Signal conditioning
emPowering long-diStanCe Signal Strength in demanding ProCeSSeS and environmentS
Red Lion Controls has announced the release of their new signal conditioner product lineup. Red Lion’s full range of signal conditioners boost signal strength while allowing for longer cable runs through industrial environments. When used as a converter, these devices can translate and incorporate signals into existing PLC architectures, eliminating the need for high-priced PLC input cards just to accommodate a unique signal input from a newly-added sensor. Offering a slim 6mm footprint, each of Red Lion’s signal converters can accept or convert current, voltage, thermocouples, RTDs, resistance and pulsed input signals. Red Lion’s new signal conditioners
are suitable for customers desiring superior signal integrity, and for industrial applications either requiring data from existing deployed equipment to be incorporated into IIoT strategies
through the addition of sensors, or measurement processes involving precise sensor data requiring signals to be accurately transmitted over distance and without interference from external sources of noise such as VFDs and switching spikes. Rather than adding costly specialised I/O cards to an existing PLC system, Red Lion’s signal conditioning and conversion solutions allow plant engineers to add sensor data to current processes in existing formats, simplifying implementation and lowering costs. These new signal conditioner products
offer amplification, isolation, and conversion capabilities, ensuring signal integrity in harsh environments and across long distances, with the option to change the signal to the desired input needed dependent upon the application. A slim 6mm housing translates to added capabilities without sacrificing panel space.
www.redlion.net
Signal Conditioner ProvideS an integrated oPC Ua Server and ConneCtion to the CloUd
HBM Test and Measurement (HBM) has presented its first signal conditioner of the ClipX series with an integrated OPC UA server. It uses M2M communication to enable direct sensor data transmission to a cloud for analysis. Analysing mechanical measurement quantities such as force,
torque, pressure, temperature, etc. is indispensable in industrial process control and factory automation. The ClipX single-channel amplifier acquires these signals with a high resolution and accuracy, to provide control and quality assurance in machinery and systems. Furthermore, it offers valuable diagnostic and error data regarding the status of the measurement chain. Owing to its integration into the IEEE standard, the OPC UA protocol has become the new standard for industrial applications
as well. Its strengths lie in its clear semantics and capability to enable transmission through known and existing Ethernet connections.
OPC UA Benefits Effortless integration
of field components as well as measurement and control systems Easy connection
to a cloud and availability of analysis functions to control materials and services Establishment of
new business models, for instance, through apps and services for customers The signal conditioners
with OPC UA of the ClipX series can be used in new systems as well as for retrofitting. Up to six ClipX modules can be interconnected and synchronised in a measuring amplifier system, thus making an important contribution towards the goal of the digital factory.
www.hbm.com
Instrumentation Monthly August 2019 61
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