Future intelligent devices

Speed and torque options are both enhanced by adding gear boxes to DC brush motors. Planetary gearing provides the high precision, high load capabilities many industrial automation applications require while spur gearing offers a low-cost solution where precision and load are less critical. Review new DC motors!

Industrial applications require precision actuation with control flexibility and standard features for advanced solutions. ProMation P-Series Industrial Actuators offer intelligent design, have the highest reliability rating, and never drain the budget.

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The single sensor BetaGauge 311A-EX/dual sensor BetaGauge 321A-EX have everything you need for calibrating pressure. Custody transfer is the ideal application for the BetaGuage 321A-EX. Create a custom configuration by selecting from any two ranges from 10 in. WC to 10,000 psi. Absolute and differential types can also be selected.

Belden announces the world's first family of M8 Eight-Pole Connectors from Lumberg Automation, allowing users to transmit up to eight signals with only one connector using an external power supply. This is particularly advantageous when connecting optoelectronic sensors or safety switches in applications such as monitoring safety doors on machinery and equipment. Read more.

IEC 61131-3 is meant to move control system programming from proprietary platforms to a common environment. The specification attempts to normalize code development by standardizing program entry, instruction visualization, data types, and syntax. This provides some commonality, but implementations don't always interoperate as this report from ControlGlobal.com explains.

How can you maximize manufacturing quality and yield when instrument readouts and other measurements overwhelm your workforce with data? When evaluating batch manufacturing processes, what's the best way to account for input interactions, process variables, and output quality characteristics? ChemicalProcessing.com explains how "online analytics improves batch operations."

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Many manufacturers maintain networks that use more than one communications protocol. These plants need diagnostic tools that can manage this kind of diversity. Automation.com examines a web-based, cross-protocol network system that can remotely monitor PROFIBUS, PROFINET, and Industrial Ethernet. As shown in this video, the system allows integration of diagnostic information into higher-level systems and identifies parts in use and components to be replaced.

Manufacturing is changing. Factory workers are migrating from the control room to the factory floor, where they increasingly must interact directly with equipment, business systems, and suppliers. Centralized technical expertise, coupled with distributed operations, require remote access to support follow-the-sun maintenance services. What provides the connectivity that enables all these processes? Mobile information systems.

ACE Gas Springs provide counterbalance motion control for lifting and lowering covers, lids, panels, hoods, and hatches.

Fixed force and adjustable models available with push and pull type designs.

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Yellow Jacket Inc.™ is the world's most popular cable protector manufacturer because it's the original and the best. The factory floor is no place down time due to damaged cable lines. Where ever cable protection is needed Yellow Jacket Inc.™ has the solution.

Use your web enabled phone to use the Thermal Edge BTU/H calculator to properly size the enclosure air conditioner, heat exchanger or fan package for your application. Enter the information just as you would from your desktop. Take the guesswork out of this very important process. Visit us at www.thermal-edge.com/calculator to use this new tool.

Cambridge Machinery represents Comco Corporation and the KEINS line of tube forming equipment. Comco, a Japanese company, manufactures controllers, high-quality CNC tube benders, NC benders, dual head benders, end formers, end finishers, cutters, feed from coil rotary cutters, spinners, swagers, and much more.

As this report from Food Engineering illustrates, engineers no longer need to build manufacturing processes around off-the-shelf motors and drives. A growing number of suppliers are willing to meet application specific requirements, making customization standard. In the food and beverage industry, this means stainless steel to withstand harsh environments, enhanced energy efficiency, reduced wiring, and simple programmability.

Don't discount mechanical drives because you think they're low tech. Improvements in machining and materials have made them more competitive with electronic drives. Engineeringtalk explores the strengths and weaknesses of both technologies and explains which applications each serves best. For instance, mechanical drives are more cost effective in high-torque applications, but electronic drives do well when a fast response or changes in motion are required.

Why do engineers resist using wireless sensors for process measurements? Two reasons have been the maintenance costs and the operational risks posed by field-mounted batteries. SA Instrumentation & Control explores one alternative by examining the game-changing potential of energy harvesting, with a focus on the pros and cons of the leading technologies. To date, no single approach can serve all industrial applications.

"Smart instrumentation" is a phrase that people use without knowing what it means in real-world terms. This Plant Engineering tutorial remedies that by tracing the evolution of the technology and providing an in-depth description of its changing functionality. The description covers measurement, troubleshooting, fault detection, communications, interfaces, and safety features. Perhaps most interesting is the picture it paints of future intelligent devices.

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