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Figure 3: HMIs for any application: • from 4” to 15” • with I/O cards and IEC 61131 control • easy-to-use, powerful capabilities of Crimson software – Virtual HMI
PM-50 – the future of panel meters: • Graphical display with swipe technology • Modbus and Wi-Fi communications • Apps for programming and monitoring • Modular construction for flexibility
installable cards.
challenging and expensive. Thus, ensuring maximum network availability through the deployment of durable, weather-resistant equipment is crucial. It prevents downtime, provides safe and secure systems, and with unplanned repairs. Investing in appropriate technology not only safeguards infrastructure but also supports seamless weather conditions. To CONNECT to Your Data: Red Lion’s
rugged N-Tron and Sixnet series industrial Ethernet switches are designed to meet diverse networking environments. Built-in redundancy coupled with robust reliability ensures critical infrastructures stay up and running around the clock. Managed Ethernet port settings, manage network performance and monitor LANs for critical issues. Red Lion’s managed industrial Ethernet switches performance.
If needing to deliver Power over Ethernet (PoE), Red Lion’s PoE portfolio provides a wide range of solutions, including power injectors, PoE unmanaged and managed switches, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit copper and For extremely harsh environments, Red networking solutions. Available with unmanaged or Layer-2 management features, our Ethernet switches are incredibly robust solutions for high vibration and mission critical deployments. Red Lion’s Ethernet switches are designed to operate in-class performance and features.
Boosting productivity or process environment, FlexEdge with HDMI empowers operators with real-time
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visual awareness of current production rates and targets. In some cases, a single percent improvement in productivity, in just one day, can justify the investment in a visual management system. To transform data into action, it is
crucial to communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) in a clear and meaningful supervisors. Every company has its critical, commonly used is overall equipment performance and quality relative to the designed capacity of a machine, production line or plant during scheduled operational hours. To VISUALIZE Your Data: Red Lion
also provides industry-leading equipment for integrating monitoring and control functionality into systems and processes. From factories and machines to extreme remote locations, our HMIs enable customers to easily connect, monitor and control processes across any industry, including manufacturing, oil and gas and water/wastewater. The solution also connect to any control systems or PLC. But in today’s manufacturing environment
there is a greater need for data visibility, connectivity and operational insight. Next- generation panel meters from Red Lion deliver clear, concise and reliable system data in ways that make it easy for operators and production management to better understand and manage their operations Lion manufactures high-quality solutions for your digital and analogue panel meter requirements.
Red Lion began as an industrial panel and today we still deliver high-quality of models, sizes and capabilities – from indicators to versatile process meters with
Enable old and new systems to speak to each other AI is revolutionising industrial automation, extending beyond robotics and smart factory equipment to encompass the entire data ecosystem within an automated industrial system. By harnessing data generated across all components, AI systems can analyse and reduced downtime, enhanced plant safety, predictive maintenance, increased energy integrating AI and modern automation technologies with existing systems is the diversity of industrial communications protocols. Legacy equipment, still prevalent in many factories, often operates on outdated protocols like Modbus RS-485, while newer systems utilising advanced protocols such MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport). These bandwidth requirements, making it ideal for transmitting data across local, remote and cloud networks.
The key to unlocking the potential of these diverse systems lies in interoperability, achieved through protocol conversion, which Modern protocol converters are equipped industrial communication drivers, both open and proprietary, and can handle multiple protocols simultaneously. These devices software featuring intuitive interfaces, such as drag-and-drop functionality, which process.
By using advanced protocol converters, businesses can bridge the communication gap between legacy and modern
and integration. This not only enhances and decision making, driving overall productivity and competitiveness in the industrial sector.
CONTACT:
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