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BRX PLCs Are Do-More Driven: 10 Ways It’s Better With BRX PLCs

What would you expect to pay for a PLC with built-in data logging, integrated motion control, customizable communications ports, and expansion capabilities? If you said a few thousand, then you are definitely in the right place. If you said a few hundred, then you’ve been here before! The BRX PLC platform, with the proven Do-more! DM1 technology, raises the bar on getting the most out of your PLC dollar.

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Automotive | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News | Test and Measurement

Dura-Con / Cinch Connectivity Solutions Micro-D Connector Savers

Dura-Con / Cinch Connectivity Solutions Micro-D Connector Savers are designed to significantly reduce damage to already mounted Dura-Con Connectors during routine system tests. Dura-Con / Cinch Micro-D Connector Savers eliminate the numerous mating and unmating cycles experienced by connectors on test harnesses. Connector Savers are available in all-plastic or in a metal shell.

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Automotive | Circuit Protection | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

SCHURTER: 3-Phase High Performance EMC Filter Fits in Tight Industrial Spaces

SCHURTER recently introduced the FMBC EP double-stage filter family for 3 phase systems. The filter packs in high performance in a compact package, ideally suited for today’s space constrained machine and industrial plant construction. Versions with high nominal voltages are particularly suited for a wide field of applications. Space is scarce in control cabinets for 3-phase industrial applications.

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Automotive | Food & Beverage | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Pharmaceutical | Product News | Sensors

The New S8 IO-Link Sensors Enhance Detection and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Datalogic was recently pleased to announce the new S8 IO-Link sensor models. These sensors come in two models, featuring specific advantages: for example, the S8-B53 model features a polarized retro-reflective function with coaxial optics and laser emission, representing the best solution for customers needing to rely on a high detection precision at long distance, including on very small objects.

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Automotive | Embedded Control | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

Vishay Intertechnology Launches Industry’s First 4-Quadrant Silicon PIN Photodiode in Surface-Mount Package, Qualified for Automotive Applications

The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced the industry’s first 4-quadrant silicon PIN photodiode in a standard surface-mount package, qualified for automotive applications. Combining high photo sensitivity with low 0.1 % crosstalk and virtually no tolerance between its segments, the Vishay Semiconductors K857PE enables a variety of sensor and control applications for the automotive, consumer, and industrial markets.

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Automotive | Healthcare | Industrial | Power Supplies | Product News

Bel Power Solutions Announces 600 W ABC601 AC-DC Open Frame Power Supplies

Bel Power Solutions announces the ABC601 Series of open frame power supplies which are ideal for both industrial and medical applications and are available in a variety of single output voltages. The ABC601 Series provides a steady 600 W of regulated DC power through the full 85 to 305 VAC input range with 800 W, 10 s peak capability. The series comes in 24, 28, 36 and 48 VDC standard output voltages and in two packages, U-frame chassis or enclosed, with a front-mounted fan, offering 12 and 5 VSB standby outputs and a full set of protection features.

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Automotive | Control Software | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

Beckhoff: TF3800 – TC3 Machine Learning Inference Engine

Beckhoff offers a machine learning (ML) solution that is seamlessly integrated into TwinCAT 3. Building on established standards, it brings to ML applications the advantages of system openness familiar from PC-based control. In addition, the TwinCAT solution supports the execution of the machine learning models in real time. Its capabilities provide machine builders with an optimum foundation for enhancing machine performance.

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Automotive | Drives / Loop Controllers / PACs / PLCs | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

Beckhoff: ELM72xx EtherCAT Terminal – Compact Drive Technology in a Robust Metal Housing

The new ELM72xx EtherCAT Terminals are fully functional servo drives in a robust metal housing that deliver an output current (Irms) of up to 16 A at 48 V DC for the power supply. They expand the Beckhoff portfolio of compact drive technology in I/O terminal format and offer all of the current technology features together with increased performance and functionality compared with comparable EL series I/O designs.

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Automotive | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News | Sensors

How Omron’s FH Series Vision System Expands the Capabilities of Automated Inspections

Manufacturers currently using manual processes for quality inspections are facing two major challenges. One is a rising demand for product quality, variety and reliability. The other is the need to protect workers from COVID-19 through social distancing on the manufacturing floor. Both are creating intense pressure to automate visual inspection needs.

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Automotive | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Power Supplies | Product News

Beckhoff: Compact and Universal 24/48 V DC Power Supplies – Power Supply Overview

The comprehensive power supply portfolio offers single-phase and 3-phase DIN rail power supply units with output currents from 2.5 A to 40 A: from the PS1000 series for small, cost-optimized applications and the PS2000 series for the commonest standard applications to the PS3000 series for demanding 24 and 48 V DC applications.

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Automotive | Drives / Loop Controllers / PACs / PLCs | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

Beckhoff: AL8000 Linear Motors – Highly Dynamic Linear Motors With Flexible, Modular Design

Backed by a wealth of expertise in the development of rotary servomotors, Beckhoff has added an innovative product to its portfolio in the area of drive technology. This new generation of high‐performance and modular linear motors was developed in cooperation with its dynamically growing subsidiary Fertig Motors. The new AL8000 product family is based on a modular system design consisting of linear motors and magnetic plates.

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Automotive | Food & Beverage | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Power Distribution & Energy | Product News | Switches / Indicators / Relays / Solenoids

New Safety Switch from Rockwell Automation Provides Interlocking on All Types of Guard Doors

The new Allen-Bradley Guardmaster 440G-EZ electromagnetic interlocking switch can help protect people, processes and equipment. By providing the physical interlocking of guard doors, the safety switch allows access to a potentially hazardous area only when the area is safe. This can help keep people safe and protect a process from unplanned downtime to improve productivity and efficiency.

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Automotive | General Manufacturing | Product News | Switches / Indicators / Relays / Solenoids

Phoenix Contact: Unmanaged POE Switches With Isolation

Phoenix Contact is expanding its line of unmanaged switches. With galvanically isolated Power over Ethernet, the new 5-Port and 8-Port switches will deliver and outperform existing current POE switches. The new switches will be easily mountable using DIN-rail mounting and fuctions with both SELV and PELV power supplies.

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Automotive | Drives / Loop Controllers / PACs / PLCs | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

AutomationDirect Adds Expanded Communications and Discrete I/O Capabilities for the BRX PLC

Expansion modules snap onto the side of any BRX Micro PLC Unit (MPU) or BRX Remote I/O controller. Newly added BRX discrete I/O modules include 5, 8, and 16-point relay output modules (starting at $55) with Form A (SPST) and Form C (SPDT) options; 16-point 2-5 VDC discrete input and output modules (starting at $55); a 16-point 2-5 VDC discrete combination input/output module, etc.

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Automotive | Control Software | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Product News

B&R Automation: New Freedom Through It-OT Integration

The enhanced crossover Operating System (exOS) makes it possible to use any Linux code within B&R systems. This gives machine builders unprecedented freedom in the design of their automation solutions. Code written in high-level languages like C++, Python and JavaScript can be easily integrated in the machine application.

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Automotive | Embedded Control | General Manufacturing | Industrial | Pharmaceutical | Product News

Parker Revolutionizes Machine I/O With Release of New PCH Network Portal

Parker Hannifin, as part of its global focus on factory automation, recently announced the release of a revolutionary network portal, The PCH Network Portal. The PCH Network Portal provides the opportunity to minimize machine costs, shorten start-up time and offers built in features to help reduce end user downtime in factory environments. The PCH Network Portal is a new approach to ethernet communication modules that redefines and revolutionizes machine I/O architecture (inputs and outputs).

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