Rockwell Automation Centerline motor control centres with ethernet.
06 October, 2011 | Rockwell Automation Australia
EtherNet/IP capabilities have been added to Rockwell Automation’s Centerline motor control centres (MCCs). The EtherNet/IP-enabled MCCs allow users to access more detailed production data, ultimately resulting in higher asset availability, improved productivity and reduced maintenance costs.
Boge BC series oil-free air converters
05 October, 2011 | Boge Compressors (Australia) Pty Ltd
The Boge BC series converters are designed to cost-effectively assist producing oil-free compressed air to Class 0 (ISO 8573-0) quality.
FiberSensing FS 6500 single-axis fibre Bragg grating accelerometer
05 October, 2011 | Bestech Australia Pty Ltd
The FS 6500 single-axis fibre Bragg grating (FBG) accelerometer from FiberSensing is a fibre-optic version of the conventional accelerometer. Completely passive, with an intrinsically safe design, it offers inherent insensitivity to environmental-induced noise. The device is suitable for applications requiring the measurement of low frequency and small amplitude accelerations.
National Instruments VeriStand 2011 real-time and HIL testing
05 October, 2011 | National Instruments Aust Pty Ltd
National Instruments has released NI VeriStand 2011, its configuration-based software environment for creating real-time testing and simulation applications including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators and test cells. This updated version includes a real-time stimulus profile tool that expands deterministic test execution with looping and branching structures, composable arithmetic functions and multitasking. Engineers can combine NI VeriStand 2011 with INERTIA, an add-on from Wineman Technology, which adds a suite of tools to NI VeriStand for optimised closed-loop control of dynamometer and servo-hydraulic-based test cells.
PosiTector 200 Series ultrasonic coating thickness gauges
05 October, 2011 | TechRentals
The PosiTector 200 Series ultrasonic coating thickness gauge non-destructively measures single- or multiple-layer coating thickness on a variety of applications over wood, concrete, plastics and composites using ultrasound technology. It is available to rent.
MooreHawke Route-Master fieldbus system
05 October, 2011 | Moore Industries
The MooreHawke Route-Master fieldbus system has a new ATEX approval (FM pending) as a redundant intrinsically safe fieldbus system permitting the connection of any mix of FISCO and Entity devices.
Honeywell Process Solutions vendor-neutral process control suite
04 October, 2011 | Honeywell Process Solutions
Honeywell has announced a vendor-neutral process control suite, which allows plant operators to centrally monitor and control both Honeywell and non-Honeywell process control systems within their plants. It is designed to let operators and management break out of the information silos that can often occur with advanced process control (APC) systems.
MathWorks OPC Toolbox with OPC-HDA support
03 October, 2011 | MathWorks Australia
MathWorks has announced a major update of its OPC Toolbox product, offering support for the OPC Foundation Historical Data Access (HDA) standard. MATLAB users in the power, utility, chemical, oil and gas industries can now access and visualise historical process data from an OPC HDA server, identify trends and perform root cause analysis to help continually improve their operations.
Belden FiberExpress Brilliance optic fibre termination kits
03 October, 2011 | Belden Australia Pty Ltd
Belden’s Brilliance connectors are designed to provide quick and reliable termination of optical fibre in the field without tools with three simple steps: insertion of the fibre into the connector; sliding the connector’s switch-like activator tab toward the fibre to be terminated to bring about the splice/crimp; sliding the boot on the connector body.
Pilz PNOZmulti Mini configurable safety relays
02 October, 2011 | Pilz Australia Industrial Automation LP
Additional base units are now available for the Pilz PNOZmulti Mini configurable safety relays. They enable quick, easy connection of communication and safe link modules, as well as contact expansion modules. The safe link modules enable data to be exchanged between multiple PNOZmulti Mini base units allowing the Multi Mini to become an expandable system.
Phoenix Contact Gigabit Modular Switch layer 3 routing upgrade
02 October, 2011 | Phoenix Contact Pty Ltd
The Gigabit Modular Switch from Phoenix Contact now also supports layer 3 routing in order to route communications between individual subnetworks.
Pilz PLIDdys safe line inspection device
01 October, 2011 | Pilz Australia Industrial Automation LP
The Pilz range now includes a safe line inspection device for use on single-channel two-wire connections. The PLIDdys device ensures safe power-up and maximum safety on long cable routes of up to three kilometres.
Weidmüller V14 PushPull connectors and FreeCon junction boxes
01 October, 2011 | Weidmuller Pty Ltd
The V14 PushPull connectors and FreeCon junction boxes provide power, signal and data connectivity for robot cabling in aggressive environments.
Manner Sensortelemetrie non-contact torque flanges
30 September, 2011 | SI Instruments
Torque measuring flanges from Manner Sensortelemetrie can be employed for the measurement of both static and dynamic torques on rotating or stationary shafts and machine flanges. Using the torque and rotation speed parameters, the power flow along a shaft can be directly calculated.
Schneider Electric Modicon Quantum Ethernet I/O (QEIO) solution
30 September, 2011 | Schneider Electric
The Modicon Quantum Ethernet I/O (QEIO) solution is designed to offer a flexible architectural design needed to safely optimise network processes, and supports both remote I/O and distributed I/O.
