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AutomationDirect announces the release of a new White Paper, “Processor Power and Energy Efficiency”, that explains how consumer electronic microprocessor improvements also provide a catalyst for industrial automation advancements.
Modern electronic devices, such as smart phones, tablets, etc. can be used to perform a myriad of tasks including messaging, photos, videos, music, alarms, day planners, GPS and more. The same trend of combining what once required several components into one device is also apparent in industrial automation.
The White Paper explains that while energy efficiency is vital for consumer electronics, new powerful chips offer many advantages to the automation world in terms of price, time-to-market, flexibility and reliability.
This is evident in modern PLCs. The integration of more components into microprocessors has eliminated the need for additional external automation components. These components include,
but are not limited to, data loggers, ASCII or math co-processors, digital communication cards, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers and more.
This White Paper explains how consolidating functionality into fewer components also creates lower overall costs and power usage for the total system, while providing easier integration and greater reliability.
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If contemporary technology has a grand theme, it is that eventually digital will replace analog, and solid state will replace mechanical. Whether it be music or video, publishing or photography, telecommunications or engine control, the story is similar. Mechanical, analog machines have been around for decades, sometimes centuries. They are mature technologies —the kinks have been worked out, the costs have been squeezed as much as possible, the strengths and weaknesses are well understood. The newer solid state, digital challengers at first offer more promise than performance, but with continued innovation and development they come to dominate the market.
So it will be with linear barcode readers. The market is currently dominated by mature, opto-mechanical laser scanners. The weaknesses of laser scanners, however, as also well known. When a new image analysis system is combined with advances in image formation including high-intensity LEDs, liquid lenses and megapixel sensors, the result is a mature barcode reader that delivers the promise of solid-state, digital technology while not yielding performance to opto-mechanical laser scanners.
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Precision conveyors are a new category of belt conveyors used in applications when precise product movement or placement is required. Examples of these applications include; wide or sheet part handling, product elevation, robotic picking / box filling and automated assembly. Precision conveyors are a significant technology advancement in the belted conveyor industry providing a low cost alternative to complex placement systems.
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Bipolar drives supply steppermotor windings with current waveforms that look like square waves when fully stepping or sine waves when micro-stepping at a high resolution. The waveforms shown in the oscilloscope displays illustrate the drive current in a half-stepping mode, which is two discrete steps for every pulse delivered to the stepper motor over a speed range of 500 to 4000 half-steps/s. Unfortunately, as the step rate increases, less voltage Experts pretty much agree that motor current is proportional to torque output, and voltage is proportional to motor speed, but do you know when this is might not be true? By Daryle Cooper Senior Design Engineer, ElectroCraft Inc., Dover, New Hampshire is available to supply the required winding current.
The six principles are intended for wind-turbine manufacturers that are expanding in the growing U.S. market. Following the principles will assist the companies in delivering cost-effective, safer equipment that is compliant with appropriate standards.
The paper is authored by Industry Consultant Dave Schaetz and Safety Program Manager Steve Ludwig, both with Rockwell Automation.
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Operator interfaces accelerate time to market while enhancing machine functionality, quality, and reliability.
Machine builders continually cope with increasingly challenging issues. OEMs, like most manufacturers, must do more with less, offer the latest technology, and deliver high-quality reliable machines. However, the big issue that worries nearly every machine builder and OEM is delivery time.
Minimizing the time to market is crucial for successful OEMs. It seems that as soon as machine orders come in, customers want their machines right now. End users may be under pressure to put their machines to work because of contractual obligations, or they may be eager to start the payback process for the machine investment.
Machine builders need solutions that help them reduce development time, enable easy integration, and accelerate time to market without sacrificing the reliability of their designs or the quality of the equipment they build. Historically, this has been a difficult task. Standardizing on solutions such as operator interfaces that help slash development time can help OEMs meet these demanding requirements.
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Mechanical and electrical engineers often overlook important issues when specifying their respective parts of an electromechanical system. Here are five good pieces of advice for electrical engineers responsible for electromechanical systems, as provided by a mechanical engineer.
Simplify and accelerate your most challenging automation projects with Kollmorgen’s Integrated Development Environment, co-engineering expertise and best-in-class components.
The explosion of new products and increasing customer expectations requires OEMs to provide better flexibility, reliability, openness, and performance for their manufacturing and production customers. Maximizing productivity and performance is imperative to success and is driving OEMs to adopt and invest in the latest technologies that can meet their customers’ challenges.
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