B&R Product of the Month I/O modules with enhanced temperature range
B&R has increased the temperature range of its X20 and X67 control and I/O systems. This is made possible by the industrial temperature electronic com- ponents installed in the modules. Both the X20 modules with IP20 protection and the X67 modules with IP67 protection, function reliably at temperatures from -25°C to 60°C, and these modules can be stored at even more extreme temperatures ranging from -40°C to 85°C.
UK manufacturing needs to start believing
“IT SEEMS THAT every UK politician is looking to Germany and asking, ‘Why can't we have an economy like theirs?’ Of course, there are some differences between the fun- damentals of our two economies, but the things that are preventing UK industry from emulating Germany’s long running success are not physical, geographical or political - they are mainly psychological,” says Mark Howard, general manager of sensors com- pany, Zettlex.
He continued, “I suspect that if Berlin had originally won the 2012 Olympic bid, a German person’s reaction would have been, ‘Great, we will now do fantastic job, ja!’ The original British reaction was, ‘Oh no - we’ll probably make a right mess of this,’ - espe- cially from the BBC, the British Bashing
Corporation. But we didn’t - we made a wonderful success of it because a group of people held their nerve, believed in a goal and focused their efforts to achieve something worthwhile. And what a massive impact it had on us all. I was never prouder than when I watched that Olympic Opening Ceremony. We could do with a similar, gritty resolve in UK manufacturing. We should stop the doubting, cut out the whinging and start believing in ourselves - in the same way the UK did in the past.
Because of the increased temperature range, the con- trollers and I/O modules are well suited for a wide range of applications. The fact that these B&R components oper- ate reliably at such extreme temperatures provides fur- ther confirmation of their quality. Characterised by their robustness and stability, they provide proof of the extremely high quality of the indus- trial temperature electronic components that are being used. In order to ensure reliable operation of the X20 and X67 CPUs, B&R uses special CompactFlash cards in the PLCs that can withstand these extreme temperatures. B&R Industrial Automation
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months, we
have exported to the US, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Germany,
“I freely admit that Zettlex has pinched the German ‘Mittelstand’ idea of being a special- ist, high-tech manufacturing company. We export our precision position sensors all over the world - even to Germany. In the last 12
France, Italy,
Switzerland, Taiwan, Israel, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Finland, Sweden and Norway. We expect that exports will shortly account for most of our revenues. I only wish we could buy more of our components from UK manufacturers.”
www.zettlex.com
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