A lot has been written about its promise, its potential to revolutionize just about everything we do, from giving us talkative toasters and smart refrigerators to uber-connected factories. There’s even a counterpart […]

Filed Under: Featured, Networking + IoT Tagged With: Baldor of ABB, Omron, opto 22

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) get smart software and mobile access

March 3, 2015 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

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Recent years have brought major advances in HMI technology—increasingly affordable multitouch screens, a shift from resistive displays to projected-capacitive displays, and displacement of proprietary design platforms by web-based HTML5 platforms. That’s according to Derrick Stacey, solutions engineer at B&R Industrial Automation. The spread of capacitive displays has expanded HMI use in industries needing bezel-free designs, […]

Filed Under: HMIs, Industry News Tagged With: B&R Automation, opto 22, Siemans

I/O Processors from Opto 22 Upgrade Legacy Digital I/O Systems to Ethernet

September 18, 2012 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Temecula, CA – Industrial automation manufacturer Opto 22 has released the G4D32EB2-UPG and G4EB2, two new I/O processors which allow automation professionals to upgrade a legacy mistic(tm) or Pamux(tm) G4 digital I/O system on a serial network to operate as part of a modern, Ethernet/TCP-based control system without needing to replace or modify existing I/O […]

Filed Under: I/O, Software Tagged With: opto 22

New SNAP PAC Redundancy Option Kit to build redundant PAC systems from Opto 22

April 15, 2010 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Opto 22 (www.opto22.com) unveiled the new SNAP PAC Redundancy Option Kit (“SNAP-PAC-ROK”) utilized to design Ethernet-based redundant control systems with maximum distributed intelligence and reliability that can immediately recover from failure. Using Opto 22’s award-winning SNAP PAC System(tm) family, SNAP Ethernet I/O, and the latest PAC Project Professional 9.0 software suite, with the SNAP PAC […]

Filed Under: Controls, Networking + IoT, PLCs + PACs Tagged With: opto 22, pac, snap pac, snap-pac-rok

Opto 22’s “IO4AB” Seminar Tour

January 7, 2009 By Motion Control Tips Editor Leave a Comment

Temecula, CA — Opto 22 has extended its series of free technical seminars designed to educate engineers and other automation professionals on the company’s intelligent I/O for Allen-Bradley Logix Platforms (coined “IO4AB”). The seminar series began in October of 2008 and, due to popular demand, will continue throughout the U.S. with stops in Tampa, Nashville, […]

Filed Under: I/O, PLCs + PACs Tagged With: opto 22

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