NOVEMBER 2014 SUPPLEMENT CONTENTS AUTOMATION SUPPLEMENT BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER
Alexandre Flory, OEM segment manager at Schneider Electric UK and Ireland, explains how the company is driving manufacturing efficiencies with intuitive machine automation
PLCs & Industrial PCs COVER STORY
POWER
Powertron Engineering is providing turnkey
solutions, using Movicon’s system architecture, for electric power stations powered by vegetable oil...
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CONNECTIVITY
Netbiter Remote Access from HMS Industrial Networks makes remote connection easier from any location...
MACHINE BUILDING
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The Sysmac platform from Omron is helping machine builders to develop faster and more efficient solutions...
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Better, faster, stronger
Alexandre Flory, OEM segment manager at Schneider Electric UK and Ireland, explains how the company is driving manufacturing efficiencies with intuitive machine automation.
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FEATURES
S6. reACTION Technology With reACTION technology, B&R is able to reduce response times in industrial automation applications down to 1µs. This approach allows time critical sub-processes to be managed using standard hardware - all within IEC 61131 requirements - while cutting costs by reducing the load on the controller. The result is an increase in performance without added costs
S8. Energy from oil Powertron Engineering’s mission is to provide turnkey solutions in realising electric power stations powered by vegetable oil. The company is currently working together with Cambridge University in researching and developing technological solutions for increasing the performance of vegetable oil powered stations
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S14. Control from inlet to outlet The Dee Valley Water (DVW) project to build a new water treatment works at its flagship site, Llwyn Onn in North Wales, has now been completed. The £17m project is controlled by a Mitsubishi Electric system redundant, Q series modular PLC solution
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S18. Control for tomorrow’s machines The roles of mechanical engineering and automation are becoming increasingly more complex to meet the challenges posed by today’s machines. This is driving ever greater integration between hardware and software, blurring the traditional lines between them. Designers of modern machinery are required to have multiple skill-sets including communications, motion control, control technology, visualisation and safety. Here, Parker Hannifin’s Christian Ruf and Hermann Kamphues offer some insight
S15. Giving multi-voltage capability to pump test station A multi-voltage pump testing station, just delivered to one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers, has been built by SoftStart UK. Here, managing director Stuart Harvey explains more
S16. Monitoring and control for a whole island’s waste water needs Andrew Robertson, technical director at Tycon Automation, discusses how the company helped the Isle of Man Manx Utilities Water Authority Central Telemetry System by integrating the monitoring and control of the entire Island’s freshwater demands
S17. High speed solutions The growing level of automation in machines and systems has increased the volume of data being transferred, above all in real time. ‘Industrial Ethernet’ is the right and advanced solution to solve this problem. Ethernet technology has been established in the office environment for many years. The same technology has now been extended into the industrial environment down to field level. Products need to meet the requirements of harsh industrial environments. Murrelektronik offers a connector program for these applications
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