Robotic bin picking
01 April, 2009 | ABB Australia Pty Ltd
ABB has introduced robotic bin picking technology that can locate and disseminate jumbled and randomly situated materials from bins.
Panel mount rate and total display
01 April, 2009 | Amalgamated Instrument Co
The PM6-TR is a ratemeter/totaliser and supersedes both the PM6-FX and PM6-FC models. This single 1/8 DIN panel meter offers the ability to monitor and indicate rate and count (or total) from a wide variety of pulse output sensors. The display can be toggled between rate and total using a remote input.
OEE software
01 April, 2009 | Wonderware Australia
Wonderware has announced the release of Performance Software 3.5, the latest version of its equipment downtime and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) software and an integrated module of the Wonderware MES and supervisory software solution.
Thermal dispersion gas flowmeter
01 April, 2009 | Endress+Hauser Australia Pty Ltd
The Proline t-mass 65 thermal dispersion flowmeter provides a direct measurement of gas mass flow and temperature.
Serial valve manifold
01 April, 2009 | SMC Australia | New Zealand
The EX500 serial interface is a cost-effective solution that can use up to four decentralised input blocks and four output blocks to position control where it is most effective.
Configuration software
01 April, 2009 | Pilz Australia Industrial Automation LP
Pilz has released version 6.0.0 of the PNOZmulti Configurator software package for use with the PNOZmulti modular safety controller. It is available in English and German, plus a new feature enables diagnostic messages for end users to be created offline in any language and imported into the Configurator.
Portable data logger
01 April, 2009 | Power Parameters Pty Ltd
The Hioki 8430-20 10-channel data logger is palm-sized and can be operated from an AC adapter, rechargeable battery pack or external battery.
Combined active barrier and loop power supply
01 April, 2009 | Endress+Hauser Australia Pty Ltd
The SIL2-rated RN221N combined active barrier and power supply provides galvanic isolation for 4–20 mA measurement signals, is suitable for use in hazardous areas, and can be powered by 20-250 VAC/DC, reducing the need for different versions across the plant.
Compressed air filters
01 April, 2009 | SMC Australia | New Zealand
Mainline filtration provides the source of clean air direct from compressor installations. It is essential that correct filtration is installed to ensure clean compressed air is provided to processes.
Compact orifice DP flowmeters
01 April, 2009 | ABB Australia Pty Ltd
The OriMaster compact orifice DP flowmeter is a one-piece flowmeter that comes fully factory configured and pressure tested, solving many of the problems associated with sizing, selection, installation and operation of conventional orifice plate installations.
Micro PLCs
01 April, 2009 | Omron Electronics Pty Ltd
Omron Electronics has increased their offering of micro PLCs by adding both 10 and 60 I/O CPUs to the CP1L range. Also, all six CPU types are now available with AC power source and transistor (NPN) output, offering additional flexibility to customers.
ConneXium industrial ethernet switches
01 April, 2009 | Schneider Electric
The ConneXium industrial ethernet infrastructure family includes industrial switches, hubs, transceivers, cables and tools. In addition, it features industrial protocol-to-ethernet gateways, such as MB to ethernet and MB+ to ethernet. The family of products also includes industrial ethernet software tools, such as the ConneXview ethernet diagnostic tool.
ANSI/SIA DC-09-2007 for SCADA RTUs
01 April, 2009 | Ovarro
Semaphore has introduced ANSI/SIA DC-09-2007 Internet Protocol Event Reporting for its T-box line of SCADA system products. This protocol is now available with a T-box MS Modular System, when equipped with a 32-bit CPU.
Drive design software
01 April, 2009 | Festo Pty Ltd
The Positioning Drives software tool for all electrical drives from Festo enables fast, easy and reliable design and planning of motor and axis combinations in three simple steps.
BCM load cells
01 April, 2009 | Bestech Australia Pty Ltd
The model 3417/3497 single-ended shear beam load cells from BCM Sensors are low-profile, high-precision load cells based on the shear-beam working principle. These load cells can find applications in hopper scales and platform scales, or can be used to measure beam bending loads.
