Factory automation

Entries open for Gold Rush robotics competition

06 March, 2013

National Instruments is giving university students across Australia and New Zealand the opportunity to demonstrate their engineering skills on an international platform in the third annual NI Autonomous Robotics Competition.


Kollmorgen stainless washdown servomotors

06 March, 2013 | Supplied by: Motion Technologies Pty Ltd

Available in five frame sizes and 16 frame/stack length combinations, the Kollmorgen stainless washdown servomotors supply torques up to 80 Nm (390 Nm peak) and speeds up to 7500 rpm.


The advance of the robots: helping manufacturers become more competitive

06 March, 2013 by Glenn Johnson, Editor

Industrial robot technology has come a long way from the simple machines of the early ’60s and today offers more flexibility and cost-effectiveness than ever before. Can Australian manufacturing capitalise on the benefits?


SEW-Eurodrive DRC electronic motor series

01 March, 2013 | Supplied by: SEW-Eurodrive Pty Ltd

The DRC electronic motor series consists of a permanent-field synchronous motor and matching integrated drive electronics and is also available as a brake motor, making it suitable for hoists and inclined conveyors.


Motrona GV480, 481 series shaft encoder signal expanders

01 March, 2013 | Supplied by: Plant Control & Automation

The GV480, 481 series of shaft encoder signal expanders have been added to the Motrona range. The device expands the output from one incremental shaft encoder to four or eight individually isolated encoder signals.


ASM POSIROT PMIS4/PMIR5 magnetic incremental encoder

21 February, 2013 | Supplied by: Automated Control Pty Ltd

The PMIS4/PMIR5 magnetic ring incremental encoder offers high EMC protection, large guiding distance tolerance and a superior signal performance up to 327,680 pulses/360°.


‘Robot’ electric car drives itself

20 February, 2013

Robotic technology from Oxford University that enables a car to ‘drive itself’ for stretches of a route has been shown driving a Nissan Leaf electric car.


Aerotech Sensor Fusion data acquisition system

18 February, 2013 | Supplied by: Lastek Pty Ltd

Sensor Fusion is a 3U data acquisition device that provides precise time alignment of motion and data acquisition functions.


Turck in top five of Automation World survey

12 February, 2013 | Supplied by: Turck Australia Pty Ltd

For the second year in a row, Turck has been named as one of the top five in the discrete sensing category in the 2012 Automation World First Team Leaders in Automation annual survey.


Carl Zeiss Corona Plus VIS-NIR spectrometers range

06 February, 2013 | Supplied by: ZEISS Group

The Corona Plus range of spectrometers can be used for the measurement of various optical properties such as reflection, transmission, colour and coating thickness of transparent samples and coatings.


Cutting CCA’s carbon footprint

25 January, 2013

Coca-Cola Amatil is reducing the carbon footprint of its 600 mL PET bottles by 22% with the help of stainless steel.


Dematic delivers at Tesco’s fourth Dotcom store

25 January, 2013 | Supplied by: Dematic Pty Ltd

Dematic has provided Tesco with an automated materials picking and handling system for the company’s fourth ‘Dotcom store’ that went live in January 2012. Dematic technology will also feature in Tesco’s fourth and fifth Dotcom stores.


Advantech UNO-2184G and UNOO-2174G open architecture automation controllers

25 January, 2013 | Supplied by: Advantech Australia Pty Ltd

The UNO-2184G is designed for applications that require a large amount of graphical processing power while the UNO-2174G is a mid-end controller for industries that require faster performance, but not 3D capabilities.


Banner Engineering QM26 and QMH26 photoelectric sensors

21 January, 2013 | Supplied by: Micromax Pty Ltd

The QM26 and QMH26 photoelectric sensors are designed specifically for the food and beverage and pharmaceutical industries, and they are designed to work in areas with harsh washdowns with high pressure, extreme temperatures and chemicals.


Automation creating, not stealing, jobs in US

18 January, 2013

The Association for Advancing Automation has expressed disappointment in 60 Minutes’ portrayal of the automation industry, in a segment entitled ‘March of the Machines’ in the United States.


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