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Europlasma demonstrates low pressure plasma solutions at the Plast Eurasia Fair in Istanbul
elgium based Europlasma, a world leader in low pressure plasma technology, is happy to announce its presence at Plast Eurasia Fair, organized in Istanbul, Turkey, 3 - 6 December 2015. Europlasma will be joined by its Turkey agent. Europlasma will demonstrate several low pressure plasma solutions specifically designed to resolve material problems in the plastic and filtration industry. Europlasma has developed and patented several low pressure plasma activation processes to activate engineering plastics prior to painting, printing or gluing. With Europlasma the highest levels of paint adhesion can be achieved on glass fiber reinforced plastics, eliminating expensive and toxic primers. Peter Martens, Product & Sales Manager at Europlasma comments: ‘we are also excited to showcase a number of high potential applications of our patented and patent pending Nanofics® nanocoating technology platform. The super water and oil repellent Nanofics® coatings are increasingly used in plastic, textile and electronic industries to protect from uptake of liquids and/or moisture.’
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licona, an Austrian manufacturer of 3D non-contact optical measurement systems, provide traceable measurements of 3D components in the micron to millimetre range. Based on a measurement technique called Focus Variation these units provide detailed and accurate measurements on products produced by methods such as 3D printing, Laser Etching, Laser Melting, EDM, Turning and Grinding. Unlike many optical measuring techniques the Alicona method allows measurement of steep slopes greater than 85º, highly sculptured and rough surfaces plus measurement of smooth and polished surfaces. Measurements can also be made on dark or light coloured surfaces and across a combination of surfaces. The user is presented with a full 3D view of the feature to be measured and measurements are made by placing a profile line at the position where the measurement is required. Measurements that can be made include roughness, surface texture, profile/form, volume, area, difference and full 360º using an optional rotation device.
A Booth 408B, Hall 4 at Tuyap Exhibition Center
Europlasma +32 55 30 32 05
www.europlasma.be
With Alicona you can make sense of 3D objects!
Alicona 3D Metrology +44 (0)1732 746670
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alicona.com
www.alicona.com Precision motion chips ideal for dedicated controllers I
nmoco has announced an optional 'user-defined profile mode' feature on Magellan Motion Control ICs (integrated circuits or silicon chips), which provides the capability for multi-axis synchronized continuous path profile generation on the chip. Made by Performance Motion Devices in the United States, the chips are designed for use in dedicated motion controllers, rather than programmable servo drives. As such they are ideal for applications such as 2D and 3D printing, robot control such as SCARA arms (Selectively Compliant Articulated Robot Arm), biological and medical laboratory testing, glue laying, laser cutting and military equipment. The user-defined profile mode is a flexible system for reading a stream of incoming positions or time values and using them to generate a corresponding continuous stream of commanded output positions. Because the relationship between the incoming data stream and the output positions can be entirely flexible, any desired shape can be drawn. The user-defined profile mode allows one of three master axis sources to be selected: actual position from an external encoder; commanded position from
an internal profile, or time. The choice of source determines the speed, whether the contour is synchronized to an external or internal source, and whether the contour is always traversed forwards, or may also be traversed backwards. When actual position is used as the source, an external encoder is used and the speed and direction is entirely controlled by it. This provides a cam function, where execution of the internal user-defined profile is synchronized to an external mechanism or other electronic signal source. With the master axis source set to commanded position, one of the Magellan’s internal axes provides the position datastream that is used to traverse the user-defined contour. This provides velocity control. If the master axis source is set to time, the internal clock provides the incoming data. This means that neither the rate nor the direction of profile traversal will change and that all available axes can be used to drive motors.
There are six settable parameters:
• Master source selects the source of the incoming position or time data stream.
• Master axis number selects the axis number of the incoming signal. • Rate scalar allows the incoming master source data stream to be accelerated, slowed down or reversed.
• Start position and start index set where the profile will begin. • Stop position specifies the finish position or time
• IBufferID and PBufferID specify the memories that hold the incoming and output position data.
Once set, these parameters describe a particular mapping from the incoming data from the master axis to the driven axis commanded output positions. This mapping approach to profile generation forms the core of the user-defined profile mode, and ensures that synchronization to the incoming data stream is automatic. Thus if the incoming data slows down or speeds up, the output matches the speed change exactly, making it suitable for use in a wide variety of real-world applications.
INMOCO 01327 307600
www.inmoco.co.uk
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