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At Hannover Fair: The Latest in Proximity Sensors 23/06/2009 It was over 50 years ago that two radio engineers, Walter Pepperl and Wilfried Gehl, were commissioned by BASF to find an alternative to mechanical contact switches. The challenge was to develop a robust component that would operate reliably after many thousands of cycles at very low currents, in the corrosive atmosphere of a chemical plant. What they came up with was the first inductive proximity switch, and their company Pepperl+Fuchs has gone on to become a leader in the technology. Full Story...
The Model Builders at Hannover Fair 05/06/2009 Most engineers, when they are young (and some even when they’re a little older), build model cars or airplanes. So when they think of models, they think of the small-scale replicas of BMWs and Airbuses they’ve seen over the years. For Hannover Fair, they make models, too, but they do just the opposite. They make huge models of industrial control devices—fifty times bigger than what they really are. And they make them with surprising precision. Full Story...
Machine building: Flexibility is silver bullet for packaging machine design 12/05/2009 Predictive maintenance, online parts ordering, energy monitoring are information metrics moving to the operator level or machine level. Full Story...
Siemens launches a ‘productivity engine’ 10/05/2009 Introduced at Hannover Fair, the Simatic S7-1200 Micro-Controller is Siemens' new generation of micro PLCs. Compact design, the controller is designed to be used with a new generation of HMIs, and programmed together with the Simatic Step 7 Basic engineering system. Full Story...
A Perplexing New Trend: PC-based Safety Control 05/05/2009 PC-based safety? Can it really be true? A machine safety system built on a PC? Would you trust your arms and fingers on the operation of a Windows PC? Surely this is going to make some people nervous. Full Story...
Hannover Messe’s Synchronised Servos 04/05/2009 A popular way to show precise motion control at Hannover Messe is to display spinning wheels that are carefully aligned in real time to form recognisable patterns. Lately we’ve seen this technique to show off high speed motion control buses. Full Story...
At Hannover Messe: Siemens’ New IO Link Products 04/05/2009 Siemens's Industry Automation Division continues to add to its portfolio of IO Link products, of which two new ones were shown at the fair. One was a family of ultrasonic proximity switches that can sense up to 10 metres, and a Sirius motor starter—previously released with an AS-i interface—now equipped with IO Link communications. Full Story...
Embedded control: Automation’s fastest growing segment 15/04/2009 This growing technology is bridging the gap between conventional modular programmable controllers on the one hand and PC-based control systems on the other. The boundaries are increasingly fluid, and the power density continues to increase. Full Story...
Sleek and elegant: New touchscreens for embedded control 15/04/2009 With the decentralisation of automation tasks, traditional control cabinets are becoming increasingly smaller—and may disappear entirely. If there is little or no cabinet, where will you put the Human Machine Interface (HMI) device? Full Story...
The Practice of Safe Sensing 15/04/2009 Safety-certified sensors promise to cut costs and boost performance. But the tradeoffs must be carefully considered. Full Story...
Siemens Introduces a Foundation Fieldbus Module 23/12/2008 The Siemens Industry Automation Division has developed a new Fieldbus Foundation communication module for connecting its flow instruments to the FF H1 fieldbus. This fieldbus operates at 31.25 kbits/sec on twisted pair instrument cabling with power and signal on the same wire. Full Story...
Doing more than flow 30/11/2008 To compensate for fluctuations in pressure, temperature, viscosity, and density, flowmeters are taking extra sensors on board. Full Story...
Connecting temperature sensors to fieldbus 29/11/2008 Getting temperature measurements and sensor parameters into digital format is the thrust of recent announcements by major instrument manufacturers. Full Story...
Fifty Years of Simatic Automation Revolutionises the World 03/11/2008 Automation technology by Siemens has formed and reflected the transformation in industrial production for 50 years and is constantly bursting forward to new heights in productivity and quality. Full Story...
Simatic Family: We have not yet achieved the goal 24/10/2008 Are 50 years of development enough? No, is the clear response from Dr. Gerd-Ulrich Spohr, head of Strategic Development Technology for the Siemens divisions Drive Technologies and Industry Automation. SPS Magazin (www.sps-magazin.de) interviewed him on the future of automation and which trends are already apparent today. (This translation was provided by Siemens Industry Automation.) Full Story...
RFID brings automation, business systems together 23/10/2008 The integration of business systems with factory floor automation is a challenge with many aspects to consider. However, one bright spot is clearly visible: RFID information technology, which helps bridge the gap. Full Story...
Microscan To Purchase Siemens’ Machine Vision Business 26/09/2008 Microscan announced it will purchase Siemens’ Machine Vision business, formerly Acuity CiMatrix, headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire USA. The company expects the acquisition to further enhance its technology leadership position in traceability solutions by expanding further into machine vision imaging and inspection. Full Story...
The ‘world's largest’ high speed VFD 20/09/2008 The U.S. division of Siemens says its Siemens Robicon Perfect Harmony Drives® have reached a technical milestone with the introduction of a 8 MW Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) that operates with an output frequency of 500 Hz—making it the world’s largest high speed VFD. Full Story...
Open interfaces combine robotics and CNC in shop floor applications 08/09/2008 With the standardised and open interfaces of the Sinumerik 840D sl control, Siemens enables simple integration of robots into the shop floor area. Users of machine tools can use this to convert flexibly to automatic or series production in addition to standard tasks. Thanks to automated operation in loading machines with robots, for example, machine tools can also be used in non-working shifts, improving their utilization. Full Story...
Safety matrix 07/07/2008 Siemens Industry Automation Division was showing new functions in its Simatic Safety Matrix Cause & Effect software tool for configuring safety applications in the process industry. Full Story...
Between relays and controllers 07/07/2008 Siemens Division Industry Automation says its new Sirius 3RK3 modular safety system offers a solution between a simple safety relay and a fail-safe controller. Full Story...
On-Machine Controls 27/06/2008 Improved environmental ruggedness is opening up more applications for on-machine control options. Full Story...
Replace or refurbish, that is the question 01/11/2007 Unilever, Port Sunlight, UK was faced with a familiar production issue whereby under performing, obsolete equipment presented a risk to continuity of supply. The question was to replace the filler with a brand new one or to refurbish the existing line and remove problematic areas. The London-headquartered manufacturer investigated by calling in original machine builder, Farasons, and its technology provider, Capley Marker Systems. Full Story...
Alarm-handling boosts safety 01/10/2007 Siemens Automation and Drives claims it can keep customers competitive, in a climate of rising input costs and pressure from developing economies, with the latest version of its DCS (Distributed Control System) Platform. Full Story...
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