News on Automation, Process Control & Electric Heating Applications
WERMA 444 Combo Multi-Tone Sounder with Flickering EVS Signal from Euchner
WERMA's 444 series combination signal provides a versatile audible signal device which allows a tone to be adjusted to your application. There are multiple choices available within this product series. Whether you need a horn, continuous, pulse, rising, falling or alternating tones - WERMA's 444 Combo Multi-Tone Sounder with Flickering EVS Signal is customizable to meet your needs. In addition, LED choices are attention-getting flickering LED light output or a very bright double flashing light effect. Sound and flash signals can be independently triggered for any situation that arises. Typical applications include: Bottling plants, assembly areas, manufacturing areas, processing plants, noisy steel mills, machine tools, packaging machines, conveyor systems, printing machines, loading docks, saw mills and more.
For more information on these Sounders, please contact Dittman & Greer, or visit Euchner's website.
SICK Launches World's First High-Speed 3D Camera that also Measures Color
SICK has announced the launch of the world's first high-speed 3D camera with high-quality color capability. By measuring both the 3D shape and the color of objects more reliable decisions can be made, allowing production plants to improve their uptime, throughput, and product quality. The ColorRanger E replaces the need for several different cameras for the same task, which reduces the solution cost and complexity. ColorRanger E Cameras are used to solve various inspection tasks by measuring shape, contrast, and surface defects, to ensure product quality and production reliability. The ColorRanger E expands the inspection possibilities further by also providing high-resolution RGB color at up to 3072 pixels per channel. With simultaneous 3D and color information at more than 11 kHz, multiple inspections can be performed in parallel at full production speed.
Using 3D imaging is ideal when height, shape, or volume is important to the production process. To ensure complete quality or make a grading decision, it is often necessary to consider the color of the parts/objects produced. This is common when grading fruits and vegetables; shape and baking degree verification of baked goods; board grading in the wood industry; quality assurance of electronic assemblies; and fill level and color verification in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.
For more information on these 3D cameras, contact Dittman & Greer or visit www.sickusa.com.
Rittal's Therm 6.0 Makes Choosing Enclosure Climate Control Easier than Ever Before
Proper climate control is vital to the success of industrial enclosure applications. Protecting the functionality and extending the life of installed components, avoiding heat-related failures that can cause costly unscheduled downtime and ensuring energy efficiency by not "over-cooling" the enclosure are all benefits of employing the right climate control solution for the job.
Rittal's Therm 6.0 enclosure climate control specification software, now available for free download at www.rittal-corp.com/software (check the software tab on that page), helps users to select the type and size of climate control solution that best suits their needs to optimize effectiveness and efficiency. This latest version expands upon the popular Rittal Therm platform with new features, improved navigation and a more intuitive design that makes choosing the appropriate climate control solution for industrial enclosure applications more accurate and easier than ever before. To find a solution tailored to their particular circumstances, users simply enter data relevant to their application and, by completing a series of calculations, Therm 6.0 determines the cooling capacity required to provide the best solution possible based on the information provided.
Click here to read more and download this free software from Rittal.
New Compact 3-in-1 Energy Monitoring Device from Carlo Gavazzi
The very compact EM21 Series 3-phase energy meter is provided with an innovative detachable, connector-less and battery-less display, which allows the user to configure the instrument for panel mounting (72 x 72mm) or DIN-rail mounting, either as an energy meter or a transducer. Typically the transducer would only be DIN rail mounted, whereas the meter could be DIN rail mounted or panel mounted, therefore this is truly three energy devices in one housing.
The EM21 Series general purpose three phase energy meter is suitable for both active and reactive energy metering for cost allocation, but also for main electrical parameter measurement and retransmission (transducer function). Current measurements are carried out by means of external current transformers. Voltage measurements carried out either by means of direct connection (up to 400VLL) or by means of potential transformers.
The EM21 Series is provided with a pulse output for active energy retransmission. As an option, a two-wire RS485 communication port is also available. It is compact and easy to install, thanks to its application-oriented programming procedure, downloadable setup software and the wrong phase-sequence warning.
For more information on these meters, please contact Dittman & Greer, or visit Carlo Gavazzi's website.
Siemens Wins Three "Product of the Year" Awards
Siemens recently won 3 product of the year awards from Plant Engineering and Control Engineering as voted on by their readers. The 2009 winners are the Simatic S7-1200 Compact Controller, ET200 Pro and the Simatic Maintenance Station. The awards will be presented at the Reed Manufacturing Summit taking place in Chicago this March.
Siemens' New SINAMICS S110 Raises Expectations for Simple, Yet Advanced Servo Drive Positioning
The general motion control marketplace just received a boost by way of Siemens' new SINAMICS S110 drive. The drive is economical and easy to configure in a wide range of basic positioning applications. The new drive is so simple in fact, that when used with Siemens' servo motors and DRIVE-CLiQ interface, configuration becomes plug-and-play.
This makes the SINAMICS S110 quite arguably the simplest drive in the world to specify, commission and maintain – raising everyone's expectations for truly simple, yet advanced motion control.
For more information on these drives, please contact Dittman & Greer, or visit Siemens' website.
Rittal's latest newsletter includes:
- Application Spotlight: Rittal Server Enclosures and High-Density Liquid Cooling Packages Support Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center
- Ritall is a Microsoft "Gold Certified Partner"
- Ritall's Liquid COoling Packages (LCP) Overview Brochure
Industrial Automation Safety Information
SafetyBase.com is a free educational website (sponsored by Siemens Energy & Automation) developed by a group of U.S. safety experts who have joined forces to bring you the latest information and resources on industrial automation safety issues. It provides resources that will help you address industry standards and OSHA regulations, understand how safe environments correlate to increased productivity, tips on improving machine, process and personnel safety, and reducing risks and minimizing insurance/liability costs.
