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industrial companies, Emerson predicts the next 10 years will ARE PROPERLY see exponential growth in the adoption of wireless and pervasive


fter a decade of pioneering wireless technologies for


sensing applications that help companies maximise safety and reliability, optimise production and enable Industrial IoT strategies. gy of Emerson’s Plantweb digital ecosystem,


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wireless products have transformed industrial facilities around the world. As many technologies of the past decade have accelerated and improved information at people’s fingertips, industrial wireless has given manufacturers the digital technology


improve operational performance.


By collaborating with customers on early installations, Emerson claims to have helped introduce the world’s first industrial wireless automation standard in 2007. Since then, the company advises it has surpassed 10 billion hours of wireless operations across more than 32,000 networks. While initial adoption focused on harsh, remote and difficult to reach environments, wireless has expanded customers’ automation ecosystems from core functions to new applications such as acoustic monitoring, corrosion detection and power monitoring. New plant construction is leveraging wireless technology fgy or other enterprise-wide applications, such as equipment health monitoring and energy management, with upwards of 20 percent wireless infrastructure.


The Emerson wireless portfolio of gateways and devices supports the company’s Plantweb digital ecosystem that harnesses Industrial IoT to expand digital intelligence to the entire manufacturing enterprise, while providing an architecture for either on- or off-premise monitoring. Providing the communications network for Industrial IoT, wireless is also helping customers collaborate with its experts through remote monitoring and cloud-based services.


Emerson wireless technologies, based on the internationally recognised WirelessHART standard approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 2010, are widely


implemented in refineries, oil fields, offshore platforms, chemical plants and other industrial facilities around the world. With them, manufacturing personnel obtain plant information on- demand to achieve operational certainty, including greater reliability, worker and plant safety, reduced emissions and lower risk of environmental impacts.


industrial wireless commu infrastructure, supporting


Emerson has also recently announced its new dual-mode wireless gateway which enables a flexible wireless plant both WirelessHART and ISA100 nications standards.


www.Emerson.com/Wireless FITTED


Strict international rules for the manufacture and packaging of


gy to access essential data to make better decisions and


pharmaceutical products require that the correct environment is maintained within the bottle following capping. To this end, Regulation USP 671 provides a guide to the torque range to be used for screw type containers with varying closure diameters. By ensuring that bottle caps are successfully applied to the bottles within the required torque tolerances, the integrity of the product can be maintained.


TorqSense, which ismade by Sensor Technology, is wireless in that it does not need to physically contact the bottle caps or shaft of the torque hea d it ismonitoring. Instead sensing is achieved through a radio frequency link. Attached to the surface of the transducer shaft are two Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices, when torque is applied to the shaft the SAWs react to the applied strain and change their output. The SAWdevices are interrogated wirlessly using an RF couple, which passes the SAWdata to and fromthe electronics inside th e body of the transducer.


“All you have to do is set up a


TorqSense transducer in the capping machine and turn it on.” explains Mark Inghamof Sensor Technology. “The SAWfrequencies reflected are distorted in proportion to the level of torque.” If a torque value outside the


acceptable range is encountered, an alarmwill trigger the cappingmachine to identify unacceptable product for immediate rej


ejection. www.sensors.co.uk


CONTACTLESS RFID SAFETY SWITCH


Creating a safe and efficient working environment is of paramount importance to every business owner and plant manager all across the globe. Installing the new XCSR contactless


RFiD safety switch from Telemecanique Sensors instantly provides industrial companies with the highest level of safety-certified switch protection, allowing employers to effectively seal off areas in the workzone that are dangerous. At the same time, the design of the new XCSR safety switch essentially safeguards that company’s employees against any tampering with that protection system. Finally, these features are provided by the XCSR with a bare minimum of installation effort. A single safety solution that provides multiple benefits. This new safety switch is TüV


certified with a Cat4/PLe – SIL3 rating. This essentially means that when you install the switch, your dangerous machine area is sealed off by a product with the highest rated safety level. It sends a message to employees that their safety is of utmost importance. This device also enhances safety


NEWMODULAR CONTROL SYSTEM


The newCPX-Emodular control systemfromFesto delivers


control coupledwith high levels of compatibility to help achieve Industry 4.0-ready aut omation environments.


This solution focuses on motion control functions for handling technology and offers a standardised, integrated platformfor the consistent


combination of servo technology 14 14 gy


and steppermotor technology. The CPX-E is ideal for


incorporating in panelswhere space is at a premium. Scalable motion functions inclu de simple movements,multi-axis movements, contour


applications and robotics. parts handling, assembly


systems palletising, gluing and dispensing functions. It can also be used to achieve full automation of packagingmachines,


palletising systems, assembly machines and handling systems. It consists of individual function


Combinedwith Festo kinematics modules that can be combined to – such as a planar surface gantry or Cartesian three-dimensional gantry – the CPX-E can control


create amodular platform. www.festo.co.uk/cpx-e


because it is virtually tamper-proof. The ready-to-use transponder and reader are factory-paired and sold together with a unique, high-level coding which is virtually impossible to bypass or disrupt. Once this highly effective safety system is in place, it’s functionality can’t be altered. It also comes with an adjustable


transponder sensing face, and allows numerous mounting configurations with only one product reference. The new XCSR contactless RFiD


safety switch from Telemecanique Sensors offers three different connection types to fit virtually any type of industrial environment. All three connection types are configured with unique codes and provide a PLe/Cat4 – SIL3 level of protection.


www.tesensors.com/uk/en APRI MA 201 APRIL/MAY 2018 | IRISH MAN RISH MANUFAC ACTURI RING / HSIRI IRISHMANUF MANUFACTURING FACTURING TORQSENSE


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