Control Software
Schneider Electric: EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex Empowers Businesses to Achieve Resilience and a Path to Net Zero
Brand: schneider
Industry Focus: Industrial
Product Type: control software, embedded control, power supplies
Schneider Electric has recently announced EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex, an industry-first, innovative standardized microgrid solution designed to significantly reduce project timeline across the journey, delivering a greater return on investment for the system. With distributed energy resources projected to account for 40% of US electricity generation by 2050, the demand for microgrids is growing to meet these needs. Microgrid systems currently require a sizeable sum of engineering hours and intense attention to the configuration, planning and deployment of the system.
i³ CONTROL – The New Automation Platform
Brand: hannover messe, yaskawa
Industry Focus: Automotive, Industrial
Product Type: control software, drives/loop controllers/pac's/plc's
With i³ CONTROL, Yaskawa is creating a completely new automation platform. The special feature of this ecosystem, which was presented as a concept for the first time in mid-2022, is that it forms a technically coordinated overall solution for industry-specific controls – from the engineering software to the controller hardware to the integrated chip technology. And, in the future, beyond. As a first anticipation of the continuously growing i³ CONTROL portfolio, the specially developed software environment – i³ Engineer – and the first machine controller of this new platform – the iC9210-PN – experienced their world premiere. Market launch was planned from the end of 2022.
IoT-Based Innovations From Siemens Transform Buildings Into Smart Ecosystems
Brand: siemens
Industry Focus: Building Controls
Product Type: control software
At this year’s ISH trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany, Siemens will showcase its cloud-based platforms, IoT-enabled products and solutions that make buildings smarter, leveraging the potential that digitalization offers. Exhibiting under the motto “Your fast lane to smart buildings”, the company is focusing on turning buildings into smart ecosystems that respond to the business goals of building owners and operators for improved building performance, as well as to tenants’ needs for comfortable and healthy buildings.
Mitsubishi Electric: MELSOFT Gemini 3D Simulator Software
Brand: mitsubishi
Industry Focus: Automotive, General Manufactuing, Industrial
Product Type: control software
Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. has recently released its MELSOFT Gemini 3D Simulator Software to allow users to expedite the design and construction of manufacturing projects as they introduce new automation components to their facility. By connecting to a variety of software and factory devices, Gemini provides visualization, simulation, and the streamlining of work processes.
Rockwell Automation: FactoryTalk Logix Echo’s 1st Big Update
Brand: rockwell automation
Industry Focus: Automotive, General Manufactuing, Industrial
Product Type: control software
Virtualizing control systems with FactoryTalk Logix Echo can help customers save significant engineering efforts and financial expenditure at every stage of a project from start to finish. Attention was dedicated to improving testing, giving users access to more than 20 variations of the 5580 ControlLogix platform at their disposal. FactoryTalk Logix Echo simplifies the emulator experience by providing users the opportunity to download directly to FactoryTalk Logix Echo without modifications.
Cincoze: Industrial Panel PCs Offer Advanced HMI for Smart Manufacturing
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Industry Focus: General Manufactuing, Industrial
Product Type: control software, displays/hmi
HMI is the most common application of industrial panel PCs. In addition to visualizing equipment-related data, HMI can also monitor and control machinery equipment, which is helpful for the on-site manager to get an accurate picture of the process status.
Emerson’s New Analytics Software Automates Utilities Monitoring and Reporting for Clean-in-Place Applications
Brand: Emerson
Industry Focus: Food & Beverage
Product Type: Control Software
Recently, Emerson announced the release of its new Clean In Place (CIP) Utilities and Automated Reporting Analytics package delivered via PACEdge and Movicon platforms on an industrial edge control device. The software aids in digitally transforming manual and semi-automated systems by optimizing utilities consumption, benchmarking against known cycles and generating automated reports that can be used to reduce energy consumption and improve productivity in a single system or throughout a facility.
Rockwell Automation: Intelligent Edge Management Solution
Brand: Rockwell Automation
Industry Focus: Automotive, General Manufacturing, Industrial
Product Type: Control Software
Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced that it is delivering an intelligent edge management and orchestration platform with an edge application ecosystem – based on zero trust security and open industry standards – accelerating digital transformation for industrial customers. As industrial manufacturers pursue digital transformation, they are looking to scale digital transformation initiatives via innovations in AI, analytics, MES systems, etc., and tap real-time intelligence closer to the source of industrial data.
Eplan: Smart Mounting Software Helps Techs Assemble Control Cabinets
Brand: EPLAN
Industry Focus: General Manufacturing, Industrial
Product Type: Control Software, Enclosures
Eplan Smart Mounting system shows cabinet assembly technicians where and how components are to be placed, accelerating assembly.
Honeywell Introduces Expanded OT Cybersecurity Capabilities Across Offerings During The Honeywell Connect 2022 Product Release Event
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Industry Focus: Industrial
Product Type: Control Software
Honeywell has recently announced the release of its new operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solutions, designed to assist customers in defending the availability, reliability and safety of their industrial control systems and operations. The offerings, which include a new Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response (AMIR) dashboard and updated Cyber App Control, are designed to empower organizations with 24/7 intelligent threat detection across the expanding attack surface of their industrial control systems.
Emerson: New I/O Interface Software Helps Future-Proof Operations, Reduce Modernization Costs up to 40%
Brand: Emerson
Industry Focus: Automotive, General Manufacturing, Industrial
Product Type: Control Software
Emerson has recently released DeltaV IO.CONNECT, a new subscription software service designed to help plants simplify modernization with an open architecture pathway that makes it possible to transition to more efficient control schemes without the need to completely overhaul existing infrastructure. In a traditional plant with tens of thousands of I/O points and many controllers, this can save hundreds or thousands of hours of labor and up to 40% of the capital required for a total rip-and-replace upgrade.
Complete Automation Overhaul Benefits Smaller Utilities
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Industry Focus: Industrial, Power Distribution & Energy
Product Type: control software, displays/hmi, switches/indicators/relays/solenoids
A small utilityin Seguin, Texas installed a complete monitoring and control system that rivals systems installed at much larger utilities to improve service.
